With a new academic year, SCI-Arc has continued to develop its global network of Satellite Initiatives. Serving as sites of experimentation and bringing together minds from around the world for unique symposia, diverse exhibitions, and workshops, these initiatives present new opportunities for engaging and testing the Institute’s cutting-edge ideas against the backdrop of cities outside of its native Los Angeles context.
Recently awarded at the Grands Prix du Design, category “common area”, this LEED silver expansion project offers a new everyday life at the CSN’s head office, thus improving the quality of life of users and residents of the neighbourhood.
Kevin Roche, the Irish-American architect and Pritzker laureate known whose modernist sensibility transformed America’s post-war cultural and corporate institutions, has died of natural causes in his home in Guilford, Connecticut. News of Roche’s passing was first posted to the website of his office, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates late on 02 March. He was 96 years old.
a lookout tower by huť architektury is the result of several years of collaboration with a local ski resort, kraličák, of the czech republic. situated near the summit of a high peak, the tower overlooks the vast forested mountains and surrounding ski slopes. the project comprises a year-round accessible, 35-meter high lookout tower sited at […]
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A funicular station on a mountain in Italy has been converted into a museum with an adjoining restaurant that balances on stilts by Gerhard Mahlknecht of EM2. The Lumen Museum of Mountain Photography is located 2,275 metres above sea level at the summit of Plan de Corones in the Kronplatz region of South Tyrol. Mahlknecht, who
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Set in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, the village of Bosdarros extends along a main street, the primary school being the entry point. The project aims, firstly, to redefine the accessibility to the school that is limited by wild parking, cypresses and different entrances, and secondly to reform its usability. Two elements are thus created: a new refectory is set in tangent with the school and a staircase is appended to the back side of the old building, generating a new distribution of open-plan spaces.
the tower overlooks the vast forested mountains and surrounding ski slopes.
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Confrontation and adaptation
The Suzhou technology and science town adopts a highly efficient model where the land is subdivided into a grid of various natures with similar urban scales. Our proposal here takes advantage of the existing constraints and leverages the maximum value from the natural surroundings – Confronting both the tight city grid and the grand nature nearby, one side of the site is edged by the lush nature such as canals, wetlands and mountains. The opposite edge of the site is facing a highly artificial environment filled with high density apartment towers.
Village status : Shallow mountain ancient village in the center of Weihai city
Wangjiatuan village is located in Zhangcun town, Huancui District, Weihai city, Shandong province. It’s about a 30-minute drive from the city center. The village belongs to the scenic area of Likou mountain, which is one of the passes into the mountain. Its geographical location is convenient and important. The village is located in an east-west valley, North-south high, with streams running through it.The village form is long and narrow, the surrounding natural ecology is intact, the agricultural landscape resources are rich. There is a temple rebuilt in recent years on the east side of the village. The original structure of the village settlement is complete, with a large number of traditional dwellings built by rubble stone masonry, as well as objects carrying historical information such as Teama stone, gate head, and stone pier. It is a typical traditional village in shallow mountainous areas of Jiaodong region.
Mostly composed of detached houses in low density, Headquarters of Özgüven Architecture INC’s immediate surrounding is one of the highest hills and long-established neighborhoods in Ankara. The building which has 5 floors and 1250 m2 construction area on 599 m2 lands is designed and realized to allow 40 people to work there. All floors including one floor underground are built to serve for different functions and units and considering these differences, principles in accordance with its functions are adopted in each floor.
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