*️⃣Richard Gilder Center

Architect #StudioGang #Gang
City #NewYork
Country #USA #NA

🔤Establishing a new, fully accessible entrance at Columbus Avenue the project creates more than thirty connections among ten different buildings, replacing former dead ends with continuous loops.

Akin to a porous geologic formation shaped by the flow of wind and water, the building’s central, five-story atrium greets arriving visitors like an intriguing landscape, ready to be explored.

It is constructed using shotcrete, a technique primarily used for infrastructure, which sprays structural concrete directly onto rebar cages that were digitally modeled and custom-bent.

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Material #shotcrete
Function #public #museum
Feature #interior
Address: 415 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10024, United States
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*️⃣Rusty Nail

Architect #StefanGiers #Giers
City #Senftenberg
Country #Germany #EU

🔤Made from rust-coloured Corten steel, the Landmark is intentionally reminiscent of the industrial origins and history of the Lake land and of steel mining machinery – while the sculptural staircase is a symbol of human achievement and of the future

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Material #corten
Function #public #observation
Address: G3GX+VM Senftenberg, Germany
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*️⃣The Valley

Architect #MVRDV
Designer #HeyligersArchitects #Heyligers
City #Amsterdam
Country #Netherlands #EU

🔤Valley, the dramatic, geology-inspired, plant-covered high-rise designed by MVRDV. Each of the 200 apartments has a unique floorplan.

Various locations throughout the three-tower complex offer breathtaking views of the city – the apartments, of course, but especially the sky bar at the top of the tallest tower, which visitors can access via the Molteni flagship store on the ground floor. Much of the building is open to the public: from the publicly accessible footpath that zig-zags up to the central valley from the street level, to the Grotto, an atrium that forms a covered street on the first floor where the Sapiens Lab

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Colour #tan
Material #stone
Function #mixeduse #residential #office
Address: Strawinskylaan 1023, 1077 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands
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*️⃣Bosco Verticale

Architect #Boeri #StefanoBoeri
City #Milan
Country #Italy #EU

🔤The porcelain stoneware finish of the facades incorporates the typical brown colour of bark, evoking the image of a pair of gigantic trees in which to live and which are rich in literary and symbolic implications.

The contrast with a series of elements in white stoneware – the stringcourses of the balconies and some modules on the front of the windowsills – introduces a syncopated rhythm in the composition which breaks up and “dematerializes” the visual compactness of the architectural bodies and amplifies the presence of the plants even more.

Unlike “mineral” facades in glass or stone, the plant-based shield does not reflect or magnify the sun’s rays but filters them thereby creating a welcoming internal microclimate without harmful effects on the environment. At the same time, the green curtain “regulates” humidity, produces oxygen and absorbs CO2. #greenery

Project was selected by #CTBUH as the best skyscraper of the year 2014. #award

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Colour #monochrome #black
Material #ceramic
Function #residential
Feature #skyscraper
Address: Via Gaetano de Castillia, 11, 20124 Milano MI, Italy
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*️⃣Free University library

Architect #Foster #NormanFoster
City #Berlin
Country #Germany #EU

🔤The foundation of the Free University in 1945 marked the rebirth of liberal education in Berlin after the war. This redevelopment and retrofit scheme, includes the restoration of its Modernist buildings and the creation of a new library for the Faculty of Philology.

The new library's four floors are contained within a naturally ventilated, bubble-like enclosure, which is clad in aluminium and glazed panels and supported on a tubular steel frame with a radial geometry. An inner membrane of translucent glass fibre filters sunlight and creates an atmosphere of concentration, while scattered window openings create changing patterns of light and shade, with momentary view of the sky and glimpses of sunlight.

The serpentine profile of the floors creates a pattern in which each floor swells or recedes with respect to the one above or below it, generating a sequence of generous, light-filled spaces in which to work. Interestingly, the library’s cranial form has earned it a nickname of its own – ‘The Berlin Brain’.

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Colour #white #yellow
Material #mattglass
Function #public #library
Feature #interior
Address: Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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