Architecture and Design - Zaha Hadid

What is a Park?

"As a Landscape Architect, Rene Bihan is very passionate about public space. He advocates for quality design through his professional project work and feels that there is also a need to educate the public on the both the meaning and importance of public space in our built environment. This is the first of a five part series called "What is a Park? " where Bihan will use photography, video, interviews and drawings from the stakeholders of parks as a means of advocating for quality public space."

SWA Group

Turning the Place Over: Kinetic Architectural Sculpture by Richard Wilson [2007]

MAAD: 2nd Prize Vila Franca Footbridge 2010

_Where? A priori, the place is viewed as a difficult spot to be solved and characterized by pronounced boundaries, by a marked unevenness and by an infra-structure of railways with a great expression. However, this reality is inserted in a wider system: it is a part of the river Tejo and of its estuary that grants him a unique and special meaning. Nevertheless, currently this bound is diminished by the presence of the railways. In this context, the proposal intends to intervene as a hinging element between the population and the river, as a frontier between the consolidated city and the nature.

_Why? First, we looked for understanding the genesis of the bridge. Therefore, the first bridges shall have appeared by nature itself after the fall of trunks over the rivers. According to this idea, the deck arises then from the prime element: the trunk of the tree that undergoes a longitudinal cut and its inside is excavated. The deck lies on two moments: _the launch_that consists in a small topographical and organically platform with elements of being, two arms that anchor to the slope and marked by a tree, _the outcome_ a belvedere with a revolutionary hyperboloid form. this one takes on an iconographic relationship acting as pouting element in the landscape.

_How The chosen solution as well the used materials was concerned on globally decreasing costs. The were also concerned on choosing sustainable material and, as often as possible, on recycled material. the deck is coated by two main materials: cork and wood. The cork composes the skin of the deck, reproducing then the traditional Portuguese cork tree. the wood comes from the reuse of the materials.

Tiago Sales Passos Property

Tiago Sales Passos Property

Tiago Sales Passos Property

Tiago Sales Passos Property

_Team

_ Tiago Sales Passos MAAD

_ Vasco Antunes MAAD

_ Nuno Gonçalves MAAD

_ Eduardo Freitas

_ Filipe González

_ Hugo Feliciano

How To Think Like An Architect: Improving Design

Santa Barbara Architect Barry Berkus demonstrates how he would remodel a space in order to improve the design. He illustrates this process through a series of quick drawings and diagrams, along with detailed explanations of the current conditions, and client needs.

HERZOG & de MEURON - Pritzker 2001

PLANT FOR THE PLANET - FELIX FINKBEINER

http://www.plant-for-the-planet.org/en

URBAN INTIMACY

Illuminated windows reveal the building's interior - let you invade - accidentally - someone's private sphere. "The interior takes precedence over the exterior, and we can glimpse moments of people’s intimate lives." In "Scenes of Intimacy" Anne-Laure Masion captures these intimate moments and assembles them to a snapshot of urban life.

See the limited poster series at wall30.

Architecture For Humanity

http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/.org/

David Fisher - Dynamic Architecture - City of the Future

BIG BAT Mosque

Zimoun & Hannes Zweifel: prepared dc-motors and cardboard elements

Zimoun + Hannes Zweifel : 200 prepared dc-motors, 2000 cardboard elements 70x70cm, 2011 from STUDIO ZIMOUN on Vimeo.

For more information please watch 'Zimoun: Compilation Video' @ http://vimeo.com/7235817

WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson

THE NEW RULES OF CREATIVITY

I was reading WIRED magazine when I found an interesting article by Jonah Lehrer. It's about creativity and how you can boost your brain´s creative streak. From WIRED UK EDITION, here is a glimpse of the article by Jonah Lehrer:

PAINT THE WALLS BLUE /(...)The scientists explain this strange result by pointing out the blue triggers associations with the sky and ocean. People think about expansive horizons and diffuse light, sandy beaches and lazy summer days. We are instantly relaxed. As a result, it's easier to focus on those possibilities simmering in our imagination. Next time you need a new idea, seek out a loft-like space with high ceilings and lots of windows. Or just paint your walls blue.

TAKE MORE BREAKS /(...)Keith Richards came up with "I can't get no satisfaction" while fast asleep.


THINK LIKE A CHILD /Picasso declared: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up"(...).


WACTH MORE COMEDY /(...) Being in a positive mood lets the brain enter an open and playful state.


EMBRACE YOUR CONSTRAINTS /The writer GK Chesterton once declared:"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame." He was referring to the importance of constraints in the creative process.(...)


I would add one more...EMBRACE FAILURE, because failure is an inevitable part of the discovery process. How about you?

BaleHaus at Bath project will assess straw as a sustainable building material

BaleHaus@Bath is part of a major new research project into how these renewable building materials can be used for homes of the future. Researchers from the University of Baths BRE Centre in Innovative Construction Materials, will be monitoring the house for a year for its insulating properties, humidity levels, air tightness and sound insulation qualities to assess the performance of straw and hemp as building materials.

Gordon Matta Clark

Navy Pier Design Concept by James Corner Field Operations

Sustainability

Atelier Olschinsky - A must see!!

Some incredibly inspired work by Atelier Olschinsky. Sometimes visual, sometimes spatial, always mesmerizing. Enjoy.

“Founded in 2002 (Atelier Olschinsky) is a small creative studio based in Vienna, Austria. Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss are operating in various fields such as graphic design, illustration, photography and art direction.

In addition to their jobs for clients they also run several independent projects, always trying to develop and refine their work.”

"It is just so important to work as much as you can, to learn and to be open to new things. The journey is the award."

found  at : http://www.olschinsky.at/

Reflecting Absence by Michael Arad and Peter Walker

Here's an animation of the two memorial fountains at the World Trade Centre site, which open in three weeks time on the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.The two sunken fountains designed by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker occupy the exact footprints of the twin towers, which were destroyed by the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

Bjarke Ingels - Loop City

Reusing building materials in park construction

Minister's Tree House

Architecture Biennale - OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Eco-pods

This animation by Los Angeles digital designers Squared Design Lab shows their conceptual project where an unfinished building would be
covered in modular pods growing algae for biofuel. Robotic arms would constantly rearrange the pods to maintain optimum growing conditions.

Squared Design Lab developed the concept in collaboration with Howeler + Yoon Architecture, and first presented it on Dezeen in 2009.

BIG in South Korea

History of Charlotte by Rob Carter

Metropolis by Rob Carter - Last 3 minutes from Rob Carter on Vimeo.

Garbage Warrior - a documentary about Eco Architecture by Oliver Hodge (2007)

http://www.garbagewarrior.com/

Bjarke Ingels

Herzog e de Meuron Projecto casa luz