*️⃣Palazzo Mondadori

Architect #OscarNiemeyer #Niemeyer
City #Milan
Country #Italy #EU

🔤When Georgio Mondadori, chairman of the Italian publishing house Mondadori, commissioned Niemeyer to design the company’s new headquarters in 1968, he wanted the building to look like the Itamaraty Palace (also known as Palace of the Arches) in Brasília. Niemeyer agreed, but given his playful spirit, he deliberately deviated from the earlier design and proceeded to build what he would later identify as his favorite of the projects he completed in Europe.

"Whoever goes to see the Mondadori headquarters remains astonished because nobody has ever seen a colonnade in which the arches are different from each other” elaborated Niemeyer in an interview, as he talked about the importance of, and his love for, the element of surprise in architecture.

The central concrete volume and its colonnades along with the two adjacent sweeping volumes are reflected in the surrounding pool, and this is perhaps what the photographer’s eye delights in most when capturing Niemeyer’s beloved building. #water

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Material #rawconcrete
Function #office
Feature #retro
Address: Via Arnoldo Mondadori, 1, 20054 Milano MI, Italy
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*️⃣The Twist Museum

Architect #BIG #BjarkeIngels #Ingels
City #Jevnaker close to #Oslo
Country #Norway #EU

🔤Built around a historical pulp mill, The Twist is conceived as a beam warped 90 degrees near the middle to create a sculptural form as it spans the Randselva.

A simple twist in the building’s volume allows the bridge to lift from the lower, forested riverbank in the south up to the hillside area in the north.

From either direction, visitors experience the twisted gallery as though walking through a camera shutter.

From the south entry, visitors cross a 16m aluminum-clad steel bridge to reach the double-height space with a clear view to the north end, similarly linked with a 9m pedestrian bridge. The double-curved geometry of the museum is comprised of straight 40cm wide aluminum panels arranged like a stack of books, shifted ever so slightly in a fanning motion. The same principle is used inside with white painted 8cm wide fir slats cladding the floor, wall, and ceiling.

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Colour #metallic #white
Material #aluminium
Function #public #museum
Address: Samsmoveien 41, 3520 Jevnaker, Norway
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*️⃣The Kudykina Gora Hospitality Center

Architect #Megabudka Architecture Bureau
City #Yablonovo close to #Voronezh
Country #Russia #EU part

🔤The volumes form a cozy, comfortable-scale building front, reminiscent of a fragment of a street in the old city.

The architects of the Moscow bureau Megabudka carried out research and, as a result, developed their own vision of the New Russian Style. The created architectural style is not artificial, but is based on rethinking the cultural and value aspects inherent in the national architecture and mentality. This helps not to go beyond the flexible interpretation of the combination of two concepts: avant-garde and tradition. Here the avant-garde is a completely international style, while the traditional is a woodcut, a semblance of brutal, magnificent and excessive.

The first structure, built in the new Russian style according to the project of the architectural bureau Megabudka, is The Kudykina Gora Hospitality Center. Before the construction, the owners had been developing the park together with the bureau for several years. The idea of ​​a "rethought national identity" is laid in the foundation of development. Any object: logo, mascot, food, font, planning principles, architecture and the like, appears in the park only if it meets the general concept of identity.

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Colour #black
Material #wood
Function #public #community
Address: 52.367000, 38.760000, Kamenka, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, 399206

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*️⃣Lantern House

Architect #Heatherwick #ThomasHeatherwick
City #NewYork
Country #USA #NA

🔤"In contrast to new glass apartment blocks that have sprung up along the High Line, we wanted to create a new type of residence: one that was reminiscent of the area’s existing historical buildings..." #context

"To achieve this, we borrowed the idea of the humble bay window – a detail often found in late Victorian and Edwardian era buildings. Adapting this established motif, we developed a double-height, stacked bay window held between robust brick piers. The three-dimensional windows are freed from corner columns, giving residents spectacular views out of light-filled rooms, as well as a domestic sensibility."

"With facades of plain glass panes, vertical metal mullions and brick, we brought together materials from Chelsea’s rich industrial heritage in an imaginative way. We developed a special range of brick to give the project a unique patina, paired with careful detailing that includes bullnose edges and real brick soffits."

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Colour #tan
Material #brick
Function #residential
Address: 515 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011, United States
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*️⃣Santa Clara Building

Architect #Lagula Arquitectes
City #Girona
Country #Spain #EU

🔤 The aim of the Gironi developer is to transform a 70’s office dense storey building in a new dynamic living typology. #refurbishment

A new curvy courtyard is proposed. This is thought as modern, transparent, luminous space, open to the sky. As a building heart, provides light, ventilation and character to the homes and to the public mew. It is defined in glass blocks following the north European tradition, from the Viennese Otto Wagner to Pierre Chareau’s modernism.

Private access and public common spaces are open to this new concept space, breathing light. This new insertion, as an ice bloc, melts its character to the street.

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Colour #monochrome
Material #glassbrick
Function #residential
Feature #interior
Address: Carrer de Santa Clara, 11, 17001 Girona, España

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