World Architecture News – March 2009 : Buildings across the Globe, Images

Global Architecture News March 2009

Architectural Design Developments in Mar 2009 – World Built Environment

Global Architectural News – Mar 2009

World Architectural Highlights in Mar 2009
This is the e-architect archive page for Architecture News March 2009.

Chen House : C-Laboratory

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The house is realized on an old Japanese cherry-farm in the Datun mountains of North-Taiwan. It is designed as a vessel to react on the demanding wind, flooding and heat conditions on the site. The house is a stick raised above the ground in order to let the flood waters run under it.

Taipei Performing Arts Center Design by Morphosis
The Performing Arts Center embraces Taiwanese culture’s reverence for the theater as a fundamentally open art form. The Center is conceived not only as a ceremonial setting for theater as high art, but moreover as an inclusive “People’s Theater” that is woven into everyday life.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 image : SANAA

Ensamble Studio : Studio Profile

Chambers of Commerce Madrid Building : Rafael de La-Hoz
The High Council of The Chambers of Commerce of Madrid project was limited to designing a construction employing these two meanings. On a rectangular site close to the Madrid ringroad and on a rock base we deposited a hermetic concrete box as though it were an object.

Habitat 67 : historic monument

Tate Modern Extension News : Herzog & de Meuron Architects

SNFCC Athens news : Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Art Museum Strongoli : COOP HIMMELB(L)AU

Hainburg Church : COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
In less than a year a protestant church was built in the centre of the Lower Austrian town Hainburg. The shape of the building is derived from that of a huge “table”, with its entire roof construction resting on the legs of the “table” – four steel columns.

Yellow Treehouse Restaurant : Pacific Environments Architects

Central Embassy Bangkok : Amanda Levete Architects

C.F. Hansen Medal : Kim Herforth Nielsen

National Maritime Museum London : C. F. Møller Architects

Grand Paris Métropole Douce : LIN

OZEANEUM Stralsund : Behnisch Architekten

Le Corbusier Exhibition London : The Interior of the Cabanon

Nizhny Novgorod Sports complex : Wilkinson Eyre Architects

MAD : New Images

Songdo Convensia : KPF

Paris Plus petit vision : MVRDV

Korinkyo House designed by Nakayama Architects