Eu mies award 2017 nominee
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Project • By Coop Himmelb(l)au • Banks
European Central Bank (ECB)
The striking twin tower shapes the skyline of Frankfurt’s Ostend
The design of the Viennese architectural studio Coop Himmelb(l)au for the new premises of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt combines the horizontal structure of the landmarked Grossmarkthalle with a twisted double tower, which rises to 185 meters. United by an entrance building, these two elements form an ensemble of special architectural significance. Featuring bridges, pathways and platforms, the glass atrium between the two highrises creates a vertical city. The semi-public and communicative functions are located in the former Grossmarkthalle. The exceptional atrium and visible steel support structure show that the ECB building belongs to an entirely new typology o... More
Project • By Schmidt Hammer Lassen architects • Masterplans
Malmö Live
The new 54,000 square metres concert, congress and hotel complex is situated on Universitetsholmen in Malmö. The building consists of cubic areas that are twisted and given different sizes to match the directions and heights of buildings in the surrounding city. The facades are designed with a homogeneous expression to make the composition appear as one architectonic sculpture.
The ground floor is fully available to the public so that the citizens can pass through the building, whether going to a concert, congress, at the coffee shop or just want to take a shortcut. The main entrance is found at the northern part of the building, which has a classic loggia motif facing the plaza in front. From the south, visitors enter the building dire... More
Project • By Mccullough Mulvin Architects • Fire stations
Waterford Fire Station
Main info The new Waterford Fire Station will become the regional centre for fire fighting, river rescue, public consultation and training for the whole of the south east of Ireland; it provides a 24 hour response unit for the region.
Located close to a ring road, the building is shaped around the active service it delivers, being derived from the tracking movements of the appliances. Training includes cutting up vehicles, underground and confined spaces training, breathing apparatus training and desk study training.
The building encloses space and makes an artificial landscape; function is paramount. Office and ancillary functions are housed in a simple zinc volume, folded around like a piece of origami to enclose a large the drill... More
Project • By SADAR+VUGA • Streets
Slovenska Boulevard
Slovenska street is firmly anchored in a Slovenian's mental image as the central street of the capital city. For that reason, the transformation of its base traffic character is important, as it will affect more than just the city centre.
With the transformation, the transit corridor became one of the main public spaces of the capital. The absence of personal motor traffic allows for the expansion of programmes and the creation of a space with its own character. This allows for an optimised bus transportation service and still preserves the historical character of a thoroughfare fuelling the city centre.
The central part of Slovenska street becomes a pedestrian zone with generous sidewalks and a central lane for public transportation.... More
Project • By Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter • Museums
Romsdal Folk Museum
The Romsdal Folk Museum is an architectonic attraction and a treasured landmark that embodies the history and identity of the entire region. Our intention in this project was to let the structure signal its meaning and function through an architectural expression and the use of local materials. The scale of the building refers to the urbanity and morphology of the town. The overall layout of the museum grounds the connections to the town by linking different surrounding areas in an overall plan where all circulation is linked in an unified structure. The project conveys an open and progressive attitude that makes diverse utilization possible.
The Museum design approach is rooted in rationality and sustainability. The plan geometry... More
Project • By Dorte Mandrup • City Halls
SH2-Sundbyoster Hall
Winner of WAN Award for Best Mixed-Use Building of 2015
"It is unusually clever placing the sports hall on the top of the grocery store. In that way, we utilize the limited space in our city"
– Mayor of culture and leisure in Copenhagen, Carl Christian Ebbesen.
SH2-Sundbyoster Hall II is an architectural 3 -in-1-solution integrating grocery store, sports hall and housing units in one building located in the district of Amager in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a visionary solution for building in dense and complicated city environments.
The ground floor contains a grocery store and an entrance for the sports hall, parking and apartments. A double height glass façade on the second floor ensures pedestrians and neighbours a direct view of... More
Project • By atelier RUA • Private Houses
Camping in Abrantes
Along the Tejo (Tagus) River and across from the city of Abrantes, the plot naturally establishes a border between the intricate layout of the surrounding houses and the river.
This project presents a footprint that takes advantage of the morphology of that frontier and becomes a unifying, continuous structure. This new building is capable of containing the whole functional program and involve all the pre-existing structures on the north front of the plot , creating a continuous, organic and smooth surface. Its structure, open and permeable, allows a direct and constant relation with the green surroundings throughout the whole extension of the building and all areas of the program.
The whole structure is walkable along a galle... More
Project • By Simone de Gale Architects • Cities
Spherical Art Gallery
This project is a design of a spherical art gallery in the heart of the City within the concept of pure geometry. The sphere was taken as a basis of a pure form from mathematics and the art gallery evolved from the understanding of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and the Logarithmic Golden Spiral as a means to provide movement through the space in line with its concept. More
Project • By ARX Portugal Arquitectos • Private Houses
Abrantes Municipal Market
The Abrantes Municipal Market is located in the transition to the historical center, where the Rodoviária do Tejo's workshops once were, so badly in ruins that demolition was recommended. It is an urban lot between two streets, each at a different height: at the bottom (to the west) we have the Largo do Tribunal (Court Square); at the top to the east, the N. Sra da Conceição street. It is an extraordinarily narrow lot for the program at hand, and this feature has ultimately determined the design project.
The program stated the importance of connecting these two streets, thus creating an upwards route to the Museu Ibérico de Arqueologia e Arte (Iberian Museum of Archeology and Art), intended to be built in the S. Domingos Convent at the h... More
Project • By Zaha Hadid Architects • Universities
The Investcorp Building for Oxford University’s Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College
Founded in 1957, the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College serves as the University of Oxford’s facility for research and teaching on the Arab world, Iran, Israel and Turkey from the 19th century to the present day, with its focus on the research of humanities and social sciences. The centre has been housed at 68 Woodstock Road (the former rectory of the Church of St Philip and St James, built in 1887) since 1978.
The Middle East Centre holds Oxford University’s primary collection on the modern Middle East, a world-class archive of private papers and historic photographs used by scholars and researchers with an interest in the region. The centre’s research core is the specialised library, document and photographic archive covering ma... More
Project • By Barkow Leibinger • Offices
Aufbau Haus 84
An open, flexible, reinforced concrete skeleton and simple, robust materials – with this typical loft-character, the second construction phase of the Aufbau Haus offers a fitting framework for creative industry tenants with their varying usage requirements and individual configuration needs.
Concept | Typology
The Aufbau Haus 84 closes a gap in the city block at the southwest side of Moritzplatz in Berlin Kreuzberg. The project arose out of a 2012 competition and complements the neighboring building that established a creative center combining cultural offerings like exhibitions, theater and club events with numerous retail entities and service suppliers in support of the creative sector. Aufbau Haus 84 & 85 is named after the Aufbau Ve... More
Project • By Giencke & Company • Concert Halls
Great Amber
Designed by Graz architect Volker Giencke, the Great Amber Concert Hall has been inaugurated on
7 November in Liepaja, Latvia. The first – and most momentous – phase of this multistage project
envisioning the construction of a cultural urban district is thus completed. In 2003, Volker Giencke won
the international architectural competition for a new cultural centre in this traditional seaport on the
Baltic Sea. The construction work started in 2013.
“Great Amber” is a monolithic, cone-shaped, slightly contorted structure with a transparent, ambercoloured
façade. This façade envelops the irregular folded work of the concrete structure built around
the building’s most important architectural element: the grand Concert Hall providing... More
Project • By 2PM Architekci • Exhibition Centres
Polish Pavilion EXPO Milan 2015
Team: 2pm Architekci: Piotr Musialowski, Michal Adamczyk, Stanisław Ignaciuk, Michal Lenczewski
Cooperation: Piotr Bylka, Paulina Pankiewicz
THE IDEA BEHIND THE PROJECT
The idea behind the project for the Polish Pavilion at EXPO 2015 in Milan refers to Polish orchards and horticulture, very significant to the Polish landscape and economy. It is being realized through the use of a motif of a wooden apple box, normally used in shipment as a packaging for fruits and vegetables. The idea is executed on two levels. In the micro scale through the use of the pavilion's modular, openwork outside wall, visually referring to the aforementioned apple boxes, and in the macro scale by conveying the pavilion's idea as a form of packaging for the... More
The Luchtsingel
The Luchtsingel, world’s first crowd funded public infrastructure, completed!
The Luchtsingel is open. Decades after their separation, the 400-meter-long pedestrian bridge has reconnected three districts in the heart of Rotterdam. The Luchtsingel was initiated and designed by the Rotterdam-based architects ZUS and is the world's first piece of public infrastructure to be accomplished mostly through crowdfunding. Together with the new public spaces, including the Delftsehof, Dakakker, Pompenburg Park, and the Hofplein Station Roof Park, a 'three-dimensional cityscape' has arisen.
'Based on the idea of Permanent Temporality, the Luchtsingel introduces a new way of making city. This means using the city's evolutionary character and exi... More
Project • By Ressò Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 • Exhibitions
RESSÒ
RESSÒ is highly flexible and changeable in order to receive the broadest diversity of activities. Thanks to the scaffolding structure, this change can be made in a few hours. The human scale is very present there, everything is modulated 2m, and this allows the change of elements, always in a human dimension. To encourage flexibility, a perimeter ring contains all the permanent elements: structure, walls, facilities and furniture. The rest is 100% variable and reconfigurable.
This meeting space is highly energy efficient. This means that it is almost self-sufficient thanks to solar panels, solar collectors, high isolation and passive bioclimatic strategies. We want to increase the use of RESSÒ offering a free comfort space for neighbors,... More