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unsangdong architects: dancing apartment, south korea

'dancing apartment' has been designed by korean firm unsangdong architects. located in south korea the apartments are built using oblique lines in which each unit consists of a terrace.

the building consists of various community spaces which include parks, leisure facilities, event space, a library, media space and performance space.
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that would be pritty could if they built that in oaxaca city in oaxaca mexico... go well with the history of the zapitec ruines there as there was a hanging garden set up there
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Science Laboratories - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Science facility draws inspiration from the periodic table
The Science Laboratories development at the Chinese University of Hong Kong accommodates state-of-the-art research laboratory facilities in a 6 storey building structure within the Central Campus of the University. The project completed in 2006 and acts as a visual landmark that is architecturally sensitive to the campus context, providing linkage to the existing Science Centre, as well as integrating with an existing pedestrian network within the natural landscape.

This laboratory facility sits on a 2,600sqm footprint on a steeply sloping site overlooking Tolo Harbour. Its unique façade curves to blend and complement the rolling landscape whilst softening the impact of the building onto the hillside. The layout and design of the building were carefully considered as the interior laboratories were required to be linked by a series of "dirty" corridors ensuring separation of the clean and contaminated areas.

Inspiration for the coloured façade was derived from the periodic table of elements, stating the importance of science to mankind. At the same time this southern facing façade has an environmental function of regulating the ambient and solar heat gain, thus increasing the thermal comfort of the interior space. The students profit from the outward looking views toward Tai Po Road.

The building was awarded the Merit Award – Community Building 2006 by the Hong Kong Institute of Architects.
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Not sure I see the progressive-ness here. It's a nice looking box, but it's also extremely simplistic and not very original.
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McGill University - Life Sciences Complex, Montreal, Canada
Life Sciences Centre consolidates research at Mcgill University
The new Life Sciences Complex at McGill University is designed to encourage interdisciplinary research by bringing some of the world’s key scientific talent under one roof, speeding the process of translating discoveries into treatments and cures. The Complex encompasses two new facilities, the Francesco Bellini Life Sciences Building and the Cancer Research Building, as well as the existing McIntyre Medical Sciences and Stewart Biological Sciences buildings.

Integrating the existing buildings with the new structures eliminates the physical separation of researchers and creates innovative spaces designed to encourage different disciplines to work more closely together in achieving scientific breakthroughs and developing new medical treatments.

The new facilities are home to 60 principal investigators and 600 researchers, joined by over 2,000 researchers, technical personnel, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the renovated Stewart and McIntyre buildings. Housing a dozen core facilities and research projects the Life Sciences Centre focuses on five biomedical fields: Cancer, Complex Traits, Chemical Biology, Developmental Biology, and Cell Information Systems.

The Complex is sited adjacent to one of the most cherished green spaces in Montreal – the upper slopes of Mount Royal. The sensitive context, coupled with the University’s sustainable building mandate and the architects’ commitment to reducing the ecological impact of architecture, helped to establish the design team’s goal of constructing an unobtrusive, energy efficient building. The new Bellini and Cancer pavilions are designed to achieve LEED Gold certification with the Canadian Green Building Council.
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Kohn Pedersen Fox raise the bar for accommodation in the Big Apple
Located in historic Greenwich Village in Manhattan and bordered by 8th and Greenwich Avenues to the west and southwest, One Jackson Square is a 35-unit luxury residential development with a street level retail component that responds in dramatic fashion to its celebrated locale.

The building occupies an irregular site in the West Village as a result of the area’s diagonal street grid and falls within the Greenwich Village Historic District. The goal for KPF’s design is to enhance the architectural diversity of the neighbourhood and to mediate between the predominantly low-rise area and the taller buildings to the north, also taking into account the zoning laws. The design, which incorporates 65,600 sq ft, therefore steps down from 11 storeys at the northern end, to seven at the southern.

Formerly a surface parking lot, the six-sided, split-zone site above two subway tunnels posed significant challenges, which the design negotiates through its massing, material expression, and robust foundation – the building is literally cantilevered over the subway tunnels.

Over the past decade KPF’s has witnessed the most successful examples of integrating new buildings into an historic context being achieved through a design strategy which places into juxtaposition the weight of the new with the lightness of the old. This method most frequently relies upon the characteristics of glass – transparency and reflection – as a foil and balance to architecture of opacity and solidity.

Through reflection, glass has the ability to ‘playback’ the surrounding context and it is this capacity which can make it most effective in a context of masonry structures. KPF’s design uses undulating bands of floor-to-ceiling glass to identify individual storeys, creating a ribbon-like series of convexities and concavities along the external wall flooding each apartment with light and allowing Greenwich Village’s busy street-life to become part of the private living space. A series of green roofs extends the private realm of the building into the public domain of the adjacent park.

Paul Katz, President of KPF, New York, commenting on the building said: “The design developed assumes the Greenwich Village Historic District to be a place which is not frozen in time, but one which will continue to accept exceptions if they emanate from the idiosyncratic spirit of and scale of the district.” One Jackson Square, which is targeting LEED certification, will offer one, two and three bedroom apartments as well as providing residents with a 24-hour concierge service, valet parking, fitness centre, spa facility and courtyard garden.

One Jackson Square was given the MIPIM Future Project Awards Commendation in 2007, and is likely to receive further plaudits on completion in the autumn of 2009.
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Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters, Los Angeles, California, United States
LAPD Headquarters nears completion
A new headquarters facility for the Los Angeles Police Department is set to open this summer. Designed by AECOM (formerly DMJM) in joint venture with Roth + Sheppard Architects, the new 11-storey, 500,000 square foot building occupies an important civic block in downtown LA across the street from City Hall and near the Los Angeles Times and new Caltrans buildings.

The project provides for a main police administration building and public plaza with below grade parking for 300 cars and an off-site vehicle maintenance garage and fueling station with parking for 800 vehicles. The design challenge was to meet the functional needs and rigorous security requirements of one of the busiest police stations in the nation while also providing greater transparency and openness to the community. In a nod to the civic nature of the site, AECOM pulled the public functions out of the building, as, for example, a 200–seat café and 450-seat auditorium, and located them in the plaza for greater public access. The park and low-rise auditorium to the North (facing City Hall) offer a street scaled entry to the building and green space for passersby, visitors and building occupants. Built of precast, glass and stone, the building is linked to the existing civic center buildings with its vertical grain, massing and lightness of color.

The new headquarters is designed to achieve LEED Silver certification and utilizes energy efficient mechanical systems, day-lighting, drought-tolerant planting, a “cool roof” system, high-performance glass, water clarifiers and recycled or renewable building materials.
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WAN talks to SPACE Architects about their new eco-tower design
SPACE architects is aiming to produce one of the greenest buildings in Latin America with a new 33-storey tower set for Mexico City. The Efizia tower project is a mixed use building for developer Diimix in the Santa Fe district of the city, which in recent years has been transformed from one of the city’s most rundown areas into a business and leisure destination. Juan Carlos Baumgartner, managing director of SPACE’s Mexico City office told World Architecture News at MIPIM that the scheme will be the first in Mexico to use a double skin, with a stainless steel mesh aiding energy use by trapping heat and offering shade. “We view the external architecture as a shell for protecting the internal space from what is happening outside, hence ensuring that a building is fit for purpose and designed for occupation”, he said. “We design from the inside, out and the shell is the result of everything else”.

SPACE, which now specialises in green design but hitherto has perhaps been better known for its interiors projects for clients including Michelin than its buildings, was selected in an international competition by developer Diimix, which wanted “the best building in Latin America”. The speculative scheme comprises 33 floors with floor plates of 2000m2 totalling 66,000m2, with retail and restaurants on its ground floor. But it is the building’s projected environmental performance which the scheme’s backers hope will set it apart. The dual façade is a double glazed glass façade with a distinctive, irregularly shaped stainless steel mesh that places less stress on the air conditioning and should reduce energy consumption by some 37%. And whilst the steel has been brought in from Germany, the project’s sustainable credentials – which include grey water recycling, 30% recycled materials and green roofs – have already gained a ‘gold’ standard at pre-certification in the LEED process.

Construction of the Efezia Tower is on course to begin later this year and complete in 2012.
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Zamet Centre, Rijeka, Croatia
Public space integrated into new structural topography of Zamet Centre
The primary characteristic of the design of Zamet Centre is the integration of a big work project into the urban structure of this part of the town of Rijeka, with the objective of minimizing disruption and to evaluate its given urban conditions – unleveled terrain, the pedestrian link in a north-south direction, the quality plateau in front of the primary school, the park zone, placing the program in the centre of Zamet at the intersection of communications.

The joint conceptual and design element of the handball hall and the Zamet Centre are ‘ribbons’ stretching in a north-south direction, simultaneously functioning as an architectural design element of the objects and as a zoning element which forms a public square and a link between the north – park-school and the south – the street. One third of the hall’s volume is built into the terrain, and the building with its public and service facilities has been completely integrated into the terrain, i.e. it creates it with its ‘ribbons’.

The public space on the roof is not only a feature of the building in the business part of the centre, but the roof of the hall is also used as a kind of an extension of the park situated to the north of the hall. The hall has been designed for major international sports competitions, in compliance with state-of-the-art world sports standards. The design of the hall has been conceived as a very flexible space.

The auditorium has been designed as a system with telescopic stands, which open and adapt to the kind of competition and the number of spectators; at major competitions 2100 spectators have seating places by opening all the stands. The architecture of public facilities, the shopping centre, the library and the local authority stands out in the topography of the terrain, connecting the square in front of the hall and in front of the school and tries to integrate into the overall existing context of western Zamet.
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Once again: Modernism =/= Progressive. Not that they're mutually exclusive, but they're not synonyms. Glass boxes have not been progressive for many decades.

Anyway, I noticed this building in the "tear it down" thread. It was certainly VERY progressive for its time. The very height of the avant garde when built.

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(Michael Graves sure was an imaginative guy, wasn't he? To me, that looks like it could be some communist country's Party HQ.)
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Once again: Modernism =/= Progressive. Not that they're mutually exclusive, but they're not synonyms. Glass boxes have not been progressive for many decades.

Anyway, I noticed this building in the "tear it down" thread. It was certainly VERY progressive for its time. The very height of the avant garde when built.

wow those almost look like real garlands! roflmao I couldn't be happier that you don't like my most recent reply if that's your idea of a "great building." it can't be torn down quickly enough
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Ugh. That thing reeks! But that Zamet Centre and that tower in Mexico are so sexy!

Anyways, I'm not sure if it's progressive but I find it to be a great building. It's the Druzhba Holiday Center Hall in Yalta, Ukraine. And even though I've only known it for like 3 days, I've already fallen in love with it and other Soviet structures. I would love it if someone could find more information on this building and more pictures because it's certainly an Great Building.


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I also love the Transportation Ministry Building in Tbilisi, Georgia. Again, I would love it if someone could find more pictures of it!

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I couldn't be happier that you don't like my most recent reply if that's your idea of a "great building."
I didn't say it was "great" (it's not). I said it was "progressive" (it most certainly was).

That a lot of you don't understand the difference was the WHOLE POINT. I'd say thanks for proving it for me, but I'd really rather you just learn the difference.
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