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Skyscraper in Bogota Utilizes Garbage as Building Material

By: admin | April - 16 - 2010

designed by Carlos Morales Hendry, Julian Restrepo, Pablo Forero, Andrea Montes, Luis Hernan Saenz
Colombia

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This proposal utilizes garbage and industrial waste as its main building material – a symbol and a statement against irresponsible consumerism. It is located in Bogota, Colombia, close to a large urban park, in a densely populated area with good transportation services. Its program includes sport facilities, hotel, offices, museum, and restaurants. Read the rest of this entry »

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A five-metre-tall installation greets visitors to ZARA Milan – UNStudio

By: admin | April - 15 - 2010

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The main entrance of Zara’s flagship store on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan plays host to an eye-catching installation created by the Netherlands-based design firm UNStudio. The piece represents the Inditex Group retailer’s nod to events planned in Milan to coincide with the city’s International Furniture Fair. The installation stands a spectacular five metres tall and has a diameter of 4.85 metres, with a total surface area of 130m2. The coated aluminium structure is lit from within using LEDs, and is echoed in two smaller pieces displayed in the shop’s windows. Read the rest of this entry »

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Cricket Stadium on top of a Skyscraper in India

By: admin | April - 15 - 2010

designed by Matthew Graham, Mike Lamprides  
United States

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As India approaches the 63rd anniversary of its independence, it is emerging as a cricket powerhouse. The sport that was left behind by the British, over a hundred years ago, has ultimately been adopted, creating a recreational gift to the nation. The sport has political and cultural implications reaching far beyond the imperialist colonization which initially engendered it. In the ICCT tower we will challenge the very nature of the skyscraper by aggressively reinterpreting programmatic, scalar, and contextual norms. Read the rest of this entry »

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Skyscraper Floating over the Grand Canyon

By: admin | April - 14 - 2010

designed by Anastasia Gritskova, Tatiana Leshihina, Ekaterina Zavyalova
Russia

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The project of Suspended Tower in Grand Canyon is a new way of looking at the architectural material, an attempt to employ advanced material process by means of computation and robotic production in order to change architectural possibilities and to better shape the environment.

The structural system of the Tower we designed as high performance device capable of adopting the extreme environment of Grand Canyon. The self stabilizing cable system includes tubes (bones) and cables which connect bones to each other and go inside them to the top of the Tower where the machines pull them according to the specific data from sensors that measure wind direction and pressure. Those machines choose the cables from particular side of the bones and rotate the building against the wind to compensate rotational moments. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Urban Transducer Skyscraper Produces Energy from Noise Pollution

By: admin | April - 14 - 2010

designed by Ryan Browne, Nathanael Dunn, Daniel Nelson, Benjamin Scholten
United States

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One of the most prevalent forms of pollution in cities comes from noise, a pollutant often overlooked and rarely considered harmful. Sound in its simplest sense is energy, which is not lost to nothingness upon absorption, but is transformed into new energy. This resultant energy is usually heat, which is potentially contributing to the rising issue of global warming. As population and noise productions continue to increase, so will the amount of resultant heat, which will increase the Earth’s average temperature. Read the rest of this entry »

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Shifting Geometries – A Hotel Proposal in Tribeca

By: Todd Ford | April - 14 - 2010

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The Tribeca neighborhood of New York is a bustling, shifting, changing and dynamic place. Nothing stays the same for long and the energy of change can be felt around every corner. It is not often that buildings seek to embrace this change; they often seek to stamp their permanence on the shifting landscape. However, Karli Molter’s proposed hotel embraces the change and expresses it throughout the structure. Read the rest of this entry »

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New Carver Apartments Offer Comfort to the Poor

By: Bridgette Meinhold | April - 13 - 2010

photos ©Iwan Baan

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Michael Maltzen is more than just a celebrity architect with commissions for museums and luxury residences – he also designs for the poor, the homeless and underprivileged. He recently completed work on the New Carver Apartments, an apartment complex for the recently homeless, elderly and disabled residents of downtown Los Angeles. This isn’t his first commission designing for those who have less, in fact the New Carver Apartments are his third commission from the Skid Row Housing Trust, who provide housing for the downtown homeless population.

The New Carver Apartments is a five-story, 57,000 sq ft apartment complex with 95 units, a community kitchen, laundry facilities and community rooms for activities. Built on a challenging site rite next to Freeway 10, New Carver had to be specially designed to fit in with its busy and noisy location, and at the same time provide a safe place for the residents. Matlzen and his worked hard to create a design that blocked out noise with a smart cylindrical design with efficiently placed triple glazed windows, so even at rush hour, there is just a slight hum. Even in the laundry and communal rooms on the third floor which overlooking the freeway and out towards downtown are quiet. Read the rest of this entry »

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Spiral Tower – Suburbia Living in the City

By: admin | April - 13 - 2010

designed by Philipp von Bock
Germany

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The Spiral Tower is a family friendly skyscraper inspired by the advantages of living in the suburbs. Its main objective is to provide a green community in the middle of Berlin for families who desire the best of both worlds. The building is equipped with solar panels, wind turbines, and water recollection and purification systems. The housing units are stacked in opposite directions to create terraces and open spaces for every apartment. Outdoor and recreational areas are distributed throughout the entire complex. Read the rest of this entry »

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Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts Breaks Ground

By: Bridgette Meinhold | April - 9 - 2010

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A recent ground breaking marked the start of what will be the largest cultural complex in Asia. The Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts, which is located in the main park of Kaohsiung, Southern Taiwan, is 141,000 sq meters and features a number of large theaters, including a concert hall, opera hall, playhouse, recital hall, library and studios for music and dance. The project was largely invested in by the Taiwanese government and meant to help transform the city of Kaohsiung from a port town into a modern, cultural metropolis. Read the rest of this entry »

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Aging in Place(s) – Dynamic Architetcure for Retirement Homes

By: Todd Ford | April - 9 - 2010

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The historical paradigm for aging is nearly always one of displacement. In the best cases this suggests “snow-bird” retirees, but the reality is likely closer to a hospital. This altered lifestyle often involves leaving behind the objects, daily patterns, communities, and relationships. The end result being one of isolation  in a facility organized around medicine – away from friends,  community, and the countless other amenities that a mobile lifestyle provides.

The response to this, as envisioned by students Benjhamin Callam and Joseph Littrell of the University of Pennsylvania, is to support community with just as much importance as the medical advances that support the individual. Read the rest of this entry »

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