+Rolf: Scandic Stockholm

The area around Vasagatan is one of Stockholm's most expansive and exciting, with its central location and numerous ongoing development projects. And this is where the city's big new hotel – Scandic Stockholm – will be built. The hotel will have over 400 rooms, meeting facilities, a restaurant and a large hotel bar/lounge that is open to everyone. The new hotel is building on classic historical roots. The street became Vasagatan during Stockholm's major renaming project of 1885, and the building is 130 years old. Scandic Stockholm will, however, have its own story, design and identity, based on the special and inspirational surroundings.

Visualization: Tenjin Visual
www.megaronark.se
www.scandic.se

International Architecture Awards Honor Nearly One Hundred Projects from Around the Globe

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. and co-presented by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, announced ninety-seven (97) new distinguished projects and urban schemes selected in this year’s prestigious International Architecture Awards program for 2009.

Image: Auditorium and convention centre aragón expo 2008; Zaragoza, Spain.
Architects: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, SLP

from Bustler.net News by Vanilla Hustler

Team Germany Wins Solar Decathlon…Again

The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that ‘Team Germany’ from the Technische Universität Darmstadt has won the 2009 Solar Decathlon with their project surPLUShome. This is the second time in a row that a team from TU Darmstadt wins this international contest after already snatching the title in Solar Decathlon’s last edition in 2007.

from Bustler.net News by Vanilla Hustler

Multi-tenant Project in Fukuyama

UID Architects projected a multi-tenant building to enclose a dental clinic, an beauty salon and UID’s architectural office. The building, located in a long and narrow plot surrounded on all three sides by neighboring houses, has a cedar-clad plywood shell that neatly encloses the steel structure. The dental clinic is located on the first floor while the beauty salon and the architectural office are on the send floor. Truly a mixed-program regarding the businesses in the multi-tenant building.

from CoolBoom by Sylvia

Slit Court by EASTERN Design Office

Japanese architects EASTERN design office have completed a five-storey residential project in Sumizome, Kyoto, Japan. (more…)

from Dezeen by Jasmin Gunkar

Aluminium House / Arhitektid Muru & Pere

The idea was to have two stories of a different kind of building. The concept was born out of the wrist movement when scribbling on paper. The area allowed for building was very long and narrow due to multiple restrictions. We began piling the rooms in one row at one end until we met the border; then we turned the room itself backwards and that is how the building obtained its current form.

from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh

OMA / REX architecture: wyly theatre opens in dallas

the dee and charles wyly theatre, dallas has opened today. the wyly theatre part of the city's new AT & T performing arts center is designed by joshua prince-ramus (partner in charge, now REX) and rem koolhaas (founder of OMA). unlike a typical theatre, the wyly accommodates back-of-house and front-of-house areas above and beneath the auditorium rather than wrapped around it, liberating its perimeter – a glass façade with optional blackout blinds – for direct contact with the urban surroundings. passers by have the chance to glimpse the action inside; the theatre itself, which seats up to 575 and can offer views of the city of dallas as a backdrop.

from Designboom - Weblog

NZI Centre / Jasmax

The NZI Centre is a commercial office building located in Auckland’s CBD. It is an integrated design, with the architectural and interior/workplace elements both designed by Jasmax alongside one another, but with two different clients.

from Arch Daily by Nico Saieh