October 28

Ecohouse by Filippo Taidelli and OneOffice in Curno, Bergamo
2009 SAIE Selection award

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(Text by Angelica Di Virgilio, all images courtesy of Filippo Taidelli Studio)

Saie Selection. Low cost & low energy sustainable housing
Exhibit and convention, SAIE 2009
from October 28 to October 31, 2009.

Within the International Building Exhibition, SAIE 2009, the Low cost & low energy sustainable housing exhibition opens today. The event features a selection of 24 low-cost and low-energy sustainable housing projects selected after the SAIE Selection competition promoted by BolognaFiere in co-operation with Archi-Europe Group, Edilio and under the sponsorship of ArchitettiBologna, Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori and of Coordinamento Nazionale dei Giovani Architetti Italiani. The jury together with chairman architect Mario Cucinella selected 24 projects and concepts (12 for young architects and 12 for students) in 4 categories: brick, metal&glass wood and concrete. We use this occasion to present the project which has attracted our attention the most, that is the Ecohouse designed by architect Filippo Taidelli and OneOffice.

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This project, which was originally elaborated on a previous ideas competition on sustainable housing promoted by Agogroup last spring, shows an interesting balance between the sustainable and technical strategies and the architectural pattern. Starting from a simple parallelepiped and specific studies on the orientation, the volume is developed towards two directions in order to allow the single flats to enjoy a good exposure to the sun and consequently a remarkable energy saving. Read more

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For this purpose the walls have been replaced by a carefully-designed skin-fencing allowing a 100% visibility inside the park and also, thanks to the geometry of the module that adapts to the different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 28

Vivaio Riva
Exhibition review by Luca Molinari

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(All photos © Marta Dore)

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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 14

“I.D. vegetation” green exhibition by YellowOffice @ Vivaio Riva, Milan

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Location: Vivaio Riva – via Arena 7, Milano

Friday September 18, 2009 H.6-9pm press preview & opening party
Saturday September 19, 2009 H.10am-6pm open day

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YellowOffice’s new exhibition I.D.vegetation. Identità vegetali da svelare will take place on September 18 and 19 at Vivaio delle Sorelle Riva in Milano. You probably remember this Milan-based landscape design and urbanism studio, founded by Dong Sung Bertin and Francesca Benedetto, because of our old post from the 12xMilano series. Read more

August 20

The 12xMilano series
Green Tube – an ecological compressed city by Lorenzo Capobianco

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(Here’s the tenth video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project Green Tube – an ecological compressed city by Lorenzo Capobianco)

How will Milan change?

The Milan of the future will be a polycentric city, the real first italian city-region.
The Milan of the future will be a fast city: moving and working dynamically.
The Milan of the future will be a slow city: human being dimension life.
The Milan of the future will be a green city: green rays will connect the center to suburban areas.
The Milan of the future will be a city-region: high speed train Milan-Brescia in 30 minutes.
The Milan of the future will be the capital of glamour: MODAM draws new skyline. Read more

August 11

The 12xMilano series
FLOWER TOWER, by Luca Poncellini + Michele Calzavara

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(Here’s the seventh video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project FLOWER TOWER by Luca Poncellini and Michele Calzavara)

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It’s paradoxical: while dozens of brand new high-rise buildings are under construction in Milano these days, one of the tallest towers of the city is left empty and abandoned. The GALFA Tower: 30 floors, 110 metres, designed by Melchiorre Bega in 1959 and located two blocks away from Central Station, between GALvani st. and FAra st. (after which it was named). Can a barely 50 year-old building be already completely obsolete? Out of order like a broken toy, to be thrown away in the rubbish bin? Is there a chance for its functional refurbishment? Read more

April 3

Tiburon House, San Francisco Bay
by Andrea Ponsi

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This house, designed by architect Andrea Ponsi, does not just look really good – with the enchanting location and all – but it is also bio-climatic, meaning that it provides electricity for itself (with no need of air-conditioning and stuff like that) and is also made with natural materials. You can even grow your own veggies in the garden.

More details below (text and drawings courtesy of architect Andrea Ponsi, photos by Richard Barnes). Read more

March 25

Energy-producing dream home by Mario Cucinella Architects
€100,000 Home Research, Settimo Torinese, Turin, Italy

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Mario Cucinella Architects has been the only italian studio to be given two important acknowledgments at this year’s Architectural Review MIPIM FUTURE PROJECTS award. More precisely ARPA Offices project in Ferrara was awarded the SUSTAINABILITY category along with the €100,000 Home project, which was also commended in the RESIDENTIAL category.

€100,000 Home presents the design of a 100m2 home, both low-cost and high-quality, with zero CO2 emissions and a low environmental impact. Read more

February 3

Castleford Bridge by McDowell+Benedetti

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(Photos © Tim Soar)

Residents of Castleford, Yorkshire, UK took their first steps across Castleford Footbridge on July 2008 when the bridge was officially opened by Wakefield Council Leader Peter Box and TV presenter Kevin McCloud.
The £4.8 million bridge has been funded by Wakefield Council, Yorkshire Forward and English Partnerships. It creates a safer more pleasant pedestrian route than the 200 year-old Victorian road bridge further downstream. The new bridge unites the north and south of the Castleford’s riverside community connecting Aire Street to Mill Lane. Read more

December 9

Inhotim, Brazil: contemporary art in the forest

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Created in 2005 by a non-profit entity and located in Brumadinho, an hour away from Belo Horizonte, Inhotim is a contemporary art museum exploded in several pavilions, immersed in a 600 hectares botanic park. Part of it was designed following the suggestions of landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx.

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The Adriana Varejo gallery. Photo: Bruno Magalhães.

Doris Salcedo Gallery at Inhotim Cultural Center Photo

The Doris Salcedo gallery. Photo: Bruno Magalhães. Read more

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