SpaceInvading
New Residential Project
Designer: LAN Architecture
Location: Bègles, France
The first stage was to ‘sculpt’ the volumes in order to exploit their urban potential and intrinsic spatial qualities. We directed our research towards a hybrid typology combining the house and the apartment.
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Posted: 01/18/2010
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Wilkinson Residence
Designer: Robert Harvey Oshatz, Architect
Location: Portland , Oregon
Located on a flag lot, a steep sloping grade provided the opportunity to bring the main level of the house into the tree canopy to evoke the feeling of being in a tree house. A lover of music, the client wanted a house that not only became part of the natural landscape but also addressed the flow of music. This house evades the mechanics of the camera; it is difficult to capture the way the interior space flows seamlessly through to the exterior. One must actually stroll through the house to grasp its complexities and its connection to the exterior. One example is a natural wood ceiling, floating on curved laminated wood beams, passing through a generous glass wall which wraps around the main living room.
→ www.oshatz.com
Posted: 01/18/2010
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The New York Korea Center
Designer: SAMOO
Location: New York, NY
SAMOO Architecture PC, the New York studio of SAMOO Architects and Engineers based in Seoul, Korea, announced today that it has won an international competition for the design of The New York Korea Center, a new home for the Korean Cultural Service in New York. The eight-story, 33,000 square foot facility will offer spaces for exhibitions, performances, lectures, and administration. Korea House will be located on East 32nd Street, extending the vibrancy of Manhattan’s Korea Town to the Murray Hill neighborhood.
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Posted: 01/11/2010
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Musée Louvre-LENS
Designer: Imrey Culbert, Sanaa, and Mosbach Paysagistes
Location: Lille, France
The highly anticipated ground breaking for the Louvre LENS recently took place on December 4, 2009 atop an abandoned mine field near the city of Lille in Northern France. Co-designed by New York-based Imrey Culbert, Tokyo-based Sanaa, and Paris-based Mosbach Paysagistes, the new branch of the Louvre will span 300,000 square feet of new construction, devoting over 75,000 square feet of galleries and visitable storage areas for hundreds of treasures from the Louvre’s collection.
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Posted: 01/11/2010
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Youth Center in Rivas Vaciamadrid
Designer: Mi5 Arquitectos
Location: Madrid, Spain
Image Credits: Miguel de Guzmán
The project aspires to become an explicit "teen" communication vehicle by appropriating their language and their voices as the ingredients of the project. In this way, the project’s team embraces all Rivas's youth groups by means of an open participation process, in which the future users of the center, combined with technicians and politicians, will contribute their decisions, their concerns, their fantasies and their aesthetics to create a contemporary "social monument".
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Posted: 01/11/2010
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