Architecture schools continue to showcase upcoming lecture and event programming for the 2022 Spring season. For this iteration of Archinect s Get Lectured Spring 2022 focus, Woodbury University School of Architecture has an exciting line-up of guest lecturers. Woodbury explains,
A vacant natural-gas plant in Madrid, Spain is set to be overhauled by Foster + Partners to create the plant-filled and timber-lined Acciona Ombú offices.
The abandoned industrial building, constructed in 1905 by Spanish architect Luis de Landecho, will be retrofitted with 10,000 square-metres of workspace for the sustainable infrastructure company Acciona.
Top image: the existing building shell will be preserved. Above: Acciona Ombú will occupy a vacant gas plant
Foster + Partners overhaul, set to complete in 2022, focuses largely on the restoration of the building s brick envelope – which will preserve over 10,000 tonnes of material.
Inside, it will introduce a series of staggered floors made from locally-sourced timber, which will give rise to a series of terraces.
[Photo: Aaron Hargreaves/courtesy Foster + Partners]
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One of architecture’s newest and unlikeliest tools can now be found clomping through the dusty concrete floors of a half-built building. Just four legs and a torso, it could transform the way buildings get made.
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The tool is the dog-like robot called Spot, which was created by Boston Dynamics and is now being used by the London-based global architecture firm Foster + Partners to scan and analyze buildings that are under construction. More commonly deployed in various industrial capacities, from monitoring dangerous oil and gas sites to inspecting areas with unsafe levels of radiation, Spot has become a part-time architect.
Textured larch shingles and a mountainous roofscape will define InnHub La Punt, an innovation and community centre that Foster + Partners is developing for Engadin valley in Switzerland.
Set to be built in the town of La Punt Chamues-ch in the Swiss Alps, the centre will feature a series of workspaces, sports facilities, shops and a restaurant beneath its undulating roof.
It is designed by Foster + Partners as a space for locals, tourists, technology companies, start-ups and universities to meet and collaborate, and is hoped to enliven the town and create jobs for the community.
Above: InnHub La Punt will be built in Engadin valley. Top image: it will have an undulating roofscape