domusweb . Sou Fujimoto

biennale2010 . Palazzo delle Esposizioni . Giardini

video: domusweb

The Japanese architect proposes a new living prototype, a model that erases the boundary between support structure and furnishings. A Primitive Future House that revisits living archetypes such as the nest and cave.
domusweb . Sou Fujimoto

OMA

Il fondaco dei Tedeschi . Venice

photos: OMA

First constructed in 1228, the Fondaco dei Tedeschi was a trading post for German merchants before becoming a customs house under Napoleon in 1806. Depicted by Canaletto and other masters, and photographed numberless times as the impressive but anonymous backdrop for the Rialto, the Fondaco now stands as a muted icon of the Venetian mercantile era. Seguir leyendo «OMA»
OMA

Visiondivision

Cancer City

photos: Visiondivision

A country gentlemen once bought 10000 crayfishes in the 90’s to plant in a stream running through his land. In the autumn he would capture about a hundred of them to eat at the annual Swedish crayfish parties. The crayfishes however slowly started to emigrate to another nearby lake outside the patron’s estate. Desperate of seeing his neighbors feast on his crayfishes, he contacted visiondivision to solve his problem. Seguir leyendo «Visiondivision»
Visiondivision

J. Mayer H. Architects

Audi Urban Future Award

source: audi-urban-future-award . more photos: bustler . archdaily

A driving machine becomes a viewing machine. That means
that the occupant can experience the urban environment in a
completely different way, independently of whether the car is
moving or has to stop or brake. What we are advocating is cleansing
the city of all of the tools that are important today in order
to make individual mobility within the city possible.
J. Mayer H. Architects

COBE . Transform

Culture House + Library . Copenhagen

photos: dezeen . renders: Luxigon.

The Northwest area of Copenhagen is located in the diverse and lively transition zone between the dense urban Nørrebro area and the villa neighbourhoods at the edge of the city. Even though many people live and work in the multi-ethnic Northwest Copenhagen, the area is by many Copenhageners mainly passed through going in and out of the city by car. The reason for this is the area’s vicinity to numerous entry roads as well as the lack of cultural facilities and recreational areas. Seguir leyendo «COBE . Transform»

COBE . Transform

JA Joubert Architecture

Greenside Out . Tirana

photos: JA Joubert Architecture . archdaily

On this highly visible location a new structure is imagined. Where the road from Durres and the airport to the center of Tirana offered nature and countryside a decade ago, now it is rapidly filling up with a trivial and bland series of boxes stretching almost the complete 40km to the sea. Factories, warehouses, apartment blocks on a plinth of shops, stretch along the highway. Seguir leyendo «JA Joubert Architecture»
JA Joubert Architecture