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Project: Meals on Wheels and More
Author: Alderman Paccone Bishop Architects
Project Designer: William Webb
Location: Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
Client: Meals on Wheels and More. Austin, Texas
Builder: RGD Builders. Austin, TX
Structural Design: James Ryan PE
MEP: Verde Engineering
Civil Eng.: Austin Civil Engineering
Kitchen Consultant: Counihan & Associates
Photography: William Webb

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Project: Advice House
Author: C.F.Møller Architects
Location: Vejle, Denmark
Client: Lysholt Erhverv A/S
Construction: Byggeselskabet Paulsen
Engineering: Leif Hansen Engineering A/S
Landscape: Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller
Supplier: Alumeco A/S (Futtes byggeservice)
Size: 5000 m2 domicile
Year: 2008-2009
Competition year: 2007
Awards: 2007 1. prize in architectural competition

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Project: Aldar Central Market
Author: Foster + Partners
Planar
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Project: 2006-2010
Client: Aldar Properties
Consultants: Halvorson and Partners, EC Harris International, BDSP Partnership, Emmer Pfenninger and Partners, Lerch Bates and Associates, Systematica, Warrington Fire

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©The Sankei Shimbun 2009

Zaha Hadid has been awarded with the prestigious Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture by the Japan Art Association.

The Praemium Imperiale is a global arts prize awarded annually by the Japan Art Association. Since its inauguration in 1989 it has become a mark of the highest international distinction for achievement in the arts. Six nomination commitees, each chaired by an International Advisor, propose candidates in five fields: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music and Theatre/Film

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The Architectural Association School is showcasing the work of eight award-winning architectural projects which demonstrate the most innovative integration of design and fabrication processes through digitally driven design systems in a new exhibition Designing Fabrication at Village Underground Art Space from September 21 – 26 as part of London Design Festival. The show will be open daily from 12-8 pm. A symposium exploring themes and issues raised by the awards and exhibition is taking place on Friday, September 25 from 2 – 6 pm. More info after the break.

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Thom Mayne has revealed his design for the Perot Museum of Nature and Science at Victory Park, Dallas. Mayne describes the project as a “living educational tool featuring architecture inspired by nature and science”. The new facility will provide 180,000 sq ft of display and archive space on a 4.7 acre site in the north of downtown Dallas. More images and description after the break.

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Project: Universidad de Nottingham, Campus del Jubileo
Auhtor: MAKE
Ken Shuttleworth
Location: Nottingham, Inglaterra
Photography: Wojtek Gurak via Flickr

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FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape by CCA Architecture/MEDIAlab is an exhibition that focuses on the emerging field of advanced digital design. In the last two decades of architectural practice, new digital technologies have evolved from being simply representational tools invested in the depiction of existing models of architectural space to becoming significant performative machines that have transformed the ways in which we both conceive and configure space and material. These tools for design, simulation, and fabrication, have enabled the emergence of new digital diagrams and parametric landscapes—often emulating genetic and iterative dynamic evolutionary processes—that are not only radically changing the ways in which we integrate disparate types of information into the design process, but are also significantly altering the methodological strategies that we use for design, fabrication and construction. After the early digital explosion of the 1990’s, new forms of rigor and production have entered into the field of architecture, supporting the emergence of parametric and building information modeling and the enhanced use of computational geometry and scripting that together represent the second critical wave of digital design practices. That our current models of space are far more continuous, variant and complex, is specifically a result of the tools we are using to produce them, an inevitable byproduct of the ever-expanding capacities of digital computation and related fabrication technologies as these intersect with theoretical trajectories that long ago dismantled the social, functional and technological truths of the early part of this century.

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Project: Aqua Tower
Author: STUDIO GANG ARCHITECTS
Architect of Record: Loewenberg & Associates
Owner: Magellan Development
Program: Hotel and Residential High-rise with retail and commercial spaces
Size: 1.9 m SF including parking, 823 feet high
Completion: Summer 2009, currently under construction

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Dalian Shide Stadium – NBBJNBBJ’s proposed design for the new Dalian Shide football stadium in China represents a new direction in sports architecture by moving away from the creation of a building based on pure form. The organic architecture of the building challenges the typical stadium typology to become more than an impressive skin wrapped around an ordinary seating bowl.

Designed to emulate a garden, NBBJ’s Garden Stadium has only what is needed to thrive, and those functions are clearly organized and expressed. This simple effectiveness in design leads to a dramatically improved fan experience as well as greater ease of operations. In addition, the building’s carbon footprint is minimized, making Garden Stadium a part of a larger sustainable community.

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Project: Monte Elbruz Building
Author: Garduño Arquitectos
Juan Garduño, Ernesto Flores, Ricardo Guzmán, Daniel Banda
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Use: Multifamily House
Site Area: 1,300 sq mt
Bldg Area: 6,300 sq mt
Bldg Coverage Ratio: 70%
Gross Floor Ratio: 30%
Structural Design: Diseño y Supervision S.C.
Electrical Engineer: Arturo Guerra
Design Period: 2007
Completion Period: 2008
Photography: Sófocles Hernández
Paul Czitrom

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Project: Long Barn Studio
Author: Nicolas Tye Architects
Location: Bedfordshire United Kingdom
Awards: RIBA, National Award 2009
RIBA, East Best Commercial Project 2008
Bedfordshire Association of Architects, Best Commercial Project 2009
Photography: Nerida Howard

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World renowned architect Daniel Libeskind has announced that on September 29, he will unveil the prototype for his highly anticipated Libeskind Villa. The Libeskind Villa is a German-made, sculptural living space which marries the highest standards in design, craftsmanship and sustainability. The project has been realized in partnership with Berlin based proportion GmbH and the prototype has been built on the premises of Rheinzink GmbH & Co., the developer of the Villa’s zinc façade. More info and images after the break.

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Project: Il Vulcano Buono
Author: Renzo Piano Building Workshop, architects
Location: Nola, Italy
Phase One, 1995-2000
Design Team: R.V. Truffelli (Partner in charge)
D. Magnano, P. Brescia, G. Bruzzone, M. Carroll, C. Friedrichs, S. Ishida, D. Piano, M.Palmore, H.Peñaranda, C.F. Shmitz Morkramer, G. Senofonte, E. Spicuglia E. Baglietto
Phase Two, 2001-2007
Design Team: G. Grandi, D. Magnano (Senior Partner and associate in charge)
V. Tolu, C. domenici, D. Hart, O. de Nooyer, A. Bouton
Structure: Favero & Milan
Services: Manens Intertecnica
Maire Engineering
Cost Control: Austin Italia
Studio Archemi
Fire Prevention: G.Amaro
Planting: E.Trabella
Lighting: P. Castiglioni
Photos: Moreno Maggi RPBW
Hillman54 (Flickr)
Ginozar (Flickr)

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Author: 57Studio
        Maurizio Angelini / Benjamín Oportot
Collaborator: Felipe Zamora
Location: Santiago, Chile
Project: 2006 – 2007
Construction: 2007 – 2008
Structural Engineer: Claudio Hinojosa
Construction: Jorge Carrasco
Materials: Concrete / Steel / Marble

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