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Mont-Saint-Michel Moro

John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra, Australia by Lyons Architecture

 The client of the National University of Australia, has had a long-standing history of students and alumni of prestige, such as Nobel Prize winners. Because of this long history embedded in the University, the new development process and conference calls for a result that would be recognizable and distinctive.

The building was designed to enhance interactivity and collaborative research. Glazed entrance lobby space features interactive displays and public lecture theater seating 200. The building incorporates landscape courtyards, naturally ventilated offices and other characteristics of environmentally sustainable design (ESD). An external detail is key to building the off-form 3D relief precast concrete facade accompanied by the spread, which is reminiscent of a DNA helix

De Rotterdam OMA - photos by Raban Haaijk

ARC Río Cultura Pavilion por Asymptote

THR350 Architects:Aedas Location/Year: Hong Kong, China / 2012

Industrial Renovation: The Gasometers of Vienna History of the Vienna Gas Tanks

 The Gasometers of Vienna date back to 1896 when Viennese authorities decided it was time to invest in large-scale gas and electric utilities. In just three years, the city built Europe’s largest gas plant (which included the four gasometers) and laid more than 500 km (300 miles) of gas lines.

Over time, natural gas replaced coal gas, and the gasometers were no longer needed. The gas plant was permanently shut down in 1984.

Eventually, Vienna undertook a remodelling and revitalization of the protected monuments; and in 1995 called for ideas for the new use of the structures. The chosen designs by the architects Jean Nouvel (Gasometer A), Coop Himmelblau (Gasometer B), Manfred Wehdorn (Gasometer C) and Wilhelm Holzbauer (Gasometer D) were completed between 1999 and 2001. Each gasometer was divided into several zones for living (apartments in the top), working (offices in the middle floors) and entertainment and shopping (shopping malls in the ground floors). The shopping mall levels in each gasometer are connected to the others by skybridges