David Chipperfield Architects and Karakusevic Carson Architects have completed two tall residential buildings in Hoxton, East London. The development lies on the fringes of the 1950’s era Colville Estate and is part of Hackney council’s estate regeneration programme.
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Although the 198 apartments are private in tenure, their sale is helping subsidise new affordable housing on the estate. The hexagonal, brick-clad towers are 16 and 20 storeys respectively and contain 198 apartments. Positioned in the corners of an irregular plot, they create a landscaped space in between that acts as a gateway between the estate and Shoreditch Park. Handmade bricks of a different colour and set in a stack bond are used on each tower; a blue/grey for the western tower, and red for the eastern one. The buildings are rotated in relation to one another to maximise daylight, views, and to minimise overlooking, resulting in a dynamic composition that addresses its urban context in all directions. The December issue of Arquitectura Viva, which focuses on subterranean architecture, celebrates the Cavea Arcari project on its cover.
This performance space is located within the former Arcari white stone quarries in the hills near Vicenza in Italy. The vast, cathedral-like spaces appear both man-made and natural, with space, material and structure all formed from the same stone.
Inside is an article about the project which was developed by David Chipperfield Architects Milan for Barbara and Deborah Morseletto. The project was inaugurated in May 2018 with a performance by the English composer Michael Nyman. Barth, the interior furnishing company renowned for its wood craftsmanship, has selected David Chipperfield Architects Milan for their annual wine box commission. The design is inspired by ki-oke, the traditional Japanese wooden buckets that are used for a variety of purposes, from storing rice and miso paste to holding water for bathing. The precise craftsmanship required for Ki-oke production has been honed over centuries of teaching and is built on traditional techniques that date back 700 years. Individual sections of the bucket are fixed together using inconspicuous bamboo pins to form perfect joints that are almost imperceptible to the eye.
The Barth Wine Box, produced using similar techniques, is a long octagonal container with a lift-off lid. While the primary role of the box is to hold a wine bottle, it is crafted as a durable object which can be re-used for other purposes. Image © Juergen Eheim. On 10 December the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) celebrates its 250th anniversary.
The Academy was founded by King George III in 1768, making it the oldest arts institution in Britain. In May this year the RA opened its newly expanded campus. The project involved connecting Burlington House, their historic Piccadilly home, with 6 Burlington Gardens, a former academic building located immediately to the north. As well as connecting the two buildings, spaces were reconfigured to significantly expand the institution’s cultural programme. The project includes a new public route through the two buildings, the reinstatement, in a contemporary form, of a semi-circular lecture theatre and the restoration of the former Senate Room to serve as a cafeteria. The historic laboratory rooms were re-aligned as an enfilade of day-lit gallery spaces.
Image © Simon Menges. The James Simon Galerie, which serves as the new entrance building to Berlin’s Museum Island, is nearly complete. On 13 December, the building will officially be handed over to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Over the coming months the interiors will be fitted out with the building set to open to the public in summer 2019. As the new gateway to Museum Island, the James Simon Galerie is designed to receive large numbers of visitors, housing all the facilities required by a contemporary museum. These include an auditorium and temporary exhibition spaces. As well as supplementing the museological programme, the James Simon Galerie reorganises urban relations and accessibility within Museum Island. Together with the ‘Archaeological Promenade’, which will link four museums at basement level, it forms the backbone of the masterplan that was developed by the practice in 1999 and adopted as the basis for all further planning on Museum Island.
Image © Ute Zscharnt. The Amorepacific headquarters in Seoul has been honoured with the for best tall building during an awards ceremony at Tate Modern in London on 27 November. The jury described the building as: 'Head and shoulders above any new tall building in London. It is simple yet complex – it turns a fairly basic overall gesture into something that responds to the city. Interesting use of voids and negative space to break up the scale of the high-rise.
Very delicate and elegant for what is essentially a megastructure.' Image © Noshe.
In his role as ambassador for the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 David Chipperfield gave the opening speech at the Denkmal and MUTEC trade fairs in Leipzig 7 November. David argued for a more holistic understanding of protection and conservation, focusing less on the merits of individual buildings and more on the complex character of our cities, towns and villages. Calling for an approach that neither fetishises historic fabric, distancing it from the present, nor abandons all existing values completely under the forces of investment. By treating the past as an active part of the present, the value of the ordinary can be better appreciated and new architecture can make a more positive contribution to the wider built environment.
Denkmal is dedicated to topics surrounding the conservation, restoration and renovation of historic monuments while MUTEC is an international trade fair for museum and exhibition technology. The November issue of Wallpaper magazine features the San Michele cemetery in Venice including photography of the project alongside an interview with Giuseppe Zampieri, Partner and Design Director of DCA Milan. ‘Being an island cemetery in the Venetian lagoon, the conditions of San Michele make it pretty unique. In recent years, however, the increasingly municipal character has become a contrast to its romantic exterior. Our design tried to address this imbalance and restore some of the cemetery’s original monumental physical qualities.
Rather than the existing arrangement of tombs in parallel rows, the scheme is a new arrangement of walls enclosing rectangular courtyards. The walls are blind on the exterior but lined with burial recesses internally to emphasise this interiority and sense of intimacy.’. Barbican Art Gallery will open a retrospective of the work of American artist Lee Krasner (1904-84) in an exhibition designed by David Chipperfield Architects. Krasner was one of the original abstract expressionists and spent over fifty years exploring new approaches to art.
The exhibition, opening in May 2019, will include nearly 100 works from her long-spanning career, including large and small-scale paintings, drawings and collages as well as rare photography and film. Image: Lee Krasner dressed as a bohemian. David Chipperfield has been honored with the ABB LEAF Award for Lifetime Achievement at a ceremony in Frankfurt-am-Main.
The award is given annually to an architect ‘who has made an outstanding, lasting contribution to his/her field, transforming the way we discuss and process our built environment’. He was presented the award by Peter Cachola Schmal, director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt.
In his acceptance speech David spoke about the need for architects to engage in societal issues, arguing that their skills mean that they are uniquely placed to understand the complex relationship between the physical and the social. Established in 2001, LEAF (Leading European Architecture Forum) is an international architecture symposium, that each year addresses key themes affecting the industry.
The first LEAF Awards were handed out in 2004. Image © Simon Menges. Ssense Montreal is the first of what is likely to be a series of stores for SSENSE, the Canadian online fashion retailer. The extreme physicality of the space, which is made from a new black sandblasted concrete, cast in-situ, embodies the company’s intention to expand their presence beyond the digital into the experiential. Far from the traditional idea of a store it acts as a cultural and social hub, reflecting in built form the diverse nature of its digital platform. The concept was developed by David Chipperfield Architects Milan in collaboration with the Ssense team in Montreal.
Opened earlier this year, the store sets new precedents for the retail world. American architect, urbanist, writer and educator, Denise Scott Brown has been awarded the 2018 Soane Medal following a presentation of her lecture in London.
The annual lecture and corresponding medal were established last year to recognise individuals who have made a significant contribution to architectural culture and discourse, building on the legacy of Sir John Soane. Scott Brown’s lecture was pre-recorded at her home in Philadelphia and took the form of a narrated history of her early life and the experiences that shaped her later practice, illustrated by her own extraordinary photography. In his capacity as a trustee of Sir John Soane’s Museum London, David Chipperfield delivered the closing remarks, highlighting the significance of Scott Brown as an example to the profession for her social engagement and broad understanding of the built environment.
Fittingly the lecture was screened in the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, a building designed by Scott Brown with her late partner and husband Robert Venturi. Image by John Morgan studio. Observer architecture critic Rowan Moore has written about Hoxton Press, Colville Estate, as part of an article on Hackney’s new council house building programme.
While the two towers, designed by David Chipperfield Architects and Karakusevic Carson Architects, are for private sale, the money raised by their sale will cross-subsidise new social housing on the Colville estate. The towers showcase a positive initiative by local authorities to become more proactively engaged in housing provision and property development, ensuring that it is considered within the wider ideas of community and urbanity.
Following a multi-stage international competition, David Chipperfield Architects Shanghai has been commissioned to restore the Shanghai Municipal Council Building (SMCB) and complete its unfinished wing. Filling an entire urban block in the old city centre, the SMCB is listed as a Cultural Heritage Building and was formerly the site of the British Municipal Council and later the Shanghai Municipal Government. Due to material shortages after World War I, construction ended in 1922 with only two thirds of the building complete. In addition to opening the existing buildings for public use, the new extension will complete the originally proposed volume, framing a large central public courtyard.
Edinburgh is a city with a rich cultural heritage that plays host to the world’s largest performing arts festival every August. The proposed IMPACT (International Music and Performing Arts Charitable Trust) Centre will be Edinburgh’s first new dedicated space for music and the performing arts in 100 years, addressing a long-identified need. Located within the city’s UNESCO World Heritage Site at the eastern end of its Georgian New Town, the public building is shaped internally by the acoustic requirements of the 1,000-seat concert hall, and externally by its celebrated urban environment.
Image © Hayes Davidson. The DCA exhibition at the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza has been extended to run until Sunday 7 October. The presentation for each of the seventeen recent and ongoing projects on display has been developed by their respective design team. The material exhibited varies according to the design stage of each project; from early rough sketches and concept models, to photographs and films of recently completed works. Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday: 10:00 – 13:00 and 17:00 – 20:00 Saturday and Sunday 10:00 – 20:00 Closed Mondays Image © Simon Menges.
Guest edited by Fulvio Irace, the special issue 1025 of Domus is dedicated to Italian manufacturing, focusing on the very best of Italian industries and their strong relationship with neighboring regions. The issue includes a feature on the installation of the exhibition David Chipperfield Architects Works 2018 at the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza (12 May - 2 September), which is the product of close collaboration between the design team and local companies, in particular UniFor and Viabizzuno. Rooted in Italian tradition, UniFor and Viabizzuno created bespoke paneling and lighting for the exhibition, fusing traditional craftsmanship with industrial production. The June issue of Detail magazine, focusing on concrete construction, features an article on the new entrance building for Museum Island in Berlin, the James Simon Galerie.
Although largely made from prefabricated concrete elements, with exposed in-situ walls and ceilings, the building adheres to the principles of traditional post-and-beam structures. The concrete contains locally quarried white marble chippings (Lengefelder Marmor) and has sandblasted surfaces, giving the building a pale finish that contrasts with the neighbouring Pergamon Museum and warmer sandstone of the Neues Museum. The James Simon Galerie is also the subject of David Chipperfield Architects’ contribution to the the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia and is on display at the David Chipperfield Architects Works 2018 exhibition in Vicenza.
To celebrate the inauguration of the Cava Arcari project in Zovencedo, and the David Chipperfield Architects Works 2018 exhibition in nearby Vicenza, composer Michael Nyman performed on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 May in the caves. In the first part Michael Nyman gave a solo piano recital with excerpts of the soundtracks of Wonderland, Gattaca, The Piano and The Diary of Anne Frank. In the second part he conducted four saxophone quartets ( Michael Nyman Sax Quartet, Elise Hall Saxophone Quartet, Marici Saxes and Ensemble 4Saxes) that performed other masterpieces, including I Sonetti Lussuriosi, Out of the Ruins and Songs for Tony. The performances took place on different platforms, named Cavea (stepped tiers as referred to in ancient Roman theatres), designed by David Chipperfield Architects Milan for Laboratorio Morseletto.
Both the ambient and stage lighting, designed by Viabizzuno, enhanced the unique atmosphere for this new events space. The caves are the result of many years of quarrying which left a cavernous space supported by irregular massive piers. The Cavea project reintroduced the typical white Vicenza stone with a series of platforms, steps and ramps, reminiscent of Adolphe Appia’s stage sets. The surrounding chambers, mostly filled with water, lit from below, offered a visual spectacle supporting the immersive soundscape produced by Michael Nyman and his musicians.
Image © Alessandra Chemollo. On Saturday 20 May, for Open!, David Chipperfield Architects Milan organised an exhibition in their atelier, showcasing nine lamps and a selection of drawings by Italian architect and designer Umberto Riva. The exhibition’s title Chipperfield approda a Riva: incontro sulla stessa sponda del Naviglio Grande (Chipperfield approaches Riva: meeting on the same bank of the Canal), is a play on words that pays tribute to DCA Milan's neighbour, with whom they have established a professional friendship.
The exhibition has now been extended for the second edition of Arch-Week, running 23 to 27 May. Image © Mario Carrieri. The new entrance building for Museum Island, Berlin, the James Simon Galerie, is featured in the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara under the title Freespace. Beyond Purpose shows a drawing by Karl Friedrich Schinkel of the stair hall in the Altes Museum, a public gesture that has been a continuous reference in the design of the James Simon Galerie with its open staircases and colonnades. The installation also incorporates an animated film tracing movement through the James Simon Galerie, a sound installation by Hans Peter Kuhn, and an urban model of Museum Island. Beyond Purpose is situated in the Central Pavilion at the Giardini. The 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia is open from 26 May to 25 November 2018.
The James Simon Galerie itself is due for completion at the end of the year. Image © Christof Piaskowski. The first public lecture in the new Benjamin West lecture theatre at the Royal Academy of Arts will be delivered by David Chipperfield 21 May. The 250-seat lecture theatre is one part of the newly transformed RA campus, which opened 19 May.
It is the contemporary reinstatement of a double-height, semi-circular auditorium that existed in the original 6 Burlington Gardens building. Part of the brief for the RA project was to create better spaces for conversation and debate, in line with the founding principles of the Academy.
The lecture marks the beginning of a new and expanded public programme of events for the Royal Academy’s 250th anniversary. This weekend marks the public opening of the Royal Academy of Arts' newly transformed campus. As part of the masterplan, for which the practice was appointed in 2008, a new route has been created through the RA's historic home of Burlington House to 6 Burlington Gardens with its new gallery spaces and a reinstated lecture theatre. This connection significantly expands both the institution’s public space and programme, as well as revealing the RA Schools and creating a designated gallery for its historic collection for the first time. The completion coincides with the RA's 250th anniversary.
Image © Simon Menges Recent press:. Proposals for a new contemporary art gallery in Adelaide, Southern Australia, go on display from 14 May until 10 June. David Chipperfield Architects + SJB with Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture is one of six teams shortlisted for the project. Forming a key part of the city’s cultural and civic corridor along North Terrace, the Adelaide Contemporary will complement its parent institution, the Art Gallery of South Australia, where the shortlisted designs will be on show. The winner will be announced later this year. 'The museum plays an increasingly important role in modern society. They are places of sanctuary and a refuge from distractions of daily life, but they are also places of meeting and the exchange of ideas.
Besides housing objects and images, they allow for dialogue and interaction. Contemporary art is increasingly concerned with ideas and issues about our environment, our politics, and issues of gender and race. The contemporary art museum must provide a framework for the static; a place for reflection and thought, and the dynamic; a place for events, debate, and the exchange of ideas. The modern museum has to reach out to a larger audience and in doing so should appeal to a wider demographic without losing its central purpose to open our minds and stimulate our curiosity. Our project for the Adelaide Contemporary attempts to make a public building that is friendly and inviting. The enclosing and exclusive tendencies of museums are challenged by a building that is both protective and open, sophisticated and simple.
The enclosing timber screens and facades soften the potential monumentality of the museum while the sloping roofs make a welcoming gesture. The building stands where the city meets the park and reaches out to both. The main entrance court creates an impressive approach from North Terrace. The organisation of the building and its very character is stimulated by its unique relationship to the Botanic Gardens.
The building exploits its privileged location through its transparency and an opening-up to the garden courtyards on either side. Concerned with endowing the new gallery building with qualities beyond the white box, we adopted a timber construction that imposes strong and unique character while offering the flexibility necessary for a contemporary museum.' — David Chipperfield. A major new exhibition of recent and ongoing work by David Chipperfield Architects opens Saturday 12 May at the Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza. The exhibition consists of 17 projects by the offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai. A lecture by David Chipperfield with an introduction by Prof.
Francesco Dal Co will be held at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza on Saturday 12 May at 11:00am local time. The lecture will be streamed live by designboom.
Media contact [email protected] Image © Mario Carrieri. Furniture manufacturer e15 debuted its latest collaboration with David Chipperfield at the Salone del Mobile 2018 in Milan 17 April. Basis is an adaptable system of solid wood trestles and beams constructed using traditional joinery techniques.
In addition to European walnut and solid oak, the collection includes brown coloured glass that contrasts with the solid wood trestle base. The table represents a continued collaboration between David Chipperfield and e15, which began in 2015 with the Fayland product family. Image © e15 / Ingmar Kurth. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited the Royal Academy of Arts on 20 March, officially opening Burlington Gardens ahead of its public opening in May. She met with the teams involved in the redevelopment and restoration of the RA’s two historic buildings, Burlington House and Burlington Gardens.
These two buildings have been linked together as part of David Chipperfield Architects’ masterplan which also includes new galleries, more public space and a new lecture theatre. The building will open to the public 19 May. Image © Thomas Alexander photography. Casabella laboratorio, a space for exhibitions, conferences and debates run by Italian design magazine Casabella and ProViaggi Architettura, has inaugurated its new location near the David Chipperfield Architects Milan office. This proximity will make it possible to organise with DCA Milan a series of collaborative cultural events that will take place over the coming months.
The opening exhibition, devoted to the ‘Nomos’ table designed by Norman Foster and produced by Tecno, was inaugurated with a talk by Prof. Francesco Dal Co, Director of Casabella.
David Chipperfield and Christoph Felger will present the practice’s proposals for the Elbtower at a lecture in Hamburg 2 March. Last month it was announced that David Chipperfield Architects Berlin and SIGNA Prime Selection AG have been selected to design a new mixed-use office building in the city. The lecture marks the opening of an exhibition that will display all the various bidders’ designs for the tower featuring models and drawings. The lecture will begin at 18.30 and will take place at the Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity. The exhibition will run from 3 March until 18 March at the HafenCity InfoCenter in the Kesselhaus. The Royal Academy of Art’s new Benjamin West lecture theatre will be inaugurated on the 21 May with a talk by David Chipperfield.
The lecture celebrates the opening of the RA’s transformed campus, following an extensive restoration and redevelopment by the practice. The project links the institution’s historic home Burlington House and 6 Burlington Gardens, formerly part of the University of London. The 250-seat lecture theatre is a contemporary reinstatement of a double-height auditorium that existed in the original 6 Burlington Gardens building. The lecture marks the beginning of a new and expanded public programme of events for the Royal Academy’s 250th anniversary.
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Image © Rik Nys. Gerrit Wiesmann has written a feature on the refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie in which he uses the project as a case study to discuss the preservation of post-war buildings in Europe. Featured in the February issue of Monopol Magazin the article details the meticulous restoration process, explains how many of the building's imperfections were accepted rather than overcome, and looks at lessons that were learned from the restoration of other Mies van der Rohe buildings in the United States.
Fifty years after its completion in 1968, the Neue Nationalgalerie is currently undergoing extensive restoration for the first time. The design approach focuses on the careful treatment of the existing material fabric and adaption to modern museum standards. The building has been stripped down to its structure and will now be painstaking put back together to look and feel untouched. The reopening is scheduled for 2020.
Following an international competition David Chipperfield Architects Berlin and SIGNA Prime Selection AG have been selected to develop a new office and commercial building in the Hafencity district of Hamburg. The project was presented to the public at Hamburg City Hall on the 8 February in an event that was attended by the Mayor of Hamburg and other key representatives. At 230 metres Elbtower will become the tallest building in Hamburg, acting as both a counterpoint to the Elbphilharmonie and an entrance marker on the eastern edge of Hafencity.
For further information please contact [email protected]. On 30 January Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, visited ArkDes, Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design, in Stockholm. Their visit took place during the royal state visit to Sweden and focused on the cooperation between the United Kingdom and Sweden in the areas of architecture and design. During their tour through ArkDes, Christoph Felger, partner and design director of DCA Berlin, presented to the royal couple the office’s proposal for the future Nobel Centre and explained the design and concept behind the building.
In 2014, DCA Berlin won the competition for the design of the Nobel Center, Nobelhuset, which will give the Nobel Prize a home for the first time in its history. The new building will be situated as a ‘solitaire’ in a prominent water-edge position on Blasieholmen next to the Swedish National Museum in the centre of Stockholm.
Image © The British Embassy. An exhibition at the Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy.
12 May – 2 September 2018 The City of Vicenza, in collaboration with the cultural association Abacoarchitettura, have invited David Chipperfield Architects to create an exhibition at the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza from 12 May to 2 September 2018. The exhibition marks the return of contemporary architecture exhibitions to the Salone Superiore which was closed for extensive restoration 12 years ago, and emphasises the important role that architectural culture plays in the history and identity of the city. David Chipperfield Architects Works 2018 will display a selection of 15 current and recent projects by the practice at varying stages in their development, exposing the range of activities that take place in an architecture studio today. For further information please contact or. The Milan office appears in the January/February edition of the Italian magazine Icon Design as the setting for a new furniture feature by photographer Gerhardt Kellerman and set designers Martina Lucatelli and Leadro Favarolo. Pieces by designers including Konstantin Grcic and Jasper Morrison are arranged within the active office space, alongside project models and photographs. As captured in the feature, this basement level area was refurbished to create a flexible new atelier for working, meeting, presentation and display.
A convivial and domestic atmosphere is generated through the use of materials such as pastellone, plaster and soft fabrics. During his state visit to China last week, French president Emmanuel Macron reconfirmed France’s agreement with the Chinese authorities to establishing a new Centre Pompidou in Shanghai. A protocol between the Pompidou and the West Bund Group, was signed last year and the centre is to be housed in the West Bund Art Museum, currently under construction. Previously described by the Centre Pompidou as “the most important long-term cultural exchange project” between France and China, the museum is scheduled to open to the public in early 2019. Image by Zhexu Du for David Chipperfield Architects. Best wishes for the new year.
Many projects will come to fruition in 2018. Two residential tower projects will complete in Hackney, London and Bryant Park in New York respectively. The new Duke Street link building for Selfridges in London will complete the department store’s redesign. The Royal Academy of Arts’ project, which joins Burlington House with 6 Burlington Gardens is due to open in time for the institution’s 250th anniversary.
The Zhejiang Natural History Museum will be inaugurated in China while the James Simon Galerie, the new entrance building for Museum Island in Berlin, will complete. A new headquarters for Amorepacific, Korea’s largest cosmetics company, will officially open in Seoul and a major exhibition on the work of all four offices will be on display at the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza. A revised edition of the Walther Koenig / Thames and Hudson monograph published in 2013 is due to come out next month including over 30 new projects. Image © David Chipperfield Architects. A short film, offering a look at the ongoing construction of the James Simon Galerie in Berlin, has been released by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums).
The project is now at a key stage, with architectural work largely completed and work on the interiors starting. Project architect Urs Vogt leads a tour of the site, describing the relationship of the building to its wider context. The James Simon Galerie, which will form a new entrance to Museum Island and eventually provide access to the Pergamon, Bode-, Neues- and Altes-museums, is due to open in 2019. Following an international call for submissions, a team led by David Chipperfield Architects and SJB is one of six invited to participate in the competition to design a new contemporary art gallery in Adelaide, Southern Australia. The Adelaide Contemporary will complement its parent institution, The Art Gallery of South Australia and will form a key part of the city’s cultural and civic corridor along North Terrace.
The new art gallery will exhibit contemporary art from across the world, alongside historic and contemporary Aboriginal art from the Government of South Australia’s collection. The Royal Academy of Arts, London, has announced that it will open its new and transformed campus to the public on 19 May 2018 following a significant redevelopment and restoration. Linking Burlington House and Burlington Gardens both physically and programmatically, the redevelopment will create new galleries and public areas while also improving the general facilities. A link bridge between the two historic buildings, currently under construction (pictured), forms part of a new public route through the complex. Opening in time for the institution’s 250th anniversary next year, the RA will present an extended exhibition programme and free displays across the campus. Image © Francis Ware.
Abacoarchitettura has invited David Chipperfield Architects to create an exhibition at the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza, Italy, set to open 11 May 2018. It will be the first architectural exhibition held in the Basilica for over a decade, during which time the building was temporarily closed for extensive restoration. Between 1985 and 2006 Abacoarchitettura curated a series of contemporary architecture exhibitions dedicated to the work of Tadao Ando, Sverre Fehn, Alvaro Siza and Toyo Ito amongst others. The relaunch of this exhibition series underlines the organisers’ mission to enhance public awareness of architecture. A press conference will be held on 24 January in Vicenza.
More details to follow. Image © Rik Nys. The second phase of the redesign and refurbishment of Selfridges Accessories Hall opened today in the eastern wing of the department store’s classically-inspired building on Oxford Street, a year after the inauguration of the first phase in the north-east corner of the store’s building complex (the SWOD building). The new entrance building on Duke Street, opening in spring next year, is an architectural intervention that will connect these two phases.
Once unified, the Accessories Hall will become one large, continuous space, spanning the full length of the eastern side of the city block. Image © Rik Nys. For the ‘A way of working’ feature in the November issue of Domus magazine Giuseppe Zampieri, partner at David Chipperfield Architects Milan, discusses the challenges of opening a studio in Milan and explains how the practice has established itself both locally and internationally.
Since opening 11 years ago, the Milan office has grown both in terms of staff and space. Moving into their new premises in 2012 has also afforded them an opportunity to rethink the studio concept.
A new ‘atelier’ space, for working with and discussing large scale models and ‘archive’, where work is preserved for future reference, have been completed in the last two years, complementing the existing more traditional office work spaces. The idea is to be able to work at different speeds simultaneously, switching between the virtual and the physical, the group and the individual, while maintaining a shared history from which all staff can draw. A new exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum celebrates the work of German artist Thomas Struth. Running until 21 January 2018, Thomas Struth: Nature and Politics showcases large-scale photographs including those of industrial and scientific workspaces alongside images of the politically contested landscape of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The exhibition is on display in the museum’s East Wing which was completed by David Chipperfield Architects in 2013. The works are hung on a series of full height internal walls, following the module of the concrete coffered ceiling grid that spans the entire exhibition hall. A secondary system of lower freestanding walls are arranged within the rooms at varying angles, disrupting the regular grid arrangement. Image © Marissa Dembkoski. Later today Giuseppe Zampieri (Partner of DCA Milan) and Giuseppe Sirica (Associate Director of DCA Milan) will conduct a seminar on ‘Spaces and Fashion’ organised by Casabella Formazione at the Casabella Laboratorio in Milan. Together they will present the store concepts, both ongoing and developed over the last seven years, for a range of fashion brands including Bally, Brioni, SSENSE and Valentino.
Following the recent reform of the architectural profession in Italy, all architects are now required to undergo continuous training and must earn credits attesting to the fact. Casabella Formazione organises regular courses that are recognised by the CNAPPC (Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori) and which grant credits to the participants. The construction of two residential towers in Hackney, east London, has reached a significant milestone with the topping out of the second, 20-storey tower.
The lower, 16-storey tower topped out in October with a ceremony attended by the Mayor of Hackney. The project, won as the result of a competition held in 2012, was designed in collaboration with Karakusevic Carson Architects and is due to be completed in summer 2018. The project is helping to cross subsidise a wider masterplan allowing the Colville Estate to build a significant number of new council homes for social rent and shared ownership. Image © Ariel Pozuelo. In his capacity as a trustee of Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, David Chipperfield has helped to initiate a new annual lecture and prize to broaden the public discourse on architecture and to recognise individuals who have made a meaningful contribution to architectural culture. The inaugural lecturer and recipient of the 2017 Soane Medal is Spanish architect Rafael Moneo.
During his lecture on 1 November at The Royal Institution, Moneo traced the development of architectural attitudes towards history over the last two centuries and questioned whether we can find the historical roots to explain our contemporary built world – a world where ‘radical pragmatism seems to prevail’ at the cost of a wider vision for our cities. In a conversation after the lecture, David Chipperfield and Rafael Moneo discussed whether it is possible to be optimistic about the future of architecture, the relevance of the architectural profession, and the ways in which architectural education might better understand history. Following the discussion, the Soane Medal - a replica of the medal given to Sir John Soane by the ‘Architects of England’ in 1835 - was presented to Rafael Moneo by the educationalist and politician Baroness Tessa Blackstone. The next Soane Annual Lecture will take place in Autumn 2018. Image by Ben Derbyshire, President RIBA.
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David Chipperfield Architects Berlin is one of five prize-winners in the international competition to design a new concert hall in Munich. The organisers will now hold further discussions with all five design teams. Planned to be a venue for the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the main hall will seat 1,800 people while a smaller auditorium will seat 600. The proposed solitary building appears as a ziggurat in form.
The smaller auditorium can be found at the top with the larger one below. In the main hall the audience is seated on a continuous spiralling ramp overlooking the performers echoing the external staircase that wraps around the filigree building made of slender concrete columns.
Following an international selection process, the trustees of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) have chosen David Chipperfield Architects to develop a masterplan for the encyclopaedic museum. The project will see a major reconfiguration of the existing campus, improve the museum’s facilities and address issues such as the building’s relationship with the neighbouring institutions, growing visitor numbers and an expanding collection. Mia’s impressive collection spans the art of six continents over a period of 20,000 years and is housed in a neoclassical building by McKim, Mead and White dating from 1915, with later extensions by Kenzo Tange and Michael Graves. Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
This month marks ten years since the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach won the Stirling Prize. Standing on a commanding site above the River Neckar to the north of Stuttgart, the building has the appearance of a pavilion, with slender square columns creating a colonnade. The colonnade had become highly charged in post-war Germany because of its associations with fascist architecture. But while acknowledging that history, it reaffirms the essential classical and modernist associations of this architectural device. The idea would return in future projects, most recently the James Simon Galerie, a new entrance building for Museum Island in Berlin, currently under construction.
Image © Christian Richters. As part of this year’s Frieze London art fair, the Royal Institution is hosting a one-day conference on designing spaces to show, make and live with art. David Chipperfield will be in conversation with Tim Marlow, artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts, about David Chipperfield Architects’ masterplan for the Royal Academy’s Piccadilly home. The conference, whose other speakers include Elizabeth Diller, Alice Rawsthorn and Dr Tristram Hunt, takes place on Friday 6 October from 10am to 4.30pm. Image © David Chipperfield Architects.
The 28 September issue of the New York Times carries a feature on the Neue Nationalgalerie, in which David Chipperfield talks to Gerrit Wiesmann about the challenges of restoring one of Mies van der Rohe’s greatest and latest works. The gallery, which first opened in 1967, has been painstakingly stripped back down to its frame, in order to preserve its original features while updating its facilities to contemporary standards. This €100 million refurbishment by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin is due to be completed in 2019.
Image © Ute Zscharnt for David Chipperfield Architects.
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