AADRLTEN Pavilion competition

Monday, September 22, 2008

Winning projects by Alan Dempsey (DRL 2002) and Alvin Huang (DRL 2004 )

The goal of this competition is to design a small pavilion (no bigger than 10m W x 10m L x 5m H) that offers spatial experiences to DRL TEN visitors as well as passers-by on Bedford Square. The pavilion will be manufactured professionally and will be assembled by a building contractor with assistance of DRL Phase 1 students during the second and third weeks of February 2008. Similar to many pavilions designed for expos and event spaces, the DRL TEN pavilion will be a temporary, small-scale building project, developed as a prototype for a new kind of architecture. The winning design will be developed immediately after its selection with the assistance of the London engineering firm Adams Kara Taylor and DRL staff at the Architectural Association

Model
Model
3d illustration
Finalists

Ahmad Sukkar: 2006

The design of the pavilion should explore:

1) the thinness of fibre-reinforced concrete panels and their structural potential
2) the possibility of achieving non-standard forms either by using flat panels in inventive ways or by developing a smart and efficient means to produce 3D curved panels
3) the use of panellised materials to create a coherent structural system

Yeygeniy Beylkin: 2006/ Elif Erdine Baskin: 2006/ Margarita Valova: 2006

Carine Cohen 2006/ Britta Knobel 2006

Paulo Ernesto Flores: 2007/ Feng Xu: 2007Danilo Arsic: 2007
Link
info from http://cspacepavilion.blogspot.com/2007/11/competition-jury-images.html

Munetsugu Hall BY Norihiko Dan

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

M-Hall
location　 ：Aichi Prefecture,Japan

program ：concert hall、restaurant、residence

site area ：831.96㎡

total area ：4076.3㎡

I like the fluidity of the multipurpose hall.

More info from the coolhunter

PHOTOS from http://www.dan-n.co.jp/projects/munemune/m-hall-E.html

JALAN GAMBIER MARKET IN KUCHING WILL BE GONE SOON

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

the vegetable market

KUCHING: The former site of the Gambier Street Market here that used to house hundreds of hawkers until June 15 will be turned into an esplanade as part of the Kuching Waterfront extension.

The development will also cover the adjoining area which stretched up to Ban Hock Wharf.
Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, in disclosing this Friday night, envisioned the esplanade having lots of trees to provide the much needed shade on sunny days apart from making the city a greener and better place to live in.

the vegetable market

“I’ve just asked Kuching North City Hall (DBKU) to prepare the plan,” he told reporters after officiating at the city hall’s 20th anniversary dinner.

Once completed, he said, the esplanade would stretch from Hilton Kuching to Ban Hock Wharf, adding that the opposite side of the river would also be developed and beautified to make both sides a popular recreational spot for city dwellers as well as visitors.

WATCH THE VIDEO about the market
(QUOTE FROM MY SARAWAK )

the fish market

I heard that DBKU has decided to tear down the stretch of markets along Jalan Gambier and it was announced in the newspaper on Sunday.

What a sad news to have, the immediate thought come to my mind is What kuching will become later?
Is it will developed into some place like Singapore?

the fish market

If the buildings are demolished, Kuching will be an empty town without any identity, a city with high rise commercial buildings but without soul. It is a very sad scene to our future generations.

If you never being to the Gambier Market, try to visit them, you can tel a lot of old times stories of Kuching from the buildings.

Currently some of us are involving in the measure drawing of the markets and I wonder whether conservation can help to protect these buildings on time.

Tirana Rocks: MVRDV Wins Lakeside Competition in Albania

Monday, September 15, 2008

Rotterdam, The Netherlands—The city of Tirana and an international jury announced MVRDV winner of the competition for the urban masterplan creating a new dense urban neighborhood with a park and public facilities at the shore of Tirana Lake, in the south of the Albanian capital.

The stacked and twisted volumes create spectacular public spaces and provide dramatic vistas. Clad in local stones the buildings turn into a series of ‘rocks’, the ‘Tirana Rocks’.

Image and text from Bustler

Current Reading

Currently I am reading this book and wanted to introduce to all architecture lovers.

The Architecture of Fumihiko MakiSpace, City, Order and MakingBy Jennifer Taylor

Introduce Trahan Architect and Bustler

Friday, September 12, 2008

Trahan Architects

Bustler

9/11 Memorial Boston Logan Int'l Airport

The Palace of Remembrance, as the Boston project is called, was designed by the local firm Moskow Linn Architects.
The memorial sits on a prominent 2.5-acre site that is adjacent to a road leading into the airport.
Upon walking into the memorial, visitors see two winding paths that recall the flights paths of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175.

The walkways continue through a grove of Gingko trees, ending at a glass and steel structure that visitors can enter.Image from Moskow Linn Architect
Text from Architectural Record

Harajuku Church by Ciel Rouge Creation

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Harajuku church is designed by Ciel Rouge Creation.
A very modern Japanese Church with wavy interior walls.
Entrance of the building.
The coloful chairs in contrast with the white wall create an interesting ambiance.
The ceiling is specially made to reverberate natural sound for 2 seconds to provide a unique listening experience for worshipers and tourists.
Photos taken by LiaoyuSheng
Photos taken by LiaoyuSheng Photos taken by LiaoyuSheng

Info from Impact LAB
Images from Figure & Ground (Liaoyusheng)

Introduce ----Urban Explorer (blog)

Friday, September 5, 2008

http://rosslangdon.com/

Igualada Cemetery -for the dead and live

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Igualada Cemeteryis situated at Barcelona Spain and designed by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos.

Igualada cemetery is not designed as a traditional burial ground for the dead, however emphasized on cycle of life.

The steel pole providing a curving path from the entrance.

The details on the wall are very simple yet intricate.

The flow of landscape lead the live to sense the place with their experience.

The use of light and shadow.

Images from Prune

I am always interested in Cemetery projects (maybe I am weird), found this cemetery while doing lecture notes. The contrast of the living trees and the dead burial ground forms a interesting play in the cemetery.

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