Architects: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss / NAO Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project team: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, E Thaddeus Pawlowski, Kevin Keller, Julia Murphey, Deborah Katz, Ding Liu, Margaux Schindler, Kristen Smith Renderings: Benjamin Muller & NAO Construction Consulting: Miodrag Jovanovic, Ruzica Jovanovic, Snezana Litvinovic Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Wei..
Architects: RSVP Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox While the search for paradigms in architecture is not a recent one, the conscious pursuit of utopia seems to be another species in danger of extinction at a moment whe..
Villa in the Dunes is a house designed by architects Zandbelt&vandenBerg, located at the edge of the dunes in the Hook of Holland, the Netherlands. The ground floor of the three-storey residence is partly covered by the dunes and includes a guest house. Photographs by Christian Richters. The following text is from Zandbelt&vandenBerg – Villa in the dunes Hoek van Holland A villa for an art-lovin..
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan Site area: 4791.69 m2 / Foot print area: 1699.10 m2 / Total floor space: 1094.83 m2 Ceilinng heights (varies): 2.172 m / Total heights: 2.78 5m Floors: 1 LEVEL Master planning: Feb 2005-March 2006 Phase 1 construction (50%): March 2006 - Sep2006 Phase 2 construction (100%): July 2006 - Jan 2007 Owner: Montesoli School Fuji Kindergarten Creative Director: Kashiwa..
Brazilian architect Paula Sertorio has sent us these images of a conceptual, mobile gallery, designed to travel along the river Thames in London. The project was developed for a competition organised by architectural agency Arquitectum, called London 2008, by a team of Brazilian architects made up of Victor Paixao, Miguel Felipe Muralha, Paula Sertorio, Thiago Florez, Andre Mack and Bruno Castro..
Vinyl and Fan Blown Air13’-9” x 15’-0” x 10’-0”, 2008 Sited in an extant aperture of a roll up door, two forms of the same size pass air back and forth all day long. As one arch inflates the other collapses and air to fill the engorging arch is sucked from the other. The two arches are in mirrored orientation, participants can pass through the bottom arch until it becomes volatile and the upper ..
Tenerife architects Menis Arquitectos have designed a music hall in Torún, Poland. Two separate music halls, of 3000 and 1000 seats respectively, can be joined together to create one space for large performances. The site is located on a plot of land between the medieval old town and a modern development. The architects used white concrete for the exterior and red brick for the interior, which t..
Architects: Oyler Wu Collaborative Location: Los Angeles, USA Project Team: Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu, Chris Eskew, Brad Goldpaint Lighting Design: Thomas Paterson, Luxpopuli Photographs: Art Gray Photography Located approximately 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, this backyard intervention sits within a community of traditional suburban homes. Some of our initial interests grew out of looking..
A group of graduate students called Team 01Para, from the MArch Design Research Laboratory course at the Architectural Association in London have sent us these images of a conceptual design called Snap! - Bistable Structure. The team consists of Stella Nikolakaki, Sevil Yazici, Jesse Chima and Eugene Leung. According to Leung, the project proposes a workspace that can be reconfigured using “the ..
Synaesthetic filter - a mobile pavilion for experimental music Synaesthetic filter is a mobile instrument for experimental music that can stage performances from scenic plays to sound installations and is supposed to be temporarily assembled in public interior spaces. The pavilion acts like a visual and acoustic filter that allows a flexible positioning of the musicians and audience, and a playf..