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12-09-2011

Steven Holl: Cité de l’Océan et du Surf

Inaugurated on June 25 2011, Cité de l’Océan et du Surf was built around the symbols of the sea and sports that make Biarritz the top tourist destination in Basque France. Competition winner Steven Holl uses the shape of the coastline as his starting point for creation of an underground museum, the roof of which becomes a plaza from which to admire the ocean.

25-08-2011

Rome: Carlo Scarpa and the shape of words exhibition

An exhibition of works from the collections of MAXXI Architettura and public and private collections in the Veneto featuring works never exhibited before, sketches, posters and prototypes casts light on new aspects of Carlo Scarpa’s career.

05-08-2011

LAN: student residences in Paris

LAN architecture of Frances uses materials to characterise a student housing complex in the La Chapelle district of Paris, next to the redeveloped ZAC Pajol area. The themes of integration and privacy are addressed along with reduction of energy resources, earning the work Habitat et Environnement THPE certification in France.

05-08-2011

Mazzanti: Timayui elementary school

Giancarlo Mazzanti’s plan for a new elementary school is based on the idea that architecture can become a tool for the rebirth of a neighbourhood, an instrument of social cohesion and of pride in belonging to a place. If the building also offers an example of optimal use of energy resources, the project is worth a mention in the Fassa Bortolo Prize for Sustainable Architecture.

05-08-2011

Andrade Morettin: long house in San Paolo

The sober concrete house designed by Andrade Morettin in Avaré, 240 km from San Paolo in Brazil, is a minimal expression of architecture in nature: the work draws a line in the landscape, along which the rooms are arranged, and another line perpendicular to it for the portico and the living room. The swimming pool nearby reminds us that we are in Brazil and this is a holiday home.

05-08-2011

REX/OMA: The Dee and Charles Wyly Theater

Dee and Charles Wyly Theater in Dallas doesn?t look like a theatre.

11-07-2011

World Cup Nordic Oslo 2011: Ski Jump by JDS

Archistar JDS designs a symbolic work focusing the world’s attention on the city of Oslo, a formerly overlooked Scandinavian capital which is now the world’s ski jumping capital, under the flag of the ski jump built for the 2011 world championships in Holmenkollen. Lit up at night, the work is a landmark celebrating the city and its favourite sport.

11-07-2011

Cano Briceño: the home of the pianoforte

This home designed by Alfredo Cano Briceño for a musician in Puebla, in the mountainous centre of Mexico, is an architecture of the unfinished, in which the many structural and decorative materials are used in their unfinished form and create an apparent form which is in actual fact constantly evolving.