December 14

ØkoBici by Snark-space making in co-operation with Abici for CPH Bike-Share Competition

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(Video courtesy of snark – space making)

Copenhagen, acknowledged by the Danish as the 2008 best city for cycling, doesn’t rest on its laurels and looks ahead to become the world’s best city for bike-lovers. The city Municipality has announced that, by 2015,  the city aims not only to improve its sustainable bicycle policy – 350 kilometres of cycle tracks and 40 kilometres of green cycle routes – but to better the biker choice. The city council aims at:

- a minimum of 50% of Copenhageners cycling to their place of work or education

- a reduction of at least 50% in the number of cyclists seriously injured in Copenhagen traffic

- at least 80% of Copenhagen cyclists feeling safe in traffic

- a new bike-sharing system

For this latter goal the city of Copenhagen has launched an international competition, the CPH Bike-Share Competition. Architecture and design studios from the 5 continents have accepted the challenge and last week the winners were announced. The gold medals are Openbike by Lots Design, Koucky & Partners and Myloop by Thomas Coulbeaut.

After Denmark (45 entries) Italy has been the second country for number of entries (12 entries)… Not bad news, right? The bike must strike our notes. Here’s the brilliant project by snark – space making in co-operation with Alberto Mariotti and ABICI:

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August 13

The 12xMilano series
Urban Presents, by Ghigos Ideas

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[Read the Italian version of this post, with an interview to Ghigos Ideas]

(Here’s the eighth video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project URBAN PRESENTS by Davide Crippa, Barbara Di Prete, Francesco Tosi [Ghigos Ideas])

Buildings can be unexpected presents to public space: unexpected outgrowths, unforeseen functions, furnishings that are still domestic yet urban, because they extend from the houses onto the streets and intersect with the flow of passers-by.
Each building opens up to the city in its own way: it’s an urban planning which, literally, “blooms from the inside” to later reflect itself onto the urban field, in the territory between public and private, so rich in project opportunities yet to seize. Read more

March 20

Architecture snaps on Flickr

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Let’s face it: reading on the internet can be pretty boring. Even the most interesting text can be impossible to digest when it comes as a solid block of tight black-on-white pixels, and that’s why people try and post as many pictures as they can. Plus, you get to share your own view on things you’ve seen and places you’ve been, which is good. For you architecture-starved blog-readers, here’s an amazing collection of architecture photos from Flickr sets around the world, spotted and categorized by guaduatedegree.org. Categories range from general attitudes towards architecture to specific locations or decades (check out some examples below).

Architectural Paparazzi – photo by Trout Factory

Architecture Porn – photo by Optimieron
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March 12

PicNic at the Temple #5
Building Texture

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For the fifth year now, the NOWAlab guys are giving a tempting opportunity to all the young architects and designers out there who wish to be challenged in a very particular workshop. The point is: are you guys able to design and build something on-spot, using only natural materials?

All workshop participants will enjoy (and endure) a 6-day stay in Sicily, where they’ll deal with the landscape’s specificity first hand, shoulder-to-shoulder with expert tutors in various fields. To back up the whole design/planning experience, a series of parallel workshops will document the event through different media and points of view.

If you’re interested, check out the rules and take a look at the location page, then sign up. Read more

February 24

Plataforma Networks

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Every now and then we like to signal good web projects to you guys. This time we’d like you to check out Plataforma Networks, a Chile-based, architecture-themed network featuring various websites, the most interesting and complete of which are maybe Plataforma Arquitectura (for Spanish-reading users) and ArchDaily (for English readers).

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January 28

New Biochemistry building opens at the University of Oxford

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(Photos: exteriors © Tim Crocker, interiors © Keith Collie, text © Hawkins/Brown)

The new £49 million Biochemistry building at the University of Oxford designed by Hawkins\Brown architects is now complete.

The distinctive 12,000 sq m facility with its glass façades and coloured glass fins brings together 300 lecturers, researchers and students previously based in a number of separate buildings. Inside, a 400 sq m atrium with breakout spaces and specially commissioned artworks encourages collaboration between the researchers. Read more

January 16

Superuse

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After our post about 0300TV, here’s another review of a website we care to advise Y readers.

Superuse is based on a simple but effective concept. For the viewer, it is a big database of recycling-related projects in various fields (design, architecture, art, etc) and for its registered users it is a community whose members can submit stuff and vote other people’s sumissions. As a social network Superuse doesn’t seem to allow super fancy profile pages, but this is not necessarily a bad thing since it keeps it hardcore to the posting, the voting and the commenting. More than a tool for professionals to promote their work (even though it can also be used as such) the website is about being passionate and showing appreciation for recycling, with tons of links to pages and Flickr sets. The voting thing makes the sharing tastier, and we know sharing is one of the internet’s best virtues. Read more

January 13

Worldwide Complaint City Choir

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Screaming citizens of all towns, join your forces and sing your urban neuroses!
That’s basically the funny idea the finnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kotcha/Kalleinen first organized in Birmingham in 2005. A Complaint Choir to give a – melodic and ironic – voice to the city dweller. Traffic jams, slowcoach-like public transport and lack of (cheap) amusement places can now be sung in a process of community involvement. From the businessman to the pensioner and the mother, everybody has the right at least to complain and usually something to complain about. Dozens of cities all around the world have already adhered and started their musical production and the complaint repertoires are exhilarating. Read more

November 12

IDEAS – Piel.Skin by Ethel Baraona Pohl

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Here’s a perfect example of the things we think about for our CALL FOR IDEAS section.
Barcelona-based salvadorian architect Ethel Baraona Pohl created an online architecture book, to share material and expand discussion worldwide. We can’t but appreciate this generous attitude.
Keep reading for some information about the book, fully downloadable here.

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