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Roldán + Berengué, arqts. - Plaza Europa, a Social Housing Development in Barcelona, Spain |
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Tuesday, 05 July 2011 07:40 |
 The tower E.I.O.5 is a social housing project, located in a newly developped central area of Barcelona known as Plaça Europa (Europa Square). The urban model of the Europa Square provides a generous public space opened to each side of Gran Via and includes 26 mainly residential towers whose height vary between 15 and 20 floors. Tower 5 is located in the farthest crown from the Gran Via which runs half- undergrounded. In all the buildings of the last ring, most of them public housing produced by different promoters, the master planning laws fixed the floor dimension not to exceed 24x24m, as well as height in which should be located the first floor structure (slab) and the crowing point of the towers. This project was the object of public competition back in 2005. The architects proposed rescaling the tower according to its position as a perpheral project within the whole development. |
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CCS Architecture - Alpine Meadows in Lake Tahoe, CA |
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Tuesday, 28 June 2011 07:58 |
 This project is a second home for a client that splits his week between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe. The home was developed for efficiency in response to a tight budget, and to maximize the amazing views of the adjacent landscape. An interpretation of alpine rustic modernism, vertical cedar siding and cedar wood is featured throughout the design. The house is grid connected, but it is also grid independent.
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Research Support Facility (RSF) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - RNL Architects |
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Monday, 27 June 2011 09:40 |
The RSF is a large-scale office building housing more than 800 people who support and conduct research work. The building also houses a data center that serves the entire NREL campus. NREL and DOE's goal is to transform innovative research in renewable energy and energy efficiency into market-viable technologies and practices. This building was conceived to serve as an example of these ideas and a living laboratory for the staff of the RSF to learn from and work by, providing a high-performance workplace and aiming at operating at net-zero energy on an annual basis.  The building's narrow, H-shaped footprint Photo by Frank Ooms
The project is recipient of the 2011 AIA COTE Awards, and the article is an abbreviated version of the one posted on AIA’s web site.
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Carter Williamson Architects - Balmain House in Sydney, Australia. |
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Thursday, 23 June 2011 08:25 |
 The original 1860’s home sits modestly on its block. From most vantage points on the street –set back as it is from its neighbours- the little, weatherboard cottage is almost obscured from view. Humble and unassuming, its appearance defines its cultural significance; the workers cottage preserves a ‘moment’ in the rich, blue-collar heritage and character of Balmain. Whilst chic cafes and boutique clothing stores have long since driven out the dockyards and factories, the cottage survives, an evolutionary relic of contemporary Australian architecture. Etched into the locally grown weatherboards are the teeth marks of steam driven saws used in the old Balmain lumberyards and beneath the skin the bones of the home disclose rough sawn log studs, detailing early modes of construction. |
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Miller Hull Partnership - LOTT Clean Water Alliance |
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Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:30 |
 Lab entry of the building
Photograph: Nic Lehoux
While most sewage treatment plants are invisible to their communities and separated by a chain link fence, the LOTT Clean Water Alliance Regional Service Center is a visible and active participant in the public life of Washington's capital city.
The LOTT Clean Water Alliance provides Class A reclaimed water and emphasizes water conservation through a strong community outreach program, in addition to providing wastewater treatment services to 85,000 people in four local communities.
The new facility, located on the site of its existing Budd Inlet Treatment Plant, brings all management and staff together in one location. The facility includes three major elements, with a renovated 7,700 ft2 water quality laboratory, a new 21,300 ft2 office and a 3,500 ft2 education and technology center.
Located only a few blocks from the State Capitol on a brownfield site in a predominantly industrial context, the new Regional Services Center maximizes myriad site resources.
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Rafael Viñoly Architects - Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House |
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Monday, 20 June 2011 06:48 |
Rafael Viñoly Architects has just announced the completion of the Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House Named after the physician who performed the first kidney transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, the Barker Transplant House will offer comfortable, convenient accommodations in a supportive community setting and at a nominal cost. 
All photographs â“’Ty Cole
Conceived as a ‘home away from home,’ the site will house transplant patients at subsidized rates and offer comfortable hotel rooms where guests can reside while navigating these emotionally and financially difficult situations. The building is being partially funded by public donations and the design and construction teams (including Rafael Viñoly Architects) worked on a pro-bono basis. |
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Lake|Flato Architects - Livestrong Foundation, in Austin, Texas |
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011 06:36 |
 Entrance to the building, including salvaged wood and concrete repurposed from the renovated warehouse
Photograph: Frank Ooms After 10 years of leasing space in a suburban office building, the Livestrong Foundation found its permanent home in the 1950s-era Gulf Coast Paper Co. (GPC) warehouse in East Austin, an underserved community in the process of revitalization. The adaptive reuse of the GCP warehouse transformed the concrete tilt-wall building to provide office space, meeting rooms, multi-use facilities, an in-house gym, an open-air courtyard, and parking for the staff of 62. Ongoing plans call for adding a community-based cancer-support program to provide direct services, with an emphasis on uninsured and underinsured East Austin residents. |
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Division1 - The Lacey in Washington, DC |
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Thursday, 09 June 2011 08:23 |
 The Lacey is a 26-unit, four level, 25,000 SF residential building organized around a three-level central corridor/atrium. Outdoor space is ample with a communal second floor terrace and rooftop, as well as private balconies, courtyards, and terraces for the units. |
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