"The most important is to create an image of Finland. The Embassy must represent Finland in the right way."
Rainer Mahlamäki
Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd
Embassy Of Finland In Tokyo
Tokyo
more @ +MOOD, AMNP, Bustler
11/30/09
Embassy Of Finland In Tokyo, by Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd
"The most important is to create an image of Finland. The Embassy must represent Finland in the right way."
Rainer Mahlamäki
Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd
Embassy Of Finland In Tokyo
Tokyo
more @ +MOOD, AMNP, Bustler
UAE pavillion at shanghai expo 2010, Foster + Partner
“The cities of the UAE rise from the desert and the pavilion will similarly emerge to form a natural counterpoint to Shanghai’s urban landscape. Like a sand dune, it is oriented to the direction of the wind and is a powerful example of an organic and highly effective passive environmental design.”
Gerard Evenden
Foster + Partner Senior Partner
UAE pavillion at shanghai expo 2010
Relationship of architecture and technology, Mies van der Rohe
“...Architecture depends upon its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. That is the reason why technology and architecture are so closely related. Our real hope is that they will grow together, that some day the one will be the expression of the other. Only then will we have an architecture worthy of its name: architecture as a true symbol of our time”Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969)
11/29/09
Form + Function, Frank Lloyd Wright
"Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, Gareth Hoskins Architects
An interesting project - Culloden Memorial Battlefield Centre, located in Inverness, Scotland, designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects, is a result of wining competition which was held by the National Trust for Scotland in 2004.
The exhibition works of Gareth Hoskins Architects is held by the light house till 2009 January. Click here for the further of the exhibition.
Gareth Hoskins Architects
Culloden Memorial Battlefield Centre
Inverness, Scotland
JLI House, MCP Arquitectura
"Perimeter as space, structure as reformulation of tree forest, winning all the surface of the floor plan to garden, two types of circulations, transversal, between technical furniture and perimetral, around inner space, defining a new type of medium and changing space between them. And the game with the inner-outer new space is the living"MCP Arquitectura
JLI House
La Canada, Valencia, Spain
more @ architeria
the architecture, Philip Johnson
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”
Philip Johnson (July 8, 1906– January 25, 2005)
Xeros Residence by Blank Studio
"I wanted to wrap one material around the entire house—as sort of an architectural lingerie."
Xeros Residence
Blank Studio
Phoenix, Arizona
more @ Daily Icon, Dwell
Social, Spiro Konstantine Kostof
“Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.”Spiro Konstantine Kostof (7 May 1936 - 7 December 1991)
Modern and History, Le Corbusier
"To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be."
Le Corbusier
Antwerp Port House, Zaha Hadid architects
"the concept is a free interpretation of a beam-shaped volume raised above the existing fire brigade building and supported on three sculptured concrete pillars housing the stairs and lifts. two of the pillars are situated on the covered inner courtyard of the firehouse, while the third is located beside an external support point and consists of a panoramic lift shaft...
I am absolutely delighted to be selected to build the headquarters for the APA. Antwerp is one of the world’s busiest shipping ports and the new port house design reflects the city’s worldwide significance in communication and transportation. The dichotomy between the reflective, faceted form of the new extension and the powerful structural mass of the existing fire station creates a bold and enigmatic statement for the city."
Antwerp Port House
Zaha Hadid architects
Antwerp, Belgium
Open Air swimming Pool Oostduinkerke, Dierendonck Blancke and L.U.S.T Architecten
A project impressed like an artificial dune outdoor swimming pool designed by DIERENDONCKBLANCKE architecten and L.U.S.T architecten. This project serves as a transitional place between sea and city. via +MOODOpen Air swimming Pool Oostduinkerke
DIERENDONCKBLANCKE architecten association with L.U.S.T architecten
OOSTDUINKERKE, Belgium
Images: © Dierendonck Blancke + L.U.S.T Architecten
Mourning House, by Pascal Arquitectos
"A project of this nature must encourage introspection and peaceful visual harmony through a discrete use of materials and lighting."Mourning House
Pascal Arquitectos
Mexico City, Mexico
Images: © Víctor Benítez
The Absolute Towers, MAD studio
Yansong Ma of the Beijing-based architecture firm MAD created this stunningly curvaceous building for the a new 50-storey condo in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
"Our design forsakes the simplification principle of modernism. In fact, it expresses a higher level of complexity and diversity of modern society through multiple approaches. In the meantime, it caters to (ambiguous) social needs at multiple levels...The towers talk to each other and harmonize with each other. There is a synergy between them, an aura which transcends each of the individual buildings."
The Absolute Tower
MAD studio, Ma Yansong
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
product review ::: Snap It!
Product Review a new monthly feature where we review products to enhance the modern architectural practice.
SnapIt is a software by Digeus Inc is described as an easy to use screen capture software that allows the user to easily capture anything on the screen including windows, menus, full screen, rectangular regions, web pages and image shots of moving images. SnapIt enhances the print screen tool common on most computers by allowing the user to select exactly what image on the screen they wish to save. This process eliminates the need to open images in a photo editing programme to crop the bits you don't need.
The software developers of SnapIt suggest that bloggers and web designers will find the most benefit. However because of the wide reaches of the print screen function it allows for the saving of on-screen images, which in often case for the architectural practice means images of drawings and renderings can be effortlessly shared across different platforms and software without complicated conversions. Files can be saved in a variety of file formats including jpeg, bmp, png and tiff formats.
The trial version is available for download here
blog wunderlust: 02 November 2009
10 years of turbine commissions | a sad fate | no to Gropius, in Chicago | stoop to conquer | Rope-Access Surveying | a glimpse into my past | forest façade takes root | from industry to living | kirigami
Architecture is a local act: it ought to be attentive to and representative of the unique physical, topographic and environmental constraints of the location.
Graeme Massie architects
on the boards: Nørreport Station
on the boards: Dun Laoghaire Library & Cultural Centre
House of the Week 046: Heeren Shophouse
TateShots: Jacques Herzog
Jacques Herzog (architects Herzog & de Meuron) discusses plans for the extension to the Tate Modern gallery.
on the boards: New National Museum in Oslo
house of the week 47: Tubac House
No house should ever be on a hill [...] It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other
Frank Lloyd Wright
blog wunderlust: 09 November 2009
The civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is his prison, in which he finds himself oppressed and confined, not sheltered and protected. He walks as if the walls would fall in and crush him.
Henry David Thoreau
blog wunderlust: 16 November 2009
I live in a Steven Holl | Palace of Grace | LEGO style | the work of Thom Mayne | vertical farms don't work | broken glass | the women of the Bauhaus | the rolling house aka a reality show waiting to happen | an increased demand for construction software | KPF rips at the seams
check out an interactive floor plan of the Shed House in the Isle of Skye
check out an interactive floor plan of the Shed House in the Isle of Skye
To make a house, you grab a fist of air and then you hold it with walls
Persian Proverb
on the boards: Humber Orangeville
on the boards: Cycling and Pedestrian Bridge, Lisbon
House of the Week 048: Sorrento
images by Dianna Snape
happy birthday Rem
Today is the 65th birthday of Dutch architect and 2000 Pritzker Prize Laurette Rem Koolhaas and at an age when most have to legally retire he seems to be going as strong as ever and such I've decided to do a post devoted specifically to all things Rem. Happy Birthday.
1975 ::: sets up the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
2000 ::: awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize
2005 ::: completes the CASA Musica in Porto, Portugal
House of the Week 40 ::: Villa Dall'Ava , Rem caricatured , more random OMA stuff, construction photos of the CCTV in China, the OMA proposal for North Sea wind farm, the Interlace Housing, from the loins of Rem Koolhaas, an incomplete list
1975 ::: sets up the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
2000 ::: awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize
2005 ::: completes the CASA Musica in Porto, Portugal
House of the Week 40 ::: Villa Dall'Ava , Rem caricatured , more random OMA stuff, construction photos of the CCTV in China, the OMA proposal for North Sea wind farm, the Interlace Housing, from the loins of Rem Koolhaas, an incomplete list
on the boards: Taipei Music Centre
more via design boom
on the boards: Baton Rouge Downtown Library
more
on the boards: Łódź Public Library
Studio Banana TV ::: Benedetta Tagliabue
Studio Banana TV interviews Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue from the studio Miralles-Tagliabue (EMBT)in Barcelona.
on the boards: Mauer Museum
House of the Week 049: the Spaghetti House
blog wunderlust: 23 November 2009
The blog wunderlust is a weekly round up summarizing the architectural highlights, news and web links, that don't otherwise fit the format of this blog. If you have any to share feel free to drop me an email.
chocolate mies | the Impact of the Bauhaus | another modern dog house or prefab for pets | the wall vanishes | the work of MC Escher in LEGO | old school meets high tech | a fine line between drawing and sculpture | The Architect as Totalitarian | Zaha meets the Pontif
Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the chair
Karen Moyer
on the boards: Museum of the West
on the boards: Frederiksberg Courthouse
Architects 3XN has won an architectural competition for the Frederiksberg Courthouse in Denmark. The new Courthouse will be a natural extension of the existing neo-classical building and is intended to express a welcoming transparency whilst maintaining the sobriety and seriousness of the justice system.
images via 3XN
11/27/09
Holiday Gift Books: 2009.5
As in the last four years, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This time around I'm presenting one each by 50 publishers, posted in five digestible installments of ten each, in alphabetical order. Below is the fifth installment. Once posted, the rest can be found here.
Taschen:
Zaha Hadid: Complete Works by Philip Jodidio
"This XL tome demonstrates the progression of Hadid’s career—including not only her extraordinary buildings but also furniture and interior designs—with in-depth texts, spectacular photos, and her own drawings."
Thames & Hudson:
Unbuilt Masterworks of the 21st Century by Will Jones
"100 of the best projects to have been proposed since the turn of the millennium. Includes projects by by the world’s greatest architects, from UN Studio, Foreign Office Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Zaha Hadid to such up-and-coming stars as J. Mayer H. Architects and Asymptote."
University of Pittsburgh Press:
Pittsburgh: A New Portrait by Franklin Toker
"Remade as a thriving twenty-first-century city and an international center for science, medicine, biotechnology, and financial services, Pittsburgh is now routinely acclaimed as one of the most promising and livable of America's cities. Franklin Toker shows us why."
Viking:
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
"An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, Bicycle Diaries also records Byrne’s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility."
Wasmuth:
Sigurd Lewerentz: St. Petri edited by Wilfried Wang
"For the village of Klippan, the Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz was invited to design a church in 1962 at the age of 77. It was to become his most important commission, one that absorbed his typological concerns of earlier church designs as well as formal interests that he held since the early 1930s."
Wiley:
Architectures of the Near Future edited by Nic Clear
"Architectures of the Near Future offers a series of alternative voices, developing some of the neglected areas of contemporary urban life and original visions of what might be to come. Rather than providing simplistic and seductive images of an intangible shiny future, it rocks the cosy world of architecture with polemical blasts."
William Stout Publishers:
URBANbuild: local_global by Ila Berman and Mona El Khaff
"This publication documents a two year program at Tulane University School of Architecture ... initiated to actively support the rehabilitation of the city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."
W.W. Norton:
Corporate Architecture: Building a Brand by Alejandro Bahamón, Ana Cañizares and Antonio Corcuera
"A brand is much more than the product or service that it represents—it is a whole imaginary world custom-made for the target consumer, and it often has little to do with what is being sold. Competition has given rise to a new class of buildings, designed by top architects and characterized by bold design approaches, surveyed in this sweeping study." Read my review of the book here.
Yale University Press:
Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books by Jo Steffens
"An intimate look at the personal libraries of twelve of the world’s leading architects, alongside conversations about the significance of books to their careers and lives."
Zero Books:
Militant Modernism by Owen Hatherley
"In readings of modern design, film, pop and especially architecture, [the book] attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption into the heritage industry and the aesthetics of the luxury flat."
Taschen:
Zaha Hadid: Complete Works by Philip Jodidio
"This XL tome demonstrates the progression of Hadid’s career—including not only her extraordinary buildings but also furniture and interior designs—with in-depth texts, spectacular photos, and her own drawings."
Thames & Hudson:
Unbuilt Masterworks of the 21st Century by Will Jones
"100 of the best projects to have been proposed since the turn of the millennium. Includes projects by by the world’s greatest architects, from UN Studio, Foreign Office Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Zaha Hadid to such up-and-coming stars as J. Mayer H. Architects and Asymptote."
University of Pittsburgh Press:
Pittsburgh: A New Portrait by Franklin Toker
"Remade as a thriving twenty-first-century city and an international center for science, medicine, biotechnology, and financial services, Pittsburgh is now routinely acclaimed as one of the most promising and livable of America's cities. Franklin Toker shows us why."
Viking:
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
"An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, Bicycle Diaries also records Byrne’s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility."
Wasmuth:
Sigurd Lewerentz: St. Petri edited by Wilfried Wang
"For the village of Klippan, the Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz was invited to design a church in 1962 at the age of 77. It was to become his most important commission, one that absorbed his typological concerns of earlier church designs as well as formal interests that he held since the early 1930s."
Wiley:
Architectures of the Near Future edited by Nic Clear
"Architectures of the Near Future offers a series of alternative voices, developing some of the neglected areas of contemporary urban life and original visions of what might be to come. Rather than providing simplistic and seductive images of an intangible shiny future, it rocks the cosy world of architecture with polemical blasts."
William Stout Publishers:
URBANbuild: local_global by Ila Berman and Mona El Khaff
"This publication documents a two year program at Tulane University School of Architecture ... initiated to actively support the rehabilitation of the city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."
W.W. Norton:
Corporate Architecture: Building a Brand by Alejandro Bahamón, Ana Cañizares and Antonio Corcuera
"A brand is much more than the product or service that it represents—it is a whole imaginary world custom-made for the target consumer, and it often has little to do with what is being sold. Competition has given rise to a new class of buildings, designed by top architects and characterized by bold design approaches, surveyed in this sweeping study." Read my review of the book here.
Yale University Press:
Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books by Jo Steffens
"An intimate look at the personal libraries of twelve of the world’s leading architects, alongside conversations about the significance of books to their careers and lives."
Zero Books:
Militant Modernism by Owen Hatherley
"In readings of modern design, film, pop and especially architecture, [the book] attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption into the heritage industry and the aesthetics of the luxury flat."
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