COMPETITION RESULTS////TAICHUNG////TAIWAN



TAICHUNG METROPOLITAN OPERA::::::TOYO ITO & ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS


Courtesy Toyo Ito & Associates
Courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects

The Result of the second-stage of the International competition for the Taichung Metropolitan Opera has been published on the following website and the winner is Toyo Ito & Associates Architects with an innovative multispace where structure will organize the programs. The second prize is the project of Zaha Hadid Architects that proposes a black organic building that produces a strong 'sexual attraction'.

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PROJECT>>>>>>>>ROTTERDAM



NOX/Lars Spuybroek:::::::::WHISPERING GARDEN

Completion End of 006






Credits: NOX/Lars Spuybroek with Hanna Stiller, Stephen Form and Beau Trincia, in collaboration with sound artist Edwin van de Heide.



On the Docks of Rotterdam next to the trendy Hotel New York, NOX [based in Rotterdam] designed the Whispering Garden based on the myths of Lorelei and the Sirens. The computer-generated design project is stimulated by Vectors of Forces as Duration, Wind, etc. and will integrate a continuous female singing voices. The Dynamic faceted structure that produces a kind of wave where structure is connected to sound, that reconnects the wind to the light that will produce a strong poetical effect for an hypersensitive experiment.

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PROJECT::::::LONDON



ALSOP DESIGN/AMEC::::::::::::::BLIZZARD BUILDING






Photos courtesy Alsop Design Ltd.




Architecture as seduction could be the definition of this new project of Alsop, a multi-colored space that proposes dynamic 'cells' in a transparent envelope.
The building has been designed in collaboration with artists as Bruce Mc Lean.

'Our aim has been to create a space that avoids the traditionally sanitised environment of laboratory research buildings - here the very fabric of the building speaks about science and is conducive to better science by bringing researchers together.' Will Alsop
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EXHIBITION:::::MONTREAL



CCA/////SENSE OF THE CITY
until 10 September 2006







The Canadian Center for Architecture actually propose an interesting exhibition that propose an other point of view of our urban reality where banality become exception.

Redirect TXT from CCA

Sense of the City is a major exhibition dedicated to the theme of urban phenomena and perceptions which have traditionally been ignored, repressed, or maligned. Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a re-thinking of latent qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban life—thus advancing a new spectrum of experience and engagement.
The most banal and ubiquitous phenomena - asphalt, the second crust of the earth, cacophonies of everyday sounds and smells, competing light effects, manipulations of temperature and climate, heat and cold, the junk and graffiti that disfigure buildings and streets, as well as the subtle, mostly hidden signs of regeneration in the urban environment - will be presented through artefacts and images that collectively suggest the rich array of urban experiences and behaviours lying just beyond traditional interpretations of the city.
Sense of the City explores overlooked modes of perception, offering a complex analysis of urban phenomena and proposing a new ‘sensorial’ approach to urbanism.
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EXHIBITION///////ORLEANS:::FRANCE



LAST DAYS (january 15 006)////////MACHINES ATMOSPHERIQUES





Courtesy Frac Centre

The frac centre is one of the Institution that has developped its collection toward Architecture, prospective architecture and experimental architecture with projects of Ionel Schein, Claude Parent, Pierre Szekely, Antti Lovag, etc. from the 60's until the last production of our contemporaries. This collection has been initiated by Frederic Migayrou, the Director of the Architecture department of the Center Pompidou since 4 years.
This new exhibition show a selection of projects curated by the Director of the Frac M.A Brayer, focuses on the digital conceptualization in architecture.
Even It's an interesting one, it confirms that the last exhibitions of this Institution doesn't propose anything new since the first Archilab in 1999 (the last century) and the exhibition Architecture Non Standard curated by F. Migayrou.

Exhibited Architects :
> AsymptoteHydrapier, Haarlemmermeer, Pays-Bas, 2001> Décosterd & Rahm, associés (Collaboration : Jérôme Jacqmin)Lucy Mackintosh contemporary art gallery. Galerie d’art contemporain, Lausanne, Suisse, 2005> EZCTFabrication ; 2E + B = 360, 2D + C = 360, a = b = c = d, 2005> Itsuko HasegawaYamanashi Museum Of Fruit, 1992 > IAN+Goethe House, Tokyo, Japon, 1998 Head Office of the Fundacio Mies van der Rohe, Barcelone , Espagne,1998 > KOL/MAC (Sulan Kolatan & William Mac Donald)Meta_HOM Estouteville 2.0,Ost/Kuttner Residence, 2001> Kovac Architecture Ikon Tower, 1998 >NOXPavillon H2O, 1994 > Open SourceThe Hylomorphic Project/ Ecoscape/ Clocks_Clouds> DR_D (DAGMAR RICHTER)Maison Dom-In (F) o, 2002-2003> R&Sie(n)Dustyrelief/B-mu, Bangkok, Thaïlande, 2002(Un) Plug Building, Tour EDF, Paris, 2001> SERVOLobbi-Ports, 2002> Makoto Sei WatanabeJelly Fish Houses, 1992> XEFIROTARCH/Hernan Diaz-Alonso Busan Multi-Purpose Concert Hall, 2004
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PROJECT///////SHANGHAI


REEBOK FLAGSHIP:::::::C-A-P cONTEMPORARY aRCHITECTURE pRACTICE







copyrights pictures C-A-P




tHE cONTEMPORARY oFFICE pRACTICE Office is based in Soho -NY- and has developped a cutting edge design. After several exhibitions, they have designed the new Reebok Flagship in Shanghai dollowing a conceptual design based on the edge of architecture stimulated by vectors of forces and parametric design. it confirms a new development of architecture to branding following the projects of prada Tokyo from Herzog & de Meuron, Comme des Garçons in NY with Future System, Issey Miyake e-poc store, etc. Here 'The architecture guides but does not determine the functionality of the store,' says Hina Jamelle, C-A-P's second co-principal because 'In Xin Tian Di there is energy both day and night,' says C-A-P co-principal Ali Rahim.
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EXPERIMENT::::::http://playground.mooo.com/


PLAYGROUND3





If you want to experiment a psycho-social building go to the following link http://playground.mooo.com/ and don't forget to download java 1.3 or later versions (http://www.java.com); Then enjoy!!!!

'I've just invented this to make it sound more dramatic, so don't blame for using non existing expressions.' dixit Christian Schneider
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A HOUSE FOR BARBIE////LA



Philippe Starck::::Westside LA




redirect pictures from designboom



Once again, we can 'appreciate' the opportunism of P. Starck.
No you don't dream, it's not a real estate realization it's a residential house designed by the international designer.
Thank you Barbie....
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PROJECT//////HAMBURG


ELBPHILARMONIE::::::::HERZOG & de MEURON





cOPYRIGHTS Herzog & de Meuron



The Elbphilarmonie in Hamburg willl be realized by the International swiss office of Herzog & de Meuron based in Bale. The program is based on 2 Concert hall of 2200 seats & 600 seats with bars, restaurants and hotels. the project will be realized on a warehouse and the architects has developped a light structure that floats on the Elbe River and generate a new identity on docks and the banks of the river.
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PROJECT////LA


Benjamin Ball & Gaston Nogues:::::::Maximilian's Schell





credits photos CentripetalNotion


RE DIRECT TXT from the website of the Materials and Applications Architecture & Landscape Research
This new architectural installation is part Twenty-First century tensile structure and part tribute to Disney Studio's sci-fi cult film "The Black Hole". The installation is designed to warp the flow of an outdoor space with a feather-weight rendition of "the deadliest force in the Universe" constructed in tinted mylar resembling stained glass. It swirls above the outdoor courtyard all summer long. An assembly of 512 unique instances of a single but parametrically variable component, the canopy's extreme intricacy and repetitiveness pay homage to actor Maximilian Schell's character, Dr. Reinhardt, in "The Black Hole", a tyrant who wishes to harness the "power of the vortex" and possess "the great truth of the unknown!"
ABOUT
Benjamin Ball is an architect and former production designer. Gaston Nogues is an architect and a product designer at Frank Gehry Partners. They design objects and environments using a combination of hand-made prototypes, sophisticated digital design and fabrication tools.




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NETHERLAND ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE::::::ROTTERDAM

NEWER ORLEANS::::A Shared Space





January 20 to March 12 006

RE DIRECT TXT from The NAI :
New schools, a clearly defined city center and new green spaces connecting to the river: following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina everything must be rebuilt in New Orleans. But how? New Orleans desperately requires inspiring plans for its regeneration. Together with the Tulane School of Architecture in New Orleans and the American art magazine Artforum, the NAI has asked six renowned architecture practices from the Netherlands and the USA to develop visions for symbolic and shared spaces for the New Orleans metropolitan area. The practices are MVRDV, Ben van Berkel (UN Studio) and Adriaan Geuze (West 8) from the Netherlands, and Huff + Gooden Architects, Morphosis and Hargreaves Associates from the USA. The NAI will exhibit their proposals for a "Newer Orleans" from January 20 to March 12. The exhibition will be accompanied by debates about water management and related topics in Rotterdam and New York.
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EXHIBITION::::::ROMA



PAOLO SOLERI<<<<<<

Exhibition until January 8 006

The general direction for architecture and contemporary art , the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica and la Casa dell’Architettura have organized the first retrospective of the works of The Architect PAolo Soleri has worked with Frank lloyd Wright in Taliesin and then has developped as a visionaire his own work : an architecture in relation to ecology and has experiment the relation between body space and ambient. His one of the 'utopist of the 60's/70's as Claude Parent, etc.
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EXHIBITION : ITALY

SANAA ////Kazuyo Sejima & ryue Nishizawa





basilica palladiana
vicenza30th october 2005 - 29th january 2006

The Basilica Palladiana have hosted the 2 japanese Architects of Sanaa office Kazuyo Sejima & ryue Nishizawa for a complete exhibition of their works with models, photographs, drawings, videos.
The exhibition doesn't focuse on their architecture and the lightness membrane they have developped for their buildings but also on the furnitures they have recently designed.
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PROJECT / SCIENCE MUSEUM / AHMEDABAD / INDIA





Bikram Mittra



Bikram Mittra is a Designer based in New Dehli, he designed the 'METASCAPE' is the Future Science Museum designed by Bikram Mittra. It's an experimental proposal that create an Immersive environment with technologies. Here Interaction, media and Communication are developped together to create a kind of teleological sense for human.
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COMPETITION / TAIWAN

FEIDAD 2005 -Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design Award-




The Feidad Award has been created to promote the Architectural Design in the Electronic Age.
FEIDAD is an opportunity to developped new relations between Design, Architecture with new tecnologies.
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2005 1st Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\ Architecture






Exhibition Period: December 10th 2005 – March 10th 2006

The Shenzhen City Government is the sponsor of the first biennale of Urbanism & Architecture that is organized by Shenzhen Planning Bureau, Shenzhen Cultural Affairs Bureau, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Press Group and Shenzhen Media Group.

The Biennale is curated by the Independent Curator Yung HO Chang , the Founder of Atelier Feichang Jianzhu that is probably one of the first International Mainland Chinese studio based in Beijing that has been exhibited in PS1, in the Center Georges Pompidou, etc.

Several Locations in Shenzhen as the OCT Contemporary Art Center and also Factory warehouses will be open during 3 Months to show architecture and Urban Projects of Architects like Cui Kai, Xi Qin, Wang Shu, Michael Bell, Rem Koolhaas, etc.
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