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Parametric Design Workshop | New York City | December 2009
This workshop will focus on the conceptual context and technical understanding of parametric design through a carefully constructed 2-day curriculum. Participants will learn to engage the parametric modeling plug-in Grasshopper in a meaningful and productive way that draws upon the collective sensibility present in the group.

Emphasis will be placed on strategies for deploying constraint-based design, associative modeling techniques, and environmental influencers for parametric geometry creation, analysis, and documentation.

Attendance will be capped at 15 to provide each participant maximum one-on-one time with instructors.
More info after the break.

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Kristin Jarmund Architects in collaboration with C. F. Møller Architects, has recently won a major competition to design a spectacular new landmark project in the city of Oslo, for the client KLP Eiendom AS, one of Norway’s largest property investors. The project, which has been dubbed “Crystal Clear”, consists of three towers, which grow organically from the ground to form a sculptural cluster, and are composed of stacked, prismatic volumes.
More images and project info after the break.

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The Associated Press reported that Jean Nouvel’s proposed 82-story tower next to the Museum of Modern Art has cleared its final hurdle. The New York City Council voted Wednesday to approve the plan for a 1000-foot mixed-use tower on West 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The museum called the approval “a major milestone” for its plans to add over 40,000 square feet of new gallery space — a 30 percent increase.

Nouvel’s design maximizes the site while considering the city’s zoning envelope. The proposed building’s unique silhouette tapers as it rises to a distinctive spire. Its steel and glass façade reveals the diagrid structural design. Gerald D. Hines, chairman of Hines, commented, “Nouvel’s exciting concept has the potential to become an international architectural design icon.” The Hines firm has collaborated with Nouvel on both 40 Mercer in New York’s SoHo neighborhood and on the C1 Tower currently under development in Paris.

Project: Casa K+JC
Auhtor: SPACE
Juan Carlos Baumgartner
Location: Ciudad de México, México
Lighting: LUA, Kai Diederichsen
Interior Design: SPACE, Juan Carlos Baumgartner
Plot size: 1,000 m2
Built area: 600 m2
Project: 2008
Construction: 2008
Photography: Pim Schalkwijk

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Project: Thor Heyerdahl College
Author: schmidt/hammer/lassen architects
Location: Larvik, Norway
Client: Vestfold Municipality
Area: 28,000 m2
Construction sum: € 75 million excl. VAT
Competition: 2005, 1st prize in restricted international competition
Status: Construction period 2007-2009
Engineer: Multiconsult
Images: schmidt hammer lassen architects.

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Project: Family House North-West of Athens
Author: Vangelis Lantavos / Lantavos Projects
Location: Athens, Greece
Built Area: 336.44 m2
Construction: 11/2007
Photography: Antonis Karris, Vangelis Lantavos

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Danish architectural company schmidt hammer lassen architects has won a 52,863 m2 mixed-use complex “Konstitucijos Avenue 21” in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. The project is the result of a successful collaboration with Oslo-based Lund+Slaatto Architects, a strategic partner of schmidt hammer lassen architects. The client had requested cross-Scandinavian architect teams for the task which led Lund+Slaatto to invite schmidt hammer lassen to join them.

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Project: Frog Queen
Author: Splitterwerk
Project Team: Irene Berto, Mark Blaschitz, Erika Brunnermayer, Marius Ellwanger, Hannes Freiszmuth, Johann Grabner, Edith Hemmrich, Ute Himmelberg, Bernhard Kargl, Benjamin Nejedly, Josef Roschitz, Maik Rost, Ingrid Somitsch, Nikolaos Zachariadis
Location: Styria, Austria
Client: Prisma Engineering
Project Management: Ingenos Ziviltechniker GmbH, Rudolf Elsenwenger, Gerhard Smeh
Site Management: Ingenos Ziviltechniker GmbH, Robert Lichtenegger
Structural Consultant: werkraum wien, Peter Bauer, David Lemp
Building Services Consultant: Rudolf Sonnek
HVACR design: Guenter Grabner
Energy Consultant: Dr. Tomberger ZT GesmbH, Hannes Veitsberger
Electrical Design: Erich Watzke and Moskon & Busz GmbH, Rudolf Busz
Built area: 1,400 sq mt
Project: 2004
Completion: 2007
Photography: © Nikolaos Zachariadis

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suckerPUNCH sponsored the Lavender Lake Art Factory competition, and the winning designs have been recently announced. The international competition proposed an ‘art factory’ at the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York cointaining private/shared art studios, a storefront gallery/bar, analog/digital shops, and live/work spaces for rotating artists in residence. More info after the break.

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Project: Villa Void Almelo
Author: Zecc Architecten
Location: Almelo, The Netherlands
Contractor: Aannemingsbedrijf Hulshof, Tubbergen
Program: Sculptural brick villa
Period: 2003-2004

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Over the course of the summer, Design It: Shelter Competition received submissions from people in 68 countries for a total of nearly 600 entries that met competition requirements. On the occasion of the Guggenheim Museum’s 50th Anniversary, we are pleased to announce the two winning entries: David Mares’s CBS – Cork Block Shelter, which won the People’s Prize after receiving 64,875 votes out of more than 100,000 votes submitted online by voters around the world; and David Eltang’s SeaShelter, which was selected by a jury of architecture and design experts for the Juried Prize. Prizes include airfare and two nights accommodation for two in New York City, behind-the-scenes tours of the Guggenheim Museum and Google offices, and Google SketchUp Pro licenses. Congratulations to both winners!

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Architects: Duangrit Bunnag Architect Limited – DBALP
Location: Cha Am, Petchaburi, Thailand
Principal in Charge: Duangrit Bunnag
Collaborator Architects: Saranya Srisakulchairak / Architect Group Head, Kahitha Boonyatasaneekul / Architect, Rawin Sangsittayakorn / Architect, Prinpond Boonkham / Interior, Thiti Tritrakarn / Landscape Archiect
Contractor: Square Tech Co.,Ltd.
Structural Engineer: EMS Consultant Co.,Ltd.
Client: KS Resort and Spa Co.,Ltd.
Site area: 30,000 sqm
Building area: 18,000 sqm
Project year: 2008 sqm
Photographs: DBALP & KS Resort and Spa

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The Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch) is an international institution set up to further interaction between academic research, specialized practice and the cultural dissemination of contemporary architecture. Occupying a space midway between schools of architecture and professional praxis, BIArch is an open laboratory for professionals and researchers that aims to promote new ways of thinking and acting for a technological, energy and economic reality in permanent flux.

Energy exchanges have their own laws and obey their own principles that reach far beyond the results of our actions, and knowledge of them is a great opportunity to improve the capacity for relation with our environment. The objective of the “Energy” seminar is not to solve specific problems inasmuch as to try to represent the broad scenario of which they form part, with the intention of adopting attitudes that set out to address these issues from a similarly global viewpoint.

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A few weeks ago we received Digital Fabrications Architectural and Material Techinques by Lisa Iwamoto and edited by Princeton Architectural Press. Digital Fabrications celebrates the design ingenuity made possible by recent advances in digital-fabrication techniques. Lisa Iwamoto explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs whith physical forms.

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During September we announced the shortlist for the Stadskantoor, a mixed use building with public and administrative facilities and a residential program at Rotterdam’s City Hall. After a process of public feedback, the five projects went on public display at the NAI and through the competition website, and also a presentation to the jury, OMA in collaboration with Werner Sobek and Engineers ABT was awarded with the first prize.

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