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Dezeenwire: architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture have been commissioned to design the new strategy and identity for Hong Kong transport authority MTR, including two new stations. See press release below.

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OMA to Design New Vision for Urban Transit in Hong Kong

OMA has been commissioned to produce a new design strategy and identity for Hong Kong’s transit authority, the MTR. The plan, Railway Vision 2020, will culminate in OMA designing and building two new stations as prototypes for the entire network throughout Hong Kong.

OMA and its research unit AMO will study the city’s mass transit system and its infrastructure in depth, conducting site analysis, branding and identity research, observation of the everyday usage patterns of the system by commuters, and sustainability research. OMA’s design for the two stations will emerge from this research, and will include a rethinking of all the elements of a station: its engagement with the street level, its connections, concourses and platforms, station furniture, circulation and way-finding, and MTR’s visual identity.

OMA partner-in-charge David Gianotten commented: “We are honoured to contribute to the identity of one of Hong Kong’s most important and efficient companies, as well as the overall identity of Hong Kong, through this project. OMA’s history of research and its dedication to the development of the city will be crucial for our approach to the work.” Also in Hong Kong, OMA is working on the West Kowloon Cultural District project and the new campus for Chu Hai College.
OMA will collaborate with Stanford University, the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong. Railway Vision 2020 will be developed in OMA’s Asia headquarters in Hong Kong. The first stations designed for Railway Vision 2020 will open by 2014.
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‘Tis the season for the shortlist for the Design Museum‘s annual Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Awards to be unveiled, as they were yesterday. Per usual, it’s a long list, filling up seven categories (architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport) with often more than ten nominees in each. No huge surprises, as the list contains lots of the items and buildings and designers everyone has been talking about over the last year. The Burj Khalifa is there, first-year award-winner Yves Behar is up in a couple of different categories (furniture and twice for product), and you’ll also find Apple‘s iPad, Dyson‘s fan, and even the game Angry Birds, which seems to have captivated the world and is confusing to people like us who haven’t ever seen the thing in action. The most interesting sections wind up being fashion, graphics, and transport, those categories that you might not immediately know the pieces, assuming, well, you don’t work in fashion, graphics, or transport. On another note, as a nice nod, we were particularly happy to see Ben de Lisi‘s Universal Gown made the cut, given that it was a commission from the UK’s Design Council, which certainly had a rough go of it in 2010. Winners will be announced in each category, as well as a single grand prize recipient, on March 15.

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This family house with a wooden interior in Kobe, Japan is by Japanese architect Keiichi Sugiyama.

The garden can be accessed by all the rooms on the ground floor and large windows allow plenty of natural light into the space.

The living spaces are arranged on the ground floor, with bedrooms located on the first.

Photographs are by Yoshiharu Matsumura.

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The following information is from the architects:

This house for a family of three is located at the quiet suburb of Kobe, Japan.

The site, in the town lined with detached houses orderly, placed between the road in the south and the north.

The inhabitant approaches from the road on the north side.

As for the south, street trees grow up, and verdure is abundant.

I arranged the house on the north edge of the site as much as possible.

By doing so, the garden becomes larger.

And I planted one big tree on the west side of the south garden.

In the near future, verdure in the south garden assimilate with street trees.

In interior, wrapped in soft light from the roof window, it is composed of a wall of lauan veneer and a white painted wall.

Living room, Japanese style room, and any space in the house is connected to the south garden by big windows where natural light and wind are taken.

Architect: Keiichi Sugiyama
Location: Kobe, Japan

Structure: timber
Completion date: 2007

Site Area: 244.59m2
Built Area: 85.5m2
Total Floor Area: 119.73m2

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