Cantilever
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Projekt • By lahznimmo architects • Masterpläne
Warragamba Dam
lahznimmo architects and Spackman and Mossop Landscape Architects formed a joint venture (LNSM) to provide the Sydney Catchment Authority with architectural, urban design and landscape services for the preparation of the Warragamba Dam Masterplan. The first part of the commission involved preparing a new master plan for the entire Warragamba Dam site which was required after the major intervention works of the new $500 million auxiliary spillway. The second stage involved the design and of the major components of the Master Plan, including the Visitor Information Centre and Operations Complex and various ancillary structures, landscape works and roadways.
Between 1998 and 2002 an auxiliary spillway was constructed at Warragamba Dam to p... Mehr
Projekt • By HOK • Kunstgalerien
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum
Located on the campus of Florida International University, the $18 million Frost Art Museum forms the cultural heart of the campus.
Opened in November 2008, the 46,476-square-foot building includes nine galleries (five of which use natural light), a lecture hall, a museum shop, a café, art storage and public spaces.
The museum footprint and massing are a geometric response to the L-shaped site. The building, which frames the campus Avenue of the Arts, is angled around the existing lake and preserves a large, multi-trunked Ficus tree. The solid form of angles and curves is clad in pink-grey bush-hammered Chinese granite that discreetly glistens in the Florida sunlight.
The building is pierced at its center by a soaring 3-story gla... Mehr
Projekt • By Studio Architetti Associati Arnaboldi & Partners • Flughäfen
Cargo City
Try to imagine that you've been given the job of designing a couple of buildings, each of which is almost as big as a pair of football fields. side by side - 224 meters by 96 meters, to be precise.
The first problem you run up against is the cost of construction. One can ignore small quantities. but 224 by 96 meters equals 21,504 square meters. More than two hectares, which become nearly three, if we take the area distributed over the various floors into consideration. Five and a half hectares in two buildings. When you're dealing with such enormous surface areas, the slightest difference in cost becomes gigantic. Just think. A cost overrun of only 100 euros per square meter could throw
the overall budget off by over five million euros. I... Mehr
Projekt • By Eldridge London Architects • Gehäuse
House in Highgate Cemetary
Inspired by seeing Eldridge Smerin’s Stirling Prize shortlisted house The Lawns, on Highgate Hill in north London, the owner of a nearby house approached the practice about designing a new house on the same site. The existing house dating from the 1970’s was designed by noted Architect John Winter and sat next to Highgate Cemetery, London's greatest Victorian cemetery. Although the site offered spectacular views over the cemetery, Waterlow Park opposite and the city skyline beyond, replacing a John Winter house is a decision not taken lightly. When Eldridge Smerin had investigated options for either retaining the corroding steel structure or for replacement, it was clear that to restore the Winter house would have required complete reconstr... Mehr
Projekt • By Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor AS • Brücken
Viewing platforms & bridges
The main platform is constructed by 25mm laser cut steel sheets, cantilevered like a bridge around the cliff, hung in each end.
The railing has a geometry that allows it to be continuous even with very different security requirements from place to place. The large inward curve allows the tourists to securely lean out over the deadly waters. The bridges are made from different materials according to what is most appropriate at each site. The platform at the parking side is made from prefabricated elements of concrete, like a bicycle chain, an element that is connected in the corners but rotated in the angle that will fit the site. This was appropriate at this site because cantilevering prefabricated elements had obvious advantages economic... Mehr
Projekt • By UNStudio • Kulturelle Zentren
Tea House on Bunker
The project involves the reprogramming of a historical and derelict building through renovation and addition. The original bunker is part of an intricate water management system that enabled the inundation of land in case of attack situated in a classic, Dutch polder landscape.
Stables and polo fields now surround the building and the new addition is intended as a large space with facilities to support a meeting space or business retreat. The existing 1936 bunker remains intact except of a portion of the concrete roof where the new structure connects whilst the new addition is like an umbrella, an addition that could be removed and does not damage or permanently influence the historic structure. The metallic addition appears to have grown... Mehr
Projekt • By Dow Jones Architects • Gehäuse
Poplar Cottage
Poplar Cottage is a small house on The Green in Walberswick built in the early 1920s. Over the past eighty years a number of piecemeal extensions had resulted in a peculiar internal organisation that cut the house off from its garden. Our brief was to demolish it and to make a new house, but initial conversation with both the planners and Parish Council suggested that there would be much opposition to this. The decision was taken to retain and renovate the front façade and end gables of the existing house, and to build a new house into this carapace. In this way we attained planning permission for the project as an extension.
The house sits on a large plot that faces onto The Green and extends to the west as a large garden. The garden i... Mehr
Projekt • By UNStudio • Gehäuse
Five Franklin Place
The design for Five Franklin Place, a 20-story residential tower located in the Tribeca district of Downtown Manhattan, New York incorporates a façade featuring a constantly shifting pattern of horizontal black metal bands, resembling the decorative seams and pleats of a couture garment. A direct homage to the applied metal façade decoration of Tribeca’s celebrated 19th
century cast iron architecture, these reflective ribbons grow thinner and thicker, wrapping
the entire tower and moving softly around corners to give the whole structure an etched effect and
curvilinear softness, whilst simultaneously reflecting the evolving light of day, the clouds and the colours of the city.
The strategic twisting and torquing façade bands further... Mehr
Projekt • By Wingårdhs Arkitektkontor AB • Museen
Art museum in Marl,
Long and narrow like a tube, but solid and unmovable like a block of concrete – in between these two extremes stands the extension to the Marl town hall, designed by Bakema and van den Broek in 1958-62. Their ponderous brutalism resounds through the massive walls of the extension, where the trees on the site have been made to leave their imprint. A relief art work signed by artist Lars Bergström. The position behind the main building makes the extension fall in with the pattern of the place. At the same time, its positioning above the glass boxes of the entrance and the café gives the concrete tube a lightness which is underscored by the long cantilever overlooking the lake. The 7x7 metre narrow art gallery is adapted to the purpose of acco... Mehr
Projekt • By Marlies Rohmer • Studentenwohnungen
Smarties
The building of student dwellings in the complex of buildings belonging to Utrecht University has transformed the Uithof site into a full-fledged campus. It will also help relieve the chronic housing shortage for young people in the city of Utrecht. Within the line of freestanding buildings (‘Objectenstrook’) the master plan designed by OMA, our block of 380 independent and clustered rooms presents itself as a solitary mass with a 20 metre cantilever. The spectacular main concrete supporting structure consists of four slabs that together form a theatrical single table leg. The ‘leg’ and its rocking bench dramatize the main entrance and create an urban rendezvous which distills the encounters and the to-and- fro of all those students.
The... Mehr
Projekt • By Kraaijvanger • Die Einkaufszentren
Leyweg Shopping Centre and Housing
The Leyweg shopping centre forms the cornerstone of the redevelopment of this post-war district. This complex includes a Vroom & Dreesmann department store, a supermarket, 18 renovated apartments and a bus station. Below is an underground car park with 400 parking spaces. The complex can be easily recognised by the giant cantilevered canopy sheltering the bus station on the Hengelolaan road. Mehr
Projekt • By Kraaijvanger • Gedenkstätten
Temple de l’Amour II
1-Dec-2017
The project was conceived after the accidental discovery of a vault in the abutment of a former railway bridge. 2.5 m. of limestone were crushed to reveal this beautiful space, formerly concealed. On the bridge a pavilion was made for contemplation, as a counterpoint to the existing, 18th century folly called the Temple de l’Amour. Any interference of construction has been avoided: glass itself carries the roof, creating a full panorama, while enhancing the beauty of the existing stonework. The visual mass of the roof gives a sense of continuous, extended space.
The aim of the design is to express the magic of the roof floating on nothing. The detailing is coherent, non-conspicuous, minimal. As if the glass is cut through th... Mehr
Projekt • By Kraaijvanger • Die Rathäuser
Town Hall Haren
Haren's new town hall is the cornerstone of the building block. With smooth, continuous lines, emphasized by cantilevered balconies that also serve as sunscreens, 'the house of four seasons’ is a green building. This is expressed on the exterior by the vegetation on the balconies and a green wall within the interior. Public and official functions are located on the ground floor and are connected to the main square. Offices are laid out around an atrium that brings daylight into the public hall. Mehr
Projekt • By Benthem Crouwel Architects • Universitäten
Academic Centre for Dentistry
The new premises of the Academic Centre for Dentistry are now under construction on the ambitious Southern Axis development corridor (Zuidas), in full view of the A10 motorway. They consist of a seven-storey base above which hovers a block of laboratories.
The first two floors are rendered as a transparent plinth with an open character. A large cantilever shelters the entrance zone, whose illuminated open-air ceiling emphasizes its height and has an inviting ambience. Inside, beneath the floor tilting in two directions of the double-height lecture hall, is a large public information desk. The central well, around which all functions are organized, is a vibrant hub pulling everything together.
A basic graphic pattern of stripes applied to... Mehr