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Project: Dance Palace
UNStudio: Ben van Berkel with Christian Veddeler, Wouter de Jonge and Jan Schellhoff and Kyle Miller, Maud van Hees, Hans-Peter Nuenning, Arnd Willert, Nanang Santoso, Imola Berczi, Tade Godbersen, Patrik Noome
Theatre consultant: theateradvies bv, Amsterdam Engineering: ARUP
Client:  “Petersburg City”
Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
Building surface: 21,000 m2
Building height: 28 m
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Designed by Mark Francis Tynan & William Hailiang Chen, ResoNet visualises the resonant frequencies inherent in the natural environment, via the interaction of the public and surrounding elements detected by a LED net. By using Low-Fi techniques ResoNet creates a cascade of light triggered by the vibrations detected across the structure. 

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Project: Hong Luo Club
Author: MAD
Director in Charge: Yansong Ma, Yosuke Hayano
Project Architect: Florian Pucher
Competition Team: Shen Jun,Christian Taubert, Marco Zuttioni,Yu Kui
Location: Beijing, China
Building Area: 487.5 sqm
Completed: 2006
Client: Beijing Earth Real Estate Develops Company
Photography: Shu He

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Project: Wilton Pool House
Architects: Hariri & Hariri Architects
Location: Wilton, CT, USA
Total Lot Area: 3.5 acres
Total Poolhouse area: 1,200 sf plus 3,630 sq ft poool and stone terrace
Program: Spa, pool, indoor/outdoor living space, bath & kitchen
Status: Completed 2007
Image Credit: Paul Warchol

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Project: Raffles City Hangzhou
UNStudio – Concept Design and Schematic Design: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, Astrid Piber with Hannes Pfau, Markus van Aalderen
Team: Juliane Maier, Marc Salemink, Shu Yan Chan and Andreas Bogenschuetz, Marina Bozukova, Brendon Carlin, Miklos Deri, Gary Freedman, Juergen Heinzel, Alexander Hugo, Abhijit Kapade, Marcin Koltunski, Fernie Lai, James Leng, Peter Moerland, Rudi Nieveen, Hans-Peter Nuenning, Hyunil Oh, Yi Cheng Pan, Steffen Riegas, Rikjan Scholten, Ioana Sulea, Christian Veddeler, Luming Wang, Zhenfei Wang, Rein Werkhoven, Georg Willheim
Advisors – LDI: China United Engineering Corporation, Hangzhou SMEP, Fire, LEED: Arup
Facade: Meinhardt Façade Technology, Hong Kong Transport: MVA, Hong Kong
Client: CapitaLand
Location: Hangzhou, China
Building surface: 389,489 m2
Building site: 40,355m2
Programme: Mixed-use, incorporating commercial buildings: Class A office buildings, five-star hotels and high end residential buildings.
Status: Planned realisation 2012

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Project: Black House
Architects: bgp arquitectura
            Bernardo Gomez Pimienta, Hugo Sanchez
Project Team: JN Morones Esquivel, Ximena Diaz
Location: Valle de Bravo, México
Lot area: 500 sq mt
Surface area constructed: 300 sq mt
Design Year: 2005-2006
Structural engineer: Jaime Fragoso
Mechanical engineer: Arturo Guerra
Glazing: Val y Val
3D model: Hugo Sanchez
Model: at. 103
Photography: Rafael Gamo

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Project: Jimbocho Theatre
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Location: Tokyo Metropolis, Japan
Owner: Shogakukan Inc.
Land area: 319.28 sq mt
Site area: 252.53 sq mt
Total floor area: 1,427.59 sq mt
Structure: RC(steel plate anti-shock panel)
Floors: 2 floors underground, 6 floors above ground
Max height: GL+28.05m
Construction period: From March 2006 to June 2007
Photos by: Tor

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Dubai based X-Architects recently unveiled the Urban Oasis, their latest sustainable master plan for Al Ain.  The 12-hectare urban development was conceived as a “micro-specific, compact, and passive sustainable urban oasis.”  Inspired by the existing natural environment and the traditional dense urban fabric of Islamic cities, the master plan develops an “environmental synergy between landscape and urbanity.”

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Project: Edificio Corporativo DARCONS
Author: Arquitectura en Proceso
        Jorge Cajiga, Roberto Villarreal, Raul Rodriguez, Reyes Baeza
Project Team: Raul Rodriguez, Roberto Villarreal, Jorge Cajiga, Reyez Baeza
Location: Chihuahua, Mexico
Project Date: 2004-2005
Site Area: 3,529.5 sq m
Constructed Area: 1,406 sq m
Project Management: Urbanismo y Edificacion Mexicana S.A.
Structural Engineering: EASA Construcciones S.A. de C.V.
Photography: Francisco Lubbert and Jorge Cajiga

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Designed by Marc Canadell, The Nightingale House is located in high above the famous Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California and is perfectly perched at the end of a cul-de-sac in the coveted celebrity “Bird” streets. The residence offers over 9,000 sq ft of luxury living including five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, kitchen, dinning room, pool and sits on over one acre of complete privancy.

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The Olympic Stadium at Beijing beats Foster’s Beijing airport terminal and Arup’s Water Cube in the Lubetkin prize, Herzog & de Meuron’s “Bird’s Nest” stadium in Beijing has won the RIBA Lubetkin prize for the most outstanding work of architecture outside the EU by a RIBA memeber.

Presenting the prize to the project team, which included Arup, China Architectural Design & Research Group and artist Ai Wei Wei, RIBA president Sunand Prasad said: “The National Stadium in Beijing will for a long time to come, and around the world, remain amongst the most memorable emblems of 2008 and of the resurgence of China as a global power.”

Images via Flickr by: Lim CK

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009
Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA
12 July – 18 October
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LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles office of HOK, a global architecture design firm, and Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global infrastructure strategic consulting, engineering and program/construction management organization, announced its combined team was selected by the Anaheim City Council and Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) to design phase one of the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC). The 66,000-square-foot structure features an iconic 180-foot archway offering expansive skyline views and will stand out as a landmark throughout the region.
    
The intermodal transportation hub is a sustainable, world-class transportation facility linking commuter and regional rail service as well as intercity bus, taxi and local transit. Future phases will expand the center to accommodate California high-speed rail to destinations such as San Francisco and Sacramento and serve as the terminus for the super-speed train between Las Vegas and Southern California.

The new transportation hub is scheduled to break ground in 2010 and be completed by mid-2013. Phase one is valued at approximately $180 million and will consist of the transportation center and supporting facilities, rail tracks and platforms, parking, public art and street improvements. ARTIC will accommodate passenger arrivals, departures and transfers, with supporting retail, restaurants and passenger services within the structure. It will also provide easy transfer and connectivity between area entertainment destinations and sports venues including the Anaheim Convention Center, Angel Stadium, Disneyland and Honda Center.

“The design for ARTIC was inspired by grand, open rail stations like Grand Central in New York, and from the historic, monumental hangars in nearby Tustin which housed Navy blimps,” added Cirangle. “We wanted to design ARTIC as a breathtaking structure which would be instantly recognizable throughout the region.”
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Project: La Estancia Chapel
Author: Bunker Arquitectura
Principals: Esteban Suarez, Jorge Arteaga, Sebastian Suarez , Santiago Gitanjalli
Collaborators: Paola Moire, Diana Arroyo, Miguel Angel Martinez, Jimena Muhlia
Location: La Estancia Gardens, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Status: Completed
Site Area: 60,000 sq. meters
Gross Floor Area: 117 sq. meters
Construction System: Concrete foundation; steel columns and beams
Client/Owner: Promotora Amates
Main Contractor: ETASA
Mechanical & Electrical Engineer: Cien Acres
Civil & Structural Engineer: DAE

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After almost 12 years in the boards dutch architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture, OMA, have announced the start of construction on “De Rotterdam” a complex of three stacked towers with a total height of 150m, a gross floor area of 160,000m2, and mixed use program (offices, apartments, hotel, conference facilities, gym, shops, restaurants) with an investment of €340m De Rotterdam will be the biggest building in the Netherlands. Completion is expected in 2013
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