Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

The Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin has been converted into a gallery.



Another post about Carsten Höller's exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof here.

Gare de Lyon, Paris

A very nice restaurant at the Gare de Lyon in Paris.


Flinders Street Station Ballroom

Nice article on the Flinders Street Station Ballroom in Melbourne.


Estación de Atocha, Madrid

Obviously, I have little idea at this point which directions your designs are headed, but I have been thinking about projects I'd be using to inform my thinking on such a project. Some precedents are obvious, like railways stations, but some less so.

Rafael Moneo reorganised Atocha Railway Station in Madrid in 1985. Whilst that project is much bigger in scope than yours (I think), the transformation of the main hall into a garden is really lovely.

















More images here.

S2, 2014

Well I haven't used this for a while, but this is my preferred forum for communication outside of Uni hours. If you have a question or comment, please post it as a reply to a post and hopefully i'll see it. As I think of things that may be relevant to your studio, i'll post stuff. The posts below relate to earlier studios, but feel free to have a look. I've got to go back and check whether things are current and edit accordingly. See you Friday.

Double House / Villa KBWW, Utrecht

Bjarne Mastenbroek & Winy Maas (de architectengroep rijnboutt ruijssenaars hendriks van gameren mastenbroek bv in collaboration with MVRDV)
1994-98

Bjarne Mastenbroek's website > Projects > Housing > Villa KBWW
Winy Maas, now of MVRDV, doesn't seem to have this project on his website

El Croquis, Madrid, 1997, Issue 86.

Villa Tugendhat, Mies van der Rohe

Villa Tugendhat website

AEO chair by Paolo Deganello (Archizoom), 1973



Achille Castiglioni

The Museo Achille Castiglioni has launched a website

Technical College Ultimo

This post was about tours of the Ultimo College - a very fine building by William E Kemp. I don't think these tours still run though. Kemp also designed the Bourke St Public School in Surry Hills. UTS's own Dr Kirsten Orr is also a fan of Kemp's, so you should bother her about him and his work - try to bully her into a lecture.

AMUNT

I don't know if any of you still check this blog now that semester has finished (well, except for marking), but Designboom have just published this lovely project by a German firm called AMUNT. Very nice the way they have arranged 2 dwellings into a very small space - could have been a useful precedent for you.

Whitney Museum Extension, OMA

More at the OMA website

Peter Zumthor

A little bit amazed to learn that some of you do not know Peter Zumthor's work. Please Google him. All his buildings are extraordinary. A few photos of the Kolumba Museum in Cologne by Helene Binet below (source is Dezeen):


Archivo Municipal de Toledo

This is an image of the Archivo Municipal de Toledo by Mendaro Corsini. This beautiful photo is from a Flickr set by Pablo Echávarri. Mr Echávarri has beautiful photographs that are worth a look (his Flickr page here), including the Guggenheim in Bilbao (Gehry) and the Thermal Baths in Vals (Zumthor).

Automated warehouse

Here's a short video on automated storage systems. Lots more if you Google automated storage or automated warehouse.

SESC Pompéia / Lina Bo Bardi

Plataforma Arquitectura have been kind enough to publish a little feature on one of my favorite projects by one of my favorite architects: the SESC Pompéia by Lina Bo Bardi.

Images below from their feature (first photo by Pedro Kok, second from Usuario de Talleravd LG A77)


HdeM, 56 Leonard St


A nice example of the increasingly tired idea of "let's just stack things up". This is a project by Herzog de Meuron for NYC:


Neutelings Riedijk, Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp


A former juror, Mark Gazy, pointed out this scheme.

What is lovely and relevant is how this scheme celebrates the vertical spiral circulation - actually a network of closed and open spaces.

It can be seen at the Neutelings Riedijk website, and at Bustler, which has published the photo below as well as lots of drawings.


Apartment in Barcelona


A former student made me aware of the video below.

Johnston Marklee - Sale House

Thought I should draw your attention to this project by Johnston Marklee as Lars Holt, a friend of mine, worked on this project. Lars was part of the Danish contingent here last year from the Aarhus School of Architecture.

Info on the Sale House at Archdaily (source of the image below).

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.