#public architecture

[archiveofaffinities]

Robert Irwin, Nine Spaces, Nine Trees, Public Safety Building Plaza, Seattle, Washington, 1983

[studiokultuurscape]

Corporal architecture: when the materiality speaks on the metaphysical space.

- the pavillion 'untitled' by Jef Meyer is part of the Beaufort 24 festival at the Belgian Coast, situates itself in Middelkerke. The Triënnale curated by Els Wuyts is themed 'fabrics of life'

[indiaartndesign]

World’s Highest Standing Ferris Wheel |UNStudio 

The Seoul Metropolitan Government recently unveiled UNStudio’s design, tentatively naming it ‘Seoul Twin Eye’. The project is part of the Mayor of Seoul’s vision ‘Han River with a Thousand Sunsets’, a vision to create a thousand spots along the Han River as public spaces for the people of Seoul. Collaborating stalwarts include Arup and Heerim Architects. https://www.indiaartndesign.com/worlds-highest-standing-ferris-wheel-unstudio/

[friedbananabluebird]

Now THAT’S what I call a drain.

#City  #Design  #Drain  #Architecture  #Public Architecture  #Stone

[tigaprisma16]

Guiwan Qianhai Park in Shenzhen City, China

Architects: Field OperationsArea: 452700 m²Year: 2022Photographs: Holi Photography, ZC StudioSupervisor Company: Zhonghai Supervision Co., Ltd.Survey Company: Shenzhen Gongkan Geotechnical Group Co., Ltd.Design Team: FIELD OPERATIONS, Xiangming Zhu, National Survey and Design Master, Shanghai Landscape Architecture Design & Research Institute, Shanghai Engineering Construction Consulting and…

[aroomforarchitecture]

022. Primary Health Care Centre in City kvart in Podgorica

The project works with one simple and perhaps a classical idea, to make public facilities as public spaces. All the architectural moves and arrangements of architectural elements are oriented to generate a sense of public space at the neighborhood scale. As the project is situated in a developing neighborhood which is surrounded by low- rise suburban development on one side and modernist slab…

[itscolossal]

A Life-Giving Tree in Blue Sprawls Across a Mosaic Tile Facade by Michael Chandler

[reasonsforhope]

"In China, a landscape architect is reimagining cities across the vast country by working with nature to combat flooding through the ‘sponge city’ concept.

Through his architecture firm Turenscape, Yu has created hundreds of projects in dozens of cities using native plants, dirt, and clever planning to absorb excess rainwater and channel it away from densely populated areas.

Flooding, especially in the two Chinese heartlands of the commercial south and the agricultural north, is becoming increasingly common, but Yu says that concrete and pipe solutions can only go so far. They’re inflexible, expensive, and require constant maintenance. According to a 2021 World Bank report, 641 of China’s 654 largest cities face regular flooding.

“There’s a misconception that if we can build a flood wall higher and higher, or if we build the dams higher and stronger, we can protect a city from flooding,” Yu told CNN in a video call. “(We think) we can control the water… that is a mistake.”

Pictured: The Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok

Yu has been called the “Chinese Olmstead” referring to Frederick Law Olmstead, the designer of NYC’s Central Park. He grew up in a little farming village of 500 people in Zhejiang Province, where 36 weirs channel the waters of a creek across terraced rice paddies.

Once a year, carp would migrate upstream and Yu always looked forward to seeing them leap over the weirs.

This synthesis of man and nature is something that Turenscape projects encapsulate. These include The Nanchang Fish Tail Park, in China’s Jiangxi province, Red Ribbon Park in Qinghuandao, Hebei province, the Sanya Mangrove Park in China’s island province of Hainan, and almost a thousand others. In all cases, Yu utilizes native plants that don’t need any care to develop extremely spongey ground that absorbs excess rainfall.

Pictured: The Dong’an Wetland Park, another Turescape project in Sanya.

He often builds sponge projects on top of polluted or abandoned areas, giving his work an aspect of reclamation. The Nanchang Fish Tail Park for example was built across a 124-acre polluted former fish farm and coal ash dump site. Small islands with dawn redwoods and two types of cypress attract local wildlife to the metropolis of 6 million people.

Sanya Mangrove Park was built over an old concrete sea wall, a barren fish farm, and a nearby brownfield site to create a ‘living’ sea wall.

One hectare (2.47 acres) of Turenscape sponge land can naturally clean 800 tons of polluted water to the point that it is safe enough to swim in, and as a result, many of the sponge projects have become extremely popular with locals.

One of the reasons Yu likes these ideas over grand infrastructure projects is that they are flexible and can be deployed as needed to specific areas, creating a web of rain sponges. If a large drainage, dam, seawall, or canal is built in the wrong place, it represents a huge waste of time and money.

Pictured: A walkway leads visitors through the Nanchang Fish Tail Park.

The sponge city projects in Wuhan created by Turenscape and others cost in total around half a billion dollars less than proposed concrete ideas. Now there are over 300 sponge projects in Wuhan, including urban gardens, parks, and green spaces, all of which divert water into artificial lakes and ponds or capture it in soil which is then released more slowly into the sewer system.

Last year, The Cultural Landscape Foundation awarded Yu the $100,000 Oberlander Prize for elevating the role of design in the process of creating nature-based solutions for the public’s enjoyment and benefit."

-via Good News Network, August 15, 2024

[moodboardmix]

"Saray Aab o Noor" Cultural Center, Isfahan, Iran,

Courtesy: Hamidi.archstudio

[sovietpostcards]

Leningrad, 1970

[archtechposts]

Aztec Inspiration

Escuela Ballet Folklórico (1968-70) in Mexico City, Mexico, by Agustín Hernández

[studiokultuurscape]

When meaning takes precedence over form: form is destroyed as subject.

Classicism becomes postmodern

Form is transformed to make-up of the built art.

[luetta]

[keepingitneutral]

Gallery House,

Mithapukur More, Chinsurah-magrah City, Bengal State, India,

Courtesy: Abin Design Studio

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

"Sea of Cortez Aquarium," Parque Central, Mazatlán, Mexico,

Courtesy: Tatiana Bilbao Estudio

[archiveofaffinities]

Jean Dubuffet, Group of Four Trees, One Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza, New York, New York, 1972