JDS Architects have been invited to participated in the City 2.0 Exhibition to be held on the 18th September to the 24th of October in Tokyo at the EYRE of GYRE building. The exhibition will show different design proposals on how we, through informational technologies, can draw the future cities.

JDS Architects have been invited by the London design festival to participate in the exhibition Bench10. The exhibition features 10 one-off public benches by 10 leading international designers that will be exhibited in and around London’s Old Spitalfields Market from the 18 of September to the 28 of September. JDS will contribute with STAIR, a bench with multiple seating levels, allowing people to sit in a way that is less prescribed, more flexible and more social.

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Bench10 party
Thursday 23rd September 2010 at The Lollipop Shoppe
10 Lamb Street
Old Spitalfields Market, London E1 6EA

JDS Architects have been commissioned by ICADE to design two social housing buildings in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. The projects take part of the new OMA/FAA/XDGA masterplan on Boulevard Calberson MacDonald in order to rehabilitate the longest building of Paris. This new development consist of the addition of a new layer on the existing building:a lower layer of an existing warehouse and parking space rehabilitated in office and an upper platform intended to contain new apartment buildings of various architects.

Holmenkollen Ski Jump will start the final phase in the autumn of 2010 to be scheduled for completion on March 2011. After a final vote form the city council this summer, the last piece of facade in front of the Judge tower and the Royal tribune has been finalized. JDS Architects will work together with Lecor/Varla/Flygfältsbyrån to finish the inner windscreen and facade before the World Championship 2011.The finished ski jump will have a bar at 418 meters above sea level so visitors can get the experience of looking down the in-run. At the top of the 69 meter inclined-cantilever tower, a 110 m2 plateau will reveal an amazing view over Oslo and its fjords.

Eike Batista’s EBX has invited a handful of architects to rethink the future of the historically loaded Marina da Gloria on the shore of downtown Rio. Here’s a peek at JDS proposal for this ambitious and controversial project to host a new convention center and the sailing competition for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

Our scheme aims at questioning the future development to avoid a strictly exclusive and fenced off structure and proposes instead to create a series of urban and landscape connections to the surrounding Flamengo Park (designed by Burle Marx), to the city, the modern art museum and to Santos Dumont airport in one clear knot, in the emblematic shape of an X.

The project will remain an accessible park for 100% of its footprint surface and allow the neighborhood to unfold and prosper as a public destination for leisure and commerce.

Henrik Vibskov presents The Last Pier Pandemonium in Copenhagen, show ss11

Comfort Hotel Square on Løkkeveien in Stavanger, Norway receive their first guests today.

The hotel is located along a busy street in the Stavanger city center, with 194 rooms floating in a ribbon configuration above an existing parking garage. By lifting the hotel rooms from the street level, we are able to secure privacy and reduce the noise for the visitors. It also allows us to create a living ground floor in connection with the lobby that is activated by shops, a restaurant and cafe. The dynamic form of the ribbon concept allows us to mediate a potentially problematic site. With great differences in height between the four corners of the site, the hotel can hover closest to the ground level when adjacent to the old Stavanger neighbourhood and then lift dramatically to address a nine story apartment tower.

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE DESIGN CONFERENCE

SECOND NATURE
Our shifting perception of nature is rapidly changing the way we interact in urban settings, signaling the emergence of a unique new ecology which sees human rituals being drastically restructured by man-made interventions and an onslaught of cultural products. This year’s theme, ‘Second Nature’, aims to look at how design is reestablishing its critical role as a mediator between the technological world and our natural environment. Within this hybridized space, authenticity is readily achievable by way of simulacra, disassembling any hardboiled ideas of what may be deemed artificial and what may be not. Architecture, meanwhile, emerges as a representative of this marriage between the space of real and the unreal, resulting in urban landscapes which thrive, not on mechanical repetition but a mechanical
organic, giving rise to a place beyond biomimicry, namely, a new or Second Nature.

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Julien De Smedt will be lecturing in Shanghai on the 29th of June at 19.00 in the ACMC Building Gallery.  Details follow:

Organizer: Shanghai International Architectural Culture Media Centre University of Hong Kong architecture SH

Organized media: Lagoo China Network “Architecture Week”

Date: June 29, 2010

Time :19:00-20: 30

Location: ACMC Building Gallery

Address: Shanghai Shanghai Creative Park Feihong Road 17, Lane 568

Speaker: Julien De Smedt

Registration: Online registration is limited to Mylar lap Application Architecture

Language: Chinese and English bilingual

LOOK WHO’S TALKING: ARCHITECTURE IN THE GLOBAL-COMMUNICATION ERA
by Alexander Horne

If architecture is the accumulation of centuries of knowledge, then what of its existence in an era of perpetual and instantaneous updates that the Internet and social networking brings? For a technology-driven industry, it seems slow to embrace the possibilities of continuous information exchange. A number of young studios appear to have some answers, which in the process of challenging dusty perceptions are ‘Twittering’ and marketing their names to the forefront of architecture today ahead of the starchitects of yesterday.

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