New Drugstore Concept

Farmácia Conde Lumiares, designed by Mobil M.

Metro Station Drassanes, Barcelona

An existing subway or metro station does not give much room to creativity. Drassanes is a metro station in Barcelona’s Ciutat Vella district at the old docks of Port Vell.

The original station was built in 1968. Eduardo Gutiérrez Munné and Jordi Fernández Río, the 31-year-old partners of ON-A Arquitectura, had no other option but to accept the limitations of the constricted space and make the best of it by covering the old station with new surfaces. They decided that a subway car already has everything a passenger needs and proceeded to create a station that emulates the feel of subway cars. Light-weight, white glass-enforced concrete covers the vertical surfaces and a resin component helps make the white floors vibration-proof.

The Pavilion

"floating aluminum, drifting freely between the trees like smoke."

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa

in Wallpaper, 'The Pavilion by Sanaa, Serpentine, London'
Available at: http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/the-pavilion-by-sanaa-at-the-serpentine-gallery/3553

Watch the video: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid9305148001?bctid=29566162001

New Moulin Rouge

"Arquitectum" recently announced the Paris 2009 International Architecture Competition to be held from May to August of this year. The competition proposes a reinterpretation of “the new Moulin Rouge”, the most famous cabaret in the world and an important piece of Parisian life.
In the quest for the perfect show, a new space must be designed that incorporates the latest tendencies for the dance school and all its installations. This new space should support the quality of the show and the performance of the dancers. The competition presents an opportunity to propose a new vision for a long standing tradition.
Submissions are being excepted now until August 10, 2009. The winners will be announced on August 21.

Caja Vital, Madrid

This is the headquarters for the local savings bank. The building reproduces the scale of the surrounding small woods, a park of the Natura 2000 networking programme.The structural concept is based on pairs of exterior metal supports. In this case the concept changes and the pairs do not have any structural function.

Architecture Digest

Hoover Dam Science and Research Centre:
The Las Vegas and the Bolder-City area has a fast growing population with a highly land consuming way of development. The majority of people find work in the service sector and the major turnover can still be found the Casinos.
Throughout the fact that this city has such a “single use” industry and with an eye on Las Vegas future I was searching for a way to turn the potential of this highly developed infrastructure landscape into a more sustainable investment that should turn the whole area into something of what the next generations and the whole country could take benefit of.
The major target groups are those who enjoy the casinos and nightlife program that Las Vegas offers. In response to that I will provide the area with a museum/science centre in order to reach a more mixed target group with more interests in culture and science and to support a more sustainable and intercultural development.
The project is a science and research centre that includes a science centre as a museum for the latest inventions of science that bridges the fields of science research and art with a special weight on sustainable energy research. Other parts of this development are the research units containing laboratories in different scales and the necessary administration program.

The overall master plan and detailed Geometry:
The development will take place at the existing Hoover Dam site.
The existing access road will remain the same and becomes the access road for the visitors from both sides of the river. An overall system will than open up the building site in both, the natural shape of the landscape and the overall organisation of the project.
An intelligent geometry will be the overall structure for the whole project. This geometry can be described as a stick-based structure, which performs as a tree fractal system which is able to intersect two perpendicular flows. The one for people and the other one for the water. The structure will change from a vertical, regular system on both sides of the river and will change into a horizontal orientated system to response to the massive pressure of the water. The structure will perform as both, pure structure and as penstock, according to program and position.
This system reacts on several parameters and changes thickness, direction, openings and scale where the program from overall scale to detailed parts is requiring this.



Project by Gustav Duesing
at the Architectural Association, London