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Project: The Perforated House
Author: Kavellaris Urban Design
Location: Brunswick, Victoria, Australia
Completion DAte: 2008
Client: KUD
Awards: Finalist in 2009 AIA awards-Residential Architecture
Photographer: Peter Bennets

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Architect: Saunders Architecture
Location: Bergen, Norway
Principal Architect: Todd Saunders
Structural Engineer: Node AS
Services Engineer: Node AS
Quantity Surveyor: Todd Saunders
Builder: Bygg AS, Trond Folkedal
Project Area: 368 sqm
Project year: 2007-2009
Photographs: Bent René Synnvåg & Jan Lillebø

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“Dubai” (Tall Emblem Structure in Za’beel Park)
Location: Dubai, UAE
Design Year: 2009, Competition Entry from IRAN
Design Team: Kaveh Najafian, Hessamedin Fana, Sahand Ahmadian Tehrani
Structural Analysis: Babak Joafshan
Solar Comfort Analysis: Mojtaba Samimi (www.solarchvision.com)
Collaborators: Babak Afshar, Maziar Tehrani, Mohammad Ekhlasi 

Our friend Kaveh Najafian just shared with us their proposal for the ThyssenKrupp Elevator competition in Za’abeel Park, Dubai. The proposal is conceived as 80 fin walls standing at the height of 170 meters, erected around the site. Each fin, with two different faces of yellow and blue, connects from inside, a non-uniform curve on a free-form central void to an upright curve on the exterior, originating from the extrusion of the site perimeter.
More images and further project description after the break.

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Project: Oficinas 3e Chihuahua
Author: Arquitectura en Proceso
        Jorge Cajiga, Roberto Villarreal, Raul Rodriguez, Reyes Baeza
Location: Chihuahua, Mexico
Project Date: 2007
Constructed Area: 177 sq m
Contractor: Arquitectura en Proceso
Photography: Jorge Cajiga and Orlando Lozoya

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Submission deadline: 5:00 pm, 9 September 2009
To provide a better understanding to prospective exhibitors on the captioned events and criteria of submission, you are cordially invited to a briefing session scheduled for 26 August 2009 (Wed) at 7:00pm at the HKIA premises.

In the interim, please email your questions to info@hkszbiennale.org or tara@hkia.net . The Steering Committee members and Curatorial Team will address your concerns and general enquiries at the briefing session.

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Built in the brutalist style of architecture of the 1970’s, the house was subsequently renovated several times following a more traditional approach to house design especially by converting large open spaces to a more cellular room design. The renovation reopened the ground floor so that it became an open loft-like space from front to back (the house is about 70? long). By installing a new fully glazed wall at the rear garden side of the house, it was possible to extend the sense of the outdoor space through to the interior. This takes advantage of the house’s ravine setting by providing more opportunities to see and experience the natural landscape of the ravine from within the house and yet maintains privacy as the kitchen window is almost 30 feet above the public road.

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Winner: Diller Scofidio + Renfro

New York-based firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has won the competition for the new Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) on Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro‘s postcard beach. In announcing the winner yesterday, the governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Sérgio Cabral Filho, welcomed that the museum occupies the site of a former infamous nightclub that became an area of prostitution and drug trafficking. ‘I always wanted to see another function,’ said the governor.

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Flying kites on a warm sunny day is a favorite activity for children all across the world. At the World Expo Shanghai next year, those sweet childhood memories can be recalled at the Mexico Pavilion. People will see no building, but a 4,000-square-meter area covered in grass with hundreds of colorful Mexican kites flying in the sky.

Visitors can read a book, have a picnic or simply relax on the grass under the shade of the kites. They can also buy a traditional Mexican-style kite from the pavilion and fly it to recall the fun of their childhoods. You can even learn how to make a unique Mexican kite as the souvenir.

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Inhabitat (in partnership with Dwell) has announced the 20 finalists for Reburbia Design Competition. Finalists are competing head to head with online voting and will be published in the December issue of Dwell magazine. Brief description of the 20 finalist after the break. Arch Tracker is not involved with the competition, all enquiries should be directed to Inhabitat and Dwell at the competition web page.

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Designer: archimedialab
Location: Bavaria, Germany

Nearly 4 years after the competition for a new administration building of the Schwandorf Incineration Plant in Bavaria, Germany was won by Stuttgart-based archimedialab, this unique ensemble of building and landscape has now been officially inaugurated.

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Project: House in Kitakamakura
Author: Suppose Design Office
        Makoto Tanijiri
Design Team: Hayato Komatsu, Kazutaka Sumi
Location: Hiroshima, Japan

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Architects: Single Speed Design
Principals in Charge: Jinhee Park AIA, John Hong AIA/LEED
Project team: Brett Albert, Frederick Peter Ortner, Matt Allen, Caroline Lang, Clara Wong, Bao Wei
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Plot: 92
Structural Engineer: Paul Kassabian, SGH Inc.
Design year: 2008
Construction year: 2009-2010
Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China
Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China
Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

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Architects: FTL Design Engineering Studio
Location: Detroit, USA
Project Architect: Parson Brikerhoff, MI
Project area: 4,645 sqm
Budget: $22.5 Million USD
Project year: 2009
Fabric: PTFE glass
Photographs: FTL

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Project: Melbourne Recital Centre
Author: ARM
        Steve Ashton, Howard Raggatt, Ian McDougall, Tony Allen
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Awards: Victorian Architecture Awards
Image Credits: John Gollings

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Project: Centro de Transferencia Multimodal Azteca
Author: CC Arquitectos
                    Manuel Cervantes Cespedes
Location: Estado de México, México
Site Surface: 20,600m2
Building Surface: 92,500m2
Landscape: Tonatiuh Martinez
Furniture: CC Arquitectos

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