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KK Letter - Work and time off in Beijing

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:02 +0200

We will be back with new articles on September 6th.

Arata Isozaki and Associates - CAFA Art Museum - Beijing, China

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:02 +0200

Isozaki applied traditional slate to the organic shape as a symbol of contemporary art.

MoMAPS1 2010 winner - Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu - POLE DANCE

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:02 +0200

"How liberating to be an architect these days. If you can avoid hubris and over-reach, there are compelling, if daunting, spaces waiting to be explored."
Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu

Snøhetta - National September 11 - Memorial Museum Pavilion - World Trade Center Site - New York, NY

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:02 +0200

Two of the rescued original steel tridents will be enclosed within the Pavilion’s glass atrium.

Gehry Partners, LLP - Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo - Center for Brain Health - Las Vegas, Nevada

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:02 +0200

An uneven stack of blocks anchoring waves of steel and glass.

Mikou Design Studio - Bailly School Complex - Saint-Denis, France

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:02 +0200

The shape of the roof and the glazed brick give reference to the lanterns in cathedrals.

Competition winner - Henning Larsen Architects - Batumi Aquarium - Batumi - The Republic of Georgia

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:02 +0200

The aquarium interacts with its surroundings and becomes a manifestation of nature itself.

Morphosis - University of Cincinnati - Campus Recreation Center - Cincinnati, Ohio

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:02 +0200

"Weaving as a Means for Establishing Flow."
Morphosis

Exhibition - Jim McHugh - Let’s Get Lost - Timothy Yarger Gallery - Beverly Hills, California

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:02 +0200

McHugh's photographs capture the ghost of what was....and might be again.

Expansion- OMA - MNBAQ - Québec City, Canada

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:02 +0200

"Our design aims to weave together the city, the park and the museum; it is simultaneously an extension of all three."
Rem Koolhaas

Steven Holl Architects - Linked Hybrid - Beijing, China

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:02 +0200

The urban experience of space, through multifaceted spatial layers, makes the Linked Hybrid an "open city within a city."

Greg Lynn - Fountain of Toys - Hammer Museum - Los Angeles, California

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:02 +0200

Constructed with more than fifty-seven prefabricated plastic whale and shark teeter totters.

Shigeru Ban/Jean de Gastines - Centre Pompidou-Metz - Metz, France

Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:02 +0200

The galleries, located in three steel containers organized around the central tower, protrude through the roof.

Under construction - Gehry Partners, LLP - New World Symphony - Miami Beach, Florida

Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:02 +0200

TThe building will be an experimental generator for new ideas in music education and performance.

Exhibition - Feelings are facts - Olafur Eliasson & Ma Yansong - UCCA - Beijing, China

Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:02 +0200

Olafur Eliasson and Ma Yansong challenge our everyday patterns of spatial orientation.

C.F. Møller Architects - The Sil(o)houette - Aarhus, Denmark

Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:02 +0200

The apartments, a steel structure built around the silo, protrude into the light and the landscape like Lego bricks.

Dominique Perrault - Olympic Tennis Center - Madrid, Spain

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:02 +0200

Together, the three aluminum clad roofs provide a combination of 27 different opening positions.

SANAA - Rolex Learning Center - Lausanne, Switzerland

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:02 +0200

A radical and highly experimental building, designed for new ways of study and interaction in the 21st century.

Ron Arad Architects - Design Museum Holon - Holon, Israel

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:02 +0200

Constructed of five sinuous bands of varying shades of weathered steel.

David Chipperfield Architects - Neues Museum - Museum Island - Berlin, Germany

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:02 +0200

The original sequence of rooms was restored with new building sections that create continuity with the existing structure.

David Chipperfield Architects - New Entrance Building - James Simon Gallery - Berlin, Germany

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:01 +0200

The architectural language of the New Entrance Building adopts existing elements of the Museum Island.

Jean Nouvel - National Museum of Qatar - Doha Corniche, Qatar

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:02 +0200

The building, like a desert rose, appears to grow out of the ground and be one with it.

Herzog & de Meuron - VitraHaus - Weil am Rhein, Germany

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:02 +0200

"A series of spatial surprises, a “secret world,” with a suggestive, almost labyrinthine character."
Herzog & de Meuron

Kengo Kuma & Associates - The Opposite House - Beijing, China

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:02 +0200

The "green glass box" expresses itself as the urban forest in the vibrant street scene of Sanlitun.

Zaha Hadid Architects - King Abdullah II - House of Culture and Art Amman, Jordan

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:02 +0200

The architectural expression was inspired by the uniquely beautiful monument of Petra.

Competition winner - Steven Holl Architects - Shan-Shui Hangzhou - Hangzhou, China

Mon, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:02 +0200

The scheme, based on the concept of Shan-Shui, meaning mountain and water, builds on Hangzhou’s relationship with West Lake.

Anmahian Winton Architects - Community Rowing Boathouse - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mon, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:02 +0200

The surface of the building is intended to transform with movement.

GRAFT - Hotel Q - Berlin, Germany

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:02 +0200

"Hotels are homes in time where for a short while the visitor enters a world where he inhabits a new identity. They allow him a new story, and the anticipation of another future."
GRAFT

Exhibition - Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle - Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With - MASS MoCA

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:02 +0200

A half-scale, inverted version of the iconic Modernist glass-walled house by Mies van der Rohe.

Morphosis - Cahill Center - California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, California

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:02 +0200

The building is the result of a series of forces that collide to produce unique spaces of discovery.

Allied Works Architecture - National Music Centre of Canada - Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:02 +0200

"The body of the building is designed and detailed to refer to instrument cases, while the freer forms of the interior are influenced by acoustics."
Brad Cloepfil

Competition winner - OMA - Chu Hai College Campus - Hong Kong, China

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:01 +0200

"We aimed to create a sustainable, integrated, and open platform for the future of Chu Hai College."
David Gianotten

Tabanlioglu Architects - Astana Arena - Astana, Kazakhstan

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:01 +0200

The Stadium, with its spectacular elliptical form and retractable roof, has quickly become a landmark in the city.

Whitearchitecture - Southport Broadwater Parklands - Southport, Australia

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:01 +0200

"The architecture is inspired by the surrounding boats and sails and is created by the fracturing of pure geometric shapes.

Sanaa & Imrey Culbert, Musée Louvre-Lens, Lens, France

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:02 +0200
"We conceived this new Louvre to be everything the Palais Louvre is not, and sought to create transparency both literally and figuratively."
Celia Imrey

Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes - Voestalpine AG, Linz, Austria

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:01 +0200
A daring cantilever above the entrance exploits steel’s structural possibilities.

Coop Himmelb(l)au - House of Music, Aalborg, Denmark

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:02 +0200
An architectural expression suited to the multi-functional and synergetic nature of the building.

TEN Arquitectos - Xochimilco Masterplan & Aquarium, Mexico City, Mexico

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:01 +0200
The project embraces and improves the existing program of the Xochimilco park.

David Chipperfield Architects - Anchorage Museum expansion - Anchorage, Alaska

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:02 +0200
The glazing system reflects the extraordinary changes of light in Alaska.

Dominique Perrault Architecture - Ewha Woman’s University - Seoul, Korea

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:01 +0200
"Sometimes a building, sometimes a landscape, sometimes a sculpture."
Dominique Perrault