Yi Architects: Bibliothek Stuttgart

BIG: National Gallery of Greenland

Danish architect's office BIG has won the competition to design Greenland's national gallery of art in Nuuk.

The centre of the gallery hosts an internal courtyard with a sculpture garden and opens up towards the sea.

In contrast to typically square boxes  of Greenland's architecture, the new gallery assimilates to the dynamic coast.

Monument to Freedom and Unity, Berlin

"The final decision for the design of the National Monument to Freedom and Unity in Berlin has been reached: The collaborative concept by designers Milla & Partner, Stuttgart and Berlin choreographer Sasha Waltz will be realized. This concept was one of three awarded equal first prizes by the jury in the first round in October 2010. In the final round the concept now convinced conclusively. The concept is entitled "Citizens in Motion" - a message that Sasha Waltz and Milla & Partner convey in an unexpected manner. The monument is animate and is not to be approached merely as an object for contemplation - the intention is that it be entered and set in motion, movement being achieved by visitors working together as a group: The design was created in a spirit where, by means of creative action, each is enabled to bring benefit to the community and as a consequence shape society. The visitors themselves - the citizens who set the whole in motion - comprise an active constituent of the monument. The vision is that it will be a continually changing choreographic expression of the Peaceful Revolution of 1989. As the design is both aesthetically ambitious and subject to stringent structural requirements, Milla & Partner and Sasha Waltz involved Stuttgart engineers Leonhardt, Andrä and Partners as expert consultants." 

via Milla & Partner

Julius Shulman

Julius Shulman (1910-2009) probably was the most significant architectural photographer world-wide. One of his best known photo is 

Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. by Pierre Koenig.

Galerie Stihl Waiblingen

Architect: Hartwig N. Schneider, Stuttgart

Stuttgart 24h

Video: Stuttgart 24h

Time-Lapse Photography of Stuttgart showing 20 Locations in 24 hours
Tolle Aufnahmen von Stuttgart in Zeitraffer. Auf einem weiteren Link werden die Orte aufgelistet und sind auf einer Karte markiert.

The Waterhouse by Neri & Hu Design and Research Office

via archdaily

a hotel by Neri & Hu Design on the banks of the Huangpu River in the historic dockyard district of Shanghai. A 1930s riverside building is transformed "into a modern expression of Chinese aesthetics".

 
photos Derryck Menere, 
Pedro Pegenaute

Querkraft Architects: TRE Operations Building

TRE Operations Building, Grosshöflein, Austria

Architect: Querkraft,Vienna

Photo: Hertha Hurnaus,Manfred Seidl

Atelier Bow Wow: Tread Machiya

Cloudscapes, Venice Biennale

TRANSSOLAR & Tetsuo Kondo Architects create Cloudscapes where visitors can experience a real cloud from below, within, and above floating in the center of the Arsenale. Visitors find a path that is akin the normal experience of walking through a garden. The path winds through Cloudscapes appearing and disappearing. The cloud is always changing so the experience of the path is also dynamic.

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010

Shinichi Ogawa & Associates, Japan

Turmkunst Projekt Berlin 2010

Turmkunst photos: N.Tkatchouk, Honet
Artwork by Sozyone, Flying Fortress, K.R, Honet
http://www.turmkunst.de/

UNStudio: VILA NM, New York

Studio Aisslinger: FINCUBE

Werner Aisslinger's FINCUBE is a temporary and simple living unit, coping with the demands of a mobile society and its nomadic lifestyle. It is a sustainable and transportable low-enery house corresponding with the landscape of the rural area in Northern Italy.

Rojkind Arquitectos: 'Nestlé Application Group' building, Mexico

ELDING OSCARSON - Townhouse in Landskrona, Sweden

ELDING OSCARSON is a recently started office run by Johan Oscarson and Jonas Elding. The collective experience is covering both Swedish and international architecture, from museums to private houses, interiors, furniture and product design.

Jonas Elding was an associate at SANAA, Tokyo, for 7 years, in charge of the design for the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Johan Oscarson was an associate at Sandellsandberg, Stockholm. 

schön wär`s

VitraHaus - Herzog & de Meuron

Photos: Iwan Baan

The Basel based architects Herzog & de Meuron greatly enriched the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, where architectural icons such as Siza, Gehry, Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid carried out some of their most expressive works. Herzog & de Meuron’s stacked archetypical houses are the new domicile for Vitra’s Home Collection and will from now on be open Monday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm. “The concept of the VitraHaus connects two themes that appear repeatedly in the oeuvre of Herzog & de Meuron: the theme of the archetypal house and the theme of stacked volumes. In Weil am Rhein, it was especially appropriate to return to the idea of the ur -house, since the primary purpose of the five-storey building is to present furnishings and objects for the home. Due to the proportions and dimensions of the interior spaces – the architects use the term ‘domestic scale’ – the showrooms are reminiscent of familiar residential settings. The individual ‘houses’, which have the general characteristics of a display space, are conceived as abstract elements. With just a few exceptions, only the gable ends are glazed, and the structural volumes seem to have been shaped with an extrusion press. Stacked into a total of five storeys and breathtakingly cantilevered up to fifteen metres in some places, the twelve houses, whose floor slabs intersect the underlying gables, create a three-dimensional assemblage – a pile of houses that, at first glance, has an almost chaotic appearance.”

Hadi Teherani - Kranhäuser

The three Kranhäuser at Cologne's harbour have been designed by the Hamburg-based office 'Bothe Richter Teherani BRT'. It emerged offices with a total space of 16000 m² and 135 luxury apartments. A lot of them are not sold yet.

Oscar Niemeyer

Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro, Oscar Niemeyer 1996

Latin America Memorial, Concert Hall, Sao Paulo, Oscar Niemayer 1987