Perspective
Hotel Paineiras / Estudio America
89 apartments in Bègles
/ Emmanuel Combarel and Dominique Marrec Architectes
Cuiabá Arena Football Stadium / GCP Arquitetos

Archipulse
Zaha brings fluid geometry to Rome - MAXXI_National Museum of XXI Century Arts / Silvio Carta
Zaha Hadid Architects
Echoes of the Past - Museum & Research Center Madinat Al Zahra
/ Marta González Antón
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, S.L.P.
Fluid spaces; From U to O till maybe 8 - White O / Silvio Carta
Toyo Ito  Associates, Architects
To fold - Casadetodos / Diego Terna
Verónica Arcos
Drama in the City - Dee and Charles Wyly Theater / Andrea Giannotti
REX/OMA

Sustainable and Architectonic
Green Avenue / Marco Atzori
Creative Exchange / 5th Studio
Sluňákov-Center for ecological activities / Projektil Architekti s. r. o.
WWF Netherlands Head office / RAU
Galician Architects Central Office in Vigo / Irisarri + Piñera
NZI Center / Jasmax
North Carlton Green House / Zen Architects

Mareines+Patalano Arquitetura
GLEM Offices
MOPI Elementary School
Leaf House
Itaipava House

미리보기
빠이네이라스 호텔 / 에스투쥬 아메리카
프랑스 베글의 공동주거
/ 엠마뉴엘 꽁바헬 도미닉 마헥 아흐쉬떽뜨
꾸야바 축구 경기장 / GCP 아르끼텍토스

Sustainable and Architectonic

Green Avenue
In the course of transformation from a culture based on the industrial revolution model, lasted till the end of the 20th century, to a culture in which the human development is steered by sustainability of resources consumption, the project no longer floats in a limitless and ever-expanding context but is anchored where the consumption of materials and their quantitative limitations are decisive of behavior and ethics. The idea that the environment has the major impact on built form is replaced by the opposing idea, that buildings have major impact on the environment. Consequently, the need for their insertion and integration within their environment and the reconversion, recycling and reuse of building materials, following their life cycle, are added to the requisites of building efficiency and functional comfort. Integrating the characteristics and functionality of artificial systems within a defined set of ecosystem processes, buildings merge an artificial with a natural ecosystem, redefining the architectural product as a “form of energy and materials” that replaces the idea of the building as an autonomous object which is indifferent to its surrounding environment, and that only seeks to defend its human inhabitants.
Toyo Ito reckons that in a fluid and liquid society as the one we live in, transcending these limits could achieve an architectural product that is substantially integrated into the environment, whereas sustainability is an interpretation of a symbiotic relationship between the natural and artificial, man and nature.
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Written by Marco Atzori

Mareines+Patalano Arquitetura

Glem Offices
The design of Glem offices in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is defined by its odd location: under a triangular end of a concrete stand for rowing competitions.
Aside from the fact that the first of its three floors is semi-buried and the concrete roof is used for public seating, thus not opening to the exterior, windows were restricted to only two small facades. One facade is almost entirely occupied by a pedestrian ramp to access the stands; the client sees this as an invitation to trespassers. For that reason, this facade has some long and narrow openings closed with clear transparent glass, to invite inside only light and external views. The second facade overlooks a confusing group of buildings, a fact that led us to design a semi-circle glazing with translucent bulletproof glass.
After dealing with these limitations, architects decided to unite the separate parts of the project via a vertical circulation space defined by curved concrete stairs, eucalyptus-laminated beams and a bamboo mesh. An empty “basket” welcomes visitors and animates the office with a delicately enclosed void. On the first level, the basket-defined space offers a small waiting area for informal meetings, and distributes access to three sinuous meeting rooms, two bathrooms, a working area and a technical room.
The first staircase leads to a catwalk that mirrors, in laminated translucent glass, the semi-circular geometry of one of the facade’s glazing. This catwalk takes to the second floor that contains wood sliding doors that can partially connect or totally separate the directors’ offices.