Archive for August, 2006
International Bamboo Building Design (architectural) Competition
An Architecture Design Competition of Structural Bamboo Buildings”Visionary Designs for Ecological Living” Some of the winning entries will be chosen for manufacture bythe world’s premier builder of international code approved bamboo homes.
CALL FOR ENTRIES:
Competition Objectives: This competition has been created to develop new award winning designs for bamboo buildings, raise awareness of the use of […]
New train station in Berlin
Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, city planners began work on a transport plan for reunified Berlin. One element of this became the “Pilzkonzept” (mushroom concept), in which a new north-south railway line intersecting the Stadtbahn was to be constructed. The name derived from the shape formed by the new line […]
The Glass Pavilion - at the Toledo Museum of Art, Construction Slide Shows
Construction begins with the digging of the hole for the foundation. As the digging progresses through the week, a steady stream of dump trucks carries the dirt off the building site. Some of the subsoil is being temporarily held on Museum property at the intersection of Interstate 75 and Monroe Street. When the construction of […]
U.S. Federal Building Architect Carol Ross Barney Comments on WTC Rebuilding Process
David Childs, Daniel Libeskind, Michael Arad, and others have been at the center of attention as they continually redesign the components of the World Trade Center site. The scrutiny they face is immense, and no one knows that better than Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney, FAIA. The principal of Ross Barney Architects designed the federal […]
Opera House by Santiago Calatrava (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands)
The Auditorio de Tenerife, the work of architect Santiago Calatrava, can be classified as late-modern architecture from the end of the twentieth century. […]
Farnsworth House - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The Farnsworth House, built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1951 and located near Plano, Illinois, is one of the most famous examples of modernist domestic architecture and was considered unprecedented in its […]
The Cardboard House - modern architecture flor plan
Design concept
The Cardboard House represents the reduction of technology and the simplification […]
The Sage Music & Art Gallery - modern architecture
The Sage Music & Art Gallery (modern architecture)
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The Elements of Architecture: Jacques Herzog + Rowan Moore
The first of a series of conversations investigating the elements of architecture in contemporary life. Do the Vitruvian principles of commodity, firmness and delight still hold good? What […]
Student Competition “INFINITE STRIP” - apartments building
INTRODUCTION:
For its second conceptual competition ARQUITECTUM has opted for a subject that is not only “informative” but also “formative”, in that it purports to contribute to discourse of the practice of architecture as well as offering a specific exercise within the context of modern teaching. We are therefore pleased to invite all architecture students and […]