Cool Modern Architecture

[RLS_rls]

That Beijing school is fantastic! It's simple and charming, and modest without being boring. The coat check is cute lol

[amor de cosmos]

Arena Zagreb / UPI-2M
Architects: UPI-2M / Nenad Borgudan, Tamara Stantic Brcic, Berislav Medic, Alan Leo Plestina
Location: Zagreb, Croatia

http://www.archdaily.com/80556/arena-zagreb-upi-2m/

[M.K.]

Originally Posted by amor de cosmos

yeah, "interesting"... I haven't seen many of those buildings after they've been built. Hadid's usually look ok compared with the rendering but I bet not many would look as good as the renderings. Here's another weird one:

A. Neither me, for god sakes, because those confusions to be said architecture seems horrible. Where is the functionality of the term on?
B. Really weird, hope never got built so.

Originally Posted by Ch.G, Ch.G

^... then applied them to art museums and shopping centers.

A. For art museums, I can understand. I really don't know, why today art-museum must be a building of museum with odd art sculpture to it. I could understand the guggenheims, but then doing all museums complicated, ok, for museum with many empty spaces inside and at a very high cost wasted, it is 'valid', people want 'modern-art', but this is more a googleheim to me, then maybe a spacenave or star felt or... i don't know.
B. For a shopping center, i really do not think a practice of buying should be so unpraticable. The boxes buildings are still the best for a mall, unfortunatly without many windows, it could be with glassy corridors to outside and inner the shops, but noone does. So, this direction is not the best compromise really. How could the prefecture approve that?

[amor de cosmos]

North Carolina Museum of Art / Thomas Phifer
Architect: Thomas Phifer
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

http://www.archdaily.com/80719/north...thomas-phifer/

[amor de cosmos]

the ground-zero mosque

SOMA Architects and Park51 developer Sharif el-Gamal just unveiled a new set of renderings of the controversial Mosque proposal near Ground Zero in New York City. The project is planned to be a 15-story Islamic community center estimated to cost around $140 million -investment would come from various real-estate companies in Dubai.

The mosque will include a $17 million prayer space in the basement, a memorial, and recreational facilities. Gamal’s idea is to recover the investment by offering high-end amenities including swimming pool, gym, and spa to affluent New Yorkers – memberships would start at $2,700 per year.

SOMA’s design features a structural façade based on Arabic geometric patterns that create an interesting play between solids and voids.

http://www.evolo.us/architecture/gro...ma-architects/

[Flamesrule]

Originally Posted by amor de cosmos

http://www.archdaily.com/80556/arena-zagreb-upi-2m/

oh, now I really like that!

[amor de cosmos]

^ me too, the designers knew when to stop





http://www.archdaily.com/81087/museu...sal-mete-sysm/

[amor de cosmos]

Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility / Populous
Architects: Populous
Location: Ravenscraig, Motherwell, UK
Engineering: Buro Happold (structural, civil, mechanical, electrical and public health services) FEDRA (fire)
Client: North Lanarkshire Council / Sportscotland / Ravenscraig Ltd / Motherwell College
Total Cost: £31.3 million
Completion Date: Autumn 2010
Photographs: Andrew Lee

http://www.archdaily.com/81144/raven...lity-populous/









http://www.archdaily.com/81144/raven...lity-populous/

[skyhighbuilder]

hmmmmmmm

[Bucktown718]

Hillside House by Fran Silvestre Architects



Architects: Fran Silvestre Architects
Location: Ayora, Spain
Project Type: Single Family Residence

The building is located in a landscape of unique beauty, the result of a natural and evident growth. The mountain, topped by a castle, is covered by a blanket housing through a system of aggregation by simple juxtaposition of pieces generated fragmented target tissue that adapts to the topography.

The project proposes to integrate into the environment, respecting their strategies of adaptation to the environment and materials away from the mimesis that would lead to misleading historicism, and showing the time constructively to meet the requirements of the “new people.” In this way the house is conceived as a piece placed on the ground, joining in the gap. A piece built on the same white lime, the same primacy of the massif on the opening, which takes the edge of the site to have their holes and integrated into the fragmentation of the environment.

The indoor space is divided by the void that is the core of communication cut parallel disposition of the mountain without touching it. On the ground floor are the garage and cellar, on a volume it has two floors with four rooms. Two of them, the rooms at the intermediate level are open to the private street, the other two on the upper level overlook above the houses opposite, the Valley of Ayora. One of them, the study is opened in turn to the central double height, incorporating it into their space. Across the gap, and on the mountain, are the areas facing the garden day illuminated by light reflected on the south slope of the castle oxidized.

http://vectroave.com/2010/09/hillsid...re-architects/

[Coldrsx]

Edmonton's new Art Gallery of Alberta (most from a resident SSP'r, 'Bulliver'


(http://www.cyberpresse.ca/images/biz...ta-ouverte.jpg)


(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/...97544ca9_z.jpg)


(http://www.nationalpost.com/news/250...n?size=620x465)

[Bucktown718]

Pitch House by ICA Arquitectura



Architects: Iñaqui Carnicero, Alonso-Colmenares (ICA Arquitectura)
Location: Los Peñascales, Madrid, Spain
Project Year: 2005-2009
Photographs: Iñaqui Carnicero























http://vectroave.com/2010/07/pitch-h...ra/#more-19550

[amor de cosmos]

THAT was cool... that site doesn't seem to allow remote-linking because none of the pics show up here though

WTFWTFWTF

Sheik-Zayed-Library / Cheungvogl
International architecture practice Cheungvogl shared with us one of their latest projects, Sheik-Zayed-Library, located in Dubai.

Metaphorically, the structural design is rooted deeply into the ancient culture of Dubai. Respecting traditional disciplines and incorporating the significance of organic forms, symbols and patterns, the design seeks to redefine traditions as well as continues to test new boundaries for the future. As we critically question the ‘whys’ and ‘how’s’, finding the reasons for everything, there is no room for imitations. This symbol must be a unique phenomenon – a flower growing out of the desert ground.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coqui8472/3834929619/

[amor de cosmos]

http://www.evolo.us/architecture/a-s...e-in-tel-aviv/

[photoLith]

Its a mini Shanghai Tower.

[amor de cosmos]

Nouveau Centre Culturel de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce / Chevalier Morales Architectes & Busby Perkins + Will
Montréal-based Chevalier Morales Architectes shared with us their finalist proposal along with Busby Perkins + Will for the Nouveau Centre Culturel de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Competition. See more images and architect’s description after the break.

http://www.archdaily.com/81544/nouve...-perkins-will/

[amor de cosmos]

National Museum of Archaeology and Earth Sciences / archi5 & OKA
Architects: archi5 & OKA
Location: Rabat, Morocco
Client: Kingdom of Morocco, Ministry of Culture
Surface: 24,730 sqm of new construction, 4,380 sqm for the rehabilitation
Cost: 90,237,000 Euros without taxes
Completion Date: February 2014

http://www.archdaily.com/82006/natio...es-archi5-oka/

[Jasoncw]

Originally Posted by amor de cosmos

I think this is a nice building, and I appreciate how "every day" it is. I feel like this building can exist in people's normal lives in a way that a lot of these buildings can't. And I think the fact that the architects chose to do winter renderings (rather than idealized summer weather, or twilight scenes) shows that this was one of their intents.

[ardecila]

The winter rendering is definitely an unusual choice. I wish I got more chance to do them, but there isn't too much snow down here.

[Tolbert]

Originally Posted by amor de cosmos

http://www.archdaily.com/81544/nouve...-perkins-will/

Wood, Concrete, red Brick... Looks like a 60´s revival