Weekly architecture news 2009/12/18

Monday, the 14th of December 2009

‘DRAGEN’ CHILDREN’S HOUSE
Odense, Denmark
C. F. Møller Architects

The integrated kindergarten 'Dragen' sets new standards, as a sustainable and pedagogically thought-through design. All components are 'Nordic Swan' eco-labelled. The construction is a certified passive-house, using a minimum of energy. And the children's needs and well-being has been the main driver in the design ... read more

Tuesday, the 15th of December 2009

ZAGREB DANCE CENTER
Zagreb, Croatia
3LHD

The opening of big movieplex cinemas in Zagreb has led to the dying out of old cinema theatres in the city centre. The City of Zagreb, who is the owner of the old cinema Lika, decided to reuse the space for new cultural facilities. In that scenario old cinema Lika was given the role of a new dance centre ... read more

Wednesday, the 16th of December 2009

TALBOT SPECIALIST SCHOOL
Sheffield, UK
HLM Architects

HLM Architects’ landscape architecture team has completed major landscaping works at Newfield with Talbot Specialist School in Sheffield. The work comes as part of a £22.2 million overall improvement programme. Newfield School has space for 1125 students aged 11-16 years, with Talbot catering for 120 students with special needs aged 11-18. The schools have been built on the same site, sharing some facilities, and allowing for students of both schools to integrate and work together ... read more

Thursday, the 17th of December 2009

ZAMET CENTRE
Rijeka, Croatia
3LHD

Situated in Rijeka’s quarter Zamet, the new Zamet Centre in complete size of 16830 m2 hosts various facilities: sports hall with max 2380 seats, local community offices, library, 13 retail and service spaces and a garage with 250 parking spaces. The goal and a perpetual guideline for the project were the evaluation and a minimum distortion of the existing urban environment. One third of the sports hall volume is cut in the ground, and the rest of the Centre is fully fitted into the surrounding landscape ... read more

Friday, the 18th of December 2009

MOUNTAIN REFUGE
Farellones, Chile
Nicolás del Rio y Max Núñez - dRN ARCHITECTS

The Refuge Los Canteros is located in Farellones, a Mountain village in the Andes, 45 minutes east from Santiago. Mountain Lodges normally receive more people than they can lodge. More mountain gear than they can store, more logs than they can burn. A new Lodge should foresee this situation. Hence the first decision was to divide the programme in three plans. Minimum useful bedrooms on the first floor, open living and kitchen spaces on the second, and a technical Hall on the third. Thus the main entrance resulted at the roof top ... read more