*️⃣Bar Raval

Architect #Partisans
City #Toronto
Country #Canada #NA

🔤Bar Raval is a 21st-century reinterpretation of Spanish Art Nouveau. The client charged us with executing an ambitious task: “create an art piece” that would become an enduring culinary and civic institution. We interpreted the directive through two aesthetic lenses: Spanish design and the organicism of muscle tissue. Raval’s sculptural sentience pays direct homage to tattooed physicality of the three owners in the context of Art Nouveau tropes and craftsmanship reimagined for contemporary Toronto.

In order to realize partisan's novel toolpaths, the team worked directly with fabricators to adjust the software code they would eventually use to mill over 9km of engravings on 75 panels of #wood.

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Function #hospitality #bar
Feature #interior
Address: 505 College St, Toronto, ON M6J 2J3, Canada
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*️⃣Book mountain

Architect #MVRDV
City #Spijkenisse close to #Rotterdam
Country #Netherlands #EU

🔤The exterior of the library refers in shape and materiality to the traditional Dutch Farm, a reminder of the towns agricultural past, which has grown from farming village to Ville Nouvelle in the past 40 years.

In order to connect the former village centre visually and distinguish clearly between commercial and library programme, a ‘blanket’ of brick is laid over the neighbourhood and the libraries pyramidal heart.

Underneath its monumental #glass envelope damage to the books by sunlight is off-set by their normal 4 year life-span due to wear and tear from borrowing.

Another reference to the towns agricultural past lies in the libraries bookshelves. Made of recycled unwanted flowerpots, these elements are simultaneously fireproof and economic and provide a perfect background to the books. #sustainability

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Function #public #library
Feature #interior
Address: Markt 40, 3201 CP Spijkenisse, Netherlands
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*️⃣California Academy of Sciences

Architect #Piano #RenzoPiano #RPBW
City #SanFrancisco
Country #USA #NA

🔤After the widespread destruction of the Academy's buildings during the earthquake in 1989, RPBW was selected to develop the project. Architects approach prioritized preserving as many existing structures as possible. #renovation

The central courtyard is covered by a concave #glass canopy with a reticular structure, resembling a spider’s web, open at the center to allow light and air to flow through. This “living roof” hosts 1.7 million native plants in biodegradable coconut-fiber containers, blending seamlessly with the park's natural landscape. #greenery

Photovoltaic cells are embedded between the two glass panels forming the transparent canopy around the green roof's perimeter. These cells generate over 5% of the museum’s electricity needs. The project’s material choices, including recycled concrete, recycled steel, and wall insulation made from denim scraps, were integral to its sustainability goals. #sustainability

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Function #public #museum
Address: 55 Music Concourse Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118, United States
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*️⃣The Sony Center

Architect #Helmut #JahnHelmut #Jahn
City #Berlin
Country #Germany #EU

🔤In the reconstruction of Berlin, the Sony Center stands for a new technical vision and order. External is the “real” city and internal is the “virtual” city.

Façades and roof act as a fabric, which moderates the natural and artificial light. With its characteristics of transparency, permeability to light, reflection, and refraction, there is a constant change of images and effects during day and night, effecting not only the appearance but also maximizing the comfort and minimizing the use of resources.

The dome covering the central plaza is a spectacular feat of engineering, composed of #glass panels and metal rings that tension white #textile membrane segments.

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Colour #white
Function #public #community
Feature: #nightlight
Address: Potsdamer Platz, 10785 Berlin, Germany
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