前言:
无论预算、规模、风格或类型如何,2018年建筑项目都值得称为当代最好的建筑。这些令人惊叹的项目向全世界展示了一系列杰出的由建筑师创造的工作,并且突出建筑和空间改善我们生活的多种方式。
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奥丹艺术博物馆
奥丹艺术博物馆,这家56,000平方英尺的博物馆位于不列颠哥伦比亚省的惠斯勒,在此收藏了慈善家迈克尔·奥丹(Michael Audain)的藏品,涵盖了从18世纪末至今全省的历史。其中包括殖民时期加拿大原住民最精美的面具之一和一些加拿大最杰出的战后和当代艺术家的作品。
设计团队的任务是创造一个合适的环境来展示永久收藏品,同时欢迎来自全国各地和世界各地的临时展览。这个项目被美丽但具有挑战性的场地变得复杂化 —前市政工作场地被捐赠重要的针叶树冠层,以防环境再利用之需—还有惠斯勒的冬季降雪,每年降雪超过15英尺。
“一个美丽的、充满活力的项目,真正将用户包裹在自然环绕中,模糊了人造与自然之间的界限。” 〜评审团评论
博物馆通过将大量公共空间和画廊投射到森林中的自然空间中来应对这些挑战。建筑物的形式和选址工作与树木一起扩大了被开垦的草地的范围。
博物馆整层从地面上被抬升一层,街道上的一座桥梁吸引着游客穿过树林,桥梁连接了一个保护的自然光照亮的走廊,可以欣赏草坪美景。在那里,游客可以选择进入大厅探索藏品或从桥上下来到森林地面,在那里他们可以通过一条小径通往镇上的其他文化机构和公园。
黑色金属包表皮将建筑物包裹,使其消隐到树冠的阴影中。在向观景处开放并通向博物馆的地方,金属被明亮的木质外壳包裹。在里面,游客聚集在一个大堂和灵活的活动空间,玻璃走廊通向画廊空间。有意克制地让艺术和自然环境成为中心舞台,内饰反映了木质外壳的温暖。
加拿大第一家仅为一个省份的艺术的博物馆,奥丹艺术博物馆无缝融入了惠斯勒的文化和生态结构。
“建筑的类型是加拿大的一块垫脚石,是一个新的象征,也是不列颠哥伦比亚省的一座纪念碑。” 〜评审团评论
布洛德博物馆
在洛杉矶市中心,布落德博物馆证明了一座设计精美的小型建筑也可以矗立在一座建筑巨人旁。这个项目以慈善家Eli Broad的名字命名,他为这个耗资1.4亿美元收藏了布洛德藏品的建筑捐资,该项目与Frank Gehry著名的沃尔特迪士尼音乐厅(Walt Disney Concert Hall)相对,位于街正对面。
占地面积仅有200*200英尺,高度限制在70英尺以内,The Broad设计用于分享其可能有着最大观众人数的2000个作品的收藏品,同时将年轻一代引入当代艺术领域。为了充分利用这个具有挑战性的场地的机会,设计团队开发了两个主要的建筑元素:“面纱”和穹顶。
“深色全身、匀称的穹顶与明亮、厚实、有图案的轻“面纱”美丽相衬。” 〜评审团评论
“面纱”是玻璃纤维混增强凝土(GRC)的五边形结构,与迪士尼的繁华相烘托。音乐厅采用金属色和反光材料,The Broad的哑光外观吸收光线并通过蜂窝形状的孔洞将光线引入场馆内。“面纱”下,穹顶收藏藏品。但它不是被塞到地下室或在大众视野之外,而是在设计中扮演更加英雄的角色,而塑造大厅的不透明块为上层的美术馆提供了基础。
博物馆的所有公共空间都在这两个主要设计元素之间,在它们下方、周围和内部流通。在街道所在层接待游客,在那里“面纱”被揭开露出大堂。自动扶梯穿过二楼穹顶,将游客带到三层美术馆,这里充满自然光,提供近一英亩的无柱展示空间。
自2015年开放以来,The Broad作为艺术博物馆享有前所未有的多样性,吸引了比预期更年轻和更多民族的观众。博物馆在运营的第一年,迎来了近825,000名参观者,几乎一半的人会回去参观第二次。必然地,它周围的城市体验蓬勃发展。行人往来激增,食品卡车和街头音乐家已成为标配。据洛杉矶经济发展公司称,该博物馆为当地,所在的州和联邦税收增加了820万美元的收入,同时为该市提供了超过5400万美元的经济利益。
“不仅保持它自己的造型,还吸引游客。” 〜评审团评论
芝加哥滨河步道
由废弃的基础设施改造,1.25英里的芝加哥滨河步道,代表了城市公共空间和重拾城市生活的新篇章。该项目使城市的海滨变得有活力,产生了丰富的经济、休闲和生态效益。
从概念上讲,公园引用了它的定义即基础设施,并且设计在横跨芝加哥河的标志性桥梁之间的空间中创建了九个不同的房间。例如,海湾的设计灵感来源于海滩景观和河流上立式桨板和皮划艇的兴起,而码头结合了一系列码头和浮岛湿地花园,充满互动学习机会。
“教育和洞察河流生态的美妙时刻,教导游客和居民。” 〜评审团评论
在技术上充满挑战的条件下工作,设计团队被局限在许可证授权的25英尺宽的建筑区域内。为了创造一条连续的道路,并将房间连接在一起,他们设计了一系列连接以在桥下承载行人。这些结构独立的元素保护人们上面开放式道路的影响,同时通过光线和移动填充空间。为了克服困难,该团队和城市获得了国会的批准,允许改变活跃的通道。
除了以全新的方式将芝加哥人与河流联系起来之外,这个生态敏感项目在改善水质方面发挥了关键作用。四十年前,水生物种的数量仅为七个; 而今天,根据芝加哥河朋友的说法,这个数字已经上升到75,并且在持续增加。
在整个滨河步道,100多种不同种类的本地植物和树木在水边茂盛生长,景观的设计方法非常明显。该项目的恢复能力在其正式开放数周后被淹没时显现,在水退的12个小时后公园又变得整洁,重新开放。
带来地区和经济利益的滨河步道已成为芝加哥新发展涌入的主要卖点。自该项目进入第一阶段以来,该项目已创造了近70亿美元的建筑价值,并且该市已经开展了一系列新项目,使芝加哥河更加便利。
“这是城市生活的重塑,将注意力引向海滨。” 〜评审团评论
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2018 AIA Awards - Architecture
The 2018 Architecture program celebrates the best contemporary architecture regardless of budget, size, style, or type. These stunning projects show the world the range of outstanding work architects create and highlight the many ways buildings and spaces can improve our lives.
Audain Art Museum
This 56,000-square-foot museum in Whistler, British Columbia, houses the collection of philanthropist Michael Audain, which encompasses the province’s history from the late 18th century to the present. It includes one of the finest collections of precolonial First Nation masks and works by many of Canada’s most important postwar and contemporary artists.
The design team was tasked with creating a suitable setting to display the permanent collection while welcoming temporary exhibitions from across the country and around the world. The project was complicated by the beautiful but challenging site — a former municipal works yard endowed with a significant coniferous canopy and in need of environmental reclamation — as well as Whistler’s winter precipitation that brings more than 15 feet of snowfall annually.
"A beautiful, dynamic project that literally wraps users around nature, blurring the boundaries between man-made and natural." ~ Jury statement
The museum responds to these challenges by projecting a volume of public spaces and galleries into a natural void in the forest. The building’s form and its siting work together with the trees to exaggerate the embrace of the reclaimed meadow. Elevated one full story, a bridge at street level draws visitors in and through the trees, ending at a protected sky-lit porch with views onto the meadow. From there, visitors can enter to explore the collection or descend to the forest floor, where they can access a footpath leading to the town’s other cultural institutions and parks.
A dark metal envelope surrounds the building, allowing it to retreat into the shadows of the canopy. Where it opens to views and to provide access to the museum, the metal is overlaid by a luminous wood casing. Inside, visitors gather in a lobby and flexible event space where a glazed walkway leads to the gallery spaces. Deliberately restrained to allow the art and natural setting to take center stage, the interiors reflect the warmth of the wood casing.
The first museum in Canada solely dedicated to the art of a single province, the Audain Art Museum fits seamlessly into the cultural and ecological fabric of Whistler.
"The typology of the building is a stepping stone for Canada, a new icon, and a monument for British Columbia." ~ Jury statement
The Broad
In downtown Los Angeles, The Broad proves that a beautifully designed smaller building can stand tall beside an architectural giant. Named for philanthropist Eli Broad, who financed the $140 million building that houses the Broad Collection, this project stands toe-to-toe with Frank Gehry’s celebrated Walt Disney Concert Hall, located directly across the street.
Occupying a mere 200-by-200-foot site with a 70-foot height limit, The Broad was designed to share its 2,000-work collection with the largest audience possible while introducing younger generations to contemporary art. To exploit the opportunities in the challenging site, the design team developed two main architectural elements: the veil and the vault.
"The dark body-like, shapely vault is a beautiful counterpoint to the bright, thick, patterned light veil." ~ Jury statement
The veil, a five-sided structure of glass fiber reinforced concrete, serves as a foil to the Disney’s exuberant forms. Where the concert hall is metallic and reflective, The Broad’s matte exterior absorbs light and directs it through honeycomb-like apertures. Beneath the veil, the vault stores the collection. But instead of being tucked into the basement or out of public view, it takes a more heroic role in the design and the opaque mass that shapes the lobby provides the ground for the galleries above.
All of the museum’s public space exist between these two main design elements, and circulation moves under, around, and through them. Visitors are welcomed at street level, where the veil is peeled back to reveal the lobby. An escalator pierces the vault and carries visitors to third-floor gallery spaces that offer nearly an acre of column-free exhibition space flooded with natural light.
Since opening in 2015, The Broad has enjoyed unprecedented diversity for an art museum, attracting a significantly younger and more ethnically diverse audience than expected. In its first year of operation, the museum welcomed nearly 825,000 visitors, with almost half returning for a second visit. As a corollary, the urban experience surrounding it has flourished. Pedestrian traffic has exploded, and food trucks and street musicians have become regular fixtures. According to the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, the museum has generated $8.2 million in local, state, and federal tax revenue while providing more than $54 million in economic benefit to the city.
"More than holding its own as a figure, it also engages and takes the user in." ~ Jury statement
Chicago Riverwalk
Transforming derelict infrastructure, the 1.25-mile Chicago Riverwalk represents a new chapter for the city’s public space and the reinvention of urban life. This project has activated the city’s waterfront and generated a wealth of economic, recreational, and ecological benefits.
Conceptually, the park references the infrastructure that defines it, and the design creates nine distinct rooms in the spaces between the iconic bascule bridges spanning the Chicago River. The Cove, for instance, is inspired by beach landscapes and the burgeoning use of stand-up paddleboards and kayaks on the river, while the Jetty comprises a series of piers and floating wetland gardens replete with interactive learning opportunities.
"Subtle moments of education and insight into the ecology of the river, educating visitors and residents." ~ Jury statement
Working in technically challenging conditions, the design team was constrained to a permit-mandated 25-foot-wide buildout area. To create a continuous path and weave the series of rooms together, a series of connections were designed to carry pedestrians beneath the bridges. These structurally independent elements shield users from the open roadways above with the added benefit of filling the space with light and movement. To pull them off, the team and city received Congressional approval to allow the alteration of an active channel.
Beyond connecting Chicagoans to the river in radically new ways, the ecologically sensitive project has played a key role in improving water quality. Forty years ago, the number of aquatic species stood at merely seven; today, according to the friends of the Chicago River, that number has risen to 75 and continues to increase. Throughout the Riverwalk, design approaches to the landscape are evident in the 100 different species of native plants and trees thriving on the water’s edge. The project’s resiliency was on display when it was flooded weeks after its official opening, and just 12 hours after the water receded the park was clean and reopened.
Sparking regional and economic interest, the Riverwalk has become a major selling point for an influx of new development in Chicago. Since the project’s first phase, it has helped generate nearly $7 billion in construction value, and the city has seen a number of new projects work to make the river even more accessible.
"It is the reinvention of urban life that brings attention back to the waterfront." ~ Jury statement
文章来源:https://www.aia.org