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The bastard store by studiometrico just won the ArchDaily Building of the Year 2009 award for the best interior.

Japanese Architects from SANAA are not that interested in having a website. They are just too busy building stuff… And you can’t really blame them. In few days their Rolex Learning Center will open in Lausanne, a beautiful example of how to curve and manipulate reinforced concrete. To find out more just visit ArchDaily.

During 2009 ArchDaily turned into the most visited architecture website and this doesn’t surprise us at all, having seen the amount of contacts that their post published in May brought to the bastard store. ArchDaily chose to celebrate its successes of the last year with the Building Of  The Year 2009 award, voted from the readers.

Now the bastard store has made it into the finals by entering the Top 5 of the interiors section… and it’s huge considering the large number of projects in nomination, but we still need the final touch by all supporters provided with Facebook or Twitter.

You can vote for the bastard store by following this link:
archdaily.com/building-of-the-year/2009

On Dezeen I bumped into this project that Adam Wojtalik, an architecture student, has proposed for the Delft University of Technology’s Faculty of Architecture that has been destroyed by fire in 2008. If ever built, would this become a new challenge for Danny Way?

Archinect – in my opinion one of the best architecture blogs around – features this project named Evolver. It is a structure designed and built on the mountains in Zermatt by 2nd year students from the Alice Design Lab of the Lausnne University. I have to admit it is a little bit depressing to compare this guys skills with the ones of Italian students… anyway, I guess there are a lot of things you could do and build as a skater exploiting this knowledge!

Domus magazine issue 929, out now, comes with a map/guide of the 129 best italian contemporary architectures, according to their editorial staff:
Instant atlas – a map of new italian architecture

“[...]This Domus ‘atlas’ is a snapshot in time that can be read as initial tally of architects who are destined to produce (hopefully sometime soon) a new situation in contemporary architecture all over Italy that is more egalitarian in quality and diffusion”. Stefano Casciani

Picture number 20 features bastard store and Comvert Hueadquarters, which grand opened last October 24th; project realized by studiometrico. It shows one of my favourite angles, the bastard bowl photographed from beneath.

Friday 25 september in Corsico park named Parco Travaglia, there will be the mini combi bowl opening party.

Corsico Energy is a three days party starting today in the park and is all about Music, culture and sport.

Here we are! Today, the bowl has passed the test in front of the architects.

Now the bowl in Travaglia park (via liberazione Corsico, Milano) is open, is free and  is skateable also in the night with the lights.
For the opening party we need to wait until the 27th of september.

Last night I bought the latest Abitare issue and I found out that artist Gabriel Orozco, together with architect Tatiana Bilbao, has built a fantastic house in Roca Blanca, on the cliffs, in front of the ocean and under the stars. The most spectacular element is a central pool with a diameter of 8 m, a section of a perfect sphere. Mmhh…

This Universe House, shot by Iwan Baan, has been posted on Abitare website. Nevertheless – differently from the magazine – the cross section, the most representative drawing to understand the size of the pool, is missing.

The plan above shows the concrete bowl that is now under construction in Corsico (MI), Italy. The bowl is part of a regeneration project of the Travaglia Park.

Leonardo Oprandi (project manager at LAND) has informed us that all the prefab Concrete elements of this mini combi bowl designed by mamadesignlab have been just delivered on site.

Here some pictures from last week showing the already finished excavation of the area.

A serious grand opening is expected right after the summer.