Hogwarts 101: part 3

Part 3 of Hogwarts 101, the Hospital Wing.

This is Madame Pomfrey's area, where Harry usually ends up by the end of the year.

Check out the amazing ceiling!

Divinity School

aka "The Hospital Wing"

Hogwarts 101: part 2

...well, technically this is not a part of Hogwarts, but...

Platform 3/4

King's Cross Station, London

...the trolley half-stuffed into the wall is just asking to be photographed...

Guess which part of Hogwarts is coming up tomorrow? ;D

Hogwarts 101: part 1

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS  PART 2 (aka HP7 part 2) IS MARKING A BREAKTHROUGH IN INDONESIAN CINEMAS - DUE TO THE BLOODY MOVIE TAX CRISIS.

Tonight, for the first time in the last torturing couple of months, a blockbuster movie is finally arriving in the cinemas.

F*ck yeah HP7 part 2! It all ends tonight XD
Got my tickets for tonight's show. Can't get better :)

SO!
To celebrate such a delightful event, along with the end of Harry Potter movies~

Let's tour Hogwarts!

I'm putting up a Hogwarts parade here in Architortureland, so keep up for the next upcoming days!

First off the Hogwarts 101?
The ever-famous Great Hall where Harry, Ron, and Hermione dine :)

Christ Church Hall | Oxford

a.k.a. "The Great Hall"

...wait, who designed this? (-___-)"

Any special location you wanna see here?

Curiouser and curiouser? Go google.

If only Google Map exists in Alice's time, there would be no Wonderland adventure.

She would just Google it.

Now this is what I call the future of Architortureland.

Care to walk with me?

Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop

Junya Ishigami

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Oh btw the exterior looks like this.

Talk about visual effects.

Going under

La Condesa

Michael Hsu Office of Architecture

The naked chef

Who doesn't know the adorable Jamie Oliver?

The naked chef is bringing his ever-awesome Food Revolution Truck all across the US!

Have you spotted him somewhere, US residents?

He's kind of my culinary hero along with Heston Blumenthal, the George Calombaris - Matt Preston - Gary Mehigan trio, Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich, Curtis Stone, and of course Anthony Bourdain XD

...so, after watching too many episodes of Masterchef Australia 2 and Hell's Kitchen 8 lately...

Jamie Oliver Food Truck

Rockwell Group

From Archdaily:

The bold graphics on the outside of the truck will help it to serve as a brand ambassador all across the United States. The powerful black and white revolutionary logo of a hand holding a spoon accompanied by the sharp text “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” will be softened with green, blue, white and orange punches of spray-painted graffiti graphics of stars, utensils, fruits and vegetables. Riffing off of the sunburst theme in the original graphic from Jamie Oliver’s show on ABC, red and white stripes of sunrays appear on the background of the truck, adding a sense of speed and vitality to the design. The spirited, spontaneous nature of the design is a nod to Jamie Oliver’s own way of cooking.

When the truck arrives at the school, state or street fair or farmer’s market, it will create an immediate, unexpected spectacle as it expands in a variety of ways to make room for a culinary event. The sides of the truck push out laterally for events inside the truck, and a white bandshell with vibrant red stars can be inflated outside the back of the truck to house even larger events.

The inside of the truck is covered with white wallpaper with a set of tiny colorful culinary graphics similar to those on the outside. Oversized versions of these stenciled symbols are pasted on the doors and cabinets, complemented by the Corian confetti surfaces. On the walls of the truck are a whiteboard magnet map that will reflect the places the truck has toured through, and a big book mounted in the corner with large whiteboard ‘pages’ that include a welcome page, an integrated monitor with a video of Jamie Oliver, a menu, ingredients, and a thank you page.

When the sides of the truck are pushed out, there is room both for an expo kitchen, and 8 separate cooking stations. Each of these stations or carts are custom designed by Rockwell Group to outfit two children with a kitchen’s worth of equipment. The cart has a red powder-coated metal finish, with a butcher block counter, two stove tops, baskets underneath for pots and pans, and drawers for utensils. This way the children can work on their own, so they can see for themselves how easy it is to use simple ingredients to make healthy meals.

When the children are done cooking, carts can be pushed together to form one big communal table where they can all sit down on metal stools with colorful star-patterned cushions to eat what they have cooked. Rockwell Group also designed placemats with whimsical stencils of a plate and cutlery. And after the event is over, kids can clean their dishes in the line of sinks in back of the truck.

This whole set up can also be moved outside under the bandshell for larger expositions. These levels of flexibility will enable more personal, multi-dimensional, interactive experiences for the public. And when the truck itself arrives, it will provide a fully immersive and theatrical way for kids and adults to interact with the temporary kitchens, and learn about Jamie Oliver’s new, fresh ingredients, recipes, and more.

Architecture et nourriture

Le Dauphin

Rem Koolhaas and Clement Blanchet

architecture et nourriture from oskar alegria on Vimeo.

Just keep swimming

Shanghai Oriental Sports Centre

gmp architekten

Choco choco choco

Oooookay.
Lack of updates, I know.

Been so busy having fun these past days #gotwhackedwithascalemodel.


Anyone out there having a good summer hols like me? :)

Nestle's Chocolate Museum | Brazil

Metro Arquitetos Associados

Organic is everywhere

Slowpoke Cafe | Melbourne

Sasufi

When a roof is not a roof

Still trying to forget that this used to be a slaughterhouse...

Warehouse 8B | Madrid

Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

From the architect (source: Dezeen) :

In a small warehouse of the old slaughterhouse of Madrid, warehouse 8B, the tiles in bad condition have been removed from the roof, been stacked and been put inside to solve a problem. This could be the summary of the intervention.

The slaughterhouse of Madrid was projected around 1907 and built during the second decade of the 20th century by Luis Bellido, municipal architect. For almost sixty years it served as a great pantry for the centre area. During this time it demonstrated its functional virtues and its special characteristics only too well. With the passing of time, the style applied to its façades, has become a more questionable matter, as it is far from the first approximations to the Modern Movement that was already being explored in this sort of industrial building in Germany, Holland or France. During the eighties, the slaughterhouse was moved to the outskirts of the city. The small “industrial city” projected by Bellido fell into neglect and oblivion. For the past few years, the town council of Madrid has been trying to convert this deteriorated complex into an avant-garde cultural engine for the city.

Warehouse 8B will be the space destined for administrative management. It will be composed of a small working area, a stockroom and a multi-purpose space for talks or presentations. Originally they were back-up rooms for the storage of waste produced in warehouse no.8, where skins and salted meat were dried. A minor warehouse but of great spatial interest.

The priority of the intervention was to replace a roof of flat shingle tiles over boards and successively patched thin, hollow bricks, to carry out a structural reinforcement of the whole set, and to fit out the indoors, thermally and acoustically, so as to provide service to the new uses. This process had been followed before in some other warehouses of the slaughterhouse and, as a result, mountains of tile, timber, cladding and granite slab rubble piled up waiting to be taken to the dump.

I prefer to think that this project emerged from opportunity, from discovering an opportunity in that rubble. In the path of exploring all the reasonable possibilities, the construction system turns into a project generator, in the place where a certain ethic view on rehabilitation rests, before architecture.

How does that found object work? How does the flat shingle tile work? How is it stacked? How is it bonded? What are its organoleptic characteristics, its weight? How do they join? These are some of the questions that arise during the process. The absence of some bonding elements produce lattices, the passing of light. Sometimes a whole piece for the walls, others, half a piece for the claddings. The problem of the corners, the lintels. The universal problems that architecture faces arise. At the same time and with the same intensity the workforce and imperfection appear. The imperfection of man and the old, the recovered. I recall a naïve order given on the building site: “Twist yourself José, it doesn’t matter” and an answer, a lecture from the site manager: “I won’t twist! There will always be time for that!” A job of many, full of vibrations. The vibrations of the collective craftsmen, the craftsman that Richard Sennett claims.

Like that cottage in the woods by the Swedish architect Ralph Erskine, where he piled trunks to protect himself from the harshness of winter, this project is also bioclimatic. It is bioclimatic because the tile contributes to the thermal and acoustic comfort and it’s sustainable because it reinvents itself with what it has within range. It is bioclimatic like architecture of a small country village, like those hearth-chimneys lined with clay that can be found in the province of Soria.

It’s an intervention that intends to respect a valid spatial configuration, without adulterating it. It is proof of the power of architecture as a qualified container, independent from its uses, of the circumstantial uses. It’s a classic concept, everlasting in space, which has nothing to do with classicism, nor necessarily with Italy. Against the intended traditional “national” style that Luis Bellido applied to façades, in this case, on the inside, the style is diluted, it ceases to be heir of the old Madrid School. Order, opportunity, engagement, contention or clarity without any previous formal will. An unknown field to me, beyond the project, beyond any intention. The architect’s prominence takes a step back, it abandons architecture in time. History is pendular and helical, if we assume it has three dimensions.

This project undoes some paths already travelled, it intends to reach meeting points. It advances by retreating, like rowers, that are looking backwards, like Oteiza explained. From the Spanish tile, which was designed using a woman’s thigh as a mould, and from its manual laying, take over came about by industrialized application and its flat (tile) version. Now, the industrialized elements, lifeless, are understood in another way, de-contextualized and laid from the predictability of manual labour. This project tries to understand architecture as an intellectual, cultural and ethical experience. Not to be mistaken with a social or political stance.

Japanese curves

I found this from a Tumblr and searched the original source, accidentally stumbling into my favourite kind of stuff: minimalistic Japanese house :D

Whoever says Japan has no curves?

Shell

Artechnic

In the jungle, the mighty jungle

The lion sleeps toniiiight~ XD

Imagine working with Timon and Pumbaa running around the office - couldn't be more fun, eh? :d

Selgas Cano Architecture Office

Iwan Baan

Be our guest

...have a glass of water.

Glass/Water House

Kengo Kuma

Spiderman, spiderman

Does whatever a spider can

Spins a web, any size

Catches thieves just like flies

Look out!

Here comes the spiderman!

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...except this web doesn't catch thieves ;)

NET | Belgium

For Use / Numen

I really wanna see it myself and spend some time in there cos it looks like serious fun :D

If you're around the city by these times, come to Z33 gallery, Hasselt.

This installation's gonna hold 'till October 2, 2011.

Here's a bit on NET :)

First Belgian exhibition by Austrian/Croatian design collective

From 3 July to 2 October Z33 – house for contemporary art shows the new installation ‘NET’ by the Austrian/Croation design collective Numen / For Use. They have created this new installation for their first exhibition in Belgium.

NET consists of flexible nets suspended from the walls and ceiling, which form a floating ‘landscape’. This landscape gives visitors the opportunity to climb in these nets or to explore the space. The installation refers to biomorphic architecture and urban dream images from previous decades.

Aurora #2

Aurora - New Odense University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences

Henning Larsen Architects on Vimeo

Up up and away

SkyCourt | Budapest

KÖZTI Zrt - Tima Stúdió

Pipes!

TuboHotel | Mexico

T3arc

Made of concrete pipes, these affordable hotel rooms (or tubes) are constructed in 3 months only!

Sliiiiide

Block 30 dwellings in Manresa | Barcelona

nothing architecture

Pat a cake, baker's man!

Omonia Bakery | New York

bluarch

Doorless

Curated by Danny Wicaksono, "Rumah-Rumah Tanpa Pintu" or "Houses Without Doors" is an architecture exhibition held in dia.lo.gue gallery in Kemang, Jakarta.

It's still on by the time I'm writing this, so if you live nearby Jakarta you can still check it out. It's on from July 1st 'till July 20, 2011.

11 young Indonesian architects show their interpretations about what a door is, and how does a house do without one (hope I get it right). It's more conceptual and less client-oriented, if you know what I mean ;D

I visited yesterday - turned out there's an event: seminar, debate, shows, mini-bazaar and all.

Met my last studio lecturer and others lecturers I've never studied under.

Figured some of the works displayed are theirs, but didn't know they're gonna BE there also XD

Like the whole thing - concept, ideas, models.

Glad to see how Indonesian architecture is going towards a better future :D

Shiro #2

House in Kitakami

Yukiko Nadamoto

Old and New

House on Bassett Road

Paul+O Architects