Cantilever 3

Source: Pedro Pegenaute archdaily.com

Swimming Pools For Vigo University, Orense, Spain, 2008 designed by Francisco Mangado

The platform is designed with bold projections supported by a strong base that, aside from spanning the existing drops, shapes the pools and contains all the water treatment services and necessary systems for the correct performance of the program. The contrast between this massive, topographic base and the cantilevering light glass surfaces surrounding the public level of swimming pools is one the basic formal arguments of the project. -- ArchDaily

Source: Thomas Jorion archdaily.com

Cultural Center Pontault Combault, Pontault Combault, France, 2008 designed by Archi5

The volume of the exhibition hall extends over the axis of the volume of the theater. Taking advantage of the slope, suspended, dominating the public space without exceeding the ceiling of the adjacent buildings. -- ArchDaily

Source: Michael Calderwood archdaily.com

Cinepolis Headquarters, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico, 2009 designed by KMD Architects

The composition is arranged in a four level solution that incorporates a strikingly bold design feature of two balancing volumes, which appear to defy gravity. Architectural and structural design are integrated into an iconic design which features cantilevers of up to 135 feet, which make it one of the world’s longest of its class.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Batlle I Roig Arquitectes archdaily.com

Nursery In The Jardines De Malaga, Barcelona, Spain, 2010 designed by Batlle i Roig Arquitectes

The need for playgrounds and porches on both levels was solved with a structural offset in section. The classroom access is done, in both levels, trough a wide corridor illuminated by a patio attached to the neighbor division wall. The entrance, located at one end of the volume, was protected by another offset of the superior volume that created a cantilever over the access. -- ArchDaily

Source: Kyu Sung Woo Architects

10 Akron Street at Memorial Drive, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA designed by Kyu Sung Woo Architects

The new housing acts as a gateway to both the southern edge of Harvard’s Cambridge campus and to Harvard’s new developing initiatives in Allston across the Western Avenue Bridge. The building’s various scales and courtyard space mediate between the river and the City of Cambridge. The 177,000 sf building houses 215 beds, a Faculty Director’s Suite, several common & study lounges, a Multi-Purpose room, and an underground parking facility. -- architect's web site

winner of the 2011 Harleston Parker Medal for Architectural Excellence

Read an article from ArchitectureBoston 

Source: Hanspeter Schiess archdaily.com

Innsbruck Trade Fair A, Innsbruck, Austria, 2011 designed by ARGE CNBZ Architects

A large and solid construction is laying on the new single-storey exhibition hall repeats the dimension of the old hall as a significant building end and takes over the functions of entrance hall and event hall [1500 people]. Its cantiliver of 25 m creates a signal effect and defines the generously roofed main entrance of the new fair. -- ArchDaily

Source: Yao Li archdaily.com

Lintong Zhiyang Cultural Park, Sevilla, Spain, 2012 designed by Lacime Architectural Design

The first block included management committee office buildings, city planning exhibition hall and tourism cultural center. The second block consist of traditional commercial Pedestrian Street and culture club. The third block was designed as central water- feature area that connects three blocks together. -- ArchDaily

Source: Yoshihiro Koitani archdaily.com

Harvest Elementary School, Calle Francisco Alcocer Pozo, Candiles, Querétaro, Mexico, 2012 designed by Zendejas Arquitectos + Marván Arquitectos + Martinez Arquitecto

Composed of a superposition of metal boxes interrelated, has a clear configuration in each of this elements, allowing a functional and harmonious organization for each of the educational levels. -- ArchDaily

Source: Fernando Alda archdaily.com

Housing Complex in Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, 2013 designed by DL+A Arquitectos Asociados

....in every tower an upper public space reflects the highest degree of intimacy between the users of the different towers… a proprietary of one of those could invite its neighbors from the others to his watchtower, to his finger, outdoor spaces pointing to each other talking about invisible relationships such as smoking, chatting, stargazing. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jasmin Schuller archdaily.com

Doninpark, Vienna, Austria, 2013 designed by LOVE architecture and urbanism

The ground floor of the building houses a shopping zone that faces the subway stop, while the first and second floors feature office space and a gym. The third floor upwards is residential quarters. The apartments are oriented towards the east or west and can be accessed via a central aisle. Each residential unit is equipped with a balcony, loggia or alcove. The loggias are on the east side, thereby creating a distance to the street space. -- ArchDaily

Source: Sebastián Crespo archdaily.com

UNASUR Building, Quito, Ecuador, 2014 designed by Diego Guayasamin

The proposal of a solid core of reinforced concrete where two large metal trusses were anchored in a way of an habitable beam. The structure results in a positive, proactive and strong iconic image system. This scheme is also largest armor flown in South America with 55 mts. without support, modeling technology, drive and creativity. -- ArchDaily

What is missing?

Source: whatismissing.net

Maya Lin Invites and Challenges Website Visitors to Help Improve Earth's Well-being

If you're looking for something to do on Earth Day, consider a visit to www.whatismissing.net, the site developed by noted artist and activist Maya Lin that launches its second stage Sunday. Follow up by going to the stirring exhibition of her sculpture in the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art.

Ms. Lin conceived "What Is Missing?" as the fifth, and last, of her memorial projects, which began with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 1982. She was an undergraduate at Yale University at the time and winning the design competition catapulted her to fame. That she chose to shy away from the spotlight reflects a persona characterized by integrity, intellect and a deep and genuine relationship with projects she commits to. -- By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via Architectural Record

Brutalism

Le Corbusier, Unité d’Habitation, Marseille (1952), Phaidon (ed.), Le Corbusier Le Grand, New York 2008; S. 422

“Brutalism. Architecture of Everyday Culture, Poetry and Theory” Symposium, Berlin, Germany May 10-11, 2012

Organized by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Chair of Architectural Theory, the“Brutalism. Architecture of Everyday Culture, Poetry and Theory” symposium will be taking place in Berlin May 10-11. Their position on this topic is that Brutalism’s critical review of classical modernism and post-war modernism gave rise to a unique laboratory situation, in which modern architectural trends still of relevance today were developed and tested for the very first time. -- ArchDaily

Paul Rudolph, 1918-1997. [Library of Congress Collection, Rudolph Archive]

Reading Rudolph a review by Ian Baldwin -- The Design Observation Group

Orange County Votes to Preserve Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center -- ArchDaily

Paul Rudolph’s Masterpiece at Risk -- ArchDaily

Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1968 designed by Kallmann, McKinnell, & Knowles

As part of an international competition to design Boston’s City Hall in 1962, three Columbia University professors, Kallmann, McKinnell & Knowles, diverted from the typical sleek, glass and steel structures that were being requested by popular demand.  Rather than basing their design on the material aesthetics, their goal was to accentuate the governmental buildings connection to the public realm.

Completed in 1968, the Brutalist style city hall bridges the public and private sectors of government through a gradient of reveal and exposure that allows the public to become integrated, either physically or visually, into the daily affairs of the governmental process. -- ArchDaily

The incredible hulks: Jonathan Meades' A-Z of brutalism -- The Guardian

Brutalism: How unpopular buildings came back in fashion -- BBC

An Homage to London Brutalism by Thomas Danthony & Michael Abrahamson -- ArchDaily

Source: Federico Cairoli archdaily.com

Gallery: Clorindo Testa’s Banco de Londres Through the Lens of Federico Cairoli 

Argentine photographer and architect Federico Cairoli has shared photos with us of Clorindo Testa’s Banco de Londres (Bank of London) in Buenos Aires. Testa and his firm SEPRA won a competition in 1959 to design the bank and the Brutalist building was completed in 1966.  -- ArchDaily

Cube 5

Source: Michele Alassio archdaily.com

Cordoba House, Cordoba, Spain, 1975 designed by Emilio Ambasz

Two tall, rough stuccoed white walls meet at a right angle, creating an envelope for the house, and defining its entrance. From this entrance, auditorium like steps of increasingly greater width lead down to an open-air square patio onto which the house opens.

The house is centered around the formal square patio, onto which all rooms open, in the Arabic-Andalusian tradition. This formal square patio is an outdoor extension of the living spaces since full walls of glass stack away to allow free movement from the outdoors to the indoors. -- ArchDaily

Ephemicropolis

Ephemicropolis 2010 by Peter Root

100,000 Staples
Approx floor area 600x300cm

Stacks of staples were broken into varying sizes from full stacks about 12cm high down to single staples. These stacks were then stood up and arranged over a period of 40 hours. -- artist's web site