Eight Modern homes will be open to tour-goers for Modapalooza NC, a program organized by USModernist®, America’s largest open resource for Modernist architecture.
Title
Modapalooza Raleigh/Durham
Category
Architecture & Design
Eligibility
Open to public
Register
https://www.ncmodernist.org/palooza.htm
Date
September 14, 2024, 8 am to 5 pm
Venue
Raleigh, Durham, and Hillsborough
Guiding the architectural marvel of the new Residences at Mandarin Oriental, Miami is the celebrated Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Their reputation precedes them, known for their innovative designs and engineering mastery that has graced iconic skyscrapers worldwide.
Written by
Liliana Alvarez
Dubai’s Iranian Hospital, has adopted a new dedicated kitchen mobile application from Dubai-based pioneering and technology-driven home maintenance specialist Hitches & Glitches (H&G), part of the Farnek Group, which is specifically designed to improve the uptime and lifespan of its 36 kitchen appliances.
Photography
Hitches & Glitches (H&G)
The clients for the project—golf aficionados with a passion for collecting art—had found a site for their dream home on a gently sloping lot studded with old- growth oak trees and surrounded by views of rocky coastline and the nearby Santa Lucia Mountain range.
Project name
Pebble Beach House
Architecture firm
Richard Beard Architects
Location
Pebble Beach, California, USA
Design team
Richard Beard, Jake Taylor
Interior design
Jean Larette Interior Design
Structural engineer
Daedalus Structural Engineers
Construction
Stocker & Allaire General Contractors, Inc.
Typology
Residential › House
The 2024 Anaya Theatre Festival is currently underway in Qinhuangdao, North China's Hebei Province. This annual global event will feature 29 plays from 17 countries, transcending artistic boundaries with a diverse array of contemporary, open, and inclusive performances. Hundreds of artists from literature, music, dance, architecture, and other fiel...
Project name
The City of Time
Architecture firm
MAD Architects
Photography
Aranya Theater Festival Shooting Team, Migratory Birds 300, DONG Image
Principal architect
Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano
Design team
Miao Si, Huang Juntao, Zhang Zhonglin
Collaborators
Aranya Theater Festival, Migratory Birds 300. Aranya Theater Festival Shooting Team: Zaiye Studio (Wang Zhen, Wang Yong, Hou Xuefei, Zhao Weiyi, Hu Yiqian), Zhu Shi, Wang Zhe, Liu Jianhui, Yu Yang, Zhao Nan
Typology
Public Art Project
Alsar Atelier: Like most urban environments, Cambridge is subject to the inevitable effects of climate change and seemingly growing socioeconomic inequities within urban planning of the public realm. These phenomena often affect communities living in neighborhoods that were not originally planned for high population density and lack shaded infrastr...
Project name
Growing Shade
Architecture firm
Alsar Atelier, Northeastern University School of Architecture
Photography
Randy Crandon, Rolando Girodengo, Django Keyes
Typology
Public Architecture/ Community Room
TEC Taller EC: The first thing that inevitably keeps our memory in the pavilion, it is the void, that space without matter that occupies everything.
El deportivo is located in Cumbayá, one of the Andean valleys that surround the city of Quito, an area of current urban and commercial development in the capital. It is built at 2400 meters above...
Project name
Deportivo Pavilion
Architecture firm
TEC Taller EC
Location
Cumbayá, Ecuador
Photography
Paolo Caicedo
Principal architect
Pablo Castro Guijarro - Roberto Morales Guijarro
Design team
Juan Ruiz, Cynthia Quintero, Paolo Caicedo, Daniela Veintimilla, Maria Emilia Arellano, Daniela Ramos, Nicolás Guijarro
Collaborators
Carlos Valarezo (Ilustration), Esteban Calderón Taipe
Structural engineer
Pedro Ospina
Construction
TEC Taller EC + Las Manos Sucias + Indumadera + Ospining
Typology
Cultural › Pavilion
Based on urban, architectural, landscape, and social connections, we decode the territory. The resulting design makes the park accessible and preserves its original landscape values. The concept is spatially dominated by the void in the center of the park with its cultural and social potential and a defined ring of mature trees, which we complement...
Project name
The Moravian Square Park Revitalisation
Architecture firm
Consequence forma architects
Location
Moravian Square, Brno, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Martin Sládek, Janica Šipulová
Collaborators
Landscape-vegetation solutions: Klára Zahradníčkova. Children's elements, collaboration on the ellipse: Richard Loskot. ㅤ Project coordinator: Nina Vlček Ličková [Consequence forma architects.] Engineering: Barbora Bělunková [Consequence forma architects]. Landscape architecture, architecture: Jan Schleider, Petra Buganská [Consequence forma architects]. Partial cooperation: Prokop Matěj, Zuzana Včeláková, Katka Hlavičková [Consequence forma architects]. ㅤ Landscape supervision: Karin Standler. Architectural supervision: Franz Sumnitsch. Rainwater management: Jiří Vítek. Arborist: David Hora. Perennials and bulbs: Ondřej Fous and Michaela Sinkulova. Grass communities: Marie Straková. Budget: Rudolf Hlaváč, Hana Pollertová. Standard furnishing design: mmcité. Statics of the café roof: Radek Bartoněk. Traffic and technical consultation: Petr Bijok. Construction technical consultation: Babka & Šuchma. Gravel technical consultation: Karel Zlatuška
Area
Built-up area 334 m² pavilion [café with terrace] 41 m² engine room of the fountain with water tank [underground] 304 m² discovered salvaged cellar of the German House [underground]; Site area total area of the park including the perimeter walkway 22 365 m² vegetation and paved areas 19 887 m²
Material
Park designer play elements – galvanized steel construction with polyurethane coating standard furniture – jatoba wood with oil, steel, concrete biological edge – a community of trees, shrubs and plants (perennials, bulbs) forming a biotope shady grass-herb meadow picnic lawn central area – light-coloured granite cut paving designer fountain – forming a water mirror with a diameter of 30 m wooden designer bench – urban arena, jatoba wood, metal structure fog and classic nozzles, fountain troughs – stainless steel designer grilles – stainless steel designer corten surrounds and gutter grilles light-coloured granite cut paving with stone kerbs – backbone roads light-coloured paving - around the café and at the widened entrances to the park stone carpet – circular route combed concrete – radial link road grassed light granite paving – minor junctions, and space around the café Café corten facade cladding - weather-resistant steel steel structure – café roof with terrace polished stainless steel column – art object and café roof support structural aluminium glazing ceramic blocks filled with mineral insulation – café perimeter masonry polished concrete – café floor stone wall cladding – sanitary facilities ceramic tiles and tiles – café and sanitary facilities plasterboard ceilings – café and sanitary facilities 3 mineral insulation – café roof graphite EPS – floor insulation phenolic foam insulation – reinforced concrete structures steel - café interior fibreglass – roofing of the café and terrace solid wooden planks – terrace wooden ceiling – KVH prisms
Client
Office of the Municipal District of Brno-střed
Tofino Beach Lodge is located on the rugged West Coast of Vancouver Island within the UNESCO Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve and on the traditional territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation.
Project name
Tofino Beach Resort
Architecture firm
Eerkes Architects, dHK Architects
Location
Tofino, British Columbia, Canada
Principal architect
Les Eerkes
Design team
Jonathan Thwaites
Built area
Lodge Floor Area: 15,800 ft². Hotel Floor Area: 39,500 ft². Spa: 360 ft². Staff and Maintenance: 11,800 ft²
Collaborators
Murdoch de Greef, Westmark
Visualization
Notion Workshop
Typology
Hospitality › Resort
In this contemporary and welcoming apartment, located in Mexico City, we carried out a timeless exercise of interior design, where natural materials speak for themselves and coexist to create an urban atmosphere where good living stands out.
Project name
PH San Ángel
Architecture firm
Faci Leboreiro
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Principal architect
Faci Leboreiro
Design team
Faci Leboreiro
Collaborators
Faci Leboreiro
Interior design
Faci Leboreiro
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
-Engineered wood floor and large format porcelain. -Palladio wall finish, large format porcelain, wood paneling and mirror wall. -Engineered wood ceiling and PVC marimba
Construction
Faci Leboreiro
Supervision
Faci Leboreiro
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp
Typology
Residential › Apartment
