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For architects, thinking outside the box often goes hand-in-hand with the job description, but sometimes the box doesn't even come into the equation. These occasions can result in some very memorable, innovative and thought-provoking projects, and with this in mind and the end of the year in sight, Gizmag celebrates ten notable architectural oddities.
Although the Guangzhou Circle Mansion bears more than a passing resemblance to something you'd expect to find in Homer Simpson's lunchbox, it is definitely a completed building.
Based in an industrial district of Guangzhou, China, the Circle Mansion was designed by Italian architecture firm A.M. Progetti. It serves as home to the Guangdong Plastic Exchange, and also hosts a number of office units and a hotel. The Guangzhou Circle Mansion rises to a height of 138 m (452 ft) high, and casts a reflection in a nearby river that makes it look like the number 8 a very lucky number in Chinese culture.
Tokyo regularly punches above its weight in the weird architecture stakes, but the S House remains an oddity even by that city's standards. Taking up a footprint of 50 sq m (538 sq ft), the house features a completely transparent glass facade and presumably a very high window cleaner's bill. Impractical? Very, though at least the bathroom and master bedroom are sunk beneath street level and so is less open to passers-by than the photos may suggest.
"I'm trying to present [S-House] as a prototype of architectural space suitable for the age of the network and information," explains architect Yuusuke Karasawa (via Google Translate).
You could make a decent argument for including all of Alex Chinneck's projects in this roundup of odd architecture, but we'll limit ourselves to just one. The British architectural artist recently left visitors to London's Covent Garden scratching their heads with an amazing building that appears to float in mid-air.
Titled Take my lightning but dont steal my thunder, the prefabricated building is primarily made from CNC'd polystyrene, and appears to levitate 10 feet in the air, completely unsupported. A 14 tonne (15.68 US tons) steel framework and a 4 tonne counterweight were used in the project, and Chinneck also had help from a large team of specialists to make his vision become reality. Alas, the installation was only temporary and as of writing is no more.
The JF-Kit House by Spanish collective Elii Architecture draws its inspiration from fitness icon Jane Fonda. The project imagines a future of parasitic architecture that operates off-grid not with solar power or other renewable energy, mind you, but with a good old-fashioned workout.
Elii Architecture envisions such off-the-wall ideas as a hand-cranked email station, an energy-producing dance floor, a hand-cranked kitchen, and a greenhouse that's somehow watered by performing squats. Clearly, it isn't going to be a practical method of living any time soon, though is a definite example of what can happen when architects let their imaginations run wild.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a huge penthouse apartment in Lower Manhattan that features a massive 24 m (80 ft) slide, a climbing wall, glass floors, and a private elevator which is perhaps the same thing after all ...
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Prince of Wales wrote manifesto as part of 'big rethink' on city planning He denied claims he 'wanting to turn the clock back to some Golden Age' List included burying wires and street signs and building mansion blocks But one professor said the ideas were 'socially repressive and elitist'
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Published: 01:29 EST, 22 December 2014 | Updated: 05:18 EST, 22 December 2014
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Critics have accused Prince Charles of being 'elitist' after he drew up a guide for city planners which attempts to banish unsightly concrete, phone wires, tower blocks and cars.
The prince wrote his ten-point plan as part of a 'big rethink' on how to design cities for a world population expected to hit almost 10billion by 2050.
Despite denying he wanted to return Britain to a 'Golden Age', his list prompted mixed responses among architecture experts.
Rethink: Prince Charles at his new-build town of Poundbury in Dorset. He has written a ten-point guide for city architects which shuns wires, cars, concrete and tower blocks in favour of traditional principles
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Charrette Venture Group has announced their 2015 Architecture Business Plan Competition for architects who are considering starting their own design firm and for existing architectural firms that have been in business for ten years or less. The first prize winner of the competition will receive $10,000.
Eligible participants must be a licensed architect in the U.S. or Canada, and, if operating an existing design firm, must have been in business for ten years or less. Interested architects should register online by February 3, 2015, and a three-page summary of their business plan must be submitted by March 3, 2015. The winners will be announced at a special reception in Atlanta, Georgia during the American Institute of Architects national convention on May 14, 2015. There is no cost to enter the competition. For detailed rules, the full competition timeline, and additional resources on how to write a business plan, please visit the competition website at http://www.architectbusinessplancompetition.com.
Our 2014 business plan competition was a great success, and we are very pleased to continue the competition in 2015. There is tremendous interest in the architecture profession about entrepreneurship, and there is a clear need for more resources to help architects be successful as entrepreneurs, said Matt Ostanik, President and Founder, Charrette Venture Group, and himself a registered architect in state of Iowa. The goal of the competition is to encourage more architects to start their own firms and to inspire a broader dialog about the role of entrepreneurship in our profession.
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The Charlotte City Council has extended the retail contract with Paradies Shops LLC to manage stores inside Charlotte Douglas International Airport terminal.
The original contract, awarded in 2010, was set to expire in 2017. But council members voted in early December to grant Paradies a five-year extension that will keep it in Charlotte Douglas through 2022.
The city extended the contract because it is expanding two parts of the airports main terminal. The expansion will include new retail and restaurant space, including two new retail stores in the west terminal expansion and five new stores in an east terminal expansion.
Paradies also will operate those stores. The City Council said it will require a significant investment by Paradies.
Construction on a three-story, $10.5 million terminal expansion of the west side of the terminal started in 2013. The project is scheduled to be finished in early 2015. The new stores will total 2,650 square feet. The expansion will connect Security Checkpoint A with Concourse B.
The $9 million east-side terminal expansion started design work last spring. The two-story, 32,000-square-foot expansion will create a new food court and 2,700 square feet of retail space.
The airport also is planning a $32 million renovation of the terminal and concourses in 2015.
Atlanta-based Paradies today operates stores in Charlotte such as Lacoste, EA Sports and Brooks Brothers.
Terry Wimpy, the Paradies general manager for Charlotte, said the company doesnt have any firm commitments yet for the new space.
He said the new stores would likely be a combination of news and gifts and some nationally branded stores.
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Dec. 21, 2014, 9:42 p.m.
They'd just moved into their first home when they engaged the services of Illawarra tradie.
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Mangertoncouple Amy Wyatt and Brett Williams had just moved into their first home when they engaged Lauren Gavin to seal some faulty valleys in their roof.
The Bellambi contractor and convicted conman, according to the Department of Fair Trading, spent just hours at the couples house but it was enough to cause thousands of dollars worth of damage to their dream home.
On October 14 this year, Dr Wyatt found rain streaming into her six-week-old daughters bedroom from a leak in the roof, drenching the carpet and the wall.
Prior to Mr Gavins visit, the couple had not observed any water leaking inside their house even during heavy rain.
The pair contacted their home insurer, AAMI, and a different roofer, to come out and assess the damage.
Both bodies found the roof leak had been caused by a corroded valley, which had not been repaired by Mr Gavin as requested.
The couple were devastated.
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Roof flashing around chimneys can separate from the brick, allowing rainwater to leak inside the house. To repair loose roof chimney flashing: chisel to remove any hardened roofing cement....
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