Author: Asli Say
Sydney Fish Market by 3XN Architects in Australia will establish a world-class “foodie” destination. The project seeks to set in place an exemplary example of integrating the public realm and contemporary market space that will become a landmark in Sydney’s unique harbour-based urban landscape.
Copagri Pavilion ‘Love IT’ by Miralles Tagliabue EMBT in Milan, Italy The pavilion designed for Copagri called ‘Love IT’ is located in the south-east part of the Lake Arena – a large circular pool of water at the end of the Cardo, one of the main axes of the Expo Milano 2015 masterplan – and surrounded by the European Union Pavilion and the Vanke Pavilion. The space inside is conceived to host a typical Italian ‘local market’, where each producer exhibits the product, tells their story, and introduces their company. Besides hosting an events area, part of the surface area…
Future Space Pavilion by Peter Pichler Architecture in Milan, Italy The symmetrical structure is inspired by the extraordinary quality of the Renaissance proportions of the courtyard of Ca’ Granda and plays with the fundamental elements of Renaissance style: Symmetry, proportion, and geometry. The project explores the potential of the material presence of wood in a non-typical “building” environment as a structure that should transmit a spatial experience. The installation reflects our studio thoughts about future spaces: sustainability (wood as material), structure and spatial emotions. Three separate wings gradually changing in height by simply stacking and rotating different lengths of wood…
79&Park by Bjarke Ingels Group in Stockholm, Sweden In 2011, Oscar Properties commissioned BIG to design the multi-residential development, which appears like a “gentle hillside” rising from the edge of the Gärdet national park. The cascading building, which comprises of 3.6m x 3.6m cedar-clad modules organized around an open green courtyard, “combines the splendors of a suburban home with the qualities of urban living,” Bjarke Ingels said in a statement. The structure’s tallest corner rises up to 35 meters to maximize the inflow of natural daylight and provide views of the Gärdet and the nearby Frihamnen port for most of the…
Text description provided by the architects. Macau Architecture Promenade pavilion (MAP Pavilion) is the result of a worldwide open call for artists, launched by the BABEL cultural organization. From more than 50 proposals from all over the world, BABEL has selected the large-scale architectural pavilion by Impromptu Projects (João Ó and Rita Machado). MAP Pavilion This temporary bamboo structure attempts to address the enactment between the citizens and the urban landscape. It is our conviction, as designers and reflective practitioners that urban density does not mean living in a concrete and hard environment. We need to educate, sensitize and cultivate other…
The project is located on the backbone of the site, on the old limit that used to separate the medieval town from the modern city. On these remains, twenty centuries of urban strata and architecture are overlaid: this is the exceptional heritage of the city of Nîmes.
The Dalí Museum by HOK in United States Named one of AOL Travel’s “Buildings You Have to See Before You Die,” this new museum houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of Salvador Dalí’s art outside of Spain. The American Institute of Architects placed the building on its distinguished “Florida Architecture of the Last 100 Years” list and Flavorwire ranked it among the “20 Most Beautiful Museums in the World.” The Michelin Guide rates it as the top museum in the American South. The design challenge was to create an affordable, iconic building symbolic of the Spanish painter’s work. The team ensured…
Flexible Landscape by GOA Architects in Shanghai, China Text description provided by the architects. During the period of 2015.08.21 and 2015.09.10, there were a series of public cultural activities named “Gravitational Field interconnections between architecture and public culture” helding in the Jing’an Temple Square, which is the most prosperous site in Shanghai. And one architectural installation Flexible Landscape was born, which is both artistic and practical. Jing’an Temple Square is relatively 7m lower than West Nanjing Road, so the installation is understood as a set of open landscape in this site, and looks like a bonsai of the city, getting involved with…
80Hz by Thomas Wing-Evans in Sydney, Australia British designer and architect Thomas Wing-Evans has created ’80Hz’, an interactive sound pavilion in collaboration with the dx lab for the state library of new south wales in Australia, which takes paintings from the library’s collection and turns them into music. Located outside the mitchell reading room in Sydney’s CBD, the installation features a curving black timber frame clad in matt anodized aluminum shingles. Working with studio sonar sound, Wing-Evans has developed a computer program to translate visual data into sound. Images were analyzed for visual data such as complexity, color, tone and face…
Perspectives by Giles Miller Studio in United Kingdom ‘Perspectives’ is an organic pavilion structure covered with Cedar Shingles, which sits atop the beautiful Surrey Hills at Winterfold, and throws itself evocatively into the vista that has been opened up below. Inspired by the words and messages etched by people in public places, on trees, benches and elsewhere, Giles Miller has collated poetry, messages, initials and messages of love and memory from local schools, residents and other contributors to the project. These messages have been etched onto the surface of the organic cedar shingles that cover the piece, and appear to throw…