October 7

UNStudio/ Ben van Berkel’s design selected Dalian stadium in China

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(Diagrams © UNStudio, renderings © UNStudio & SZ Silkroad Digi Tech Co. LTD., China)

UNStudio is the winner of the limited competition for a 40,000 spectator football stadium for the most successful club in the Chinese Super League: Dalian Shide FC. The stadium will be built in the club’s hometown of the city of Dalian, on the southern tip of Liaodong peninsula in Northeast China. After the interesting “home” concept by NBBJ we showed you last week, here’s the winning project described by its authors.

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The design for the 38,500 m2 stadium has been inspired by the colourful layering and overlapping of the ancient Chinese cuju football. The design weaves together the collective spirit of the spectators with the public realm and the urban context of the building. The main stadium houses spectator seating, TV broadcasting centre, administration areas, VIP lounge, players facilities and public concourse in a layered envelope which extends on ground level to provide outdoor public areas above decked parking facilities. In addition, the design incorporates two training fields on the 144,000 m2 site. Read more

October 6

What Makes India Urban?
Challenges towards mobility, infrastructure, energy and perpetual change

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(All materials courtesy of Aedes am Pfefferberg)

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The growing demand for dwellings is particularly challenging for urban designers and architects in dense Dubai (landscape)

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Marine Drive Mumbai

Opening: Friday, 9 October 2009, 6.30 pm
Location: Aedes am Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Duration: 9 October – 26 November 2009

An exhibition of Aedes East International Forum for Contemporary Architecture, non profit organisation. A project in the framework of the Asia-Pacific Weeks 2009 with this years’ focus on “Mobility and Energy”. The Asia-Pacific Weeks are supported by the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin (DKLB).

With Kuchipudi Dance Performance by Sudarsana Kumar, and
Indo German DJ/VJ set with B.L.O.T. from New Delhi & 22Rockets from Berlin Read more

April 24

Mañanarama

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Where’s Mario Ballesteros has just started a new blog. Mañanarama will focus on “failed development, bogus modernization, and other urban or architectural dreams deferred”. Even though Mexico will be the main object of his analysis, the author will “probably indulge in the occasional musing on (pan)americana, mid-century manias, tercermundismo or just random mexotica”. Read more

February 10

Intersections: Grand Concourse Beyond 100

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1966. View of the Concourse from 161st Street.
© Neal Boenzi/The New York Times

Designed in the early 1900’s to be the Bronx’s Champs Elysées, taking people from Manhattan to the large parks in the borough, the Grand Concourse was originally meant as a factor of improvement for community life through design, and it still hosts the largest collection of Art Deco and Art Moderne style buildings in America. Read more

February 9

Re-Building France: the (Billion) Numbers

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After President Nicolas Sarkozy’s announcement of a national stimulus program of  € 26 billions ($33.4billions) to face economical crises, in December, last week the French government has laid out the details of the plan. The most important investment voice is € 870 millions to be destined to infrastuctures, on around 150 projects.
€ 400 millions on road building and renovation,
€ 300 on railroads and
€ 170 millions on ports and river infrastructures.
€ 400 millions will go to social housing and a loan doubling at zero bank rate for the first house purchase. 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

January 21

Hope Over Fear

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To follow Yearbook’s deliberate support to Barack Hussein Obama, we cannot but post the moving oath of the 44th President of the United States of America. The inheritance is dramaticly serious, but yesterday Obama inaugurated and called for “a new era of responsibility”. Read more

December 24

Decolonizing Architecture @ Bozar, Brussels

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If architecture is more about the ways it can connect a community than its trend-conditioned physical shapes and styles, in many occasions building becomes the second choice, after a conscious and context-savvy re-using.

In post-colonial areas, infrastructures can mean so much more than they look like, and they are often a decaying heritage of a burning, and still too near, past. An exhibition titled Decolonizing Architecture at the Bozar in Brussels presents several “tactical interventions” and perspectives for a post-colonial environment, where, instead of becoming abandoned buildings or polluting rubbish, colonial structures are converted into functional spaces. Read more

December 19

0300TV

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We’ve already run into this website before, but – considering we have a Web section – it’s worth spending some more words about 0300TV. Read more

November 17

Sant’Erasmo Water Depurator by C+S

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(text © C+S Associati; photos © Pietro Savorelli*)

Located in the Northern Lagoon Park north of Venice, on the southeastern edge of Sant’Erasmo island, the new water depurator is part of the general urban and environmental upgrading of the island that the Magistrato alle Acque di Venezia is implementing through the Consorzio Venezia Nuova, within the context of a programmatic agreement between the Magistrato alle Acque di Venezia, the Veneto Region and the Municipality of Venice.
The fragility of the island, its indefinite shores that change contours and thickness with the tide, the beautiful Austrian battery, trace of the more extensive system of fortifications that once existed in the lagoon, whose thick and solid walls leave a mark on the lagoonal landscape, the regular
division of the artichoke cultivations and the ghebi or internal canals design the landscape and the building becomes part of its character.
The theme of the project is the design of a ‘threshold space’, the point where the land and its ground comes to an end. Read more

 

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