2024-11-21T14:16:45-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/14003538/the-wild-beast-by-hodgetts-fung-design-and-architecture adelz 2011-07-20T05:45:29-04:00 >2022-03-16T09:16:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/32/32l4t98c5fvlhvvl.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> <em>Archinect's Building of the Week series is brought to you by our friends at OpenBuildings.com, the web's most comprehensive directory of buildings.</em></p> <p> Acoustic clarity and precision were governing principles for the design of this recital space and outdoor stage for the Masters Program in music at the California Institute of the Arts. Sited at the gateway to the 1970&rsquo;s era campus, the project serves a multitude of purposes, for which acoustics, structural design, materials, and symbolic presence were integrated to produce a building which was conceived as a highly tuned instrument for musical performance.</p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://openbuildings.com/upload/group5/building40971/media/gdmr_1b.jpg"></p> <p> The Wild Beast pavilion is a new one story multi-purpose space which consists of a classroom, theatre and performance space. This freestanding building has been designed to be adaptable for both small recitals and large public performances. The front wall of the building slides open, transforming the interior into an open air performance space, a folding glass awning helps pr...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/13211425/vis-vis-with-fernanda-marques-the-malibu-residence-in-s-o-paolo-brazil adelz 2011-07-13T08:51:02-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/tl/tlppq79mqfuz9i1h.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> <em>Archinect's Building of the Week series is brought to you by our friends at OpenBuildings.com, the web's most comprehensive directory of buildings.</em></p> <p> S&atilde;o Paulo-based architect Fernanda Marques is one of the most versatile, comprehensive and innovative designers of our time. Her unique style in architecture provokes sensations. As Le Corbusier writes: 'a series of sensations is like melody in music.. The melody is the idea, harmony is the means, the tool, the presentation of the idea.'&nbsp;</p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://openbuildings.com/upload/group5/building40886/media/vipo_27.jpg"></p> <p> <strong>What is the parti in the project?</strong></p> <p> Escaping the obvious, presenting innovating solutions and making full use of technology.</p> <p> <strong>How are the spaces laid out and articulated?</strong></p> <p> On the lower floor the emphasis was placed on enhancing the living areas so as to provide full integration between the areas. The gourmet kitchen was opened onto the dining-room, the staircase and the lift shaft casing were built of clear glass, to integrate the living area and the home-theatre and the outside area, where a...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/12444118/building-of-the-week-city-of-culture-of-galicia adelz 2011-07-06T17:07:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/kk/kkftldbsu2he8f12.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> <em>Archinect's Building of the Week series is brought to you by our friends at OpenBuildings.com, the web's most comprehensive directory of buildings.</em></p> <p> As I set on writing about the <a href="http://openbuildings.com/buildings/cidade-da-cultura-de-galicia-profile-1896" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">City of Culture of Galicia</a>, I was baffled by the amount of papers, articles and comments on the subject and their diversity. I should have seen this coming, as the project's scale, budget and implications have stretched far beyond the initial expectations and urged a furious debate among architects, journalists, politicians and locals.&nbsp;</p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://openbuildings.com/upload/group1/building1896/media/wqsi_5823262945_29f4a19912_b.jpg"></p> <p> Commissioned in 1999, after an invited competition featuring a constellation of starchitects (Libeskind, Koolhaas, Nouvel, Perrault, Steven Holl and Ricardo Bofill, to name a few), the winning project of Peter Eisenman originally featured eight buildings (later reduced to six) composed in a complex, three-dimensional undulating terrain merging harmoniously with the environment.</p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://openbuildings.com/upload/group1/building1896/media/qhhh_3.jpg"></p> <p> Eisenman himself admits that <a href="http://archrecord.construction.com/people/interviews/archives/0310Eisenman-1.asp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"there is no question that the Santiago project is a res...</a></p>