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]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13456 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 08:20:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13456-design-vanguard-2018-civic-architects Urban Algae Farm For a garden festival in Geneva in 2014, Civic created a closed system of transparent tubes along a viaduct for growing algae, which only need sunlight and carbon dioxide. The project illustrates potential future practices, including food production in urban environments, conservation of green space, and the reinterpretation of existing infrastructure. Photo © O. Arandel and the Cloud Collective Piushaven Harbor Pavilion Collaborating with Bright, a fellow member of the Cloud Collective, Civic designed this Miesian pavilion on the central pier in Tilburg’s old harbor to serve as a public viewing platform, gathering place for recreational boaters, and restaurant. Photo © Stijn Bollaert Willem II Passage Luminous glass brick lines this public passage, which links the historic city center of Tilburg with the redevelopment area along the railway. Thousands of embedded LEDs generate dynamic light effects that respond to movement, weather, and time of day. Photo © Stijn Bollaert Mosque Civic transformed a nondescript H-shaped postwar school building in Amsterdam into a highly detailed mosque, with changing brick textures along the facades, and courtyards that are securely enclosed on one side by high stone entrances and loosely enclosed on the other by low hedges. Photo © Pieter de Ruijter Book Fair Pavilion Photo © Stijn Bollaert 1806-The-Future-of-Practice-Design-Vanguard-Civic-Architects-07.jpg Piushaven Harbor Pavilion Photo © Stijn Bollaert 1806-The-Future-of-Practice-Design-Vanguard-Civic-Architects-08.jpg Piushaven Harbor Pavilion Photo © Stijn Bollaert goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) Dynamic lighting enlivens an urban space that might otherwise feel deserted or inhospitable.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12890 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 08:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12890-willem-ii-passage-by-civic-architects-with-bright-and-lustlab Photo © Stijn Bollaert Photo © Stijn Bollaert Photo © Stijn Bollaert Photo © Stijn Bollaert