Embassy Of Finland In Tokyo, by Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd

"The most important is to create an image of Finland. The Embassy must represent Finland in the right way."

Rainer Mahlamäki

Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd
Embassy Of Finland In Tokyo
Tokyo

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UAE pavillion at shanghai expo 2010, Foster + Partner

“The cities of the UAE rise from the desert and the pavilion will similarly emerge to form a natural counterpoint to Shanghai’s urban landscape. Like a sand dune, it is oriented to the direction of the wind and is a powerful example of an organic and highly effective passive environmental design.”

Gerard Evenden
Foster + Partner Senior Partner
UAE pavillion at shanghai expo 2010

Relationship of architecture and technology, Mies van der Rohe

“...Architecture depends upon its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. That is the reason why technology and architecture are so closely related. Our real hope is that they will grow together, that some day the one will be the expression of the other. Only then will we have an architecture worthy of its name: architecture as a true symbol of our time”

Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969)

Form + Function, Frank Lloyd Wright

"Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, Gareth Hoskins Architects

An interesting project - Culloden Memorial Battlefield Centre, located in Inverness, Scotland, designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects, is a result of wining competition which was held by the National Trust for Scotland in 2004.

The exhibition works of Gareth Hoskins Architects is held by the light house till 2009 January. Click here for the further of the exhibition.

Gareth Hoskins Architects
Culloden Memorial Battlefield Centre
Inverness, Scotland

JLI House, MCP Arquitectura

"Perimeter as space, structure as reformulation of tree forest, winning all the surface of the floor plan to garden, two types of circulations, transversal, between technical furniture and perimetral, around inner space, defining a new type of medium and changing space between them. And the game with the inner-outer new space is the living"

MCP Arquitectura
JLI House
La Canada, Valencia, Spain

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the architecture, Philip Johnson

“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”

Philip Johnson (July 8, 1906– January 25, 2005)

Xeros Residence by Blank Studio

"I wanted to wrap one material around the entire house—as sort of an architectural lingerie."

Xeros Residence
Blank Studio
Phoenix, Arizona

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Social, Spiro Konstantine Kostof

“Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.”

Spiro Konstantine Kostof (7 May 1936 - 7 December 1991)

Modern and History, Le Corbusier

"To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be."

Le Corbusier

Antwerp Port House, Zaha Hadid architects

"the concept is a free interpretation of a beam-shaped volume raised above the existing fire brigade building and supported on three sculptured concrete pillars housing the stairs and lifts. two of the pillars are situated on the covered inner courtyard of the firehouse, while the third is located beside an external support point and consists of a panoramic lift shaft...

I am absolutely delighted to be selected to build the headquarters for the APA. Antwerp is one of the world’s busiest shipping ports and the new port house design reflects the city’s worldwide significance in communication and transportation. The dichotomy between the reflective, faceted form of the new extension and the powerful structural mass of the existing fire station creates a bold and enigmatic statement for the city."


Antwerp Port House
Zaha Hadid architects
Antwerp, Belgium

Open Air swimming Pool Oostduinkerke, Dierendonck Blancke and L.U.S.T Architecten

A project impressed like an artificial dune outdoor swimming pool designed by DIERENDONCKBLANCKE architecten and L.U.S.T architecten. This project serves as a transitional place between sea and city. via +MOOD

Open Air swimming Pool Oostduinkerke
DIERENDONCKBLANCKE architecten association with L.U.S.T architecten
OOSTDUINKERKE, Belgium
Images: © Dierendonck Blancke + L.U.S.T Architecten

Mourning House, by Pascal Arquitectos

"A project of this nature must encourage introspection and peaceful visual harmony through a discrete use of materials and lighting."

Mourning House
Pascal Arquitectos
Mexico City, Mexico
Images: © Víctor Benítez

The Absolute Towers, MAD studio

Yansong Ma of the Beijing-based architecture firm MAD created this stunningly curvaceous building for the a new 50-storey condo in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

"Our design forsakes the simplification principle of modernism. In fact, it expresses a higher level of complexity and diversity of modern society through multiple approaches. In the meantime, it caters to (ambiguous) social needs at multiple levels...The towers talk to each other and harmonize with each other. There is a synergy between them, an aura which transcends each of the individual buildings."


The Absolute Tower
MAD studio, Ma Yansong
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

product review ::: Snap It!

Product Review a new monthly feature where we review products to enhance the modern architectural practice.

SnapIt is a software by Digeus Inc is described as an easy to use screen capture software that allows the user to easily capture anything on the screen including windows, menus, full screen, rectangular regions, web pages and image shots of moving images. SnapIt enhances the print screen tool common on most computers by allowing the user to select exactly what image on the screen they wish to save. This process eliminates the need to open images in a photo editing programme to crop the bits you don't need.

The software developers of SnapIt suggest that bloggers and web designers will find the most benefit. However because of the wide reaches of the print screen function it allows for the saving of on-screen images, which in often case for the architectural practice means images of drawings and renderings can be effortlessly shared across different platforms and software without complicated conversions. Files can be saved in a variety of file formats including jpeg, bmp, png and tiff formats.

The trial version is available for download here

blog wunderlust: 02 November 2009

10 years of turbine commissions | a sad fate | no to Gropius, in Chicago | stoop to conquer | Rope-Access Surveying | a glimpse into my past | forest façade takes root | from industry to living | kirigami

Architecture is a local act: it ought to be attentive to and representative of the unique physical, topographic and environmental constraints of the location.

Graeme Massie architects

on the boards: Dun Laoghaire Library & Cultural Centre

Inspired by the connection to the Dublin port and resembling a dismantled hull of a ship, the proposed £30m Central Library and Cultural Centre in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland by Walter Menteth Architects will serve as the anchor for a new public park towards the North Irish sea.

House of the Week 046: Heeren Shophouse

The shophouse is an important element in the study of how the Malay streetscapes evolved demonstrating the negotiations between the strict Dutch planning regulations of the 17th & 18th Century and the commercial and domestic needs of the urban population. Singapore architect Chan Soo Khian (SCDA Architects) renovated this historic site in 2002 on a meagre budget as a meditation centre that sympathetically recalls it's previous use as an urban residence.

TateShots: Jacques Herzog

Jacques Herzog (architects Herzog & de Meuron) discusses plans for the extension to the Tate Modern gallery.

Studio Banana Tv ::: Iñaki Ábalos

Studio Banana interviews Spanish architect Iñaki (Ábalos + Sentkiewicz architects).

on the boards: New National Museum in Oslo

In September 2009 the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs announced the shortlist of competitors for the design of the New National Museum in Oslo. The names of the architects behind the designs have not been made public, but you can see the works here.

blog wunderlust: 09 November 2009

Dubai gets a retro makeover | how big a solar panel would you need to power everyone in the world? |  a place for trace | Obama's Mayne man |  banquet origami | don't roll your eyes; architects can learn alot by playing golf | video: Berlin's Federal Foreign Office | tallest prefab skyscraper | urban sensing

The civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is his prison, in which he finds himself oppressed and confined, not sheltered and protected. He walks as if the walls would fall in and crush him.

Henry David Thoreau

Dutch Profiles: Benthem Crouwel Architects

Dutch Profile on Benthem Crouwel Architects

also check out the profile on designer Hella Jongerius

Studio Banana TV ::: Benedetta Tagliabue

Studio Banana TV interviews Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue from the studio Miralles-Tagliabue (EMBT)in Barcelona.

on the boards: Mauer Museum

A competition proposal for the Mauer Museum in Berlin on the site of checkpoint Charlie by HWKN architects is defined by a solid volume (defined by the height of the old Berlin wall) hovering over a transparent public space.

House of the Week 049: the Spaghetti House

Originally designed as a graduate thesis project, architect David Baker built and resided in the Spaghetti House in the 1980s. Built in San Francisco, California the house is actually the renovation of a dilapidated 1911 stucco duplex that used every inch of available lot space. The house smartly and quietly uses alternative energy sources integrated into architecture.

on the boards: Museum of the West

The 45,000 sf Museum of the West is to be located in Scotsdale, Arizona. This proposal by architects Jones Studio draws inspiration from a straw hat filtering the sun and mitigating the heat.

on the boards: Frederiksberg Courthouse

Architects 3XN has won an architectural competition for the Frederiksberg Courthouse in Denmark. The new Courthouse will be a natural extension of the existing neo-classical building and is intended to express a welcoming transparency whilst maintaining the sobriety and seriousness of the justice system.

images via 3XN

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