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Monday, May 31, 2010

City architecture of the future


Future concept

Sietch Nevada, work of bureau Matsys Designs is an answer to one of forecasts of the further development of a life on the Earth. In conformity with the concept, the world war for resources and, first of all, water in the near future expect.

Fresh water disappears...

Today mass-media discuss oil stocks, but for the present do not pay corresponding attention to such major world resource as fresh water.

Under the scheme, the underground project it is not simple a water basin. Authors have transformed idea into an image of a new city. The underground community is formed round channels which provide water delivery, transportation and an agricultural irrigation. The cellular form creates new typology of areas where new distribution of activity is formed.

Fresh water stock

“Some can underestimate current resource crisis. But, it is inevitable — soon the countries will battle with each other for water. This element is necessary for a survival, therefore we should find the decision before the problem becomes critical”, — authors have explained motivation of the project.

Friday, May 28, 2010

External creed from Kensuke Watanabe

Cross in Japan

Architectural bureau Kensuke Watanabe Architecture Studio became the author of this project: near to church in the city of Tokorozawa have erected an arch at which top the cross towers.

Cross Tower in the city of Tokorozawa

The construction is called “Cross Tower”, height of a design of 7,8 metres. The tower is made of steel plates by thickness of 28 mm., painted in white colour.

Cross Tower
Church
Church in Japan

Church in Japan

Tower support are directed to a bottom, creating original gate, through which parishioners are included into church.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Mecanoo have constructed theatre and the congress centre

Llotja de Lleida

The new congress centre and the theatre designed by Dutch bureau Mecanoo, reminds the huge UFO which has landed on the Spanish earth.

Llotja de Lleida

On a building facade there is a tape of windows, on a roof the garden with twisted plants is broken. The project is called Llotja de Lleida.

In registration of interiors of theatre silhouettes of trees were used. Walls in a building are issued by white plaster, the floor is made of marble or a tree.
Congress centre

White interior

Theatre
New congress centre

New theatre in Lleida

Building characteristics: the total area of 37,500 sq.m., theatre on 1000 spectator places, this premise also can function as the congress centre, two more congress halls on 400 and 200 places, the multipurpose premise, two foyers, 9,500 sq.m. of a parking, 15,325 more m.sq. — the area of office and 2,591 m.sq. — trading premises.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Centre Pompidou-Metz will open in May

Pompidou-Metz

Centre Pompidou-Metz is a joint architectural project of Japanese bureau Shigeru Ban and French — Jean de Gastines.

Centre Pompidou-Metz by Shigeru Ban & Jean de Gastines

The wavy laminated wooden structure of a roof surrounds a 77-metre metal spike. The roof framework is covered by translucent fiber glass and a teflon textile awning. The roof total area makes 10,700 m.sq. In a new building 5,000 sq.m. of exhibition areas will be accessible. The centre will be surrounded by two gardens and a terrace.
Centre Pompidou-Metz

Pompidou-Metz centre

Centre Pompidou

Centre Pompidou-Metz in France

Centre Pompidou-Metz becomes the second brand in Pompidou's family, after Centre Pompidou in Paris. Despite it, the centre program will be absolutely independent of the Parisian relative, and will make own scientific and cultural choice.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

New interior of shop Stella McCartney

Milan shop
In an interior of Milan shop Stella McCartney there were sculptural metal hangers and floors in a multi-coloured fur-tree. All is work of London studio APA.

Sculptural hangers

The clothes are shown on sculptural hangers from a steel with a dusting. On the ground floor conduct steps with a black handrail. In an interior original frescos on a ceiling are kept.
Luxury Milan shop
Luxury shop Stella McCartney
Stella McCartney shop
Luxury shop

Luxury shop by Stella McCartney

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Interior for sincere recover

Clinic Akasaka

The project of Japanese design bureau Nendo is an interior of clinic for insane persons which is in Tokyo. All these doors are continuous illusion. Patients and the personnel move on a building through special sections which open in walls.

Akasaka Clinic

The clinic is called MD.net Clinic Akasaka. Walls and book shelves behind which rooms for consultations and conversations disappear Here move.

Interior of clinic
Clinic for insane persons
Unique clinic

Psychiatric clinic

From all train of doors opens unique, in the end of a corridor — behind a door the window in an external world is hidden. The clinic specialises on all kinds of mental frustration: here standard consultations of the psychiatrist, corporate consultation are carried out and there is a support to the patients who are coming back after illness to work.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Art pavilion from company Carmody Groarke

Are absent
English architects of company Carmody Groarke have finished pavilion building in London.

Eight-metre light-emitting diode columns

The pavilion represents eight-metre columns with light-emitting diode lamps, with a steel three-metre plate on a top (!). The density of placing of columns is non-uniform, and in the centre they and at all are absent, opening the review on the sky.

Pavilion building

Pavilion building in London

Pavilion in London

Pavilion building in London

The idea of a construction was born in 2007 during carrying out of the competition organised by Fund of architecture in English capital. All design of pavilion is addition to the general design of a building to which a construction was an extension, and impracticality of construction gives to the project special utopianism.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne

Learning Center
New Rolex Learning Center will open next week in the Swiss Lausanne. The project of Japanese bureau SANAA.

Rolex Learning Center by SANAA

The centre is in a campus of sciences and technologies of university EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the educational centre will be accessible both to students, and for the public. The centre will function as training laboratory, library with 500,000 volumes and the international cultural centre.

Rolex Center

Having extended on the area in 20,000 sq.m., the centre there is an extensive network of services, libraries, information, dialogue, training, with restaurants, a cafe and vacation spots on open air. The building is innovative on the structure and the form, and has demanded use of the newest technologies for its building.

Rolex Learning Center

Rolex Learning Center receives financing from the Swiss government and large businessmen of the country. Participation of company Rolex in the project is a fruit of long-term cooperation with university EPFL in which frameworks researches of microtechnologies were carried out in hour design.

Rolex Awards

It also is traditional for the company, always a having reputation of the philanthropist in the field of arts, a science, culture (award Rolex Awards for businessmen, initiatives in sphere of arts Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative). Among other financial partners of the project — the companies well-known all over the world; Logitech, Losinger, Credit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis, and SICPA.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Area of entertainments in Los Angeles

Hotel Ritz Carlton
Building of a 54-storeyed tower in the centre of Los Angeles has ended. Hotels Ritz-Carlton Hotel both Residences and Marriott have opened the doors for visitors in a building designed by bureau Gensler.

Tower by L.A. LIVE

Tower building has finished project L.A. LIVE which assumed erection of the whole area for sports and entertainments, more sq.m. half-millions In a complex are located by the total area: TV-studio, restaurants, cafe, cinemas, bowling, clubs, an innovative musical museum.

Tower structure

The first 22 floors of a new tower are given Marriott, four following — to hotel Ritz-Carlton Hotel and all the others, to the top — to premises (Ritz-Carlton Residences). In the bottom building is placed two external "decks", with pools, bars and other services are equipped.

Marriott hotel

Marriott in LA

Ritz Carlton in LA
Among green components of the project — the combination has flown down also a colour facade for illumination and heating distribution, system on a water effective utilisation, solar panels on a roof.

Hotel progress

“The hotel becomes not only new sight of the centre, but also will make the huge contribution to our economy”, — the mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa has informed. “It is the real engine of progress which will create thousand new workplaces and will help to return activity to our city, having rendered service of world level for a world city.”

Monday, May 10, 2010

Green innovative ladder

Green innovative ladder

The new centre for businessmen, the project of Danish architectural bureau C. F. Møller, name innovative. Why? For example, thanks to a bright green ladder which is twisted by a spiral on walls.

VIA University College

Vitus Bering Innovation Park is a continuation of the university case, VIA University College. Remarkable steps conduct to rooms for meeting and to a terrace located on a roof.
Green ladder
Green Park
Vitus Bering Innovation Park
Innovation Park

Vitus Bering Innovation Park

To reach economy of energy high isolation of windows and extra-isolation of facades helps. One more interesting line — a clever central air of air which adapts according to number of the people who are present at each individual premise.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Basalt structure

Basalt structure

The house which is recently constructed on one of streets of Melbourn, is outside decorated by basalt plates of the various size and a thickness. This idea by the Australian studio b.e. Architecture.

Basalt decor

Basalt house

Wood interior

Wooden interior by b.e. Architecture

The house is located on an inclined angular site. The small court yard is inside equipped. For furnish of interiors the tree is used.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Dreams become a reality

Royal Conservatory of Music

The Royal Conservatory of Music has embodied dream of creation of the Educational centre. Within the limits of the project there is begun realisation of one of the offered general plans — restoration of two historical buildings.

Koerner Hall in Toronto

Koerner Hall became result of close cooperation between architects and sound producers. In a hall flexible and excellent acoustic atmosphere for classical music, a jazz, an opera, lectures and films is created. The scene is designed so that on it the most various professional collectives, students and recognised masters could act.

Educational centre

Glass pavilion

Koerner Hall

The Royal Conservatory of Music

The glass pavilion is placed on the powerful brick base and removed from a historical building. The space between the old and new has been closed, the new foot route thus was generated.