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Temporal Architecture

2011-09-16T20:23:00.009+08:00

Project: Big Mountain Music FestivalArchitect/ Designer: Pitupong Chaowakul/ Supermachine StudioThis is a temporary structure project but a simple response to defining an invisible boundary for human interaction. The use of natural materials such as bamboo for structure support and fabric as a covering skin from the elements lends a very local flavor. The fabric pattern is repetitive and arranged

Ground and Above Roof House - SPACESPACE

2011-08-28T19:39:00.003+08:00

Taking note of the site's open atmosphere, the design features a transparent street facade with a vertically extended communal space that continues the sense of expansiveness to the interior. Situated on the corner of an intersection in a neighbourhood populated with long-term residents, the design aims to maintain a friendly level of communication with the street. In addition, the site is

Yokohama Apartment, ON design partners

2011-08-28T06:28:00.003+08:00

Japanese architecture practice ON design partners has sent us images of 'Yokohama Apartment', a two-storey residential complex for young artists in Kanagawa, Japan. Located in an area populated with wooden houses and narrow roads, the design elevates the living units to sit above a semi public courtyard which serves as a multifunctional place for exhibitions, work, and socializing. Conceived

Akio Hirata’s Exhibition of Hats - Nendo

2011-08-28T05:59:00.007+08:00

“Akio Hirata’s Exhibition of Hats” The graphic and exhibition design for the first major Japanese retrospective of internationally-known milliner Hirata Akio’s seventy years of work. For the exhibition space, we wanted to make Hirata’s hats stand out. The mass-produced non-woven fabric hats we created for the space are the antithesis of Hirata’s carefully handmade hats, and bring them into

Peter Zumthor on Serpentine Pavilion 2011 - Dezeen

2011-07-30T22:42:00.001+08:00

Interview: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 by Peter Zumthor from Dezeen on Vimeo.Swiss architect Peter Zumthor explains his design for this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the preview in Kensington Gardens, London.The pavilion is open to the public from 1 July to 16 October 2011.afterrabbit

Studio East - Carmody Groake

2011-07-30T22:07:00.005+08:00

Built within a live construction site, 35m atop Westfield Stratford City development, the pavilion provides the first views across London’s Olympic Stadium, and Zaha Hadid’s 2012 Aquatics Centre, forming a commanding presence on London’s skyline.A fast build with a life span of just 3 weeks, the primary structure, weighing 70 tons, is constructed from hired materials borrowed from the existing

Ghost-like Architecture - Shingo Masuda+Katsuhisa Otsubo

2011-07-30T21:05:00.004+08:00

The site is a threshold of house, street, garden, and neighbor.We judged that it would be effective to design a boundary that could constantly renew and rewrite the interpretation in our consciousness each time they involve the site, of a garden being a house, a house being a neighbor, a garden being a street and so on - without restricting sites.We tried to create an inconsistence between

Go Hasegawa - Pilotis in a Forest

2011-06-19T02:09:00.003+08:00

Japanese studio Go Hasegawa has designed 'Pilotis in a Forest', a weekend house located three hours outside of Tokyo, Japan. Situated among a forest of mature trees, the structure aims to co-exist with the natural landscape that surrounds it. Propped 6.5 meters into the air through a series of stilts and cross braces, the dwelling provides views above the treetops and on to the mountains in the

Cedric Price - Think the Unthinkable

2011-06-18T18:56:00.003+08:00

Date: 31 Mar 2011 - 3 Sep 2011Location: Gallery 2, level 2, The Lighthouse, GlasgowThe questions posed by Cedric Price (1934 – 2003) are still potentially revolutionary. Is architecture doing as much for people as comfortable shoes? Do we need buildings, and if so what for?This exhibition looks at the ideas which underlay Price’s celebrated projects, exploring their continuing power to inspire

Garden of 10,000 Bridges / 万桥园 - West 8

2011-06-12T05:25:00.000+08:00

Gardens tell a story. They combine poetry and narrative. The Garden of 10,000 Bridges represents the human life; the path of people’s lifetime, which is a route of uncertainty and burden, but also of highlights and elation. The garden design takes you on this walk of life as a meandering, winding trail – continuous and like a labyrinth. It lets you find your way through nature and takes you over

Datum KL 2011 Sneak Peak

2011-05-10T01:27:00.003+08:00

Datum: KL 2011 Kuala Lumpur Architecture Festival Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DatumKL2011ling

On Tree

2011-04-29T10:46:00.001+08:00

Very often, we see a tree put alongside a building as a complimentary object, but rarely have we thought about comparing them, and sometimes don't even think they're related. Ito was one who explicitly took the motive of trees on the street as the facade of his Tod's Omotesando building, despite rather superficially in my opinion, one can see from here the fact that there're times when a

Jun Igarashi Architects: Layered House

2011-04-28T14:02:00.003+08:00

'Layered House' by Japanese practice Jun Igarashi Architects is a two-storey dwelling for a family of four located east of Hokkaido in the old city district of Saroma-cho. The design designates long slices of the floor plan to separate programs, creating with a linear compilation a house that is literally layered from one end to the other. The site is surrounded by a heavily-used street to the

Aldo Cibic: Rural Urbanism at Rethinking Happiness

2011-04-28T13:58:00.001+08:00

'Rethinking happiness' is a research project showing 4 different new possible communities on a total suface of 40mq. Curated by Italian architect and designer Aldo Cibic, the model is presented at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale under the theme 'people meet in architecture' curated by Kazuyo Seijima.Rural UrbanismThe city enters the countryside, the country enters the city.One hour from

Somewhat Different: An Exhibition of European Product Design

2011-03-12T23:05:00.007+08:00

Lifebelts turn into bottle coolers, brushes into lampshades?This is design out of the ordinary.ling

2011-02-28T01:54:00.008+08:00