Here’s another project from FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects who designed the House of Vision in our previous story: this time, House of Inclusion in Shiga, Japan. (more…)
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An amazing piece from NL, this is going to be the Taipei Performing Arts Center in China. There’s a lot of great work on their site, make sure you click the images on the left. It was also nice to see them use illustrations for people in the renderings, instead of those awkward looking clippings that normally get placed. Like random guy checking watch, couple walking, and woman with shopping bags (each of which are usually lit from different directions and heavily pixelated). Enjoy.
House of Vision is a private home in Shiga, Japan by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects that is designed to shield the client from neighbours. (more…)
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Now that its spooky Marfa outpost has been co-opted by Gossip Girl, Prada is stepping up its public art game with a highly anticipated “Transformer.” More than meets the eye? You bet. A robot in disguise? Don’t rule it out. Designed by OMA/Rem Koolhaas and his Office of Metropolitan Architecture, the Prada Transformer is a shape-shifting event space nestled beside the 16th-century Gyeonghui Palace in Seoul, South Korea. Beginning tomorrow and over the next five months, it will host a series of exhibitions, screenings, and live events in the realms of fashion, art, film, design, and performance.
First up is “Waist Down” (pictured at right, inside the Transformer), the splendid exhibition of skirts designed by Miuccia Prada that has already impressed the pants off of viewers in Tokyo, New York, and Los Angeles. In addition to skirts from the first ever Prada show to the present, the show will feature skirts created by Korean fashion design students. Come June 26, the four-sided structure (hexagon, cross, rectangle, and circle) will be transformed in more ways than one. A crane will flip the elastic-encased Transformer so that the rectangular side forms the ground plan, and it becomes a cinema showing a series of films selected by Babel director Alejandro González Iñárritu and critic Elvis Mitchell. Subsequent events include an art installation by Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg (on the cross side, it will open on July 30) and a hush-hush culminating “special event” that will take place in the round, when the Transformer is flipped onto its circular base in October.
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Prada Transformer, a portable, shape-shifting cultural pavilion designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas, will open to the public tomorrow in Seoul, Korea. (more…)
Another month and yet another uptick in the American Institute of Architects‘ Architecture Billings Index, this time returning it to a level around where it was at the start of the economic collapse back in August of last year. Though we don’t think anyone is apt to yet say Marvin Malecha, the AIA’s president, was correct in forecasting a quick turnaround in the industry, it’s nice to have two months of positive developments instead of the long, slow drag downward the ABI was experiencing throughout the fall and winter. Here’s a bit:
All four geographic regions tracked by the group remained below 50, as did all four construction subsectors. But a measure of inquiries for projects rose 7 points to 56.6, its third
consecutive monthly increase.“The fact that inquiries for new projects increased is encouraging, but it will likely be a few months before we see an improvement in overall billings,” AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker said. “This news should be viewed with cautious optimism.”
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Additional thanks and praise to Lisa Santoro who finally provided us with a phrase we’d been hunting for after learning last month that the Shangri-La Hotel here in Chicago had been halted while the building was still finishing construction (Santiago Calatrava‘s Chicago Spire doesn’t count because it’s still just a big empty hole). We’re going with her term from here on out: “accidental architecture,” which describes buildings which were planned, started, but wound up greatly altered once the money ran out. For recent examples, think spots like Frank Gehry‘s Beekman Tower or Norman Foster‘s mess at the Harmon Hotel in Las Vegas. For examples from the last big economic collapse, not only does Santoro provide us with the term, but also takes a quick look around New York for buildings in that city that were cut short during the Great Depression, like the Metropolitan Life North Building and the finished-decades-later International Magazine Building.
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