Palácio da Alvorada by Oscar Niemeyer

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

the Palácio da Alvorada (Portuguese: Palace of Dawn) is the official residence of the President of Brazil. The palace was designed, along with the rest of the city of Brasília, by Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated in 1958. It is located at SHTN Asa Norte in Brasília.

Quote from Oscar:

Architecture is invention. It must offer pleasure as well as practicality. If you only worry about function, the result stinks. Many of my buildings have been political and civic monuments, but perhaps some of them have given ordinary people, powerless people, a sense of delight. This is what architects can do. Nothing more

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Datum KL 2008

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Detail:
Date: 4th & 5th July 2008
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre

The speakers

• Kengo Kuma, Japan


• Bjarke Ingels, Big Architects, Denmark


• Li Hu, Steven Holl Architects, USA/ China


• Hanif Kara, Adams Kara Taylor, UK


• Hou Liang, China


• Voon Wong, Voonwong & Bensonsaw, Malaysia/UK


• Rene TAn & Quek Tse Kwang, RT+Q Architects, Singapore


• DR Tan Loke Mun, ArchiCenter, Malaysia

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Sekeping Serendah -houses designed by Seksan and Kelvin Low

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Pictures taken b y Alex Tan Say Keat

Shigeru Ban with paper tube structure

Thursday, April 17, 2008

CENTRE D'INTERPRETATION DU CANAL DE BOURGOGNE - Pouilly-en-Auxois, France, 2005

The boathouse is the 1st phase of a large cultural complex dedicated to the history of the “Canal de Bourgogne” that also includes a small museum. It has been conceived as a paper tube structure and will shelter an old boat to present it to the public.
The small museum is a place for viewing exhibitions and holding pedagogical activities. Its building is a transparent glass box, open to the surrounding landscape. Its structure relies on light metallic shelf angles used throughout the building, thus providing flexible partitions and display in the exhibition area.
The boathouse and the museum are located near each other in a rural area, on the border of the canal where it forms a pool.

INTRODUCING ROCCO DESIGN FROM HONGKONG

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

I read about this architect yesterday, and I found that their design are very interesting.

Rocco Design Architect

The cool hunter/ Architecture

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

http://www.thecoolhunter.net/architecture/

Dongs’ House Restaurant, Suzhou, 2003-2004

Friday, April 11, 2008

Tong Ming Architect

Banquet in Kuching by Aki Media

Photo taken by Students

Aviary House by Kelvin Mark Low

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Kelvin Mark Low

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Accidentally found this interview of Kelvin Low who is a Malaysian architect and also a lecturer in University Malaya. He has a lot of interesting residential projects.

http://www.fivefootway.com/2007/12/11/archi-forum-07-ffw-meets-kevin-mark-low-part-i/

Stan Allen Architect: LP 2

Thursday, April 3, 2008

In 2001, SAA completed a freestanding house for an artist in Los Angeles. Landscaping of the space between the new house and the existing studio will create an integrated line-work compound, including outdoor pavilions and guest quarters.

Stan Allen Architect

Confluence Project

The Confluence Project is an initiative to reclaim, transform and reimagine seven places along the historic Columbia River Basin, through permanent art installations by Maya Lin. Each site along the 450-mile course of the project is a place where waterways merge or traditional peoples have gathered, and each was a scene of meeting between Native Americans and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Through Maya Lin's creative interventions into their history and terrain, these seven sites will now offer new points of encounter between the natural world and the built environment, the past and the present, for people of all backgrounds.



"It is sometimes good to understand what's been lost, what is irrecoverable, what is valuable to us and what we would like to repair."
—Maya Lin (architect)

other projects from MAYA LIN

resource: The Confluence Project

Dominique Perrault - Piazza Garribaldi

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Perrault

Introduce Fumihiko Maki

fumihiko Maki