The projects featured in the book showcase a variety of architectural solutions from the bold and imaginative to the sensitive and composed, all of which clearly demonstrate a commitment to the resolution of the environmental, social and economic challenges faced by the planet in this decade. For ordering information please see www.hustpas.com/en/

 

The 170 room, 4800m2 hotel will be located in the heart of Paris´ financial district, across from Christian de Potzamparc´s future Racing Metro Arena rugby stadium. The shortlisted competition entry was chosen over proposals by Rudy Riccioti and Wilmotte et Associés due to the sensitive nature in which RIADH´s proposal contemplates it´s role as an interactive hub, creating various accesses and interfaces at different levels while creating an architectural gesture with the apparently suspended screen that houses the modular room system. For further information please see www.ladefense-seine-arche.fr

 

Responsible for the master planning for the 72,000m2 campus, IAD presented a modular concept entitled ´Pathway to Learning´. IAD´s approach includes a radical landscaping design, where natural features are freely utilized as an active value instead of a contemplative or passive element. Cellular modules are linked by pathways, canals and bridges, all structured around and beneath a canopy structure that allows the whole campus to open or shield itself to nature, as deemed necessary at any given moment or season.

 

The latest manifestation of this cultural bridge is an article featuring Spain´s oldest and most sought-after architecture school, Madrid´s ETSAM in issue 145 of the foremost architectural concept magazines of France, `L´Architecture d´Aujourd´hui´. IAD´s longstanding contact with ´A´A´ as well as their general will to internationalize the Spanish architectural scene led them to be contacted in order to collaborate in the coordination and production of this feature piece. The eight-page article features recent projects created within the student workshop system under the tutorship of the school´s dean Dario Gazapo.

 

The project in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines will entail a thorough restructuring of the mall´s internal and external structure, image and dynamics with the added challenge of extending the internal world of the shopping center into the surrounding urban area, including the nearby pedestrian zones, artificial lake and canals of the old city center following the master concept previously elaborated by Bruno Fortier (urban design) and Jean Christophe Nanni (landscaping). The proposition has been titled `Hypercenter´, referring to the essentially urban, mixed-use aspect of the commission.

 

This is the second year of COAM´s initiative which includes an itinerary exhibit that has already travelled to cities around the world such as Rome, Shanghai, Santiago de Chile, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Lima, and Rio de Janeiro. The first city on this year´s exhibit tour will be Brasilia, where the featured works will be on display in Niemeyer´s National Museum from the 6th of June.

 

The building is currently under construction and is expected to be completed in early 2012. IAD´s methodology for all of their projects begins with the use of 3D building optimization software even in early conceptual design stages and ends with the exhaustive revision of the origin and processes of materials used in the construction phase, thus allowing the end user to experience superior comfort and quality levels as testified by the awarding of this prestigious and exigent certification.

 

We hope that one day works can resume on this notable infrastructure, conceived as a vehicle of progress and education while serving as a model of modern, responsible edification.

 

 

 

Projects featured by the trend-setting style magazine include the Madrid Design Centre, the Tripoli Eco-University campus, the rehabilitation of the building at Castellana 36-38 and the already widely published The Frame Hotel in the Bawadi district of Dubai. Available now at your local newsstand.

 

We hope to see you all next year when the City and the World Symposium will coincide with the Madrid Architecture Week.

 

Promoted by CODIC, the international real estate developer based in Belgium, this new office building at Julian Camarillo 36 aims to provide its tenants with the advantages of a project that has been conceived from the outset to obtain a Very Good Sustainability Certificate by complying with the stringent international norms of BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method). This process directly and indirectly confers the building with a superior quality/comfort level from the general energy management scheme to details such as the inclusion of access for non-contaminating means of transportation. When IAD designed this project, they were concerned with a different kind of challenge: not of creating an architectural statement, but of achieving an extreme simplicity as one would expect in an optimized industrial object while still being able to showcase a large dose of design. This project exudes the sensation that it has not been over-designed, every line being just where it should be - a delicate equilibrium broken only by the slight inflection of the facade. After this gesture ensues a careful yet intense dialogue between raw materials: concrete, metal, glass and a single color, repetitive and obsessive that marks public spaces as a sort of passive signage for direct communication with the building´s end-users.

 

‘We believe that the Chicago Athenaeum valued the will to re-design this building according to current references, questions and concepts. Not just as a mere office building, but as an actor on the urban stage, active, and ecologically sensitive to his surroundings.’ comment Cottrell and Michelangeli, the french architects installed in Madrid, cofounders of IAD. The project proposes the recreation of an urban dialogue with it’s immediate context such as the extension of the adjacent Sculpture Garden, home to pieces by Joan Miró and Eduardo Chillida with the use of a vertical garden, or with it’s proposal for the main façade to be a fan of solar panels, composed in such a manner as to provide all the energy required to run the common areas of the building. IAD and their project will be accompanied by such noteworthy architects as Steven Holl, Morphosis, SOM, Shigeru Ban and Eduardo Souto de Moura at the travelling exhibit “The City and the World”, whose inauguration will be from the 4th to the 7th of November in Madrid itself. The exhibit will then be continuing to other European capitals and selected North American cities.

 

Christian Narkeiwicz-Laine and Kieran Conlon (European Center of Architecture), accompanied by Jose Manuel Davila (acting as representative of the COAM´s Dean Paloma Sobrini), Ignacio Vicens (Vicens & Ramos Architects), Stéphane Cottrell & Jérome Michelangeli (IAD, International Architecture Development), Ignacio Fernandez (ARUP Spain), Rafael de La-Hoz (R La-Hoz Arquitectos), Alberto Veiga (Barrozzi-Veiga Architects) all formed a compact, committed and demanding jury that chose 40 winners from among the 400 candidates in a second round punctuated with strong comments and fair comparisons.

 

The well-defined and time-tested geometry of the building offers a huge range of possibilities. Its strategic location at the crossroads between the Juan Bravo bridge, the Castellana boulevard and the Municipal Sculpture Park, connected with Serrano Street makes this building an urban articulation that cannot merely remain neutral. Our aim is to create an installation, a vertical park, a renewable energy source, a landmark development, something more than a mere office building.” state Cottrell & Michelangeli. The two proposals currently presented attempt to use the actual skin of the building to achieve a better thermal management of the building, producing oxygen and filtering gases and heavy metals in the case of the \'Green\' proposal, while a second proposal takes advantage of the facade\'s blind elements to produce and promote renewable solar energy. The proposals for the façade are still in an assessment phase, although the renovation of the building\'s public areas is currently underway, with several phases already having been completed.

 

Nine IAD projects were selected and published in the \'Panel Layout Competition\' book series. The Korean publisher Damdi has chosen 72 teams in 267 competition projects from all around the world. The projects by IAD that have been selected include competitions from Spain to the UK, from Kuwait to Qatar, from stadiums and hotels to administrative courthouses.

 

The award ceremony will be held in Cannes, France, during a special dinner on the 17th of March, throughout the MIPIM market event. The winning project entries will be presented on the display on the London Stand.

 

Cottrell & Michelangeli, the Design team leaders, have placed particular emphasis on environmental sustainability, as well as energy and water management throughout the complex. The buildings are oriented and designed for an optimised solar and thermal control, adapted to the coastal area of Zuwarah, west of Tripoli.