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Mecanoo Architects, in cooperation with local partner Cafer Bozkurt Architecture, shared with us their proposal, one of the competition’s three winning proposals, in an international design competition for Yenikapi Transfer Point and Archaeo-Park Area in Istanbul, Turkey. Yenikapi, ‘New Gate’, consists in a railroad and maritime transfer centre that connects Europe with Asia, as well as the inner city with the surrounding megapolis and the rest of the country. Continue Reading →
The Battle of Alésia was waged by Julius Caesar in September 52BC against a united league of Gallic residents in a French settlement in Burgundy. A major hill fort – Alésia – was the site of the vicious encounter which was eventually won by the Romans, and it is this historic location which has been transformed by architectural theorist and celebrated designer Bernard Tschumi.
The cylindrical center occupies the same position held by the Roman army during a historic battle against the Gauls over 2000 years ago and its wooden exterior references the timber fortifications that would have been constructed nearby.
A second museum building, contrastingly clad in stone, is also being constructed a kilometre away across the battlefield and the pair will together comprise the Alésia Museum complex.
The pavilion concept ‘SEAT’ by New York and Portland-based collaboration E/B Office has won the commission for this year’s Freedom Park Project at Atlanta. SEAT is a garden pavilion composed of approximately 400 simple wooden chairs arrayed and stacked in a 3-dimensional sine wave surface rising above the ground.
In speaking about the project, E/B Office partner Yong Ju Lee commented, “I hope visitors to SEAT can see and enjoy how furniture, which they use every day, can be employed radically and orderly to make a complex architectural system that’s ultimately artful and fun in nature.” Continue Reading →
vGH Company proposed the second prize winning entry of an international competition to design a Night Club Hotel in the dense city of Hong Kong. The young Marseille-based architecture firm created ’BUBBLE X’ — an object of desire that promises “the existence of a carnal place where sensuality, eroticism and exhilaration prevail.” Continue Reading →
Since 2009, architecture website ArchDaily.com recognizes its readers as the jury for their ‘Building of the Year Awards’.
After a two-stage voting process with more than 65,000 votes, readers voted for the best projects featured at ArchDaily during the past year. “From renowned established offices to upcoming young practices, with one thing in common: good architecture.” Continue Reading →
This past Fall, ROMA Design Group proudly announced the completion of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington D.C. In 2000, ROMA won the international design competition among nearly 1,000 entries. ROMA Design Group worked for several years to develop the design.
The memorial has now been built and was officially dedicated by President Obama on October 16, 2011.
The memorial is located on a significant four acre site adjacent to the Tidal Basin and on axis with the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials. The relationship between the King, Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials expresses the evolving message of democracy through the continuum of time, from the Declaration of Independence to the Gettysburg Address to the Civil Rights Speech which Dr. King delivered on the steps of the nearby Lincoln Memorial in 1963. Continue Reading →
