WAM Architects got a game to play its called house. hahaha.
The new Inntel hotel in Zaandam/NL
The structure is a lively stacking of various examples of traditional houses, ranging from a notary’s residence to a worker’s cottage.
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House at the Pyreness
Spanish architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales have completed the House at the Pyrenees in Canejan, Catalonia, Spain.
In Grosswangen (LU) hat der junge Zürcher Architekt Valentin Loewensberg ein wunderbares Haus gebaut. Es scheint in seiner unspektakulären Art so ganz und gar nicht in den Rahmen populärer Architekturentwürfe zu passen. Der erste Blick lässt uns dann auch cheape Biederkeit befürchten.
Aber dieser Eindruck täuscht. Die Einfachheit dieses Hauses hat nichts mit der uninteressanten Einfältigkeit zu tun, die man sonst so kennt aus Ortschaften wie eben Grosswangen. Bei diesem Haus müssen wir nach Amerika weiterreisen, um den ersten Eindruck zu dechiffrieren. Denn Loewensberg greift auf ganz urtypische Elemente des amerikanischen Wohnens zurück. So lassen uns die Eingeschossigkeit des Hauses und Teile der geschlossenen Fassade an die Einfachheit eines Trailers denken.
Schauen wir uns den Grundriss des Hauses etwas genauer an, entdecken wir eine gedeckte Eingangssituation, die es dem Bewohner erlaubt, trockenen Fusses vom Auto ins Haus zu gelangen.
Motelartig zieht der Architekt den Dachvorsprung vom Einstellplatz des Autors zum Hauseingang und darüber hinaus bis zum Ende der Hauswand.
Der Wohnungsgrundriss selbst ist klassisch kleinteilig. Keine Loftfantasien also. Mit schlau platzierten Türen können jedoch schöne Raumabfolgen geschaffen werden, welche gut die Intimität der einzelnen Räume ergänzt. Und mich unweigerlich an das Kings Road House von Rudolf Schindler in Los Angeles denken lässt.
Auch auf der Frontseite zieht Loewensberg den Bezug zu Amerika weiter: Treten wir hinaus auf den gedeckten Balkon, stehen wir plötzlich auf der Terrasse einer Südstaatenvilla mit klassischen Säulen.
Alles klar?
Natürlich kann man sich nun fragen, weshalb in aller Welt diese Dinge genau in Grosswangen zitiert werden sollen. Vielleicht wirklich deshalb, um der biederen Einfachheit der Architektur eines Schweizer Dorfes eine andere Variante entgegenzustellen. Simple ist sie ebenfalls, aber gleichzeitig eben auch mutig, eigenständige, grosszügig und absolut stimmig.
Ornamental Transfigurations
Two Chapels for St. Catherine in Malta and Istambul, 2008
by Yousef Al-Mehdari
Yousef Al-Mehdari is an architectural designer with both Maltese and Kuwaiti background. He studied architecture at the University of Greenwich before gaining his Diploma and Masters degree from the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL. He worked for CRAB (Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham) in London and is currently a project architect at LASSA Architects in Brussels.
Body Baroque with 3-D Printer
In a room with a window in the corner I found truth
Look out for more – great TenArquitectos, Mexico & New York City
The balloonist is stranded.
The Archigram Archival Project is finally online and ready to for browsing.
The archive “makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study.”
The newly launched site includes more than 200 projects; “this comprises projects done by members before they met, the Archigram magazines (grouped together at no. 100), the projects done by Archigram as a group between 1961 and 1974, and some later projects.”
There are also brief biographies of each participating member of the collaborative group:
Warren Chalk
Peter Cook
Dennis Crompton
David Greene
Ron Herron
and Michael Webb.
Beautiful and mindblowing.
THX.
Raimund Johann Abraham,
he the fantastic iconoclastic architect from Austria, who had been teaching at the Southern California Institute of Architecture since 2003, died in a car accident in downtown Los Angeles. (March 4, 2010)
Are the architectural drawings by Mr. Abraham art or architecture or a hybrid of the two?
This is a misleading question. It takes us into either-or debates which really have nothing to do with his work, drawn or otherwise. In my view his drawings are essentially philosophical, in that they struggle with questions of existence and its meaning. What makes them architecture—or, I should say, Abraham’s architecture–is that they create clear relationships between abstract, tectonic space and form and human experiences and conditions that comprise our existence. As he has said on many occasions, “architecture must confront a program,” which I take to mean a program for inhabiting particular spaces and their contexts.
(Answer by Lebbeus Woods to a question asked by a journalist about the work of Raimund Abraham)
Austrian Cultural Forum New York. Design competition won, 1992; building completed 2002:
Got my flashlight
two by four
necessary precaution
way down deep
in the baroque hole
lost my way
lost my soul
is this my grave?
Callum Morton’s cave. Tilburg, Netherlands
what the hell is that inside?
Find out more.
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
To the centre of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you.
Will Insley, Utopist and Architect, New York
who knows more about Will?
An interesting house in the mountains of Chile, created by young architects Nicolás del Río and Max Núñez. Visit the dRN website – here
Zlín is the fading capital of the Bata shoe-making empire and place of this Margaret Bursa project.
She explains:
The Czech town of Zlín is the site of a social, industrial and architectural experiment begun by Tomas Bata in 1894. However, his shoe-making factories that were once the town’s driving force no longer operate and so the social and commercial structure of the town and its suburbs are in decline. Responding to the New Local Manifesto a layer of facilities is laid over and interwoven into the residential neighborhoods where seven housing typologies are afforded dual functions of work and domestic life such the House of Drink, where both production and consumption are combined.
Tear off the top, let your memory pop
its running, running, running, running away.
Margaret Bursa’s amazing and intensely colorful megastructure. Check out her website here.
once it’s done, it’s finished. and it’s not now but it was just then and it will be later. not now, just then and later. Yona Friedman, Architect.
When Athens was cool there was an architect called Takis Zenetos. He’s one of the most outstanding architects of Greek modernism, with a varied oeuvre (industrial buildings, schools, residences, objects, urban planning studies). Unfortunately most of his buildings were demolished or very badly rebuilt (for example: the upcoming National Museum of Contemporary Art). What is not widely known is that Zenetos was a visionary of the future electronic city and the digital age. The projects – visible in the image – are for a hanging hotel, a combination of Tibetan palace and artificial geological formation and a wind turbined gorge. In 1977 Zenetos committed suicide.
Ergänzt am 03.12.2009. Wer weiss mehr über Takis Zenetos?
