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An international competition to design Taiwan's most visionary tower!
Site Taiwan Tower is to be located at the southern tip of Taichung Gateway Park, which is part of the former Taichung (Shuinan) Airport site, Taichung city. It will become a vista at the southern end of a major boulevard. Measuring approximately one hectare, the site is situated across from the Taichung Gateway City to the north.
Space Requirement The project will comprise of Taiwan Tower and the Museum of Taichung City Development.
HeightThough not aiming to compete in height with other towers of the world, in principle the observatory of Taiwan Tower should provide visitors with a view of the Taiwan Strait. The height is planned to be at least 300 meters in principle.
Design Principles
1. The site context and local architectural character should be integrated with 21st-Century building technology to symbolize the new Taiwan spirit.
2. Taiwan Tower should also answer its call for environment responsibility and adopt the use of alternative energy.
In implementing the energy conservation and carbon reduction, Taiwan Tower will act as a model of green building for the 21st century.
The service fee for this project is a fixed fee in the total amount of NT$ 842,000,000. (About US$ 28,000,000) Subject to the approved budget by city council.
Qualifications for Participation: (for Stage One)
1. Any licensed architect of Taiwan (R.O.C.), alone or in joint tender.
2. Any licensed architect (or Firm / Corporation) of foreign country, alone or in joint tender.
3. Joint tender of licensed architects of Taiwan (R.O.C.) and licensed architects (or Firms / Corporations) of foreign countries.
For more information, please visit our website or refer to tender notice.
Invitation The New Taipei City Government plans to build a world-class museum of art in its Yingge District. In a call for proposal through a conceptual design international competition, creative and visionary schemes are sought in order to give the New Taipei City Museum of Art a fresh look and versatile art exhibition space. We cordially invite design teams from all over the world to challenge their imagination, pursue new possibilities for modern art museums and help New Taipei City create an artistic icon for the new century! Awards
a. Stage One: (Semi-final) Three Shortlists: NT$ 1,000,000 for each (Approximately US$ 33,333) (Awarded right to enter Stage Two Competition) Five Honorable Mentions: NT$ 100,000 for each (Approximately US$ 3,333) Ten Merit Awards: Certificate of Award
b. Stage Two: (Final) One First Prize: NT$ 3,000,000 (Approximately US$ 100,000) One Second Prize: NT$ 1,500,000 (Approximately US$ 50,000) One Third Prize: NT$ 1,000,000 (Approximately US$ 33,333)
Qualifications for Participation
1. Any licensed architect or licensed architect firm of R.O.C. (Taiwan) or foreign country, alone or in teams.
2. Any design-related company of R.O.C. (Taiwan) or foreign country, alone or in teams.
3. Any student recommended by design-related department of university of R.O.C. (Taiwan) or foreign country, alone or in teams.
For more information, please visit our website.
Timetable Registration Acceptance Period 2011/05/24 ~ 2011/08/05 Material Submission Deadline 2011/08/16
Stage One Jury Session 2011/08/18 ~ 2011/08/19
Announcement of the Shortlists 2011/08/19
Stage Two Jury Session 2011/10/13 ~ 2011/10/14
Announcement of the Winners 2011/10/14
VERTICAL VILLAGES FOR EUROPEAN SNOWBIRDS
OFF architecture associated with PR architect ( Philippe RIZZOTTI) and Samuel NAGEOTTE
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The viaducts’ morphology and especially its piles inspired us to develop vertical villages. The deck therefore should be reinforced by a display of commercial spaces, equipments, medical centres and leisure spaces. We can only imagine how much time these viaducts have needed to impose themselves upon the landscape where they finally have become a significant part of. This project does not intend to impose a new architectural form as it could fracture the existing one and hence become inadequate.
Consequently we intend to reinforce the viaduct’ existing architectural form in order to keep the impact upon the landscape itself to minimum. This project aims to participate to the evolution of the original viaducts in order to consolidate their original identity.
The project will appear as a contemporary archaeological contribution discordant with its double; it will wrap around the existing one and restructures it in order to give it a new breath.
A harmonious combination of viaduct’ morphology and common pavilion typology, taking place in a new dimension which combines the isolating qualities of a pavilion as well as the advantages of a condominium (proximity, mutualisation etc…). The upper part of one of the viaducts deck will inhabit a pedestrian “promenade” nonetheless for the others the deck will remain as traffic road in order to respect the existing paths of the city. The communion of the infrastructure within its landscape should be sufficient to establish a first-class quality of life along with a responsible response to the environment.
PROJECT TEAM:
ARCHITECTS
Philippe RIZZOTTI, Samuel NAGEOTTE,
OFF Architecture (Tanguy VERMET, Manal RACHDI)
168 rue St Denis - 75002 PARIS (FR)
+33 (0)9 81 98 21 47
ENGINEERS
Anton SAWICKI, Director
Structural Engineering, Buildings & Design, RAMBOLL UK
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Project created for Barcelona 2011 Bohemian Hostel for Backpackers international competition. For this competition consisted of designing a 100 tall tower -hostel that includes relaxation areas, stores, cafe and at the same time creates a new landmark in the city of Barcelona.
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Barcelona Rock hostel is supposed to be a unique place. It is supposed to become a new symbol of Barcelona. In search for inspiration we were trying to find something common for the city’s architectural marks such as Sagrada Familia, Torre Agbar or the nearby Museum of Modern Art. We found it in Montserrat – in a mountain range near Barcelona (the highest elevation in Catalonia, you can see it from Barcelona). The stone from that mountain range was used for the buildings of the old city.
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The form of the building is a part of a mountain. The stone elevation introduces life to the building, which is covered with greenery and provides shelter to birds, and which becomes a natural feature of historic importance in the centre of the metropolis. In the hostel there are 50 rooms with a window, a swimming pool (jumping from the rock into the water), spa, gym, cinema, pub, shops and climbing walls for beginners. The outer elevation of the hotel forms climbing walls for more advanced climbers, who can spend the night there using special equipment. We hope the hostel will become a symbol of the city as Ayers Rock is for Australia.
The elevation is made of stone blocks (stone slabs 4 meters high) mounted on stilts of reinforced concrete. These blocks are mounted in some distance from one another to ensure the air penetrates into the building. The advantage of using stone in this climate is that it radiates heat at night and cools the air during the day.
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(New York, NY) April 21, 2011 – Axis Mundi was invited to submit a proposal for a new cathedral for the city of Strasbourg, France. The design is composed of a series of unfolded arches which rest on a submerged “Latin Cross” floor plan. A bas-relief of an abstracted Gothic cathedral will emerge on the eastern facade when the sun rises, and will gradually disappear during the course of the day.
Site
Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in north-eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin department. Strasbourg's is the ninth largest metropolitan area in France.
Strasbourg is fused into the Franco-German culture and although violently disputed throughout history, has been a bridge of unity between France and Germany for centuries, especially through the University of Strasbourg, currently the largest in France, and the co-existence of Catholic and Protestant culture.
Concept
A series of unfolded (ogival) concrete arches were designed to create majestic volumes of light for the interior spaces.
Invisible Cathedral
The design of the front façade consists of a bas-relief of a digitized abstraction of a Gothic cathedral. As the sun rises in the east, it will cast shadows on the facade, and the bas-relief will become visible. It will gradually disappear during the course of the day.
The floor plan is an abstraction of Gothic Cathedral, and is composed of a Latin cross (or "cruciform") plan, with a long nave making the body of the church, a transverse arm called the transept and, beyond it, called the choir, chancel or presbytery.
Hidden Cross
The “Latin Cross” plan is submerged, or sunken below the ground plane. The interior below grade is entirely clad in limestone slabs, and has been reduced to the barest minimum of decoration. The pulpit was inspired by the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland, and is composed of a cluster of hexagonal shaped columns. A simple bronze cross rises from behind.
Design Team: John Beckmann, Masaru Ogasawara and Viviane Liao
Renderings and Diagram: Viviane Liao and Masaru Ogasawara
Total sq. ft.: 25,000
Materials: Structurally reinforced concrete, limestone, seamed structural glass, bronze, and oak.
Zaha Hadid Architects’ proposal for Cairo Expo City delivers an iconic architectural vision for a unique facility for Cairo, a city for Exhibitions and Conference between downtown Cairo and the airport. The project comprises a major international exhibition and conference centre with business hotel. This will create a rich ensemble of diverse functions which caters for multiple audiences and activates the site across different times and days of the week.
Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects
The urban strategy of the Cairo Expo pursues the idea of creating a homogeneous urban cluster mass that adapts to the site boundaries. Analysing the brief, we have understood the scale of the project in terms of the connectivity points and the program distribution. We have proposed a carving of the urban mass into smaller clusters that can work as individual buildings and have their own massing features, however relating to part of the overall design.
Images courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects
This concept is driven and inspired by the Nile delta that has pumped the life in to Egypt. On Cairo Expo City site the carving and sculpturing process starts from this artery, running through the site, connecting the north to south. Secondary streams formed by crowd movements toward the site converge to the centre. The designed movement of people within these streams also start to form and adjust the building entrances on the site. The horizontal expansion of the Exhibition Centre is balanced by introducing of a vertical element, the Hotel, at the northern part of the site, overlooking Salah Salem Street.
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The fluidity of the landscaped spaces feed the undulating vortex forms of the Cairo Expo City buildings. In particular, vortex lines and fields of the landscape merge into the patterned skin of the individual buildings, nature resonates throughout this site.
CAIRO EXPO CITY [CAIRO, EGYPT]
Design Development 2010
PROGRAM: Exhibition and Conference Centre.
CLIENT: GOIEF, Egypt
ARCHITECT: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Project Directors Viviana Muscettola, Michele Pasca di Magliano
Project Team Kutbuddin Nadiadi, Effi e Kuan, Loreto Flores, Hee Seung Lee, Alvin Triestanto, Pierre Forrisier, Philipp Ostermaier, Xia Chun, Victoria Goldestein, Shirley Hottier, Katrina Wong Natalie Popik, Gerry Cruz
Competition team Viviana Muscettola, Michele Pasca di Magliano, Charles Walker, Tariq Khayyat, Kutbuddin Nadiadi,Ludovico Lombardi, Effi e Kuan, Loreto Flores, Bianca Cheung,Dominiki Dadatsi, Feng Lin, Annarita Papeschi, Hee Seung Lee, Dawna Houchin, Monica Noguero, Rafael Contreras, Maria Araya, Fernando Poucell, David Campos, Seda Zirek.
STRUCTURE AND M&E ENG.: Buro Happold, London
CONSULTANTS: Quantity Surveyor Gardiner and Theobald, London
Specialist engineering Buro Happold, London
Theatre consultant Theater Projects Consultants
Lighting consultant Offi ce for Visual Interaction
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Singapore, 25 November 2010 – CapitaLand, Hotel Properties Limited and their partners today unveiled d’Leedon, an iconic residential development along Farrer Road on the site of the former Farrer Court. The landmark project will be the first condominium in Singapore to be designed by internationally-renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Zaha Hadid. d'Leedon is being developed by a CapitaLand-led consortium that includes Hotel Properties Limited, a fund managed by Morgan Stanley Real Estate and Wachovia Development Corporation (a unit of Wells Fargo & Company).
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A total of 1,715 units – comprising 1,703 apartments and 12 exclusive semi-detached houses – will be built on the expansive 840,049 sq ft site. The apartments are spread over seven residential towers, with each enjoying a cluster of facilities tailored to the lifestyles of the respective groups of residents. The residential towers occupy only 22% of the site, freeing up a vast landscaped area of over 650,000 sq ft dedicated to lush greenery and recreational facilities.
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Rising majestically above the surrounding good class bungalows and low-rise condominiums, the project’s seven 36-storey residential towers will offer unobstructed views of Singapore’s skyline as well as breathtaking views of large expanses of greenery such as Botanic Gardens and the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. d’Leedon is within walking distance to the Farrer Road MRT Station on the Circle Line, and close to highly-sought-after top schools like Nanyang Primary School, Raffles Girls' Primary School and Hwa Chong Institution, as well as popular lifestyle hubs such as Dempsey Hill, Holland Village and Orchard Road.
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The first preview sales to former owners of Farrer Court will be held this weekend, followed by the public launch. This first launch will be for 200 choice units located across all floors in two residential towers, with unit types ranging from one plus study- to four-bedroom units. The average price of the units is S$1,680 per square foot.
Mr Wong Heang Fine, CEO of CapitaLand Residential Singapore, said: “High-end projects, as well as projects with strong location attributes, continue to be attractive to Singaporeans as well as foreigners. The foreigners appreciate Singapore's dynamism and vibrancy. Given its prestigious District 10 location and striking Zaha Hadid design, we are confident that d’Leedon will be well-received by investors and discerning homebuyers who appreciate living in a beautifully-designed architectural icon. We are excited to play a part in shaping Singapore’s landscape with this striking landmark.”
Mr Christopher Lim, Group Executive Director of Hotel Properties Limited, said, “d’Leedon has been a closely-watched development, and that is not unusual if one considers its prestige, scale and location. We are pleased to create a new benchmark in Singapore’s residential development scene together with our partners and world-class architects.”
Ms Zaha Hadid, Founding Partner of Zaha Hadid Architects, said: “This project has presented an opportunity to continue exploring the architectural language of fluidity. For d'Leedon, our first residential project in Singapore, we have been inspired by the site's unique spatial qualities, allowing us to introduce innovative new design concepts.”
Ms Hadid added: “The design for the project was generated by detailed studies of the site’s location, topography and surroundings. The residences are organised into seven towers which emerge from d'Leedon’s garden landscape to cut a striking presence in the park. The lower floors taper inwards, providing a dramatic visual silhouette, while also maximising open areas for private gardens. The floor plan of each tower is arranged into a “flower” that is subdivided into “petals” according to the number of units per floor. These organic design principles are evident in all seven towers, generating a diversity between each building yet giving d'Leedon the natural elegance of coherence.”
d’Leedon features a cluster of 80 units specially-designed to be elderly-friendly. This is to encourage multi-generation families to live close to one another within the same development but not necessarily in the same unit. The elderly-friendly units, which are located from the 3rd to 10th levels in one residential tower, have incorporated features such as infrastructure for the installation of panic buttons in future and space provisions for grab bars. To enable residents to move around with ease, the units will also not have any steps leading to the bathrooms and wet areas, thereby maintaining the same floor level throughout the apartment. The elderly-friendly units will be made available to interested homebuyers during the initial phases of the public launch.
D’LEEDON [SINGAPORE]
2007 - TBC
PROGRAM: 7 high-end residential towers, 12 villas and landscape deck
CLIENT: CapitaLand and Hotel Properties, Singapore
ARCHITECT: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Project Architects Michele Pasca di Magliano, Viviana Muscettola
Project Manager Charles Walker
Project Team Ludovico Lombardi, Clara Martins, Loreto Flores, Stephan Bohne, Amita Kulkarni, Soomeen Hahm, Yung-Chieh Huang Kanop Mangklapruk, Marina Martinez, Andres Moroni, Juan Camilo Mogollon, Michael Rissbacher, Luca Ruggeri, Luis Miguel Samanez, Nupur Shah, Puja Shah, Muhammed Shameel, Shankara Subramaniam, Manya Uppal, Katrina Wong, Kutbuddin Nadiadi, Effie Kuan, Helen Lee, Hee Seung Lee, Annarita Pape schi, Feng Lin, Bianca Cheung, Dominiki Dadatsi, Kelly Lee, Jeonghoon Lee, Hoda Nobakhti, Judith Wahle, Zhong Tian, Akhil Laddha, Naomi Chen, Jee Seon Lim, Line Rahbek, Hala Sheikh, Sevil Yazici, Sandra Riess, Federico Rossi, Eleni Pavlidou, Federico Dunkelberg, Evan Erlebacher, Gorka Blas, Bozana Komljenovic, Sophie Le Bienvenu, Jose M. Monfa, Selahattin Tuysuz, Edward Calver, Yung-Chieh Huang
Concept Team Michele Pasca di Magliano, Vivivana Muscettola, Ta-Kang Hsu, Emily Chang, Helen Lee, Kelly Lee
CONSULTANTS: Local Architect RSP, Singapore
Structural Engineering AECOM, Singapore
M&E Engineering BECA, Singapore/ Max Fordham, London (Concept)
PROGRAM OF 100 SOCIAL APARTMENTS ANCIENT SITE OF HOSPITAL HEROLD, PARIS BY JAKOB + MACFARLANE
Concept
PROGRAM AND CONCEPT
The program is for a combination of different-sized apartments, the ground floor being designed for handicapped persons, and some shops at street level.
Site Plan
In this project we had to create three separate buildings on fragments of left-over land that had been created from a series of different factors, such as site views, Hausmannian setback rules, preservation of ancient trees, unbuildable land rules...
After understanding how difficult these requirements would be and how they would impact on the site, we decided to create these buildings more as resultant elements from the urban space.
Conceptually we proposed a huge urban matrix in three dimensions, with the imagined floors generating the increment, we then went through a careful cutting and coring of this matrix with the above series of forces acting as provocative devices until defining the finished project.
A series of filters on deep planted loggias, permit wind or sun protection.
In this project we followed as the environmental procedure Qualitel with the label Habitat and Environment, profile C, Cref-8.
The apartments are facing several orientations, with double orientation most of the time and similar in superposition in all of the levels.
The apartments are distributed by large exterior walkways which offer by extension, a new public space for each apartment.
The apartment type is adapted to a bioclimatic concept adapted to the different seasons. The rooms orientated to the north have small openings and a greater thermal isolation to the outside. Facing south the living rooms and bedrooms are glassed floor to ceiling giving to a generous balcony protected by the overhang of the balcony above by at least 2m.
In winter time, the balconies can be used as WINTER GARDENS, by an exterior transparent store made of ETFE. This system is conceived to entrap the free calories produced by the sun and thus warm the rest of the apartment space.
SOLAR THERMAL PANELS mounted on the roof, produce 65% of the hot water for the bathrooms.
The landscape space is conceived in three layers i.e : ground floor public garden, private balcony garden and facetted roof scape integrating solar panels.
The project is thus the result of urban and ecological rules taken as the conceptual starting point and alternative determinators in the creation of a new urban housing response.
The Taichung Gateway Park International Competition has been re-announced on 2011/4/1.
Calling all landscape design firms
From former airport to Gateway Park
In search of a master landscape design firm
To envision an eco-park that’ll inform Taichung’s new urban landscape!
Invitation
Taichung City Government has been actively pursing the planning work for Taichung Gateway City in response to globalization trends, anticipated growth of Taiwan-China trade, Central Taiwan development objectives as well as Taichung’s own vision to become a livable international metropolis. The goal is to create a visionary, innovative and international urban environment while at the same time establishing close links between Central Taiwan and the rest of the world.
Taichung Gateway City covers an approximately 254-hectare area that includes the former Taichung (Shuinan) Airport and its vicinities. According to Taichung’s municipal urban plan, at the center of Taichung Gateway City will be an expansive green space—Taichung Gateway Park—that meanders from the north to the south of the entire development area with approximately 68-hectare. Areas surrounding the park will be divided into four districts according to their features: Eco Residential District, Gateway District, Cultural Business District, and Innovation R&D District. In addition, Taichung Movie City, Taiwan Tower and Taichung City Cultural Center will all be integrated into Taichung Gateway Park. Therefore, the development of the park will become the most significant milestone for Taichung Gateway City.
Besides offering extensive and winding green open space, Taichung Gateway Park will be developed as an eco-park. Utilizing renewable energies and an intelligent park management system, Taichung Gateway Park will play a pivotal role toward a successful the overall development of Taichung Gateway City. To this end, an international competition is being held to solicit visionary and innovative planning and landscaping proposals from the best design firms home and abroad.
The Taichung City Government cordially invites outstanding local and international landscape design firms to propose your vision and participate in this competition!
For more information, please visit: www.TGPark.com.tw Total Construction Budget:
About NT＄2,720,000,000. (Approximately US$ 85,000,000. Subject to the approved budget by city council.)
Service Fee:
The service fee for this project is 10% of the total construction cost.
The ambition of the urban planning project for the old harbor zone, developed by VNF (Voies Naviguables de France) in partnership with Caisse des Dépôts and Sem Lyon Confluence, was to reinvest the docks of Lyon on the river side and its industrial patrimony, bringing together architecture and a cultural and commercial program.
These docks, initially made of warehouses (la Sucrière, les Douanes, les Salins, la Capitainerie), cranes, functional elements bound to the river and its flow, mutate into a territory of experimentation in order to create a new landscape that is articulated towards the river and the surrounding hills.
The project is designed as a simple orthogonal « cube » into which a giant hole is carved, responding to necessities of light, air movement and views. This hole creates a void, piercing the building horizontally from the river side inwards and upwards through the roof terrace.
The cube, next to the existing hall (the Salins building, made from three archs) highlights its autonomy. It is designed on a regular framework (29 x 33m) made of concrete pillars on 5 levels. A light façade, with seemingly random openings is completed by another façade, pierced with pixilated patterns that accompany the movement of the river. The orange color refers to lead paint, an industrial color often used for harbor zones.
In order to create the void, Jakob + MacFarlane worked with a series of volumetric perturbations, linked to the subtraction of three “conic” volumes disposed on three levels: the angle of the façade, the roof and the level of the entry. These perturbations generate spaces and relations between the building, its users, the site and the light supply, inside a common office program.
The first perturbation is based on direct visual relation with the arched structure of the hall, its proximity and its buttress form. It allows to connect the two architectural elements and to create new space on a double height, protected inside the building.
A second, obviously an elliptic one, breaks the structural regularity of the pole-girder structure on four levels at the level of the façade corner that gives on the river side. This perforation, result of the encounter of two curves, establishes a diagonal relation towards the angle. It generates a huge atrium in the depth of the volume, surrounded by a series of corridors connected to the office platforms. The plan of the façade is hence shifted towards the interior, constructing a new relation to light and view, from both interior and exterior. This creates an extremely dynamic relation with the building that changes geometry according to the position of the spectator.
The tertiary platforms benefit from light and views at different levels with balconies that are accessible from each level. Each platform enjoys a new sort of conviviality through the access on the balconies and its views, creating spaces for encounter and informal exchanges. The research for transparency and optimal light transmission on the platforms contributes to make the working spaces more elegant and light.
The last floor has a big terrace in the background from which one can admire the whole panoramic view on Lyon, la Fourvière and Lyon-Confluence.
The project is part of the approach for sustainable development and respects the following principles:
Optimization of the façade conception allowing to reconcile thermal performance and visual comfort with an Ubat < 0,7 W / m2 K and a daylight factor of 2% for almost the total number of offices, a thermo frigorific production through heat pumps on the water level and the replacement of new hygienic air with recuperation of high efficient calories of the extracted air.
The building is connected to future huge floating terraces connected to the banks of the river/ quays.
