The most anticipated projects of 2019 from five continents

Anticipated projects of 2019: As we bid farewell to the turbulent 2018, we at Arch2O are focusing on the projects which will open this year. Among them are candidates from across the continents. It’s not too easy to narrow the list down to five, with finalists such as Taipei Performing Arts Center by OMA, Ruby City for Linda Pace Foundation by Adjaye Associates, and National Museum of Qatar by Jean Nouvel. Let’s read on to find out more!

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Anticipated projects of 2019 from across the continents:

1. Asia: M+ museum in Hong Kong

All eyes are on M+ as it plans to open doors this year. M+ is a museum of “visual culture” based in the West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong, an up-and-coming area for artists and art-goers to congregate in the Asian capital. According to the museum’s mission, it plans to “focus on 21th and 21st-century visual culture, broadly defined, from a Hong Kong perspective and with a global vision.” Its design is done by Herzog & de Meuron in partnership with Farrells, which is a winning design among some big-name finalists such as SANAA, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Shigeru Ban, Snohetta, and Toyo Ito. Its design is conceived of as an inverted T shape. Its typology combines podium and tower into introducing many art-related programs to the compact site.

Courtesy Of Herzog & de Meuron

 

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2. Middle East:Al-Wakrah Stadium

Construction of the 40,000-seater venue in the port of Al-Wakrah, dubbed the ‘vagina stadium’ (pictured), is due to be finished in 2019, three years ahead of the start of the tournament. It will be one the last designs by Zaha Hadid, who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2016, aged 65. When the Al-Wakrah stadium’s designs were first released in 2013 they were said to have been inspired by the flowing shape of a dhow boat, a traditional Arabian pearl diving and fishing vessel.

The stadium have a retractable roof that will be able to close in approximately 30 minutes. a light sleeve, made of steel wires brought together at an oculus, will also provide shade to the entire pitch and contribute to the efficiency of the cooling system before the match. resembling curved hockey sticks, a series of 540-tonne pillars are the main support for the arena’s retractable roof. the roof steel elements for the columns originated in China and were fabricated in Italy and later shipped to Qatar.

Courtesy of Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy

Courtesy of Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy

3. Europe: Under in Norway

Snohetta-designed Under made headlines the past years for its ambitious concept. Boasted as Europe’s first underwater restaurant, while doubling as “a research center for marine life,” its design fully embraces the forces of nature, as it rests in the Norwegian coastline in Båly. The concrete structure will be one meter thick, as it is intended to “withstand pressure and shock” from the undercurrents of the sea, according to Snohetta’s website. Through large windows, patrons would be able to feast on the wonders of the seabed with their eyes.

Under (Courtesy the architects)

Courtesy of MIR and Snøhetta

Photography: Aldo Amoretti

Photography: Aldo Amoretti

Courtesy of MIR and Snøhetta

Photography: Aldo Amoretti

Photography: Aldo Amoretti

Photography: Aldo Amoretti

Photography: Aldo Amoretti

 

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4. Americas: The Shed in New York City

Scheduled to open this spring but still under construction, The Shed is New York’s keenly anticipated new year-round, all-purpose cultural emporium for music, dance, theater, and visual arts. The building will be New York’s first arts center dedicated to commissioning, producing, and presenting all types of performing arts, visual arts, and popular culture. The Shed’s Bloomberg Building— an innovative 200,000-square-foot structure designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lead Architect and Rockwell Group, Collaborating Architect—is designed to physically transform to support artists’ most ambitious ideas. The Shed’s opening date is nearing, and the pressure to complete the building and develop the season’s initial productions is building up.

Photography: Ed Lederman

The Shed (Courtesy the architects)

5. Africa: Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza

Dublin- and Berlin-based practice Heneghan Peng architects are tasked to complete the Grand Egyptian Museum by this year. Dubbed also Gize Museum, it is set to become the largest archaeological museum in the world, sporting a 120-acre plot. The design won over counterparts such as Coop Himmelblau, Hector Vigliecca, and others. According to Wikipedia, the building will be shaped like “a chamfered triangle in a plan.” It will line up with the neighboring Great Pyramid of Khufu, and the Pyramid of Menkaure. Other cool features include a “translucent stone wall,” fabricated by alabaster, and will span the front of the building.

The GEM (Courtesy the architects)

Courtesy Of Heneghan Peng Architects

6. Oceania: ‘landscape tower’ in Sydney

Koichi Takada architects designed ‘infinity,’ a 40,000 square meter mixed-use building between Bourke Street and Botany Road in the Australian city. It contains programs such as apartments, hotels, commercial shops, and meeting areas. According to the architect, the sculptural shape of infinity is intended to “democratize tall buildings.” It seeks to “bring the experience down to a more human scale.” As it tops out this year, it will inevitably add to the already sparkling skyline of Sydney.

Infinity (Courtesy the architects)

Courtesy Of Koichi Takada Architects

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Eco-house: 8 Beautiful Dwellings that Are Cheap and Efficient

An eco-house is a house that consumes much less energy than ordinary homes. Many people might think it is hard to build a nice house that is yet eco-friendly. They can’t be more wrong!!
Since the quantity of resources on our planet is restricted, deposing them unwisely would end catastrophically. Cooling and heating our houses consume a LOT of energy. Trying to decrease the energy consumption would be the ultimate choice if we mean for the well-being of the next generations. Also, you can check this collection of outstanding sustainable houses from all over the world.

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An eco-house is efficient because it employs prefabrication mechanisms and methods which reduce waste as well as energy consumption. There are several ways to build a more efficient residence with little money like using bigger overhangs, for example, to keep away unwanted sun rays. Also, people can construct their houses at the best possible orientation and optimally place the windows to get much cooler and well-lit interiors. There is, additionally, the economic advantage since an eco-house helps residents save up on electricity bills.
A few people are aware of all of the advantages of an eco-friendly house and even fewer people request architects to build efficient homes for them. This is why architects nowadays tend to build eco-houses for their own use and as a way to encourage people to follow suit, raising awareness for the cause.

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Eco-House: Here is a Selection Across The Globe:

1) Bamboo homes (designed by Elora Hardy, Bali, Indonesia)

The outstanding bamboo houses are curvaceous and hold many amazing features. The building material, bamboo, is special as you can never find two identical bamboo poles. This is how every house has the unique shape that distinguishes it from the others. In addition to being an eco-friendly material, bamboo offers very good aeration, let alone its aesthetic features. Hardy speaks of her houses and says, “We have had to invent our own rules.”

Courtesy of Elora Hardy

2) Pop-up house (designed by Multipod Architects, South of France)

It took an unbelievably short time to build the house. The construction workers erected it in just four days it, using only a screwdriver. The construction process resembled stacking LEGO blocks, as the French designer firm claims. The pop-up house is a prefab residence that will cost US$41,000 (€30,000) when available on the market. The house doesn’t need any heating systems because of its optimum insulation and taut thermal shell.

Courtesy of Multipod Architects

3) Blooming Bamboo (designed by H&P Architects, Vietnam)

The architectural firm aims to sell the house on the Vietnamese market for the unprivileged people. The house is resistant to floods that reach a depth of 1.5 meters (5 feet), and the firm intends to push the limit to 3 meters (10 feet). The Blooming Bamboo is made mainly of bamboo, in addition to other native materials like coconut leaves and fiberboard. The house has a total area of 44 square meters (473 square feet), and it is expected to cost $2,500.

Courtesy of H&P Architects

4) Illawarra Flame (Team from University of Wollongong, Australia)

A team of students from UOW converted the ordinary ‘fibro house’, that is well-known in Australia, into an efficient home. They incorporated sustainable technology into the ‘fibro house’ to make it a zero-energy home. The modifications resulted in transforming the bedroom into a living area and incorporating prefab pods to comprise the restrooms and the laundry room.

Courtesy of University Team of Wollongong

5) P.A.T.H. (designed by Philippe Starck, France)

The famous French designer, Philippe Starck worked, hand in hand, with prefab firm Riko from Slovenia to produce P.A.T.H. (Prefabricated Accessible Technological Homes). The top-notch house can come in a variety of sizes and forms. It can be made completely out of glass, or through blending wood and glass. It can also be entirely made of wood. Sustainable features include a roof wind-turbine, a rainwater collection and purification system, and roof solar panels.

Courtesy of Philippe Starck

6) Eco ranch (designed by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, California, USA)

The eco-house stands on a plateau that has an area of 8,000 square feet, and it is composed of three individual sections. The owner asked the designers to make the living areas into definite spaces to give a sense of warmth and coziness. Also, the rest of the house has rooms with smaller areas to decrease the consumption of energy. The house is entirely made of wood.

Courtesy of Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects

7) Eco-sustainable house (designed by Djuric Tardio Architectes, Paris, France)

The roof looks as if it is yet to be finished. Its role is to incorporate the house into the environment without interrupting the urban topography. Instead of closing the roof, the designers decided to transform it into a green terrace. The landscape architect suggested planting fruit trees, like squashes and kiwis, in addition to several other types of plants. The house is built of wooden plates that were prefabricated in a yard and then transported to the construction site. The wood was supplied by sustainably-based companies of private forest landlords, and it took the workers two weeks to assemble the house.

Courtesy of Djuric Tardio Architectes

The dwelling has big double-layered windows to let in as much winter sun as possible. Furthermore, the windows have overhangs that permit the management of solar gain. Together, the big windows and the overhangs moderate the need for AC in the summer and heating in winter.

8) Soleta Zero Energy One (Designed by Justin Capra Foundation for Invention and Sustainable Technologies (FITS), Romania)

The designers wished to construct an efficient residence that comes at a reasonable price as opposed to many other ‘green homes’. So, they created this fashionable dwelling from native natural materials, including wood. The dwelling is a small one, but it saves on power—up to 45%, through various technological features, and it can be constructed anywhere. Also, insulated glass is incorporated into the house to let in natural light.

Courtesy of Justin Capra FITS

 

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New York City: 8 Architects to Follow in 2019

2019 will be a big year for New York City‘s architectural industry. Here, I have organized a list of promising architects who are based in New York City or have designed buildings in it. The list includes both established and emerging architects, who have attracted a lot of attention from the press in the past year. What are they up to in the coming year? Read on to find out.

Telfair Studio (Courtesy PRO)

1) Peterson Rich Office

According to their website, P.R.O. is “an interdisciplinary design studio founded in 2011 by Miriam Peterson and Nathan Rich, specializing in cultural and residential projects as well as urban design proposals.” They are recent winners of the 2018 New Practices New York Competition, along with Agency-Agency, MABU + Matt Burgermaster, N H D M / Nayhun Hwang + David Eugin Moon, and Only If. They designed the Telfair Studio, which is an artist’s studio for Tula Telfair. They also took part in the ‘Mental Health by Design (MHxD)’ initiative to “promote mental health in NYC public schools through thoughtful design.” With mostly small-scale projects, the duo sets the stage for interesting future designs.

RRRolling Stones (Courtesy HANNAH)

2) HANNAH Architecture & Design

The practice, co-founded by Alexander Chmarin, Alexander Graf, Leslie Lok, and Sasa Zivkovic, rises into the New York scene with its RRRolling Stones project—3D printed concrete follies installed in Socrates Sculpture Park. According to their website, “the stones are both smooth and jagged(re)d, each turn reveals new curvature and seating profiles that adapt to different body types and sizes.” The seats were printed at the Cornell Robotic Construction Laboratory, as part of the Folly/Function Competition organized by the Architectural League of New York. The architects have previously experimented with 3D printing and other innovative fabrication and manufacturing techniques in places such as New York, Stuttgart, and Shanghai.

Hao Noodle (Courtesy New Practice Studio)

3) New Practice Studio

The studio, founded by Nianlai Zhong, with partners Sidong Lai and Tai-Li Lee, is “an interdisciplinary collaboration between architects, interior designers, graphic designers, and brand strategists based in New York and Shanghai.” With their origins from China, the architects are invited to design multiple interior projects related to the Chinese community in New York, including Tang Hotpot of Manhattan, Hunan Slurp (winner of the Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards), and Hao Noodle Shop in West Village. Their attention to detail is exceptional and has resulted in the creation of many warm and cozy spaces for dining in Manhattan’s hidden corners.

Marquise (Courtesy NAARO/ Texas Architect)

4) The Very Many

Marc Fornes founded The Very Many in a studio in Brooklyn and has caught the media’s attention with his design computing and advanced digital fabrication skills which he employs to craft spatial experiences. According to his own words, “the studio has designed and built a number of thin-shell pavilions and installations that push the limits of form, structure, and space.” Fornes’ projects, which are combined works of art and architecture, have become synonymous with avant-garde experiences for visitors from various walks of life. His recent project, Marquise is a spatial entry structure for El Paso’s Westside Natatorium. It has garnered both attention and awards.

MET expansion (Courtesy wHY)

5) wHY Architecture

We recently conducted a fascinating interview with wHY founder Kulapat Yantrasast. Originally from Thailand, the architect had worked on many art museums over the years. His practice has just announced a collaboration with the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art to renovate the Modern and Rockefeller Wings. The project is slated to begin in 2020 and to be completed in 2023. Kulapat has actually been known for working closely with artists to create ideal spaces for art. His studio has recently worked on the Edinburgh Scotland landscape competition, Pomona College, and EPA Center of Art. Read more about these amazing projects in our interview with him!

Pier 55 (Courtesy Heatherwick Studio)

6) Thomas Heatherwick

British starchitect Thomas Heatherwick is a man that needs no introduction. His studio has many exciting, upcoming projects set to open in 2019, including Vessel— a massive sculpture made of climbable pathways. The sculpture will become a public landmark in the new development zone ‘Hudson Yards’, due to open next spring. He is also responsible for the design of Pier 55, the Meatpacking District park project, destined to become a futuristic green space. The design features a series of mushroom columns floating along the coastline of Hudson River, with greenery growing on top of them. The project is still under construction, yet people are already pumped about it.

The Frick Collection reception space (Courtesy Annabelle Selldorf Architects)

7) Annabelle Selldorf

German-born architect, Annabelle Selldorf is the founding principal of the New York-based Selldorf Architects. This year, she is leading the renovation of the Frick Collection, introducing a lobby, a revamped reception area, a museum shop, and a brand new education center to the Upper East Side art museum. She is also the mastermind behind 21E12, a 23-story residential tower in Greenwich Village, which has proved to be very popular on the real estate market with the hyped sales earlier this spring. The female architect, known for clean lines and simplistic yet sophisticated designs, will surely continue to amaze in the coming year.

The Shed (Courtesy DS+R)

8) Diller, Scofidio + Renfro

The “most anticipated” goes to the fabulous DS+R, who are again making waves in the city. Their project, “The Shed” at the Hudson Yards Development on the west side of the island, features an interesting retractable shell. It will open next year amidst the public’s excitement. The New York-based studio is also currently working on 15 Hudson Yards—a residential skyscraper, and the MoMA expansion. There’s, indeed, so much to look forward to in the coming year!

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McDowell + Benedetti’s Terni’s Railway Station & Footbridge Underway

McDowell + Benedetti’s Terni’s Railway Station & Footbridge Underway

“An elegant object and engaging public realm design, giving strong form to Terni’s ambitious expansion plans. The clever strategy to reposition a part is an inspired idea for a second valuable link that continues the area’s urban improvement.”

This was how Prof. Paulo Desideri, the Competition Judging Panel Chairman , described the winning proposal for Terni’s railway station and landmark footbridge.

Courtesy of McDowell+Benedetti

London based  McDowell + Benedetti have recently announced that their winning proposal is currently underway on site. With a budget of £3.5 million, this 180 m long footbridge and the railway station with their landmark tripod tower are going to act as Terni’s commuter hub to Rome.

The most prominent feature of this project is its inverted tripod tower, which is going to act as a landmark to be seen from three different points, the historic city center, the ring road, and the Umbrian Mountains nearby.

The tripod tower is 60 m long and supports two rings that cable the 180 m long footbridge that connects the station’s improvements together.

A new triple-height clerestory atrium space is sensitively integrated with the train station concourse improvements for 24 hour public realm access.

Courtesy of McDowell+Benedetti

Courtesy of McDowell+Benedetti

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CORTEZZA | TERRANUM

Designed by TERRANUM, Cortezza building is located in the north part of Bogotá city, in the sector of Parque de la 93. The area is characterized by the multiplicity of uses and the strong presence of office buildings and a wide variety of trade of various scales. In addition to trade, in the sector, you can also find a high presence of hotels of various categories.
The project is resolved in an exercise of composition in a corner lot within a consolidated block that seeks to establish a direct relationship with existing buildings and, in addition, in a building that opens to the city on the corner with the presence in both fronts of retail uses in the lower floors.

Photography: Llano Fotografía

The building is composed of three (3) basements, and seven (7) stories plus the deck level. the reception is located on the first floor and this space is characterized by a double height space in which the choice of natural materials for the coatings of the surfaces of ceilings, floors, and walls. The wood of the ceiling in pine represents the name of the brand of the building; Cortezza was born as an inspiration in the bark of the trees that evoke the earth.

Photography: Llano Fotografía

The wood is contrasted with natural stones such as the slate installed in the double height wall of the reception and the marble of all the floors of the common areas of the building. When looking for a natural language with the choice of materials, we also sought to make a simple installation in terms of lighting. The building has a double façade as a mitigation measure to the warming that may happen in the afternoon hours.

Photography: Llano Fotografía

Project Info:
Architects: TERRANUM
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Architects in Charge: VP DESARROLLO – TERRANUM
Area: 18000.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Llano Fotografía
Manufacturers: Porcelanosa, Apice
Project Name: CORTEZZA

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Temporary Pavilion at Picnic | project eleven

Temporary Pavilion at Picnic designed by project eleven, This pavilion is a part of a project “Open-Air Flat” organized by PIK Group – a leading real estate developer in Russia– for Picnic “Afisha” music festival. Pop-up structures that symbolized the rooms of an abstract flat were situated in different areas of Kolomenskoye park, where the festival has been taking place since 2007.
The object is a reinterpretation of a living room which is a common space for communication and activity in any flat. Not by chance, it was situated in one of the most crowded areas of the festival just between the food court and main music stage. This specific location implied the pavilion to be an art object as well as having a clear practical purpose.

Photography: Ilia Ivanov

With its semi-transparent walls constructed out of rainbow-colored plastic tubes, the pavilion truly stood out from the surroundings. Inside this building is divided into various compartments. Each of them has a separate and individual structure forming together an accurate rectangular-shaped form filled in with an irregular grid of white metal framework and plastic tubes. Deliberately uneven sections create a dynamic and expressive composition that brings a slight ripple into this seemingly austere shape. Situated on a bright green lawn, the multi-colored living room pavilion can be compared with a glitch effect that had suddenly appeared in a CGI landscape.

Photography: Ilia Ivanov

Apart from its remarkable design, the pavilion was also meant to be a functional chill out area. Comfortable armchairs and loungers for festival goers had been installed in every section. These pieces of furniture were merged together with coffee tables and lamps into light-weight constructions. Pavilion’s lucidity allowed the visitors to see what was going on in the festival’s other areas and even watching the show on the main stage without leaving the space.
Despite being a living room, the building is more of a one-story mansion that calls to mind such 20th-century classics as Villa Savoye and Farnsworth House. Its furniture is also inspired by the iconic designs of Marcel Breuer and Le Corbusier. Though highly influenced by modernist architecture, the pavilion offers its very own outlook on the international style private mansions.

Photography: Ilia Ivanov

The extreme transparency of this pavilion is different from that in Philip Johnson’s Glass House or the already mentioned Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House. Its emptiness is an emptiness of a clear prism that is waiting for a ray of light to turn into a rainbow. This ambivalent impression is amplified by an irregular framework grid that symbolizes the result of the building’s total deconstruction as well as a layout of a building that hasn’t been constructed yet. A flickering and always evolving structure relates to the works of 1960s conceptual architecture groups such as Archigram and Superstudio – they both were using a grid in their utopian projects considering it an ultimate never-ending game board for their experiments. A few decades later the grid was immortalized in science-fiction cliché of “cyberspace”. Using its deconstructed version in this contemporary yet retro-futuristic pavilion is a smart and elegant solution.

Photography: Ilia Ivanov

Project Info:
Architects: project eleven
Location: Moscow, Russia
Lead Architects: Igor Chirkin, Pavel Prishin
Area: 400.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Ilia Ivanov
Project Name: Temporary Pavilion at Picnic

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