*️⃣Shenzhen Bay Cultural Plaza

Architect #MAD
City #Shenzhen
Country #China #AP

🔤"Situated between the CBD of a modern, international metropolis and nature, our primary consideration was to create a public civic space where everyone can enjoy the city's precious bay resources."

"Architecture should be integrated into nature and become a landscape that can be experienced." – Ma Yansong. #quote@simoderna

Shenzhen Bay Cultural Plaza is located at the heart of this international bird corridor. Therefore, ecological conservation was prioritized from the outset of the design, with extensive planting of native vegetation to recreate intertidal feeding areas and habitats for passing birds. #sustainability@simoderna

Furthermore, a pedestrian- and vehicle-separated slow-moving network will allow people to traverse the cultural precinct freely and safely, avoiding traffic interference and enjoying public experience.

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Colour #white
Material #stone
Function #mixeduse #public #park #entertainment #venue
Feature #greenery
Address: GW8R+23X Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

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*️⃣Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Architect #Neutelings #Riedijk #NeutelingsRiedijk #NRA
City #Hilversum
Country #Netherlands #EU

🔤The colorful façade is a screen of glass panels designed by Jaap Drupsteen that depict historical stills of Dutch television in relief. Together they form a single, new image in which the colors intermingle like a watercolor solidified in glass, a monumental portrayal of Dutch collective memory.

A silver-colored exhibition volume floats like an inverted ziggurat above the canyon. The empty space between the ziggurat and the canyon forms a large public atrium for media events and award presentations.

The Dutch national radio and television archives are stored underground in naturally climate-controlled depots grouped around a canyon, much like a large, five-level subterranean necropolis.

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Colour #mixed
Material #glass
Function #public #museum
Feature #interior
Address: Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum, Netherlands
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Atrium GS
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pics by #Scagliola
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*️⃣Kioi Seido

Architect #Naito #HiroshiNaito
City #Tokyo
Country #Japan #AP

🔤Designed by Hiroshi Naito for the Japanese RINRI Institute of Ethics, and completed in 2021, Kioi Seido was designed with 'no particular purpose'. The brief from the client was that “The functions will be considered according to what has been done, so please design as you like."

According to a statement by Naito, “My client’s only order was that I think about the Jomon — a prehistoric era of Japanese history, known for its mysterious clay figurines, knotted-rope pottery and an aesthetic that feels both ancient and strangely abstract.

“Neither the purpose nor the function of the Pantheon is well understood,” reads Naito’s statement. “If the question was to be purposeless, I wanted to build a modern Pantheon.”

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Material #rawconcrete and #wood
Function #public #museum
Feature #interior
Address: 3-3 Kioicho, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-0094, Japan
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Last floor GS
Outside GS
Facade staircase GS
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pics by Fuminari Yoshitsugu, @top_locations_world and #LukeDavid
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*️⃣AZULIK City of arts

Architect #Roth
City #FranciscoUhMay close to #Tulum
Country #Mexico #NA

🔤The centerpiece of The City of Arts's set, within a 10-acre creative complex, offers a space to explore the relationship between nature, art, and ancestry. An example of biomorphic architecture, the museum integrates its surroundings, serving as a shared habitat for flora, fauna, and contemporary design. #context@simoderna

Developed organically without plans to foster creativity, it uses native bejuco vines treated manually by local bejuqueros to achieve organic shapes.

Throughout the process, Mayan workers contributed their ancestral knowledge about materials and types of construction. Thanks to that, it was possible to avoid the use of heavy machinery. #sustainability@simoderna

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Material #wood and #rawconcrete
Function #mixeduse #public #museum #hospitality #restaurant
Feature #interior
Address: Grulla 23, 77796 Francisco Uh May, Q.R., Mexico
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Backyard GS

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text by Enchanting Transformation, sferik.art and azulik.com

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*️⃣Rolex learning center

Architect #SANAA
City #Lausanne close to #Geneva
Country #Switzerland #EU

🔤The spirit of the EPFL is based on the collaboration among universities, so eliminating the boundaries between them was one of the principles in this multipurpose space at the service of the whole university. In this way, the center favors impromptu gatherings in a context without designated itineraries.

One of the most unique aspects of the building is the absence of physical boundaries. It is an unobstructed space, defined by its artificial geography. The separation between the different functions is based on the manipulation of the horizontal plane, lifting it or subtly reducing its height with undulations that delimit the different areas, emphasizing the sensation of openness and transparency.

In this way, the silence zones are grouped together and separated from the rest by changes in height.

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #public #library
Feature #interior
Address: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Rte Cantonale, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Nightlight GS
Interior GS
Interior 2 GS
Patio GS
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pics by #IwanBaan
text by arquitecturaviva.com

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