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- MP09 Headquarter (Black Panther) | GSarchitects
- 2011 Australian House of the Year – Call for Entries
- SWEETCH18 Chair | Benoit Lienart
- Faculty of Business studies of Mondragon University | Hoz Fontan Arquitectos
- BIG Wins Stockholmsporten Master Plan
| MP09 Headquarter (Black Panther) | GSarchitects Posted: 23 Mar 2011 10:02 AM PDT
An architectonic punctuation at an exposed site of the city – a new and distinctive Entree to the city – a future oriented potential for development for the whole area. Putting a company into the spotlight means transforming a philosophy into architecture. The ‘black panther’s does not only recount the story of the company but he emotionalises, he describes a vision and makes it physically and sculpturally ascertainable. Where Design and shape evolve, ideas emerge and become manifest in mass. Elegant and smooth, the ‘black Panther‘s composes eagerness and speed to the urban architecture. His watchful eyes attend the street – movement and silhouette merge in the dance of the forces and the night.  MP09 Headquarter, image courtesy Gerald Liebminger  MP09 Headquarter, image courtesy Gerald Liebminger The office-building MP09, named after the owner of the firm, Michael Pachleitner,also called Black Panther, was intended as a landmark to the city-entrance of Graz. In 2006 the Pachleitner Group, which specialises in the design and marketing of spectacles and jewellery and Wegraz, (Graz-based company for urban renewal and refurbishment), set up competitions for an office and hotel building, as well as a headquarters building with a wing to be rented out, a flagship store and restaurant. Both projects established 2006 at a 2stepped competition among alltogether 9 offices decided unanimously by the jury. During the competition phase the client offices photographs of airplanes, ships and cars that expressed the feeling he wanted the building to convey. We derived from them the guiding idea of a crouching black panther, poised ready to spring, which provided a metaphor that accurately describes both building parts and which ommitted them to a goal: to create an appearance that would be both powerful and elegant.  MP09 Headquarter, image courtesy Gerald Liebminger The detail planning for the project, and the scheduled completion date was started immediately afterwards. Construction of the 32-million euro project began in summer 2007, it was completed in May 2010: a free-standing building in a setting defined in very diverse ways by the UPC arena, ice sports stadium, Murpark, housing blocks and single-family houses. It is located directly on the Liebenau ring-road, which has a high volume of traffic and is a source of emissions, on an approximately triangular-shaped site that originally sloped to the southwest. The main part of this provocatively conspicuous office building contains the headquarters of a local company designing eyeglasses and jewellery and distributing them worldwide.  MP09 Headquarter, image courtesy Gerald Liebminger Its a hard shaped sculpture covered with a black glass facade erected over a concrete base develops from a compact tail to a more and more resolving head cantelevering towards the city. The different directions of the building structure are retrieved in the inside structure of the spaces. From almost every position there are vistas through the whole building to the outdoor spaces. A special quality of the building evolves out of the individually designed technical solutions concerning the facade, partition walls, doors, staircases and many other components.  MP09 Headquarter, image courtesy Gerald Liebminger Accurate details and few colors in various surfaces and materials define the interior. Even the whole furniture was custom-made by the architects and is consequently congruent to the architecture. The desired expression of concentrated tension and dynamism, amplified by long window strips, suits the company's philosophy that enabled a small family business from the post-war years to develop into a company of global reach.  MP09 Headquarter – Site plan, drawing courtesy GSarchitects  MP09 Headquarter – Ground floor plan, drawing courtesy GSarchitects  MP09 Headquarter – Sections, drawing courtesy GSarchitects + About GSarchitectsPhilosophy  Partners of GSarchitects - Brigitte Spurej + Danijela Gojic + Michael Gattermeyer, image courtesy GSarchitects Without art, the human soul which sets us apart from other beings, would starve. art is the mental food for our soul. what makes art outstanding is its demand on sensibility. required not only of the artists but, also of those, who interact with it. the heart of an architectural project is the content, the idea. art gives the project the body, thoughts that are free to reach unforseen dimensions. we accept the rules, norms and requirements for utility that are the framework of architecture. however, the ideas and their evolution are exciting adventures with each new project. The beginning is always a sketch. the sketch as three-dimensional model of thoughts is the beginning and the collection of thoughts and feelings. she tells us everything we are looking for and accompanies the project throughout like a red thread. The shape and the details are eternally changeable, but the content, the idea which is behind, is the unchangeable in architecture. That’s the way we understand it. That’s why for us its important to have partners who develop these ideas together with us to realise them in this mind. + Project credits / dataProject: MP09 Headquarter Uniopt Pachleitner Group (Black Panther) + All drawings courtesy GSarchitects | Photo by Gerald Liebminger                            + Recommended black glass skin projects featured on +MOOD 574 Swan Street | NH Architecture  Modular House | A-cero         |
| 2011 Australian House of the Year – Call for Entries Posted: 23 Mar 2011 04:33 AM PDT
If you have done a house/housing project in Australia. I hope it is not too late to introduce you the Houses Awards 2011 submissions developed by Houses magazine Australia, entries are closing very soon on next Thursday March 31. Winners will be announced on July 15, 2011. + For more information about the submission, please visit the website at http://www.housesawards.com.au/ + Press releaseThe 2011 inaugural Houses Awards program presented by Houses magazine is now calling for entries from Australian and international design professionals working on an Australian project.
Each year the Houses Awards provides a unique insight into contemporary residential design and the contribution Australia's architects and designers make to enhancing the way we live today. This year the judging panel includes eminent architects and designers recognised for creating inspirational Australian homes:
The categories include:
The Australian House of the Year Award winner will receive a $5,000 cash prize, while winners of individual categories will each win $1,000. All Awarded and Commended projects will be presented with a certificate and use of the Houses Awards logo for printed and promotional materials. Entrants and their projects will also receive recognition through a range of Architecture Media titles including Houses, Houses: Kitchens+Bathrooms, Architecture Australia, Landscape      |
| SWEETCH18 Chair | Benoit Lienart Posted: 23 Mar 2011 03:35 AM PDT
French designer Benoit Lienart has created the SWEETCH18 Chair. Selected for innovative new design by the prestigious L'Observeur du Design 2011, Sweetch18 is an armchair / coffee table, a coffee table / armchair, two pieces of furniture in one. Raise the center of the coffee table for an armchair, lower the armchair back for a coffee table. Switch back and forth with the simplest of gestures, Sweetch18 optimizes space, comfort and design. + Designer: Benoit Lienart  SWEETCH18 Chair by Benoit Lienart, image courtesy outdoorzgallery  SWEETCH18 Chair by Benoit Lienart, image courtesy outdoorzgallery  SWEETCH18 Chair by Benoit Lienart, image courtesy outdoorzgallery  SWEETCH18 Chair by Benoit Lienart, image courtesy outdoorzgallery  SWEETCH18 Chair by Benoit Lienart, image courtesy outdoorzgallery      |
| Faculty of Business studies of Mondragon University | Hoz Fontan Arquitectos Posted: 23 Mar 2011 02:39 AM PDT
Faculty of Business studies of Mondragon University is the recent completed project by Spanish architectural firm Hoz Fontan Arquitectos. The university required a space in which to impart regulated and continuous education, lodge the administration’s office, a library and the assembly room.  Faculty of Business studies of Mondragon University - Isometric, drawing courtesy Hoz Fontan Arquitectos The building meets all these requirements divided in four volumes. The first three volumes are destined to hold the educational and administration sections, and are formed with specific characteristics for the development of its activities; it is in contact with the ground and organized in such way that can function autonomously. Nevertheless, the fourth volume is the one that best represents the building’s identity. The library, the assembly hall and the teaching staff’s offices are arranged in a lifted volume that allows having view-points on the trees that surround the building, capturing a general view of Oñati. This lifting creates a great porch entry to the building and at the same time a generous hall, constituting both of them the building’s main relational areas. Areas that, seen as public squares and watchtowers from which admire the scenery, will allow the connection between students and surrounding environment, acting the university not only as knowledge media, but also as a mediation support between local culture, natural landscape and university life.  Faculty of Business studies of Mondragon University, image courtesy Hoz Fontan Arquitectos | photo by José Hevia  Faculty of Business studies of Mondragon University, image courtesy Hoz Fontan Arquitectos | photo by José Hevia  Faculty of Business studies of Mondragon University, image courtesy Hoz Fontan Arquitectos | photo by José Hevia  Faculty of Business studies of Mondragon University, image courtesy Hoz Fontan Arquitectos | photo by José Hevia  Faculty of Business studies of Mondragon University, image courtesy Hoz Fontan Arquitectos | photo by José Hevia  Faculty of Business studies of Mondragon University, image courtesy Hoz Fontan Arquitectos | photo by José Hevia + Project credits / dataProject: Faculty of Business studies of Mondragon University + All images, drawings and description courtesy Hoz Fontan Arquitectos | Photo by José Hevia                          + Recommended university projects featured on +MOOD University Campus Brno | A PLUS + A.M.O.S. DESIGN  IT University in Ørestaden | Henning Larsen Architects      |
| BIG Wins Stockholmsporten Master Plan Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:16 PM PDT
BIG + Grontmij + Spacescape are the winning team for the Stockholmsporten master plan competition to design an inviting new entrance portal into Stockholm at the intersection of a newly planned super-junction. The planned Hjulsta Intersection 15 km north of Stockholm where two European highways the E18 and E4 Bypasses converge into a three level intersection, amounts to the largest infrastructure project in Sweden, required due to the growth and development of the capital. The Stockholmsporten competition seeks to define the Hjulsta intersection through sculpting the surrounding landscape and framing the automotive scale of the intersection. Additionally the proposal connects the adjacent Järvafältet recreation area through a continuous promenade to the distinctive natural and heritage-laden environment and adds new qualities to the site. BIG was selected as the winner of the invited competition among proposals from Norwegian Snøhetta, Danish landscape architect Kristine Jensen and Swedish Erik Giudice Architects.  Stockholmsporten Master Plan, render courtesy BIG  Stockholmsporten Master Plan, render courtesy BIG
Prior to this competition, the intersecting roads would create physical and visual barriers between the surrounding neighborhoods and divide them into four areas totaling 580.000 m2. BIG's proposal, the Energy Valley, re-connects these in an un?hierarchical and democratic way through a continuous circular bike and pedestrian loop aligned with public buildings and functions, including a shopping and sports centre, a hammam and a mosque which will attract visitors from Stockholm and its suburbs.  Stockholmsporten Master Plan, render courtesy BIG By introducing natural environments of differing characters within the loop, an Energy Valley in the center turns into a pie shaped park of pine and oak forests, wetlands, grass lawns and hilly terrain which create a diverse experience when moving in or around the landscape. The surrounding neighborhoods have room to grow, thus expanding infrastructure and developments up to the ridge of the new valley.  Stockholmsporten Master Plan, image courtesy BIG  Stockholmsporten Master Plan, image courtesy BIG  Stockholmsporten Master Plan, image courtesy BIG
 Stockholmsporten Master Plan - Analysis diagrams, drawing courtesy BIG The site has a great potential in serving as a new entryway into Stockholm. This point is turned into a reflective, self-sustaining hovering sphere mirroring Stockholm as it is, new and old, creating a 180 degree view of the area for the drivers on their way in or out of the city. 30% of the sphere's surface is covered with Photovoltaic film that faces the sun and produces enough energy to keep it floating while supplying 235 houses in the neighborhood with electricity. The Stockholm Sphere is an ever changing icon that marks an entry point to the city and reflects the passing seasons and the evolving urban life beneath it.
 Stockholmsporten Master Plan - Conceptual diagrams, drawing courtesy BIG  Stockholmsporten Master Plan - Energy production diagram, drawing courtesy BIG + Project credits / dataProject: Stockholmsporten BIG (BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group) Grontmij AB Spacescape AB  Stockholmsporten Master Plan, render courtesy BIG  Stockholmsporten Master Plan, render courtesy BI  Stockholmsporten Master Plan, render courtesy BIG      |
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