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Split/View, pavilion
Designer: Mitnick Roddier Hicks
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
A permanent installation at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Split/View, a 400-square-foot pavilion, is one of five garden follies selected in a competition organized by the museum. Made of steel slabs, beams, and posts, the stepped and bifurcated structure, with 10-foot-by-10-foot bays, is “a dynamic viewing instrument to contemplate the surrounding garden,” states Mitnick.
→ archrecord.construction.com
Posted: 01/16/2009
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Vision for Heden
Designer: KjellgrenKaminsky - Architecture
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Could Heden become a green lung in Gothenburg? And house 10000 persons in 5000 new apartments? Today Heden is an empty city block located in our hometown Gothenburg, Sweden. It is used for football fields and parking lots. KKA presents a vision for a new multifunctional and sustainable Heden with parks, apartments, shops, offices and sports facilities.
→ www.kjellgrenkaminsky.se
Posted: 01/16/2009
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Copper House 2
Designer: Smiljan Radic
Location: Talca, Chile
Image Credits: Cristobal Palma
This house constitutes a second tryout with copper as the material of its outer facing. In the small town of Nercón, in the south of Chile, the ondulating texture of the cooper seemed to take on a historic quality by emulating the one that was used until the beginning of the 20th century in the house and churches of Chiloé, faced in galvanized steel. In this building, the modulated texture (38.5 x 95 cm, with a thickness of 0,5 cm) of ribbed electrolytic copper also imitates certain general aspects abounding in the area; the heavy layers of drooping tiles, the deformation in the geometry of the pitch of the roofs due to successive extensions and bouts of decay, the deep shadows these roof slopes produce and the continuous texture of their outer skin.
→ archdaily.com
Posted: 01/16/2009
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Wuensdorf Church
Designer: GRAFT
Location: Wuensdorf, Berlin, Germany
In this area today, an enormous new development for health, recreation and sports is underway. The competition called for a spiritual centre: a church for confession that could be used as a multifunctional assembly hall or opera as well. Given the historic background of the location, GRAFT questioned the values of traditional form, known typologies and institutionalised solutions for this particular project. We focused instead on a Church design that would provide a new framework for increasingly complex forms of belief systems and we approached the competition with the conviction of positive change and faith in inclusion over the exclusionary practices of traditional religious establishments.
→ archinect.com
Posted: 01/15/2009
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Garden and Sea House
Designer: Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
Location: Japan
Image Credits: Toshiyuki Yano
The site faces the sea and has deep depth. And it inclines toward the sea by the vertical interval like 2M. We arranged the house in the center of the site. The plane shape of the house is wedge to spread towards the sea. We planned the first floor as a place to enjoy a garden. The part facing the garden of the half underground is a glass window. By it, a slope of the ground just appears as form of the openings. The exterior floor covered with the white gravel. Since it is surrounded by the outside wall, outside can also be felt like the interior of a room. By place to stay and movement at that time, relations with a person and the ground surface change.
→ archinect.com
Posted: 01/15/2009
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