*️⃣Seattle Central Library

Architect #RemKoolhaas #Koolhaas #OMA
City #Seattle
Country #USA #NA

🔤At a moment when libraries are perceived to be under threat from a shrinking public realm on one side and digitization on the other, the Seattle Central Library creates a civic space for the circulation of knowledge in all media, and an innovative organizing system for an ever-growing physical collection – the Books Spiral.

The library's various programs are intuitively arranged across five platforms and four flowing "in between" planes, which together dictate the building's distinctive faceted shape, offering the city an inspiring building that is robust in both its elegance and its logic.

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Material #steel
Function #public #library
Feature #interior #nightlight
Address: 1000 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, United States
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*️⃣Camp Adventure Park

Architect #Effekt
City #Ronnede close to #Naestved
Country #Denmark #EU

🔤The geometry of the tower is shaped to enhance the visitor experience, shunning the typical cylindrical shape in favor of a curved profile with a slender waist and enlarged base and crown. This does not only increase the stability of the tower but also increase the observation deck area at the top of the tower, while allowing for better contact to the forest canopy.

A 900 meter boardwalk connected to a 45 meter tall observation tower creates a unique opportunity to take a walk among the trees and experience the stunning nature of the preserved forest from another perspective. The tower and the boardwalk are seamlessly connected by a continuous ramp that makes the forest accessible to all - regardless of their physical condition.

The high walkway will also feature a series of activities for different user groups to learn and enjoy the forest qualities. The treetop walk and observation tower are part of Camp Adventure, an existing adventure sports facility that includes treetop climbing and aerial zip lines.

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Material #corten
Function #public #observation
Address: Skovtårnsvej 1, 4683 Rønnede, Denmark
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*️⃣Drivelines Studios

Architect #LOTEK (LOT-EK)
City #Johannesburg
Country #SouthAfrica #AF

🔤The massing - entirely made of upcycled ISO shipping containers - is organized in a V generating a triangular open yard with swimming pool and sundeck. They were stacked and cut on site, and combined to form the units. A large diagonal cut-out, from the corner to the center of each container long side, generates the large windows for the units on street and courtyard sides. Its repetition and mirroring generate the building façade pattern. #sustainability

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Colour #mixed #orange #red #yellow
Material #steel #container
Function #residential #budget
Address: 213 Albertina Sisulu Rd, Jeppestown, Johannesburg, 2094, South Africa
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*️⃣Crystal Houses

Architect #MVRDV
City #Amsterdam
Country #Netherlands #EU

🔤 The entirely transparent façade of a high-end flagship store on Amsterdam’s upmarket shopping street uses glass bricks, glass windows frames and glass architraves in a way to evoke the vernacular of the area with the goal to maintain the character of the site.

Crystal Houses began its existence with the request of Developer to design a flagship store combining both Dutch heritage and international architecture. The 620m2 of retail and 220m2 of housing unites the ambition of Amsterdam to have large distinctive flagship stores without compromising the historical ensemble. #context

The near full-glass façade mimics the original design but is stretched vertically to comply with updated zoning laws and to allow for an increase in interior space.

Glass bricks stretch up the façade of Crystal Houses, eventually dissolving into a traditional terracotta brick façade for the apartments (as stipulated in the City’s aesthetics rules), which appears to be floating above the shop floor.

“We said to the client, ‘Let’s bring back what will be demolished but develop it further’” explains Winy Maas, architect and co-founder of MVRDV.

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The only exceptions to this rule are added features which ensure the security of the building, such as a concrete ram-raid defence plinth, hidden in a blend of reflective and translucent materials and built to withstand the force of a car crashing into the building.

Project was selected by #Archdaily as the best building in commercial category in 2017. #award

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Material #glassbrick #brick
Function #retail #shop
Address: Pieter Cornelisz Hooftstraat 94, 1071 CC Amsterdam, Netherlands
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*️⃣Urban Hive

Architect #archium
City #Seoul
Country #SouthKorea #AP

🔤The dotted facade of the Urban Hive building was developed as a load-bearing surface that enables the interior spaces to be largely free from supporting structures.

"Urban Hive is an example of the skin and structure unification in a building and has been designed to maximise the flexibility of the space by excluding structural elements, other than the core, in the users' space," said the architect.

As for the energy saving purposes, it blocks hot direct sunlight and cold wind, and forms convection current to lower the temperature of the heated glass. #sustainability

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #office
Feature #nightlight #adminvisited #skyscraper
Address: 476 Gangnam-daero, Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea
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