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Pollution in China
Designer: n/a
Location: China
Image Credits: Lu Guang (卢广)
October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”
→ www.chinahush.com
Posted: 10/23/2009
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Fosc House
Designer: Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects
Location: San Pedro, Chile
Image Credits: Cristobal Palma
This project is both an exercise of formal and structural concentration. The dense program of this house for a family with four children (five bedrooms, three bathrooms, family room, studio, etc) is fitted between a regular interior duct and the surface of the largest legally possible exterior wall. The prospect of a future division of the site adds to the decision of concentrating all the program in a three storey prism on the highest point of the land so as to have vistas beyond the trees located on the lowest area of the plot.
→ archdaily.com
Posted: 10/22/2009
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Zamet Sports and Cultural Center
Designer: 3LHD
Location: Rijeka, Croatia
One third of the sports hall’s volume is cut in the ground, and the rest of the Centre is fully fitted into the surrounding landscape. The building’s main architectural element are ribbon-like linear stripes stretching over the site in a north-south direction, functioning at the same time as an architectural design element of the object and as a zoning element which forms a public square and a link between the park on the north and school and B. Vidas street on the south.
→ bustler.net
Posted: 10/22/2009
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Rebuilding 2.0
Designer: REX in collaboration with Croxton Collaborative and NOW
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Image Credits: Luxigon
Energy efficient buildings alone are not enough to meet this challenge. Only by changing behaviour— particularly mass migration to the suburbs and its accompanying carbon-intensive lifestyle—can Finland reach ecological balance. Finland must initiate REBUILDING 2.0, a new national project to make more Nature, more City and less Sprawl.
→ bustler.net
Posted: 10/21/2009
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Stadskantoor
Designer: Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), in collaboration with Werner Sobekand engineers ABT
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
The design, led by OMA partners Reinier de Graaf and Rem Koolhaas, was chosen from five submissions by Dutch architecture companies following a public consultation period and the deliberation of an expert jury, which commented: “OMA’s design was the perfect combination of innovation and suitability for the surrounding context.”
→ bustler.net
Posted: 10/21/2009
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