Thursday, December 8, 2011

architecture cost


Building Specification

Status
Complete
Proposal date
1999
Construction start date
2001
Completion date
2003
Style
Zoomorphic

Roof Height (AOD)
194.90
Roof Height (AGL)
179.80
Top Floor Height (AGL)
163.00
Floor To Ceiling Height
2.75
30 St Marys Axe
Total Floors (O.G)
41
Total Floors (U.G)
1
Number of Lifts
17

Market Data

Primary Use
Office
Secondary Use
Retail

Floorspace (sq m)
76,641.00
Car Parking Spaces
5

Land Costs
£90,600,000.00
Date of Purchase
1998
Construction Cost
£138,000,000.00
Budget Date
2001
Last Sale Value
£595,000,000.00
Sale Date
2006




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http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=58

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tadao ando & TOKYO



What, exactly, has Tadao Ando been up to lately? Apart from a chapel he designed for the Château La Coste vineyard/starchitect petting zoo in the south of France, a water fountain he installed in Mayfair, London this past summer, and a curious collaboration with Tom Ford for the fashion designer/auteur’sBarragan-style Santa Fe Ranch, much of Ando’s recent work has not been widely-published or circulated. But over the past couple of years, Ando has been promoting what may prove his most ambitious and visionary project, the creation of a new forest in Tokyo Bay. Continue reading.
Dubbed the “Sea Forest” (“Umi no Mori“), the project will plant half a million trees over an area of 88 hectares of reclaimed land in the middle of the bay. As Asahi Shimbun reports, the land, an island actually, had been used in the 1980s to process and soil garbage disposal collected from Tokyo’s 12.3 million tons of household waste over a period of fifteen years. Ando’s forest will rise from the 30-meter thick subsoil of compacted trash, covered by a surface layer of grass and leaf compost.


thanks to: ARCHITIZER

lights in Architecture





Capanna by K-studio


thanks to: dezeen

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

stairs in Architecture


The character of this residence is that it is covered / riddled by holes. The walls, ceilings, and the floors are blatantly punctured and are interlocked three-dimensionally. Through these apertures, one is able to see and feel through to the spaces adjacent, above and below oneself, and furthermore, beyond what is clearly defined.

…more > http://archdai.ly/u48qUu
 — at Tokyo, Japan.

Thanks to: Archdaily

minimal 2.0

Arch. Silvestrin

Monday, December 5, 2011

platonic solids in Architecture



CEDRIC PRICE


Axonometric drawing for the London Zoo Aviary
Regents Park, London
1960-1963
Architects: Lord Snowdon, Frank Newby, Cedric Price

Piazza

William H Whyte: "agreeable microclimate, easy accessibility, some sensational object like a piece of sculpture or a display of flowing water, and (this is most essential ) a place that allows people to sit comfortably and relax."