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Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Designer: Grimshaw Architects
Location: Troy, NY
Image Credits: Chuck Choi & Kristen Richards
The new Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is located on the edge of the Rensselaer campus overlooking the city of Troy.
EMPAC is a platform for performance and research incorporating four distinct and specialized venues under one roof: an acoustically optimized 1,200 seat Concert Hall, a 400 seat Theater, and two black box studios created for flexible use by artists and researchers. Also provided are artist-in-residence studios, audiovisual production and post production suites, audience amenities, and student and support facilities.
→ www.arcspace.com
Posted: 01/04/2009
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Family home
Designer: Pedro Gadanho
Location: Oporto, Portugal
Image Credits: Fernando Guerra
Against the white walls of the house the geometric shapes in lacquered MDF seem to have a life of their own. The turquoise (or what Gadanho calls “petrol-green") kitchen units spill out into the dining room area. A blood-red staircase projects into the living room, luring you upstairs to the sleeping quarters and a roof top window. A plainer staircase in white ushers you downstairs to the childrens room.
→ yatzer.com
Posted: 01/04/2009
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Kiefer Technic Showroom
Designer: Giselbrecht + Partner ZT GmbH
Location: Graz, Austria
These façades change continuously; each day, each hour shows a new “face” - the façade is turning into a dynamic sculpture.
→ e-architect.co.uk
Posted: 01/03/2009
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Ann Demeulemeester Shop
Designer: Mass Studies
Location: Seoul, Korea
The site is located in an alley, at a block’s distance from Dosandae-ro – a busy thoroughfare in Seoul’s Gangnam district – in close proximity to Dosan Park. Primarily residential in the past, the neighborhood is undergoing a rapid transformation into an upscale commercial district full of shops and restaurants.
→ www.yatzer.com
Posted: 01/03/2009
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Biblioteca Parque Espana
Designer: Giancarlo Mazzanti
Location: Santo Domingo, Colombia
Image Credits: Sergio Gomez
By exploiting the landscape Giancarlo Mazzanti ensures the visibility of his building, in a far more sustainable way. In Rome the axes had to be cut through the existing fabric, as Haussmann also did in Paris. For this library the landscape already ‘naturally’ provides that structure.
Instead of a road axis, a cable car connects the valley with the library. How brilliant is that! The cable cars silently float over the city, needing only some masts to keep it all up. It’s a very clean way of transport too, I think. The major and only disadvantage of such cable car system is that it mostly only connects two points…
→ www.eikongraphia.com
Posted: 01/03/2009
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