Architecture and Design

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Ospedale del Mare: Space for Daily Life

(Issue of a magazine 4/2015, page 52)

The outcome of a project developed by the architecture firm IaN+, the new reception areas of the Ospedale del Mare in Naples, Italy were opened in March 2015. A new public square joins the city to the hospital accompanying people inside a building, which distributes the access and service functions around a bright entrance hall split over three levels. Colored light invades the large hall where the space seems to widen and deform, expanding the horizontal plane along paths that diagonally cross the surfaces of the two underground floors.

Konan Ward Cultural Center: Sculptural Expression

(Issue of a magazine 4/2015, page 56)

Konan Ward Cultural Center project was created for the city of Niigata, Japan to gather the dispersed library, local museum, community center and add multipurpose theater for the new ward created from several surrounding towns. We held multiple workshops to realize the true needs of the ward residents and to nurture the feeling of participation and love for the Center. Resident’s local jewels were to be gathered. Four different programs from different cities are gathered by circulation corridor space called “Cross Street”. Each program opens to the street freely to create new activities.

Crystal Reputation

(Issue of a magazine 4/2015, page 68)

This story has literally brilliant destiny and starts in 1862 in Bohemia with the birth of Daniel Swarovski. Being in the center of crystal and glass production and growing up in the factory of his father, the boy was very interested in the process of grinding machines work development. In 1892, becoming already the young man, he registered patent: device which could quickly and accurately file down stones to perfection. The first not just a stone, but the crystal laid in the foundation of the world famous company Swarovski creation.

Living in Cube

(Issue of a magazine 4/2015, page 74)

An interesting fact, but if we look on the development in the field of for example car creation and then on architecture, we would be surprised to figure out how far ahead is the first one mentioned in comparison with the other. But our life is constantly changing. We start to work, study, travel on a very different speed, have more opportunities than ever before. Today we can easily get any information we need from the Internet and such a thing as “wealth” is nowadays mostly expressed in a high degree of mobility.

High-End Affordable Housing

(Issue of a magazine 4/2015, page 80)

Originally established to recognize the best in housing design, the program has grown significantly over the last decade now including an energy reduction element but always and most importantly, the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and a valuable national resource.

Berklee Tower: Harmonic of Music and Energy

(Issue of a magazine 4/2015, page 88)

Berklee Tower is a new 16-storey mixed-use building, which creates a center of gravity and a strong identity for the Berklee College of Music campus. Most prominent is a 40-foothigh performance/dining space that fronts onto a major Boston thoroughfare, showcasing student performances nightly. Twelve floors, housing 380 students plus a fitness center and music practice rooms, sit above the performance space.

Wimbledon College of Art: Multifunctional Space

(Issue of a magazine 4/2015, page 92)

An exemplar of sustainable design, the new BREEAM Outstanding studio building provides high quality, multipurpose spaces whilst meeting the client’s high environmental standards. The design stage assessment achieved the second highest BREEAM score in the world.

Guggenheim Helsinki Museum - Fragmented Continuum

(Issue of a magazine 3/2015, page 32)

Moreau Kusunoki Architectes was just crowned winner in the Guggenheim Helsinki Museum’s unprecedented, anonymous design competition. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation selected the Paris-based architecture firm’s environmentally friendly proposal ‘Art in the City’ from nearly 2,000 submissions from around the world. The museum will comprise nine low-height volumes and a lighthouse-like tower. Moreau Kusunoki Architectes’ ‘Art in the City’ was determined winner by an 11-member international jury after a yearlong competition process.. The competition- winning design is planned for Helsinki’s South Harbor area, and it will be clad in locally sourced charred timber and glass.

Dokk1: Knowledge and Transportation Center

(Issue of a magazine 3/2015, page 40)

In the Danish city of Aarhus in June this year was commissioned Dokk1. Dokk1 is Scandinavia’s largest public library and represents a new generation of modern hybrid libraries and thus the building contains multiple potentials. The building is situated at the mouth of the Aarhus River in one of the most prominent sites of the city centre of Aarhus. Dokk1 is part of the ambitious district plan to revitalize the former industrial cargo docks on the harbour front by connecting the area both visually and physically to the historic centre of the city.

Museo Novecento – Immersive Museum

(Issue of a magazine 3/2015, page 46)

The new Museo Novecento, which recently opened in Florence, Italy and is dedicated to Italian art of the twentieth century, is housed in the old Hospital of San Paolo in Piazza Santa Maria Novella. The project by Avatar Architettura defines the museum setting as a suspended space. Visitors come upon it through lively devices of spatial mediation which, placed at the start of the exhibition path, on the first floor of the cloister, introduce them to contemporary experiences and artistic research.