Kanye West albums illustrated as houses by Amaory B Portorreal

July 30, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Kanye West’s discography is portrayed as a set of architectural illustrations in this series by designer Amaory B Portorreal. Portorreal embarked on the project to visualise each of West’s albums as houses after the rapper announced his Yeezy Home venture in May 2018. The first project from the arm of Yeezy fashion label is expected

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Buddhanimit Temple / Skarn Chaiyawat + Rina Shindo + Witee Wisuthumporn

July 30, 2018 Rayen Sagredo 0

Buddhanimit Temple, located in a rural community in Udon Thani, Thailand, is a temple school that provides free education for families who are unable to afford public education.  Due to increasing number of students enrolled as novice monks, an extension dormitory building is required.  The original brief of the project calls for a two-storey dormitory building under a donated 6 million baht (EUR.154,000) budget.  After thorough site inspections and workshops with monks and novices, the architects proposed an economical scheme to renovate an existing abandoned classroom building on site into a dormitory. This leaves enough money to provide additional library and washroom for the novice monks. Novice Living Quarters intends to produce a design that is environmental friendly, respective to context, and contributing to the novice monks’ ways of living.

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SBF Tower / Hans Hollein & Christoph Monschein

July 30, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

A series of new photographs of Shenzhen´s SBF Tower has been unveiled by O.H.A, showing Pritzker Prize winner Hans Hollein and Christoph Monschein’s design nearing completion in the Futian district of Shenzhen. Commissioned by the duo of Southern and Bosera Funds back in 2010, the project was envisioned to contrast any high-rise in the vicinity because it is different.

Paulo Mendes da Rocha and David Adjaye on Mies Crown Hall Americas 2018 shortlist

July 30, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Washington DC’s African American history museum and a leisure centre designed by Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha are among the six finalists for this year’s Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. The museum designed for the US capital by a team including British architect David Adjaye, and Mendes da Rocha’s project in São Paulo, Brazil, are in the

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Northcote House 02 / STAR Architecture

July 30, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

This project is located in an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Australia, and provides a response to the difficulty of designing a house to a client’s brief on a small block within a cozy neighborhood cul-de-sac. Our clients sought to respect the existing single level character of the suburban court by minimizing the visual impact of their double-story home. Timber screens were used as a device to soften the solid rendered walls behind and to unify the facade.

MAD reveals designs for Yabuli Conference Centre in Chinese mountains

July 30, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Construction has begun on a sinuous conference centre designed by MAD for the mountainous region of Yabuli in northeast China. Named the Yabuli Conference Centre, the 16,198 square metre venue will become the permanent venue for hosting the annual China Entrepreneur Forum (CEF) event. The four-storey building will contain a large 1,000-seat auditorium, as well as a secondary 350-seat venue

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The Cartographies of the Brazilian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2018

July 30, 2018 Romullo Baratto 0

The concept and title Walls of Air was conceived as a response to the theme of Freespace proposed by curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara in order to provoke questions about: 1. the different sorts of walls that construct, on multiple scales, the Brazilian territory; 2. the borders of architecture itself in relation to other disciplines.

Matthew Mazzotta builds retractable Storefront Theater for Nebraska community

July 30, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

An unassuming storefront in a small Nebraska town flips down to become a 100-seat theatre, which artist Matthew Mazzotta installed to reinvigorate the neglected main street. The Storefront Theater provides the town of Lyons with an open-air event space, which can be hidden away and disguised at part of the streetscape when not in use.

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Canyon House / HK Associates

July 30, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

Emerging from the desert, Canyon House is equal parts land-form and mechanism for viewing. Stoic on the exterior – but more than an object in the landscape – Canyon House blurs the boundary between inside and out, imprinting the exterior environment onto the interior of the home: revealing life as a series of moments, vistas and reflections.