House in Yamasaki with rooftop sheds by Tato Architects The top floor rooms of this house in Japan by Tato Architects are contained inside sheds that sit on the roof (+ slideshow). Located in a residential area in Hyogo Prefecture, the house was designed for a family with two children. "The residents requested that, as the area has short hours of sunlight in winter, they'd like to bring in as much light as possible," architect Yo Shimada of Tato Architects told Dezeen. To achieve this, the architect designed two of the rooftop sheds like greenhouses with translucent polycarbonate walls that let light through into the study room and bathroom contained inside, as well as down to the ground floor spaces below. A layer of translucent insulation prevents the bathroom walls becoming too transparent.
diller scofidio + renfro Open standards such as HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly have continually matured over the years and serve as viable alternatives for Flash content. Also, major browser vendors are integrating these open standards into their browsers and deprecating most other plug-ins (like Flash Player). See Flash Player EOL announcements from Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. Competitions - Joonas Ala-Karvia I believe that taking part in different design or architectural competitions every once in a while is a fine way to seek fresh ideas, improve and test one's ways of doing or trying new and different, candid approaches. These are some of the competitions I've managed to take part in so far. Proposal for the Aalto University Builders of the Future memorial competition - honorary mention
Best Commercial and Residential Architects in Melbourne : Wolf Architects WOLF ARCHITECTS is an award winning international practice with its headquarters based in Melbourne, Australia. Its mission is to enhance lives through carefully considered building design with a responsibility to the environment as well as the end users. From small low cost houses to high rise commercial and high end multi-level residential projects, we aim to surpass client expectations. As an architectural practice with a diverse background, our clients benefit from a multicultural team of commercial and residential architects with worldly knowledge and experience. The WOLF design team is lead by Taras Wolf, a graduate of the University of Melbourne who has returned to his alma mater to teach the next generation of architects.
ALA Bjarke Ingels Group Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is offering a Business Development Coordinator position in their New York City office. Start date is mid-May/early June, and the position is paid and full-time. The salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. As a Business Development Coordinator, you will: -Give active support to the Business Development team; Bjarke Ingels Group Helsinki Central Library, We arechitecture + jaja architects Unique to the culture of Finland is the importance of its beautiful landscape. The site’s connection to the Töölönlahti area presents an opportunity to connect a cultural building to this cultural value. Just as the diversity and character of the Finnish landscape creates a unique national identity, we envision the Central Library’s unique context as an opportunity to create a narrative between landscape and library. Our proposal, the ‘Learning Landscape,’ will create a library that brings the qualities of Töölönlahti into the heart of Helsinki. We propose to lift the library’s volume above a completely open ground floor to extend Töölönlahti’s landscape directly into the city. This gesture creates a topography of programmed spaces within the ground floor lobby.