Museum of Ocean and Surf

Archdaily have recently published some of Iwan Baan's photos of the Museum of Ocean and Surf (Cité de l’Océan et du Surf, Biaritz) by Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Solange Fabiao.

Alvaro Siza, Fundação Iberê Camargo 2

This was the subject of a post last year too.

Photos below are by Duccio Malagamba, published at Dezeen.

There are plans and more photos at Archdaily.

Lots of Siza's work photographed by Fernando Guerra published at Últimas Reportagens.





Cien House, Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Worth having a look at the Cien House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Image below from Architectural Record. Photo by Cristóbal Palma.

Have a good look around the Pezo von Ellrichshausen website, they are very fine architects.

Cristóbal Palma's website also provides good access to good photos of good architecture. Definitely worth a browse.

Jinhua Architecture Park

Iwan Baan has also published photos of the Pavillion by Herzog de Meuron in the Jinhua Architecture Park.


Sejima's Okurayama Apartments

For very clever planning of apartments on a tight site have a look for Kazuo Sejima's Okurayama Apartments. The plan is beautiful. Iwan Baan has published photographs on his website (the photo below is one of them).

Have a good look at Iwan Baan's site as he has published lots of very fine photographs of very fine buildings.

Ryue Nishizawa

The very beautiful "Garden and House" by Ryue Nishizawa. The image below is from the El Croquis website.

The Canadian Centre for Architecture had a very beautiful exhibition on the work of Nishizawa and Stephen Taylor called Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo. The work of both Architects is very very good and the response of each to their respective cities is interesting. The catalogue of the exhibition is a very worthwhile purchase.

AGNSW

I'd encourage you all to visit the AGNSW and to wear your Architecture goggles. Walter Liberty Vernon's original building is very fine (pay attention to the facade as well as the interior). Andrew Anderson's first extension is, for me, his masterpiece. The Asian Wing by Johnson Pilton Walker is also very very fine.

The photographs below are by Max Dupain and show the lovely integration of the Anderson extension and Vernon's original building. The first photo is from an interview with Andersons and the second photo is from the National Archives of Australia.



More Orozco

Gabriel Orozco's La D.S. project below.

You might also be interested in the house that Orozco designed with Tatiana Bilbao. Abitare has published an article and Iwan Baan has lots of photos on his website. Image of the house below from Iwan Baan's site (which, if you haven't looked at yet, is wonderful).



Robbrecht en Daem

The roof access in Robbrecht en Daem's Dairy Project in Gaasbeek is quite lovely. Have a look by visiting their website (have a good look around - all their work is very good). Follow the menu Projects > Various > Dairy to find the Gaasbeek project.

MVDRV's Expo 2000 Pavillion in Hannover

Info at MVDRV's website.

You can get quite a lot of images by doing a Google Image search for "MVRDV Hannover"

Image below from Senhor Mario's Flickr site

Gabriel Orozco

Gabriel Orozco's Four Bicycles (There is Always One Direction), 1994.

From Art Tattler

Atelier bow wow: droog townhouse 2

The Brooklyn Digital Foundry has also made an animation of the Droog Town House (at Vimeo):

Droog Town House from Brooklyn Digital Foundry on Vimeo.

Atelier bow wow: droog townhouse

Dutch design company Droog collaborated with Atelier Bow Wow on the design of a townhouse in Amsterdam. It seems a hotel is also on the drawings boards.

Some information at Designboom, Dezeen and Droog's website.

Casa Malaparte

One of the buildings mentioned yesterday. Designed by the client, Curzio Malaparte with early work by Adalberto Libera. Built by Adolfo Amitrano, a local stone mason.

Decent entry at Wikipedia.

Images below from Wikipedia.

The house is also featured in Jean-Luc Godard's film Contempt (Le Mépris).




Other fine libraries

Gunnar Asplund's Stockholm Public Library
Jože Plečnik's National and University Library of Slovenia

Respective images (from Wikipedia) below:


Phillips Exeter Library

Louis Kahn's Exeter Library is also very well worthwhile to look at. Amongst the very many beautiful ideas is the use of carrels to articulate the facade. Image below is from Wikipedia. The entry is a good place to start your research on this very very fine building.

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

Any time that you have to learn about Henri Labrouste's Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève is time very well spent. Images below from Wikipedia.


Whilst on Shigeru Ban ....

Here is a link to David Neustein's recent article on some aspect's of Ban's work. An interesting article. Be sure to read the comments too.

Musaschino Art University Museum and Library

A few libraries:

First up, Sou Fujimoto's Musaschino Art University Museum and Library.

I would have thought there'd be a lot of info online, but I can't find as much as expected. One good blog for coverage is HIC*, an architecture blog that appears to be from Barcelona, probably associated with Jordi Bardia. I have not known of this blog, but it looks good (with work by Claus en Kaan, Josep Lluís Mateo, Sergison Bates and others.

Here is the link to their Post on Fujimoto's library. What's especially lovely about this idea is that the built fabric of the library is shelving, an idea that arguably ties back to some of Shigeru Ban's Furniture Houses and perhaps even to Henri Labrouste.

Tom Kundig 2

I little while ago I posted links to work by Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig.

Amber of Constructive Dialogue has pointed on that there is a website about a house by Kundig (the Maxon House) and a series of films about it's procurement.

Dwell magazine also has a blog about the house.

House & Atelier Bow-Wow

Through the link to the Hiroo Apartments video below, I came across a website with construction photos of the House & Atelier Bow-Wow.

Drawings and photos also at Archdaily.

Hiroo Apartments by Kumiko Inui 2

short video of the Hiroo apartments by Kumiko Inui.

Photo below from Kumiko Inui's flickr site.

Marcio Kogan

Plataforma Arquitectura has just published a few images of a project by Marcio Kogan. This doesn't relate to your project, I just like his work.

Paisajes Emergentes

Colombian Architects Paisajes Emergentes.  In addition to their website, photos of their work can be seen at their Flickr page.

Rolex Centre, Lausanne

Pedro Kok has loaded a nice video of SANAA's Rolex Centre in Lausanne onto his site.

Rolex Learning Center at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland from Pedro Kok on Vimeo.

Hiroo Apartment by Kumiko Inui

I've been trying to find you images of the Hiroo Apartments by Kumiko Inui as this project deals with many of the problems with your site. Essentially, vertical circulation occupies a very large percentage of the available floor plate. I cannot find the photos of the interior, but have found plans and sections through Architectural Record.


Maison de Verre

A few images of the Maison de Verre (mentioned last week) by Pierre Chareau & Bernard Bijvoet from the New York Times



Martí Guixé's GAT FOG

Again, text from Martí Guixé's website:
GAT FOG PARTY
Gin and Tonic Fog Party
Artificial indoor fog made of Gin and Tonic
Gat Fog party is an artificial indoor meteorological phenomenon based in weather engineering for "cultural farming" purposes.

Performed CASCO, Utrech September 2004
Performed in Spazio Lima in 2005
Performed in Bilbao by Bombay Design Circuit 2009
Next: Valencia, Barcelona, Malaga and Madrid during 2009 and 2010



Martí Guixé's Food Facility

Amsterdam, 2005

Text from Martí Guixé's website:
Food Facility Amsterdam

Food Facility is a prototype for a Business model.
It comes from a commission of Mediamatic, on the idea to create a food-related project in the context of new media.
Food Facility is then a Platform, which mainly mixes Outsourcing, search engines and networking to improve as much as possible the infrastructure of any conventional restaurant in economical terms, and reflecting the way we perceive reality and all-day in the new media and internet era.

Food Facility is a restaurant with more than 9 Kitchens and lots of drinks.
Also see Mediamatic for more photos, signage etc


Cartsen Höller

A few pics of the installation by Carsten Höller at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. These and more pictures and information at Designboom.

Also see video footage of his installation at the Tate Modern at Youtube.