Mountain & Opening by EASTERN design office

Mountain & Opening by EASTERN design office

 

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VILLA AMANZI

  

VILLA AMANZI

JANUARY 13TH, 2011

This is the contemporary beachside villa I’ve been dreaming about. Not only because the architecture but also because of its cohesion with the surrounding environment. The villa is located above Kamala Beach in Phuket, Thailand and as you can imagine the view is incredible as it looks as far as you can see over the ocean.

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Bengt Sjostrom Starlight theater

Bengt Sjostrom Starlight theater
 

Bengt Sjostrom Starlight theater is unique for its roof. The theater serves University Rock Valley. The roof resembles to Japanese origami and is movable- while closed, it works against the bad weather, outdoor events can take place by opening the roof. Open roof look like flower petals in the shape of a helical sequence, each of them overlapping an adjoining petal. Theater space for up to 1100 people offers from centered vertical axis to the sky an observatory for the stars. The main architects of this fabulous building come from studio Gang Architects.

Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito & Associates
Za-Koenji Public Theatre
Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Za-Koenji, located within a residential district, is a public theatre replacing the old Koenji Hall.

Photo: Iwan Baan

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Paik nam june media bridge

Paik nam june media bridge

 

 Paik nam june media bridge; by planning korea in seoul, korea
all images courtesy planning korea

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Frank Gehry's Spruce Street

Frank Gehry's Spruce Street

 

 

8 Spruce Street. Photo by Fred Conrad for the NYTimes.

“Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you’re the only expert.” -Frank Gehry

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Working with Water

Working with Water

Coastal cities respond to the threat of rising sea levels with diverse design strategies at multiple scales.

March 2011

 

As the warmest decade on record drew to a close, representatives from the more than 190 countries attending the United Nations Climate Conference held late last year in Cancun, Mexico, made just halting progress in addressing the root causes of climate change. The conference agreements, although a step forward, set only modest limits on greenhouse-gas emissions. But as the symptoms of a warmer world become more apparent, the design community has begun to consider the consequences of climate change. Looming large among these symptoms is sea-level rise, a dynamic that has the potential to radically change the character of coastal areas throughout the world.

If the weight of the science doesn’t hit home, then consider that 55 percent of private real-estate insurers are now limiting new policies in mid-Atlantic coastal areas, says Wetlands Watch, a Virginia-based conservation organization. One top-10 company will no longer insure properties within one mile of the coast. Also consider that more than 30 U.S. military installations are already facing elevated risk from rising sea levels, according to the Pentagon’s most recent Quadrennial Defense Review, issued in February 2010.

The fluctuating seas

The earth has been warming for thousands of years. This very gradual warming trend took a steep turn upward around the start of the industrial revolution — a phenomenon that many researchers link to escalating carbon dioxide levels. Scientists are finding that the rate of sea-level rise is increasing as well. NASA satellite measurements show that the last decade’s rate of increase is almost double that of the last century. Seas are currently rising about 1⁄8 inch per year.

For an especially flood-prone part of New Orleans, Waggonner & Ball has proposed transforming the streetscape into a parklike environment that would incorporate water as an amenity.

Image: Courtesy Waggonner & Ball

 

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BLOCK 39, Center for Promotion of Science by SADAR+VUGA

Slovenian office SADAR+VUGA has shared with us its entry for the Block 39, Center for the Promotion of Science competition. The science center building is part of the master plan competition project in Belgrade, Serbia.

SADAR+VUGA's master plan design incorporates the existing building of the Faculty of Drama Arts with its proposed extension, and provides four new Faculties, a mathematics gymnasium, a science center with a 50m tall tower, as well as the new building of the Centre of Promotion of Science.

 

View from the Big Lawn

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