Our 2nd part of the Best Architect Projects of 2015.
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10. Innovation Center UC – Anacleto Angelin
The ‘Innovation Center UC – Anacleto Angelini’ results from a desire to foster exchanges of knowledge in order to enhance business opportunities, by providing a facility where various companies and researchers could collaborate. this unique architectural type prompted a design, by architecture office elemental, which engendered interaction and mixed diverse types of work (i.e. formal, informal, individual, collective) together.
In regards to its composition, the mid-rise structure takes a critical position against the glass curtain wall typology common all across the globe, which performs poorly in many climates including santiago, chile where it is located.
Sited on the universidad católica de chile campus, the monolithic concrete building places its mass towards the outside, while a full height void opens up the center of the volume. the form features protruding and subtracted blocks that provide diversity in the layout and deep, tall porches amongst the façades.
9. Atelier Deshaus Long Museum West Bund
Long Museum West Bund is located at the bank of Huangpu River, Xuhui District, Shanghai Municipality, the site of which was used as the wharf for coal transportation.
Before the commencement of the design, a Coal-Hopper-Unloading-Bridge of about 110m in length, 10m in width and 8m in height, which was constructed in the 1950s, is remained with a two-storey underground parking completed as early as two years ago.
The new design adopts the cantilever structure featuring “vault-umbrella” with independent walls while the shear walls with free layout are embedded into the original basement so as to be concreted with the original framework structure.
With the shear walls, the first underground floor of the original parking has been transformed to an exhibition space with the overground space highlighting multiple orientations because of the relative connection of the “vault-umbrella” at different directions; besides, the electrical & mechanical system has been integrated in the “vault-umbrella” structure. As to the overground space covered by the “vault-umbrella”, the walls and the ceiling feature as-cast-finish concrete surface so that their geometrical dividing line seems faint.
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8. Jean Nouvel’s One Central Park
The first stage of the redevelopment is a tower called One Central Park, a 117-metre-tall (384 ft) residential tower designed by Jean Nouvel featuring “vertical gardens” by Patrick Blanc and LED art by Yann Kersalé.Located opposite the UTS Tower, One Central Park is an apartment complex with a shopping centre called Central located on the lower levels.The design includes a cantilevered section including a heliostat to provide light to the parkland below. It is the tallest building on the site. Construction by Watpac Construction was completed in October 2013.
In May 2014, the One Central Park East tower was ranked by Emporis as one of the world’s best skyscrapers.[7] In July of the same year, it was chosen as the best tall building in Asia and Australia by Chicago based Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). In November 2014 it was named the best tall building in the world by CTBUH.[8] In October 2014 it was named the Overall Winner of the 2014 LEAF Award.[9]
7. Forfatterhuset Kindergarten Copenhagen by Danish Studio COBE
Vertical strips of masonry wrap around the buildings and playgrounds that make up Forfatterhuset Kindergarten, a new preschool in Copenhagen by Danish studio COBE. COBE designed the three-storey structure, which has capacity for 160 children, to function as a scaled-down village with buildings of varying heights and purposes set within a landscaped area.
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Sections of rust-coloured cladding unfurl from the rounded edges of the five interconnected buildings, encircling the large outdoor playground and matching the tones of nearby brick buildings. “The idea of making five volumes, which are bound together by a red brick baguette facade, originated from the attempt to create spaces in various scales, according to the children’s needs in the interior as well as the exterior,” said project architect Greta Tiedje. “From the outside the kindergarten appears as a village for children,” added Dan Stubbergaard, founder of COBE.
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6. Frank Gehry’s latest museum project—the Fondation Louis Vuitton
Despite its echoes of Paris’s architectural past, Frank Gehry’s latest museum project—the Fondation Louis Vuitton, opening this fall in the Bois de Boulogne—is like nothing the city has seen before: muscular and delicate, utilitarian and fantastic, a marriage of cultural ambition and private enterprise. Paul Goldberger looks at the genesis of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault’s partnership with Gehry, and the triumphant result.
Our first instinct, when you see an extraordinary new building that looks like nothing you have ever seen before, is to try to understand it by connecting it to what you know. And so Frank Gehry’s new Fondation Louis Vuitton, in Paris, looks like sails, and it looks like a boat, and it looks like a whale, and it looks like a crystal palace that is in the middle of an explosion. Some of the innards make you think of Piranesi, and as you look up the stair tower, monuments of Russian Constructivism, such as Vladimir Tatlin’s fantastic spiral tower, might flash through your mind, just as you could stand in front and from one angle the façade could make you think of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Sholom Synagogue, his great “Mount Sinai in glass.”
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