Mist | Koji Sekita Design
What is structural? Does structure imply mass? If it does, then Mist, the Singapore Furniture Design Week 2012 exhibit by Koji Sekita Design seems to disagree. Constructed of woven paper and existing ...
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School for the Arts | WOHA
School for the Arts WOHA Planned as a new paradigm in urban existence, the School for the Arts in Singapore’s Civic district designed by WOHA, is almost a paradox. My mind is filled with various and ...
Complex House | Hata Tomohiro Architect & Associates
Complex House Hata Tomohiro Architect & Associates Alright, a few points to start with. Firstly, I must thank both Google Translator and Babelfish for truly imaginative translations for the Hata ...
Elevated Market and Culinary School | Ayrat Khusnutdinov and Gemawang Swaribathoro
Elevated Market and Culinary School Ayrat Khusnutdinov and Gemawang Swaribathoro Let me just say- What a neat and refreshing idea for a culinary school. I have spent my entire professional life, ...
Opera House Design for Izmir | Nüvist
Opera House Design for Izmir Nüvist This competition entry for an Opera building, designed by Nüvist, is set in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir. The embodied energy of the Gulf, which fronts the ...
Networks | Irene Anton
The Network series by Irene Anton is an investigation of materiality, ductility, movement, direction and poise. Set in a myriad of disparate locations, the network seems to trace unseen connections ...
Metropol Parasol | J. Mayer H. Architects
Metropol Parasol, When I went to Seville, I got food poisoning. If only I had been out sitting under this magnificent homage to simple beauty, and not eating that pasta with the blue cheese sauce, I ...
Wave of Matter | Tommi Grönlund + Petteri Nisunen
Look out! Here comes wave/ particle duality at 'ya! This installation piece by the architect/artist/record producing duo from Finland, Tommi Grönlund + Petteri Nisunen blurs the line between wave ...
International School/Museum of Flamenco | MUS Architects
International MUS School/Museum of Flamenco MUS Architects Dim the lights, let us set the mood... Movements and gestures of dancers are full of expression and tension. Dancers bring the ...
Busan Opera House Proposal | Task Architects
Task Architects' submission for Busan Opera House is a construct of many, striving towards one. This 'one' as put forth by the Egypt based firm, is the Korean concept of Chun (天) which means ...
Brussels Airport Connector | UNStudio
Brussels Airport Connector UNStudio Brussels. Home to those little leafy, green balls which are the dread of all American children's dinner vegetable serving. But in all seriousness, Brussels is ...
Fasten Your City Belts | Haiko Cornelissen Architecten
Fasten Your City Belts Haiko Cornelissen Architecten I start with a quote from the architects. 'Fasten Your City Belt is an urban strategy that transforms lifeless office districts into lively areas ...