ARCHITECTURE LIST

PROJECT: New Finnish Embassy in Tokyo
LOCATION: Tokyo/Japan
TYPE: Invited Competiition
PROGRAM: 4.000 Embassy, 10.000 Housing
SITE: A tight hilltop plot in in Minato-Ku, currently occupied by a 70’s embassy building.
DESCRIPTION: –
CLIENT: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland
TEAM: Juho Grönholm, Antti Nousjoki, Janne Teräsvirta, Samuli Woolston with Risto Wikberg, Jan Galecky, Aleksi Niemeläinen
COLLABORATORS: Ramboll

Project information from Emergent Architecture:
The Garak Fish Market is the largest wholesale market in Korea. It covers 54 hectares or 540,000 square meters of land and is one kilometer long. This project, undertaken with Chang-jo Architects, was an invited competition intended to explore the future of the development of the market and in particular, how it could become more integrated with the city and the surrounding neighborhoods. Of particular concern was the visual chaos and smell associated with the market, and whether or not some type of enclosure was warranted.

Project description by Takao Shiotsuka Aatelier:
A banquet hall and one set of marriage ceremony hall. The requirements from a client: A ceremony room is a capacity of 40. Space like a cave. Space which descends to the deep place toward the center. In contrast with it, it is bright and a lounge is open space. While making a matter for these direction concrete form, It was necessary to plan existing banquet hall and gardens relations with the environment of the circumference adjacent at the same time.

Project Description by ODOS Architects: Set in an industrial area of dublin city centre, these three mews dwellings appear from the street as a mysterious, robust and impenetrable mass. The cantilevered upper section is a composition of powder coated metal industrial flooring planks, arranged in varying widths to create a rhythm and have been periodically doubled in depth creating a moire or interference pattern. Views of foliage and tree tops coming through and over the front screen hint at what lies beyond and it is only as you pass through the metal exterior that the warm, light filled heart of the building is exposed. The interior of each dwelling is an experience of colour, light and shadow.

From Kristin Jarmund Architects: The project was awarded 1.prize in an invited competition. Kristin Jarmund Architects in collaboration with C. F. Møller Architects, has won a major competition to design a spectacular new landmark project in the city of Oslo, for the client KLP Eiendom AS, one of Norway’s largest property investors. The project, which has been dubbed “Crystal Clear”, consists of three towers, which grow organically from the ground to form a sculptural cluster, and are composed of stacked, prismatic volumes.

As described by gigaplex Architects: A cozy home to accommodate single man and weekend guests, including grandchildren, next to Provo River. Two linked corrugated metal grain silos arranged to allow the largest (27’ diameter) to have the most proximate visual and aural access to the Provo River, and the southern exposure to ensure passive solar heat gain during the winter. An electric mesh is embedded into the slabs of the lower floor as a first auxiliary heat source, and a propane-burning stove (manageable by internet) will provide the back-up. The metal grating and guard rail of the second level deck will provide shading into this great-room space during the summer months. Includes a “Bed in a Box” concept, each one complete with stereo sound and flat screen monitor.

From Hamiltons: The 1.5 acre site in central Hammersmith has lain empty for many years, an eyesore in the busy town centre. The redevelopment proposal is for an office led, mixed-use scheme with restaurants and a cinema with a new landscaped public realm area. The building will be a landmark in the town, and its use of curved surfaces both on plan and in elevation soften the impact on its immediate neighbours. This approach which uses curved forms presents a less aggressive form in the streetscape.

As described by BIG: The National Library is conceived as the integration of 4 organizational strategies into one new national institution:

- The perfect circle of the national archives
- The orbiting spiral of the public spaces
- The complex geometry of the Möbius envelope
- The radially distributed section of the Kazakh landscape