September 30

Medellín Botanic Garden and Café del Bosque
by Ana Elvira Velez V. & Lorenzo Castro J.

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(Text and photos by Ana Elvira Velez V. & Lorenzo Castro J.)

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By converting its high border walls in a perimetral park, where the visitor can enjoy the Botanical Garden without entering it, we reclaimed the urban area surrounding it.
For this purpose the walls have been replaced by a carefully-designed skin-fencing allowing a 100% visibility inside the park and also, thanks to the geometry of the module that adapts to the different topological conditions. This new fencing thus contributes to the configuration and projection of the Garden’s image towards the city. Read more

September 30

Chelmsford Salvation Army Citadel Corps wins two RIBA East Spirit of Ingenuity Awards

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Materials courtesy of Hudson Architects, all photos © Keith Collie

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Hudson Architects’ Salvation Army Citadel Corps Chelmsford, Essex has won two awards in the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) East Region Spirit of Ingenuity Awards 2009, which  recognise ingenuity, design excellence and innovativeness of architecture in the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. The building has won  the Community Architecture Award as well as receiving the top accolade the East of England Building of the Year Award 2009.

Laura Foster, Head of The Norfolk Charitable Trust, sponsors of the Community Architecture Award said: “We are delighted to sponsor the Community Architecture Award and we congratulate the winner, The Salvation Army, and Hudson Architects. The building not only  reflects two sides of the mission, providing an assembly hall for worship and recreational  facilities for a wide range of community outreach activities, but also used pioneering modern methods of construction in a cross laminated timber panel system, which allowed the building  frame to be erected in just 24 days!”

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Constructed entirely of timber and cloaked in an undulating zinc roof, the new £2 million Salvation Army Citadel Corps in Chelmsford provides 900 sq m new accommodation for the mission on the site of its former premises, which it has occupied since 1974.

The new centre reflects the two sides of the mission, providing an assembly hall for worship as well as recreational facilities for the wide range of community outreach activities that The Salvation Army provides, such as an old people’s day centre, youth activities and toddler care. The building’s plan recognises that these two aspects are interconnected whilst offering flexibility and separation to permit activities to function simultaneously. An indoor sports hall, outdoor play area, lounge, kitchen and foyer with reception café facilities are arranged around a 310-seater worship hall, with administration offices located on the first floor.

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September 29

Capita Selecta Streetworks @ Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam

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September 29

Post-eartquake L’Aquila and Expo 2015: our next chances

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I’ve walked among the streets of L’Aquila’s “red zone” for hours.
Before the night of April 6, 2009 the historical center was the working heart of the city. It housed more than 40.000 people, about 4500 shops and firms employing almost 20.000 people.
I walked in a deserted city, hurt by Mother Nature. I wandered about the streets and lanes, surrounded by an inhuman silence which clashed with the richness and space quality L’Aquila was able to create over the centuries.
Broken buildings all around, crashed churches, streets crammed with ruins and laden with grief. And then, the first works of structural containment, the delicate care used by the Civic Protection and the Superintendence towards the wounded places. An unreal landscape, asking for careful and important solutions concerning the future.
I wonder about the micro-migrations compelling people, resources and stories from the centre towards other places. What kind of city will L’Aquila be? And, as soon as the city center will be re-opened, in eight or ten years, who will come back? What kind of desires?

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Chiesa Santa Maria del Suffragio, the spider supporting framework set by firemen on june 5

Chiesa Santa Maria del Suffragio, the spider supporting framework set by firemen on June 5

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September 28

LANDSCAPING OPHELIA Veronica Tanzi @ CACT, Bellinzona

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After reviewing a past event, here’s an invitation to one that has just started:

CACT, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland
September 26–November 1
Fri-Sat-Sun_2-6 p.m. (or by appointment)

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LANDSCAPING OPHELIA is the title of the thematic exhibition that VERONICA TANZI (1975) is holding at the Bellinzona location of the Centre of Contemporary Art in Canton Ticino. The topics that this Swiss artist has been developing for some time are linked unequivocally with the female figure and its many intimate facets: identity and gender, but also sentiment and suffering. This time Tanzi achieves these feelings by revisiting an important icon of literature and theatre, Ophelia, the sixteenth-century female character who, as legend has it, committed suicide for unrequited love by drowning herself. Read more

September 28

Vivaio Riva
Exhibition review by Luca Molinari

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Last weekend’s I.D. Vegetation, signed by YellowOffice and taking place at Vivaio Riva, has been a real experiment, a potential workshop for the Milan which should be looking out on the 2015 Expo. Read more

September 25

Visionary Architecture. Rendering as works of art by GRAFT and 3deluxe @ LUMAS Gallery, Berlin

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Visionary Architecture, GRAFT and 3deluxe
September 25 – November 03, 2009
Opening and meet the artist: September 24, 2009, 7-9 pm

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With the exhibition Visionary Architecture LUMAS shows an exclusive selection of graphical works by the architects GRAFT and 3deluxe. The so called “renderings” are standing in the focus of the exhibition: three-dimensional computer visualizations of the architectural blueprints. They are complemented with digital graphics, which make the creative working process of the architects comprehensible and which also include classical freehand sketches. The exposed pictures disclose the process from the first idea to the finished realization and impress with organic or futuristic forms and absolute perfection. That’s why they are able to be an artwork by themselves and on their own way, just as well fascinating as the imposing constructions of the architects.

The founders of GRAFT describe their interdisciplinary network as an “Architecture label”. This word choice points towards their versatility, adaptability and most of all their connection with current life styles.  With a strong feel for new trends, Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit, Gregor Hoheisel and Alejandra Lillo, working out of L.A., Berlin, and Peking, transform their creative ideas into an amorphous, and visionary visual language. These Architects and designers challenge traditional boundaries and explore the interplay and effect of influence factors such as high and everyday culture, philosophy, architecture, film, literature, and music. The analysis, communication, and thereby the creation of the relationship between and through these aspects enables them to develop their work further, to define it new ways, and to create worlds where living in tomorrow world is possible today. Therefore, GRAFT does not consider themselves exclusively an architectural company, but continually broaden their horizons. It is not without reason that their focus in architecture, urban planning, design, and music is lead by the idea of the “pursuit of happiness”. Read more

September 25

Student Housing in Epinay by ECDM

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(photos © Benoît Fougeirol, all materials courtesy of ECDM)

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The conception of our project joins in a second reading of the landscape of the road of Saint leu, by integrating its history and its transformations to assert the manners and the qualities and reveal the poetry of the place. The project will have to play the role of revelation of a district in future, articulation of a split up territory, a synthesis of a town planning consisted of industrial and commercial buildings, detached flags of the last century, complexes and public equipments. The stakes are to impose a politeness on a secondary road, to desynchronize the shelf space built by the rhythm of the automobile, to modify the perception of a landscape having undergone without having controlled it the transformation of its territory. The politeness is there, but very little legible; it is a question of making it the evident presence. Read more

September 24

Active For a Better Life

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Active For a Better Life is a convention taking place at the Renzo Piano-designed ilSole24Ore auditorium in viale Monte Rosa 91 in Milan on the next September 28. You can subscribe here or check out the event’s homepage here.

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September 24

Mauricio Rocha – Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Oaxaca

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(The following article was published on the June issue of Arquine Magazine, special thanks to Javier Barreiro; photos © Luis Gordoa, Sandra Pereznieto)

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The Oaxaca School of Plastic Arts was designed at the request of artist Francisco Toledo, in collaboration with the Benito Juárez University. An important premise incorporated into the project was the presence on the plot of land of a Mixtec ball game, used at weekends by players. The adjacent building, which served as a library, would become the university’s new cultural center. The lack of a master-plan to integrate these elements led to the design of a project that resembled a large garden rather than just another building. Read more

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