Stadium Architecture 2010 FIFA World Cup

Stadium Architecture 2010 FIFA World Cup
Soccer City Stadium is one of architecture in South Africa for 2010 FIFA World Cup, designed by Boogertaman + Partners. Construction Technology, considering the magnitude of this fast-track project, it is not surprising that a variety of innovative means are being used to construct some of the elements involved.

The design of the stadium was selected from a series of concept designs ranging from acknowledgement of Jo’burg’s disappearing mine dumps; the kgotla (defined by the tree) of the African city state; the African map as a horizontal representation, which included the roof as a desert plane supported on tropical trees set within the mineral wealth of Southern Africa; to a representation of the protea, our national flower.
The calabash, or African pot, was selected as being the most recognizable object to represent what would automatically be associated with the African continent and not any other.
The calabash, or ‘melting pot of African cultures’, sits on a raised podium, on top of which is located a ‘pit of fire’. Thus the pot sits in a depression, which is the ‘pit of fire’, as if it were being naturally fired.
source : www.homehousedesign.com

Austrian Pavillion for Shanghai

Austrian Pavillion for Shanghai

We’ve already featured the designs for the UAE Pavillion, Mexico Pavillion and Denmark Pavillion, for the Shanghai Expo 2010. Today, it’s time for the Austrian Pavillion. The competition for the design was won by Vienna based firms SPAN and Zeytinoglu Architects.
more images and architect’s description after the break.
The main driving force behind the design of the Austrian Pavilion for the expo in Shanghai 2010 can be described as acoustic forces, or more accurately as music. Music as a concept that reflects continuity in terms of architectural articulation that seamlessly connects the various spaces within the program.
The embodiment of the sonic conditions within the space manifest the architecture of the pavilion, which resonates to the rhythm of the video jockeys (VJs) performance – the conductor of the atmospheres within the main space. The rich history of austrian musical tradition makes it possible to create a performance program reaching from baroque music, to the classic area to the modern age to contemporary acts. The space unfurls from within the topological body, from the main space, the audience chamber, to the exterior epidermis. This process creates pockets, pochés that include the rest of the program such as shop, restaurant, office, and the VIP area.
Each one of those programmatic areas includes qualities co notated with the quality of living within austrian conurbations: music, culture, culinary expertise, urban textures, opulent landscapes and lavish foliages.’ – Matias del Campo, SPAN
source : www.archdaily.com

Museum Design Architecture by New York

Museum Design Architecture by New York
Here’s the new Museum of Image and Sound architecture designed by New York architects Diller Scofidio+Renfro, location in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The museum design buildings will include an auditorium, education rooms, bars and restaurant, galleries, a cafe, and an outdoor cinema on the roof. Information about this museum : The architecture of the Museum of Image and Sound takes Copacabana Beach as its inspiration: its coastline, its wraparound building wall, its mountains, and its distinctive beach promenade designed by Roberto Burle Marx. The promenade captures the key element of the beach a space of the public in motion on foot, bicycle and automobile. The building is conceived as an extension of that boulevard, stretched vertically into the museum.
The Vertical Boulevard gestures toward inclusiveness: it gently traverses indoor and outdoor spaces and branches to make galleries, education programs, spaces of public leisure and entertainment. The building inherits the DNA of Burle Marx but radically reorients his public surface upward into a thickened façade for the new museum. The vertical circulation sequence connects the street with the building’s entertainment programs from the clerestory view into the Auditorium at street level, to the elevated Terrace Bar and Cafe, the Piano Bar at the third level, the Restaurant at the sixth, and outdoor cinema at the roof.
The building is also conceived as an instrument to observe the city in a new way. The panoramic view before it, overexposed to tourists in the hotels and restaurants of Copacabana Beach while restricted for many residents, is perhaps the central image at stake. Through framing strategies, the skin of the MIS curates this view for the visitor moving through the gallery sequence.

source : homehousedesign.com

Modern Art Seaside House Design

Modern Art Seaside House Design
With natural landscape and wild ocean this house have to be stronger. So, it built with concrete, but not become rigid, more than that, this modern house is an art. A thing that fulfill beauty for surrounding area. An absolute, horizontal datum line at the top-of-concrete mirrors roof line and ground line elevation. The east facede feels paper-thin and vulnerable, while the windward west façade puts its muscular shoulder to the wind with a concrete bump. The narrow prow-like south end of the house fronts on the bay. Designed by Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects.
The building is mostly painted in white, with large windows that welcomed the sun-rays to come in. Modern minimalist furniture which are used in the interior makes this architecture more stunning.
There are beautiful furniture, tv stand or lcd tv in the living room. Very good for your new inspiration.
source : archinspire.com

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