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Project: Espacio C Mixcoac
Architects: ROW Studio
Álvaro Hernández Félix, Nadia Hernández Félix, Alfonso Maldonado Ochoa.
Contributors: Cecilio Hernández, Isaac Cielak, Félix Cañez.
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Use: Training Facility
Client: Coca Cola FEMSA
Training Manager: Brenda Grissel González Aguilar
Project Leader: Ramón Gorbea Chávez
Architect of Record and General Contractor: INMO­SUR SA de CV – Arq. Álvaro Hernández Cabada.
Graphics: Carlos Ortega Quezadas
Lighting Consultants: B&B Iluminación
Built Area: 1292 sq. ft. (120 Sq. Mts.)
Completition Date: July 2009
Furniture: Calligaris
Ceramics: Ariel Rojo
Flower Arrengments: Flora Inc. – Gloria Maldonado.
Clothing: T.E.M.O.R.E.S.
Photographer: Juan Marcos Castañeda for ROW Studio (Copyright ROW Studio)

(Copyright ROW Studio)

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In fall 2009, the entry by Californian firm DRDS Architecture won the first prize in the architectural design competition for the new KNN Media Center in Busan, Korea. The project, located in the new Centum City district, includes new broadcast facilities for KNN, office condominiums, retail spaces, and a museum. The winning proposal was a collaboration of DRDS with local design firm Ilshin Architects. More info and images after the break.

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Project: Space Mexico
Author: SPACE
Juan Carlos Baumgartner
Jimena Fernández Navarra
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Lighting: Kai diederichsen
Furniture: Steelcase
Carpets: Lee Carpets
Contractor: Energía y ecosistemas S.A. de C.V.
Photography: Huguette Ampudia

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Project: Casa El Uro
Author: 7XA Arquitectura
Angel López, Carlos Ortiz
Design Team: Ángel López, Carlos Ortiz, José Borrani, Anabel Crespo, Ana Casillas, Claudia Murillo, Cesar Garza
Location: Nuevo León, México
Built Area: 900 m2
Plot Area: 5,000 m2
Photography: Francisco Lubbert

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Architects: Audrius Ambrasas Architects
Location: Konstitucijos Ave. 20, Vilnius, Lithuania
Design team: Audrius Ambrasas, Vilma Adomonyte, Tomas Eidukevicius, Donatas Malinauskas
Client: UAB “Swedbank valda”
Construction: Idea Constructiva
Engineering: COWI Baltic
Project manager: Saulius Mikaliunas
Total area (above-ground): 23,000 sqm
Total area (underground): 19,000 sqm
Project Year: 2007-2009
Photographs: Courtesy of Audrius Ambrasas Architects

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MISHAWAKA, INDIANA – The new 254-bed Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, located on the 90-acre Edison Lakes Medical Campus in Mishawaka, Indiana, has opened. The new 663,000 square-foot hospital and 155,000-square-foot medical office building serves the Northern Indiana region.

HOK provided the architectural design, planning, structural engineering and interior design services for the new $224 million replacement facility, which is a member of Trinity Health. More info and images after the break.
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Project: Nat. Fine Bio Food Restaurant Interior
Author: eins:eins Architects
Christoph Roselius & Julian Hillenkamp
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Photography: Studio Uwe Gärtner

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Due to inclement weather in London this Lecture has been CANCELED
It will be rescheduled for another date. Thank you!

IaaC is pleased to invite you to it´s public Lecture “Relational Urbanism:Digital Relations for a Global Metropolis” given by Eduardo Rico and Enriqueta Llabres

Friday, January 8th. 2010
Free Entrance
IaaC Conference Hall, 19:30hrs
Pujades 102, baixos. Poble Nou

EDUARDO RICO BIO
Eduardo Rico is a Civil Engineer and Ma Landscape Urbanism Graduate currently working in Arup. He is also director of Groundlab and co-funder of Relational Urbanism.  He is currently engaged in strategic advice on infrastructure and transportation for urban master planning in the ILG team in Arup, combining it with teaching in the AA Landscape Urbanism and research in the contemporary design practices feeding infrastructural inputs into architectural urbanism.

ENRIQUETA LLABRES BIO
Enriqueta Llabres is an architect graduated at the UPC in 2002.  In 2003 she became part of MAP Architects team whose principal is Prof. Josep Lluis Mateo. During this period she was a team member of important winning competitions for the practice, ending up the architect responsible for the Netherland projects. In 2007 she leaves the office and moves to London co-founding together with Eduardo Rico Relational Urbanism. Currently she combines her research in Relational Urbanism with her own architectural practice, DNA-Collective.

Architect: Vector Architects
Location: Hefei, China
Client: CR Land
Design-partner-in-charge: Gong Dong
Project Architect: Jiajun Chen, Qun Sun
Structural/Mechanical Engineer: Huanyu Design Institute, Hefei
Project Area: 900 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Shuhe Photo & Vector Architects

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Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world was inaugurated this Monday by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, with a height of 828 meters the Burj Dubai oficially becomes the tallest building in the world, having surpassed the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan. The inauguration of the tower coincided with the accesion to power of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

Mohammad Ali Al Abbar, Chairman of Emaar real estate company said the company decided to launch the tower on this date as a gesture of gratitude towards Shaikh Mohammad, who is considered the builder of modern Dubai.

The Burj Dubai houses residences and commercial spaces, apart from Giorgio Armani’s The Armani Hotel & Residences. It also anchors Downtown Burj Dubai, a Dh73 billion mixed-use mega project, already a bustling community described as the new “heart of the city”.

Project: Torres House
Author: GLR Arquitectos
Gilberto L. Rodriguez
Project Team: Bernardo Chapa, Sergio Quezada, Tomas Güereña, Joaquin Jenis
Location: Nuevo León, México
Built Area: 5,942 Sq. Ft
Construction: 2007
Photography: Jorge Taboada

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On november we featured a video from the top of the Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world. This time we present you a new video filmed on December 31. The Burj Dubai is finished and will be oficially inaugurated on January 04, 2010

Here is another example of a building demolition fail, this time in Liuzhou, China. Now they have their own “Pisa Tower”