[Photos: Paul Rivera / arcphoto.com for Rojkind Arquitectos]
The new Nestlé Lab in Querétaro, Mexico, was designed in 2007 and has just been completed.
The main challenge of this project were the restrictions to build imposed by UNESCO, being Querétaro a World Heritage site — therefore in designing new buildings certain architectural elements must be used, like, e.g., the use of arched entrances and arcades.
Rojkind Arquitectos reinterpreted the concept of arched entrance, designing a series of dome segments that mark the entrances of the buildings, “biting” the metallic exteriors to reveal orange interiors.
Architectural project: Rojkind Arquitectos
Structural engineering: Juan Felipe Heredia
Façade engineering: VYCISA
Construction: SLCI ENGINEER / Jose Soli
Interiors: ESRAWE DISEÑO / Arne Quinze
[via LA76 Strategic Design]
No more interrupted-by-rain tennis games: at Wimbledon they’ve set up a brand new retractable roof system.
UK-based firm, Capita Symonds, provided structural engineering for the roof, made of Tenara architectural fabric, a lightweight yet durable and tensile (and of course waterproof!) non-toxic, recycleable fluoropolymer, which can be pulled on trusses to cover the 5200 square metres over the tennis court in less than 10 minutes, providing a 40% translucent shield, therefore not blocking the natural light.
The new roof will be ready in time for the Centre Court Celebration matches on Sunday 17 May.
[via World Architecture News]
When photographing buildings, beware of which building you’re pointing your camera at: Edward Denison, a British photographer, was held in custody as a terrorist suspect (see: Prevention of Terrorism Act), because he was taking a pic of a building which, incidentally, is the City of London Police headquarters, at 37 Wood Street.
You can read his story on Open Democracy.
(via the CHAT mailing list, thanks to Paul Belford)
Talking about buildings consolidation — now — is pretty pointless, so I’ll leave that post for another time.
What we can do now is help by / Cosa possiamo fare:
- giving blood / donare sangue — please contact / contattare Avis or Fidas;
- help out as volunteers / aiutare come volontari — please contact / contattare Protezione Civile c/o Prefettura di Pescara: (+39) 085 2057631;
- giving non-perishable, non out-of-date food / donare generi di prima necessità — please contact / contattare Banco Alimentare.
- donating to Italian Red Cross /fare una donazione alla Croce Rossa Italiana — some 200 of their volunteers are already there to help, others are on their way.
If you have any other suggestion on how to help, please post them in the comments here or on the dedicated FriendFeed room. A wiki page listing useful contacts has also been created in order to help.
Se avete altri suggerimenti su come dare una mano, per favore scriveteli nei commenti qui o nell’apposita room su FriendFeed. E’ anche stata creata una pagina wiki con informazioni e contatti utili.
Frank Gehry has been commissioned the design of a memorial to honour the late US President Dwight Eisenhower to be built in Washington.
It will be Gehry’s first work in Washington (excluding the designed but never built addition to the Corcoran Gallery of Art) and the seventh presidential memorial built there.
The project is due to be completed in five years and will allegedly cost between $90 million to $120 million.
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