Medellín Sports Arenas by Mazzanti Arquitectos and plan:b

Giancarlo Mazzanti, principal of Mazzanti Arquitectos, and plan:b arquitectos principal Felipe Mesa show us the Coliseums for the South American Games in Medellín, Colombia.

house of the week 97: glass townhouses

Glass townhouses are a pair of three-story townhouses built on a narrow parcel of land in Venice, California, divided vertically with no common walls. The 3,600 ft² building designed by Sanders Architects features a façade constructed of a double covering of transparent panels and glass that bathes the interior in soft light.

blog wunderlust: 27 December 2010

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense

Pablo Picasso

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on the boards: the Cornerstone

The Cornerstone is a proposed landmark in the city Vanløse, Denmark by JAJA Architects. Intended to give presence, the commercial building is sited at the intersection between the diverse and fragmented buildings in the town. The distinct form and position of the building is hoped when complete in 2012, to bring together to the disparate parts of the town.

house of the week 96: Rodríguez Harvey House

The Rodríguez Harvey House designed by architect Nicolas Loi is located in the arid Valparaíso Region of Chile. The 140 m² house is broken into a series of timber and glazed boxes elegantly linked via a dark varnished pine walkway that wraps the south & western faces.

blog wunderlust : 20 December 2010

The walled city is an extension of our skins as much as houses and clothing

Lewis Mumford

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Studio Banana Tv ::: Luisa Lambri

Studio Banana TV interviews Italian photographer Luisa Lambri who photographs houses, that stand in clear contrast to the established practice of architectural photography which has traditionally focused its attention on the exteriors of buildings.

TEDx talks ::: Dan Phillips

builder Dan Phillips, in this funny and insightful talk from TEDxHouston, shares the dozen houses he's built in Texas using recycled and reclaimed materials in wildly creative ways whilst questioning Maslow's hierarchy of needs

0300tv ::: Sou Fujimoto

Sou Fujimoto interview on 0300tv.com

architects gift guide

With one week left for Christmas shopping are you wondering what to get the architect in your life? Or maybe your office has a secret Santa and you are seeking the perfect gift? Look no further. Here is the architechnophilia 2010 round up of the best gifts for the architecturally inclined.

Jewellery

The Marmol Radziner designed rings, bracelets and cuffs for women and men made from scrap strips of bronze 3/16 inch thick.
Price U$70 - $250

Charitable

a donation to Architecture for Humanity
Price U$25 - $1500


Books

The Architect by Charles Bancroft. A candid, controversial and eyebrow raising perspective of the profession and it's many characters.

Price: $12.50 (ebook)

Fashion

Archinect Robot tees (black, of course)
Price U$25


Toys

LEGO Willis Tower. Sets of our favourite buildings the list includes many iconic buildings of the modern era.
Price: U$20 - $100

DIY messenger bag links such as this one show you can make your own bag out of just about anything using readily available templates online. Cheap, thoughtful and sustainable.
Price: pennies

on the boards: 42 Social Housing

A proposal for social housing in Son Servera, Spain by Peris-Toral Architects. The sloping tiled roofs and projecting sandstone walls attempt to make a contextual dialogue without cheapened replication. The apartments were a recent entry in the Total Housing competition hosted by Architizer, Storefront for Art & Architecture and Actar Publishing.

house of the week 95: House for a Photographer

A clean and minimalist weekend house for a photographer that was designed by his brother architect Carlos Ferrater. The house consists of 3 one-room units located on a long site among a palm grove facing the sea in Alcanar, Spain. The play on volumes recalls a cubist composition by Pablo Picasso that was painted in a nearby community and was further influenced by the conditions of the landscape, the construction and to the light that creates a series of small courts amongst the forms.

blog wunderlust : 13 November 2010

Interstitial spaces and landscape are what define tropical architecture [...] to create harmony, not the perfection that modernism craves so much

Joe Osae-Addo

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Desmoulin - Conservatoire Léo Delibes
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The last winner of the Équerre d'Argent, the prestigious French architecture prize: Bernard Desmoulin's work in Clichy-la-Garenne

on the boards: Y towers

Located in Ashrafieh, Beirut the Y towers by Paul Kaloustian Architects is made up of two buildings, one for commerce the other comprised of residences. The casual stacking of the floors is a sculptural effect intended to break up the mass of the proposed buildings.

house of the week 94: Lembah Kemang townhouses

Designed by Aboday architects the five, three story townhouses are located on a small 2400 m² lot in southern Jakarta, Indonesia. The massing of the units are oriented to maximize the view and open the townhouses to a spectacular view of Kemang Valley. The contrast of natural finishes against concrete and steel, seen in the details of the screen and overhang, help to define the identity of the townhouses as tropical modern buildings.

Interiors : OSB Office

Mode:lina have recently completed their own offices housed in a basement in Poznan, Poland. The design employs otherwise cheap materials in a new and elegant way; oriented strand boards (osb) lacquered to create a seamless transition from the floor to the furniture, and lighting made from fluorescent tubes with metal profiling typically used for gypsum cardboard wall systems.

blog wunderlust : 06 December 2010

An architect is a builder employing the process of art

Charles Greene

Bridge School in Xiashi, China, by Atelier Li Xiaodong

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Haiti Ideas Challenge

The 2010 earthquake worsened an already fractured social, economic and ecological condition in Haiti. The challenges in rebuilding are many, but with it comes the opportunity to propose new ideas. This ideas competition seeks to collect design proposals of varying scales aimed at addressing complex problems.

Studio Banana Tv ::: Tony Fretton

Studio Banana TV interviews British architect Tony Fretton, principal of Tony Fretton Architects.

Utopia London

Utopia London is a feature length documentary about a group of young idealist architects at end of World War II when London was in ruins and who were united around a vision of a better future.

house of the week 93: Casa Cubo

Designed by Mexican practice Aquitectura en Movimiento, the house Casa Cubo both conceals and reveals itself from it's zero lot sub-urban context with volumes that protrude in the form of the timber clad cantilever and retract like the two story courtyard in the centre of the property.

Gaudi's Masterpiece

"My client is not in a hurry," Antoni Gaudí, said the pious architect referring to God.

Photograph by Pere Vivas, Triangle Postals

The December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine by Jeremy Berlin examines the architecture and nature-inspired design behind Barcelona's Sagrada Familia, including why it remains a work in progress and very much ahead of its time.

When Pope Benedict XVI said Mass there this fall, the Sagrada Família was already 128 years in the making—and still not finished.

the Cocoon

DUS Architects has created the Cocoon- an interactive lounge that inhabits the lobby at the Delft Faculty of Architecture. The flexible skin, measuring 32m³ is constructed of 150 inner bicycle tubes, measuring 20 meters each that can be inflated separately, responds both to user and spectator, adding to a new dimension to all types of environments.

blog wunderlust : 29 November 2010

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Rem Koolhaas

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Lumhor on architecture in Cambodia

Cool Spaces! an architecture show on PBS

Cool Spaces! is a dynamic 13-part series that brings alive some of the most provocative and bold architecture of the 21st century. Hosted by architect Stephen Chung, each episodes features public spaces from around the world, designed by architects pushing the boundary of contemporary architecture, materials and process.

Produced for Public Television, Cool Spaces! currently in pilot phase, offers viewers an experience of these public spaces as never before. But the architect and producer are seeking the support of architecture lovers everywhere. To lend your support email DIFundSubmission@pbs.org before 3rd December, 2010 to make this a reality.

Remix Architecture

Remix Architecture from Remix Architecture on Vimeo.

Two weeks in the Life (an architecture tale)

Studio Banana Tv ::: Ole Bouman

Studio Banana TV interviews Ole Bouman, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Holland

on the boards: Rathaus Crailsheim

The competition entry for the extension to the Crailsheim Town Hall, Germany by Madrid based architects Rodriguez & Oriol. The proposal is a compact volume, shaped to relate to the context of gabled roofs adjacent to the site but moulded and patterned as a sculpture with light and shadow to emphasize its abstraction.

on the boards: Royal Liver Building

The Royal Liver Building designed by Rogers, Stirk + Harbour Partners was conceived to be a catalyst for ongoing urban regeneration in Liverpool. The design proposes a grand glazed serpentine roof providing a sheltered venue for major public events and framed views towards the River Mersey.

Swedish Modernism

Swedish Modernism, produced by Black Dog publishers, is

a comprehensive reader analysing the role of modern architecture, city planning and consumption in the construction of the Swedish welfare state. The book draws mainly from the formative phase of the Swedish model, but also on European and American examples, and highlight the contradictions and complexities of the process of modernisation.

From now until 31st December readers of architechnophilia will get a 40% discount any orders for this title. To order, simply email jess@blackdogonline.com with architechnophilia in the subject line with your delivery address and the book(s) will be despatched with an invoice.

Also available, Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions for the Future

on the boards: Weathers Permitting

Weathers Permitting was a proposal for the 2010 MoMA/ P.S.1 by architect William O'Brien Jr. The installation was envisioned as a continuous yet varied landscape, that manifests as an elevated boardwalk that invites participants in the repetitive cycles of time and the environment.