Architecture

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Universidade Nova Rectory

Lisboa by AIRES MATEUS arquitetos

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The architects Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus have a big place and a protagonism
in the panorama of the Portuguese and international contemporary architecture. The
magazine 2G constitutes the first monograph of the work of these brothers "lisboetas" and
comes introduced with a text of the critic João Belo Rodeia, a commentary of Alberto
Baeza Field on the house in Alenquer and a "informal conversation" with its teacher
Gonçalo Byrne and Valentino Capelo de Sousa. Between presented/displayed works it is
possible to indicate the magnificent residence of students in the university campus of
Coimbra, rectorado of the Universidade Nova of Lisbon or the splendid exercises of
unifamiliares houses, like the rehabilitation of a ruin of house in Alenquer, the house-patio
of Alvalade, the house of weekend in the coast of Alentejo or the reconversion of an old
wine warehouse in house in Brejos de Azeitão, all of them in Portugal.


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Zaha Hadid- February 9th, 2009

Regium Waterfront by Zaha Hadid Architects

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London practice Zaha Hadid Architects have designed two buildings for the city of Reggio Calabria in Italy.



One building will house a museum of Mediterranean history, including exhibition spaces,
restoration facilities, an archive, an aquarium and a library.




The second will house the museum’s administrative offices, a gym, craft workshops,
shops and a cinema, as well as three separate auditoriums that can be joined together.



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REGIUM WATERFRONT [Reggio Calabria, Italy]

The project aims to define the city of Reggio Calabria as a Mediterranean cultural capital
through the realization of two characteristic buildings: a museum and a multifunctional
building for performing arts.




The location of the site on the narrow sea strait separating continental Italy from Sicily
offers an opportunity to create two unique buildings, visible from the sea and the Sicilian
coast: a Museum of the Mediterranean History and a Multifunctional Building.
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The form of the museum draws inspiration from the organic shapes of a starfish. The
radial symmetry of this shape helps to coordinate the communication and circulation
between different sections of the museum and its other facilities. The Museum of
Mediterranean History will house exhibition spaces, restoration facilities, an archive, an aquarium and library.


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Workspace of the Future:
Cambridge’s Creative Exchange
by Bridgette Steffen



These days cubicles are so passé, and we’re starting to seem
some inspired green workplaces that encourage creativity and
interaction. 5th Studio in Cambridge has designed and built the
Creative Exchange, a shared workspace complex with some
great sustainable credentials. The building features a small
footprint, excellent active and passive solar systems, and a
flexible interior that makes great use of natural light. Large
communal areas allow people to come and go more freely, and
provide more opportunity for meetings, interaction, and well,
chances for creative exchanges.




Hip new office offices are incorporating more common work
areas with lots of meeting spaces, couches and coffee tables for
impromptu discussions, and plenty of power outlets for laptops.





These spaces are thought to encourage creative types and
designers, who need lots of space for their ideas and
collaboration, and with telecommuters often working from home
and only needing to come to work for meetings, there is really
less need for individual offices that take up valuable real estate
and consume power. It’s not like we need bookshelves and
filing cabinets anymore, since we’ve all gone paperless, right?









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...ICONS...
.ICONIC BUILDING.
ARCHITECTURE

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Client: Gestion Rivière du Diable
Architects: Saucier + Perrotte Architectes
Project Team:
Gilles Saucier
André Perrotte
Jean-Philippe Beauchamp
Anna Bendix
Trevor Davies
Yves De Fontenay

Structural Engineer: Stavibel
Mechanical, Electrical Engineer:
Leroux, Beaudoin, Hurens et associés
Contractor: Société Desjardins-Larouche

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Formosa 1140 by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects



Formosa 1140 by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) is a new eleven-unit
housing project in West Hollywood, California.



The facade is clad in red, metal panels that provide shade for the
windows and separate the circulation of residents from the public domain.





The building is located on one side of the site in order to
accommodate a park, open to the public, on the remainder.



“This project presents a challenging but influential opportunity in regards to the creation
and inclusion of an urban park in a private development,” say the architects.







Formosa 1140 by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) is a new eleven-unit housing project in West Hollywood, California.





The facade is clad in red, metal panels that provide shade for the windows and separate the circulation of residents from the public domain.

The building is located on one side of the site in order to accommodate a park, open to the public, on the remainder.





Each apartment has a view over the park and makes use of cross-ventilation.



“This project presents a challenging but influential opportunity in regards to the creation
and inclusion of an urban park in a private development,” say the architects.


“The park is accessible to the public at large, not solely residents with granted permission,
they continue. “Formosa 1140 contains within its own genetic code the imprint of a larger
urban design that will offer some kind of public space back to the city and in so doing,
distribute a patchwork of parks across Los Angeles’s formidable grid.”




Each apartment has a view over the park and makes use of cross-ventilation

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The best green skyscrapers



A rotating skyscraper that is to be built in Dubai, in various stages of movement.
An Italian architect said he is poised to start construction on the new skyscraper
that will be "the world's first building in motion," an 80-story tower
with revolving floors that give it an ever-shifting shape



Okhta Tower, St Petersburg,
new headquarters of Russian gas giant Gazprom,
designed by RMJM Architects



Ramsgate Street in Dalston, London.
The shape of the building acts as an aerofoil,
concentrating the most breeze to four wind turbine spirals



The Co-operative Insurance Solar Tower in Manchester,
which has 7,244 photovoltaic panels,
designed to convert daylight into electricity



Gwanggyo self-sufficient organic city, Seoul, South Korea.
Award-winning architects MVRDV's extraordinary design is a new self-sufficient city
made up of organic 'hill' buildings to be completed in 2011.
The cluster of green towers are designed to be home to 77,000 people
and also house offices, shops and schools



New York residents walk past the Hearst Tower,
the first building in New York to get
the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold rating,
a U.S. green building rating system,
given to eco-friendly buildings in New York



A model of U.S. architect Frank Williams's Mercury City Tower on an office table in Moscow in 2007.
It took a New York architect to design the first environmentally friendly building in Russia,
a country swamped with energy resources and the world's third-largest polluter

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I.M. Pei Architect
The Museum of Islamic Art
Al Corniche
Doha, Qatar


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“The desert sun plays a fundamental role, transforming the
architecture into a play of light and shadows.”
I.M.Pei



The Museum of Islamic Art is located on the south side of Doha’s
Corniche on a man-made island sixty meters from the shore. A
new C-shaped peninsula provides protection from the Persion
Gulf on the north and from unsightly industrial buildings on the
east. A park of dunes and oases on the shoreline behind the
Museum offers shelter and a picturesque backdrop.


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The museum is connected to the shore by two pedestrian bridges
and a vehicular bridge. Two 100 feet tall lanterns mark the boat
dock on the west side of the Museum, creating a grand entrance
for guests arriving by boat.

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I.M. Pei Architect - The Museum of Islamic Art - Al Corniche - Doha, Qatar :: arcspace.com