04/03/2013

Basket apartments by OFIS arhitekti [VIDEO]

[VIDEO] OFIS arhitekti / architects. [PAR] France.
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Back in November 2008, we reported on Slovenian firm OFIS Arhitekti taking the first prize in the invited competition for a student apartment building in Paris' 19th district. Now, we publish the video about Basket Apartments in Paris.

Urban plan conditions
The project is located on a long and very narrow site, on the edge of Parc La Vilette in Paris’s 19th district, within an urban development done by Reichen & Robert architects. On the northeast, new Paris tram route is passing along the site. The site is bordering with tram garage on the southwest, above which is a football field. The first 3 floors of the housing will...

28/02/2013

EXPO 1: NEW YORK Rockaway Call for Ideas.

[VIDEO] from MoMA PS1 [NYC] USA. Deadline 15 March, 2013
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In an effort to foster the creative debate on urban recovery after Hurricane Sandy, MoMA PS1 and MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design are calling out for ideas to create a sustainable waterfront.

Artists, architects, designers, and others are welcome to present ideas for alternative housing models, creation of social spaces, urban interventions, new uses of public space, the rebuilding of the boardwalk, protection of the shoreline, and actions to engage local communities.

Twenty-five selected proposals will be presented publicly in the press and social media and...

28/02/2013

Lascaux IV, Cave Painting Centre.By Snøhetta - Duncan Lewis with Casson Mann.

Competition. [Montignac] France
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO vía Casson Mann
More images about this competition. Norwegian architects Snohetta, Duncan Lewis and exhibition designers Casson Mann have won "Lascaux IV, International Cave Painting Center competition", a visitor complex at the Paleolithic cave paintings in Lascaux, France. Their solution got the Norwergian practice an award in the competition for the design, in a unique way it displays the artwork created by prehistoric artists on the walls of the natural stone vaults.

The team won against several of Europe's leading architects including Mateo Arquitectura, Auer+Weber and Jean Nouvel. A subterranean complex of tunnels and chambers will surround the historic paintings, estimated to be 17,300 years old, creating a low-rise building that folds up from the landscape.

Speaking about Casson Mann’s winning design, Jury member Bernard Cazeau, Président du Conseil Général de la Dordogne, said...

27/02/2013

ANIMA. The first project by Bernard Tschumi in Italy.

[Grottammare] Italy
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO vía Media Agency
Architecture, Design, Projects
Last week in Grottammare, Italy, the schematic design for ANIMA was unveiled, the first work in Italy by renowned firm Bernard Tschumi Architects, commissioned by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ascoli Piceno and the Municipality of Grottammare.

From what little is known about new proposal by Bernard Tschumi, basically, it offers some doubts on the outer skin and more interest in the program's internal organization.

ANIMA is a cultural center that will be built in Grottammare, city in the province of Ascoli Piceno, intended to generate stronger ties between the people and the territory. Architecture intends to associate its image to the most...

25/02/2013

The Competition. Trailer

[VIDEO] from Office for Strategic Spaces [NYC-Harvard] USA 04-08/03/2013
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Ángel Borrego and his team report their about latest work, a very interesting and recommended documentary film about a contest, in Andorra, whose participants are five members of the "star system architectural." OSS (Office for Strategic Spaces) shares with METALOCUS readers some exclusive images. There will be a premier, unfinished, in the U.S., and we look forward to the final montage and the premiere in Spain, which is expected later this year. Congratulations!

"The Competition" / doc movie on a competition of architecture. Madrid-based architect Angel Borrego Cubero, of OSS, has directed and produced the first documentary focused on the tense process that often characterizes an architectural competition. Appropriately titled The Competition, the film captures a fascinating account on how five world-famous architects – Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Dominique Perrault, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster– toil...

23/02/2013

10th anniversary of PechaKucha!!

PechaKucha
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
On the 20th of February, 2013 it was exactly 10 years to the day that it held the first PechaKucha Night. The rest is history.

10 years ago, in February of 2003, the very first PechaKucha Night was held. After coming to the realization that architects tend to talk way too much, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham architecture  devised a lecture format that ended up revolutionizing the way we present. During 10 years, PechaKucha 20×20 has inspired creatives from 600 cities (Madrid also, Paloma Hernaiz y Jaime...

20/02/2013

REM 2013 by Tomas Koolhaas.

A documentary by Tomas Koolhaas [-5-VIDEOS]
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
METALOCUS, one year ago, put the lens on this work and then everyone followed us (see website Tomas Koolhaas). REM is a film conceived almost 10 years ago and is scheduled for completion this year. Today we share the five short videos that director Tomas Koolhaas has launched so far, whose edition is scheduled to end this year. So enjoy.Good job, Tomas!

Architecture is often viewed from the outside, as an inanimate object represented in still imagery. 'REM' exposes the human experience of architecture. The resulting documentary is more revealing than the generic poster image, and more evocative than the intellectual reality of architectural renderings. The audience (through the camera) gains a rare insight into the reality of the hidden internal life of the buildings. 'REM' brings the human back into...

20/02/2013

Region 0. Open call.

Región 0 [NYC] USA.
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center of New York University is pleased to announce the open call to participate in the second edition of Region 0 - The Latino Video Art Festival of New York, to be held on May 16-18, 2013 in New York City, United States.

In the audiovisual media, Region 0 is an informal term for “worldwide.” Region 0 - The Latino Video Art Festival of New York (“the Festival”) embraces the idea of audiovisual works transcending international barriers. The first edition of Region 0 took place in March 2011 and during 2012 travelled to Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Spain and other locations in the United States.

...

18/02/2013

Culture of smoking: From Taboo to Taboo by Brigada

Concept exhibition design by Brigada. [VIDEO] by RedStudio. Glypthoteque HAZU. [Zagreb] Croatia
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
Glypthoteque HAZU, an art institution in Zagreb, Croatia, wanted to explore the link between smoking, art, and the concept of taboo – a hazy relationship made even more complex by Croatia’s strict laws on the promotion of tobacco. The resulting exhibition, "The Culture of Smoking: From Taboo to Taboo", ­focuses on the role smoking has played in artistic and popular culture by bringing together paintings, posters, photographs, films and ephemera created over the last 150 years.

Taking inspiration from the phenomenon of smoke, the main goal of the agency Brigada was to recreate its very essence in the gallery space itself by completely altering a well-known exhibition space. Playing with the idea of taboo, their intention was to design an anti-exhibition – a display that hides the exhibits even from the museum itself.

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17/02/2013

Works in progress, SFMOMA expansion by Snøhetta

[VIDEO] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). [SFrancisco] USA
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Architecture, Projects
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) unveiled the details of its 21.832m² / 235,000 sqf building expansion that will double the museum's exhibition and education space while enhancing the visitor experience and more deeply weaving the museum into the fabric of the city. Completion is projected in 2016.

Construction of its expansion will begin this summer. From June 3, 2013 through early 2016. This expansion is about much more than the extension of the museum's physical footprint. The new building will both transform the museum and enliven the city by opening up new routes of public circulation around the neighborhood and into the museum.

The sketches for SFMOMA's expansion, developed in collaboration...

Expansion-Sketch
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