ABC Museum, Illustration and Design Center by Aranguren + Gallegos Architects
Posted: January 26, 2013 Filed under: Architecture, More FC3, Photography | Tags: #DesignAllNightAndDay, Architecture, Critique, Design, ILMA, Minimalism, Modern, Planning, Urban 1 Comment »Spanish Architects Arranguren & Gallegos have converted a brewery in Madrid into a museum with an underground gallery and triangular windows.
The Colección ABC gathers the works of more than 1,500 artists of all styles, techniques and tendencies, with nearly 200,000 pieces. Following the collection’s development throughout its history will enable substantiating the consolidation of the most important illustrators, the role played by certain artists of the highest relevance, the diverse changes of taste and the different historical and social events narrated through these media.
This is a stunning project. I love the simplicity of the “plain” base below superimposed by the magnificence of the triangulation forms above. It definitely defines it’s self, like a billboard sign (Read Venturi’s: Learning from Las Vegas)
The juxtaposition of the modern forms placed in the old worn down historical context really turns me on. Very sexy indeed.
I would love to come around the corner and see this spectacle.
These details are well thought out and planned for a strong unifying design concept.
Simple Elegance
Great way to make a big impact on a tight urban site. The bright white modern forms really pop within its context.
The simple section is a bit deceiving. The latice structure empowers the design and informs the overall look of the project.
Love, love, love taking the forms from the facade and applying them to the plaza in a new way.
Roof Plan: The overall uniform design concept comes through in the skylights above. Very sharp.
This is a great space for chance encounters.
At night, the modern white lattice glows in soft blue, in bitter contrast to the bright red and white lights from the automobiles driving past as if to mark time.
Again, the strength of this design is in it’s simplicity – an application of the facade, similar to the Italian plazas from long ago. There is something timeless about how the spaces and forms speak to one another – The facde, the bridge, the plaza.
The Plan: Simple Modern Elegance.
Architects: Aranguren & Gallegos Architects
Location: Madrid, Spain
Client: Grupo Vocento
Photos courtesy of Photographer João Pereira de Sousa AND Photographer Jesús Granada
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Fabrikstrasse 15 by Gehry Partners
Posted: August 1, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, JustArch, Repost | Tags: Architect, Architecture, Architecture Record, Basel, Campus, Design, Fabrikstrasse 15, Frank Gehry, Gehry Partners, Kamran, Linda C. Lentz, Master Planning, Modern, Novartis, Pharma, pharmaceutical, Planning, Switzerland, Urban, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Leave a comment »Completed in 2009, Frank Gehry’s Fabrikstrasse 15 is an icon on the growing Novartis Basel campus. In the evening its brilliant sculptural form is underscored by layers of light — all on the interior — that gently wash the facade, illuminate the workstations, and glow from within its core.
Photo © Thomas Mayer
Basel, Switzerland Breaking the bounds of of Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani’s master plan, Fabrikstrasse 15 by Frank Gehry stands in a surprising juxtaposition to the serene array of rectilinear buildings that dominate the Novartis campus. It is located at the geographic heart of the campus, in full view of the company’s renovated 1939 Forum 1 International Headquarters building, and across the street from a refined stretch of porticoed offices and labs by Adolf Krischanitz, Rafael Moneo, Lampugnani, and Yoshio Taniguchi. The highly visible, independent site gave the architect freedom to exploit his expansive, free-spirited style.
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The 2030 Challenge for Planning @Arch2030
Posted: July 19, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, Green, JustArch | Tags: 2030, Architect, Architecture, Carbon Neutral, Challenge, Cities, City, Communities, Design, ECO, EcoMonday, Edward Mazria, Environment, green, Growth, Planning, Seatle, Smart, Sustainable, Urban, WA, Washington 2 Comments »The built environment is the major source of global demand for energy and materials that produce by-product greenhouse gases (GHG). Planning decisions not only affect building energy consumptions and GHG emissions, but transportation energy consumption and water use as well, both of which have large environmental implications.
In 2008, Architecture 2030 issued The 2030 Challenge for Planning asking the global architecture and planning community to adopt the following targets:
- All new and renovated developments / neighborhoods / towns / cities / regions immediately adopt and implement a 60% reduction standard below the regional average for fossil-fuel operating energy consumption for new and renovated buildings and infrastructure and a 50% fossil-fuel reduction standard for the embodied energy consumption of materials.
- The fossil-fuel reduction standard for all new buildings, major renovations, and embodied energy consumption of materials shall be increased to:
- 70% in 2015
- 80% in 2020
- 90% in 2025
- Carbon-neutral in 2030 (using no fossil fuel GHG emitting energy to operate or construct).
- These targets may be accomplished by implementing innovative sustainable design strategies, generating on-site renewable power and/or purchasing renewable energy (20% maximum).
- All new and renovated developments / neighborhoods / towns / cities / regions immediately adopt and implement a 50% reduction standard below the regional average for:
- Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) for auto and freight and
- water consumption.
What is The 2030 Challenge? @Arch2030
Posted: July 19, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, Green, JustArch | Tags: 2030, Architect, Architecture, Carbon Neutral, Challenge, Cities, City, Communities, Design, ECO, EcoMonday, Edward Mazria, Environment, green, Growth, Planning, Smart, Sustainable, Urban Leave a comment »
Buildings are the major source of global demand for energy and materials that produce by-product greenhouse gases (GHG). Slowing the growth rate of GHG emissions and then reversing it is the key to addressing climate change and keeping global average temperature below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
To accomplish this, Architecture 2030 issued The 2030 Challenge asking the global architecture and building community to adopt the following targets:
- All new buildings, developments and major renovations shall be designed to meet a fossil fuel, GHG-emitting, energy consumption performance standard of 60% below the regional (or country) average for that building type.
- At a minimum, an equal amount of existing building area shall be renovated annually to meet a fossil fuel, GHG-emitting, energy consumption performance standard of 60% of the regional (or country) average for that building type.
- The fossil fuel reduction standard for all new buildings and major renovations shall be increased to:
- 70% in 2015
- 80% in 2020
- 90% in 2025
- Carbon-neutral in 2030 (using no fossil fuel GHG emitting energy to operate).
These targets may be accomplished by implementing innovative sustainable design strategies, generating on-site renewable power and/or purchasing (20% maximum) renewable energy.
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City of Culture by Eisenman Architects
Posted: June 13, 2011 Filed under: JustArch | Tags: Architecture, City, Eisenman, Eisenman Architects, Europe, Modern, Modernist, Planning, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Theory, Urban Leave a comment »I love Architectural design theory and I love skate boarding; Peter Eisenman combined them both when he designed the 173-acre site on Mount Gaiás. The project neighbors Santiago de Compostela where the cathedral houses the remains of the apostle St. James, brought to Spain from Jerusalem after his death in AD 44. Since the eighth century, pilgrims have trekked to the medieval town to pay homage to his shrine.
Photo © Duccio Malagamba
Eisenman Architects’ winning scheme, folded into the earth and seductively represented by a molded wood model, beat out varied proposals by ten finalists: Steven Holl Architects, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Gigon Guyer Architects, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Studio Daniel Libeskind, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, César Portela, Ricardo Bofill/Taller de Arquitectura, and José Manuel Gallego Jorreto.
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@FC3ARCHITECTURE – Schematic Design for a Private Residence (Edgewater, NJ)
Posted: May 12, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, More FC3, My Firm | Tags: Architect, Architecture, Creative, Design, design development, development, Edgewater, FC3 Architecture, Home, inital, Modern, New Jersey, NJ, Original, plan, Planning, Renovations, schematic 4 Comments »
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Artwork of the Day
Posted: August 31, 2010 Filed under: More FC3 | Tags: Alley, Aperture, Architectist, Architecture, Art, Artwork, Artwork of the Day, B&W, Black & White, Brick City, Buzz, City, Collage, Color, Composition, Design, Exposure, Fabric, Facebook, Fire Escape, Flickr, Google, Graphic, Grid, I Love My Architect, Inspiring, Ironbound, Just Architecture, JustArch, Lines, Lonely, Montage, Newark, NJ, Original, Photo, Photographic, Photography, Photography as Art, Pic, Picnik, Planning, RT, Simple, Space, Spatial, Texture, Tumblr, Twitter, Unique, Urban Fabric, Urban Planning Leave a comment »
Being an Architect who is an aspiring Artist & Photographer I feel like this collage/montage demonstrates the ability of the Architect’s eye to capture light, shapes, and textures of the city on a new and interesting way. I hope that by experimenting with my skills as an Architect/Artist/Photographer I can offer a new perspective on things to my audience. I hope you enjoy this piece as much as I do.
Frank
