Just updated our webmag with 2 new projects. You can now see our proposal for Union Station in Chicago and the project for Gethsemane Church, a competition which we were awarded "honorable mention" in. More to come in the next couple of weeks. Check it out by clicking the magazine here in the upper right corner.
This past weekend we all gathered in Iceland. We spend 4 days workshopping on a competition, planning ahead and finished the weekend by driving the old Volvo around Reykjavik and checking out all the KRADS building sites. Things are actually getting build and it is great to see the progress. We only had time to visit a few of the villas and the Kauptun shopping center. The pictures show the great geometry of the roofs overhang and the the loading bays ready for concrete.
The office in Reykjavik and the office in Århus are both up to full speed again, doing projects. We are now feeling at home in the now office space in Reykjavik downtown, after moving in at the end of december. We are excited to meet and get to know our new interns starting at the office in february to spend the spring term 09 at KRADS.
This is the two winning x-mas cards, in the KRADS x-mas card competition 2008 - congratulation to Kennet and Kristoffer and MERRY X-MAS to all of you.
KRADS (Mads) participated in a "ROUND TABLE" talk//workshop at LYNFABRIKKEN last thursday. The subject was the public urban space of Aarhus and how to activate it more. At the table were, amongst others, Fidel and Emilio from the great design studio WALKING - CHAIR based in Vienna - and of course Lasse and Jeppe from LYNFABRIKKEN. We at KRADS like to thank LYNFABRIKKEN for a great and intense evening.
Tonight, december 3rd, Krads will be among 7 young architectural offices from the nordic countries - presenting their projects, ideas and ambitions - at the NuNordisk RapBattle. The presentations, followed by discussions, will take place at the DogA in Oslo, Norway.
KRADS participated in the project competition "MÅLØV AKSEN" in Denmark after getting pre-qualified with SLA landscape architects, SLETH MODERNISM, Oluf Jørgensen Engineers. We were one team amongst five who was pre-qualified. We are sorry to say that our team did not win the competition, the winning team was the great architects of ADEPT and LiW Planning.
The twin-villa's are almost finished - here are the latest shots taken on the site this weekend.
A couple of shots taken at the building site yesterday. Things are progressing - and starting to take shape.
Chicago is renowned for its number of public parks, famous for giving birth to the world’s first skyscraper and recognized as a metropolis that in its structure masters the choreography of urban movement.
This proposal is a loving tribute to the inherent qualities of the city and it’s history. The new dynamic center has two key components; the Union Plaza and the Vertical City. A vibrating metropolitan plaza, celebrating the dynamics of the transit’s constant state of flux, and a reinvention of the skyscraper through a site specific structure - incorporating the diverse characteristics of Chicago.
In respect of Union Station, the historic building is kept almost entirely in its original form with its importance enhanced by the new adjacent Union Plaza. The Grand Hall is given a new life as a connection point between the West Loop Transportation Center and the HSR-platforms. The perforated plaza, above the platforms, is conceived as a vibrating urban juncture between horizontal and vertical movements – between the underlying flow of high speed trains, the Chicago river and the stream of people traveling through the vertical city.
Elevated above the plaza, the Vertical City can be viewed as a condensed sampling of the unique urban fabric of Chicago – a slice of the city that has been rotated 90 degrees. A collection of “horizontal” skyscrapers - each with their individual program and identity; streets, sidewalks and parks, stacked on top of each other. Programmatically tipping our hat to Burnham & Bennets’s Plan of Chicago, a vertical chain of public parks and recreational areas is introduced throughout the structure.
The proposal’s ambition is to create a strong landmark for Chicago, rooted in the city’s genus loci, and at the same time challenge the traditional typology of plinths and towers.
Results of the competition can be seen here
KRADS, C.C. Contractor and the dept. of city planning of Herning creates this visionary scheme for a whole new urban area in the center of Herning.
KRADS did a workshop on creative architectural proces at KaosPilot International this week. Thanks to team 15 for a long day of workshopping, fantastic ideas, great inspiration and fabulous acting. Ping Pong... anytime - just bring it on.
We have just updated our webmag with 2 new projects - and there is more to come in the next couple of weeks. Check it by clicking the magazine here on the right.
THE SUMMERHOUSE ON THE ISLAND SAMSØ HAS BEEN UNDERGOING SOME CHANGES THE LAST YEAR. NOW THE BUILDING FITS THE DEMANDS OF THE LANDSCAPE AND CLIENT PERFECT.
Last week we turned in yet another competiton proposal at the DK office. Our new interns Grimur & Buddi did a fantastic job working with us on the basic concept and idea and showed great stamina in the final stages before deadline.
The picture shows Mads and Grimur saying farewell to a winning project.
Villa G is almost ready to build. Just waiting for prices to come in. Here is a sneak peek at some of the latest drawings.
Backstage Architecture is a collection of projects that represents an original panorama of architecture on a global level across a network of professionals. In it are the names and contacts of architects under 40 from forty-five different countries, one per country, each selected and presented by a referee in the book Worldwide Architecture.
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