Namaste Hotel - Mumbai, India

NAMASTE!



Direkabentuk oleh Atkins design studio, Menara Namaste ni sedang dalam pembinaan. Dengan ketinggian 300m dan berkapasiti 62 tingkat, menara ini akan menempatkan hotel, ofis dan ruang sewa cukup besar di daerah Ambika, tidak jauh daripada Shangri-La Hotel Mumbai, India.

Menurut Atkins, menara ini direkacipta simbolik adat orang India menemukan dua tapak tangan bila berjumpa dan mengucapkan 'Namaste'

Liverpool Villahermosa / Iñaki Echeverria

With the development of innovative construction technologies in concrete, potential to form a complex material; a material which both resistant and aging quality, the project by Iñaki Echeverria would seek a new image for Liverpool. Well at least it's functioned as sun louvres. More at ArchDaily

Who is Architect

Definition:

An architect is a licensed professional who organizes space. Architects design houses, office buildings, skyscrapers, landscapes, ships, and even entire cities. The services of a licensed architect depend on the type of project.

What Do Architects Do?

Architects are trained in many areas, from historic preservation to structural engineering. This training can lead to a wide variety of careers.

Architects are fully qualified professionals.

While virtually anyone can draw up plans and call themselves a building designer, only a person registered by the Board can use the term 'Architect' (or 'Ar.' in Malaysia). But the difference is more substantial than just a name. Architects must have gained approved professional tertiary qualifications (Part I and II), have undertaken a minimum period of practical experience, and have successfully completed the oral and written examinations (Part III) before becoming eligible to apply for registration and qualifying to use the title "architect".

The Role of the Architect

A simplistic view of the role is that architects create architectures, and their responsibilities encompass all that is involved in doing so. This would include articulating the architectural vision, conceptualizing and experimenting with alternative architectural approaches, creating models and component and interface specification documents, and validating the architecture against requirements and assumptions. However, any experienced architect knows that the role involves not just these technical activities, but others that are more political and strategic in nature on the one hand, and more like those of a consultant, on the other.

These activities drive the competencies that the architect needs to be successful. We present a competency framework that helps architects assess areas for their own personal development, and managers in identifying who is a good fit for the architect role.

Famous architect.

In an article, there are 12 most famous architect who has changed the world:

1. Oscar Niemeyer (b. December 15, 1907)

2. Antoni Gaudí (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926)

3. Louis Sullivan (3 September 1856 – 14 April 1924)

4. Frank Gehry (b. 28 February 1929)

5. Ieoh Ming Pei (b. 26 April 1917)

6. Alvar Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976)

7. Le Corbusier (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965)

8. Santiago Calatrava (b. 28 July 1951)

9. Walter Burley Griffin (24 November 1876 – 11 February 1937)

10. Norman Foster (b. 1 June 1935)

11. Zaha Hadid (b. 31 October 1950)

12. Rem Koolhaas (b. 17 November 1944)

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Modern Architecture

here's alot of new buildings, many of them very coo

How to design like an architect

"An architect, like any design professional draws on a wellspring of information. How we design is based to some extent on what we know. What we know can be based on the school we went to, the books weve read, the magazines we like to look at, where we grew up, our friends and relatives, the occupations weve held and in general, our life experiences."

Kaohsiung Library Competition Proposal/ Mak Architects Inc

Mak Architects has submitted their proposal for the Kaohsiung Library Competition. The 38,000 sqm library, which will become the region’s main library, placed third in the competition.

The library responds to its surroundings by facing famous Shou Mountain and Kaohsiung harbor to the northwest, and also connecting the multi-level public spaces to the green belt of Sin Guang Boulevard. The public spaces of the library consist of an amphitheater plaza, a bookstore along the promenade and a roof top garden. The structural facade of the main library not only derives from the indigenous bamboo baskets but also represents the industrial engineering know how of the city.

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La Llotja de Lleida, Lerida, Spain

The mountain with its historic cathedral Seu Vella and the Segre River marks the high point and low point of Lleida (Lerida), the second city of Catolonia, following Barcelona. La Llotja theatre and congress centre sits on the banks of the Segre, somewhat outside the centre of the city. Mecanoo?s design interprets the landscape of Lleida as the exciting scenery before which the building has been placed, somewhat further from the river. The mise-en-sce is elaborated on three levels of scale. Regarded from the large scale of the region, the building forms a link between the river and the mountain. Viewed from the urban scale, La Llotja and the river form a balanced composition. At street level the cantilevers of La Llotja de Lleida provide protection from sun and rain.

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Tokyo Tower Sky Tree

Tokyo Sky Tree passes the 600m mark on its way to becoming the second tallest freestanding structure in the world

Nikken Sekkei’s chainmail-style broadcasting, restaurant and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo is hot on the heels of the Canton Tower (610m) on its journey to becoming the second tallest freestanding structure in the world. Now measuring an incredible 601m in height, the Tokyo Sky Tree (formerly known as the New Tokyo Tower) may soar above its neighbours in Japan but resides firmly in the shadow of SOM’s highly regarded Burj Khalifa (828m).

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Vertical Village: A Sustainable Way of Village-Style Living by Yushang Zhang, Rajiv Sewtahal, Riemer Postma & Qianqian Cai

Yushang Zhang, Rajiv Sewtahal, Riemer Postma and Qianqian Cai (with studio tutor Alexander Sverdlo) shared their project, “Vertical Village: A Sustainable Way of Village-style Living”, which was awarded the first prize in the d3 Housing Tomorrow 2011 Competition. The competition called for transformative solutions that advanced sustainable thought, building performance, and social interaction through the study of intrinsic environmental geometries, social behaviors, urban implications, and programmatic flows.

The d3 Housing Tomorrow competition assumes that architecture does not simply form, but rather perform various functions beyond those conventionally associated with residential buildings.

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Other winners

2nd prize: Forrest Fulton Architecture, USA
Lace Hill


3rd prize: Antonio Minto, Angelo Renna, Italy,
Learning From Slums

reid nystrom + alessandro ortiz: the museum of comic and cartoon art

set for the urban context of manhattan, new york, the 'museum of comic and cartoon art' (MoCCA) by reid nystrom and alessandro ortiz is a design proposal for a new facility dedicated to the education and preservation of the graphic and literary medium. sited on a 14,000 square foot lot, the multi-storey museum aims to be the architectural embodiment of the art form in both its internal organization as well as its exterior treatments.

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Kaohsiung Marine Gateway by ASYMPTOTE

ASYMPTOTE WAS AWARDED A CLOSE SECOND PLACE FINISH FOR THE KAOHSIUNG MARINE GATEWAY PROJECT. The project proposes a 200m long structure situated between two 14 story towers located at the cities newly developed harbor edge. Asymptote’s proposal calls for a new urban intervention at the cities waterfront combining both cultural and commercial aspects with the port terminal functions the building is designed to house. The buildings technological envelope and architecture and is designed to be a striking and elegant addition to the quickly changing city of Kaohsiung and to act as a catalyst for unique and sustained urban development over the coming years and decades.

CLIENT:
Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau

ARCHITECT:
Asymptote Architecture – Hani Rashid & Lise Anne
Couture Artech Architects – Kris Yao

ENGINEERS:
Knippers Helbig – Structural Engineering
Transsolar – Environmental Engineering
Parsons Brinckerhoff – Cruise Consultant
Heng Kai – Fire, Electrical & Plumbing
Everest – Traffic Engineering

courtesy: ASYMPTOTE

Aqua Tower by Studio Gang Architects

Location: 200 North Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL, USA
Architect: STUDIO GANG ARCHITECTS
Architect of Record: Loewenberg & Associates
Owner: Magellan Development



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