you like your new multitouch-pad?
check this out:
also check Jeff Han’s presentation @ TED two years ago:
well be standing at drawingboards again!
Thanks for the link Alex!
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This friday at 16:30 an interesting exhibition opens @ the Casla in Almere. It will feature the winning projects of the Eenvoud Competition, the third edition for an experimetal neighbourhood in Almere. Its predecessors, “De Fantasie” and “De Realiteit”, ‘Fantasy’ and ‘Reality’ were held back in the eighties and their results are still worth an excursion. More information on that below.
“De Éénvoud” or ‘Simplicity ‘is the result of a competition held in 2006. The brief was to design a freestanding and simple low-cost house, expressing their own wishes and ideas for dwelling. The winners got the possibility to build their design on a beautiful open spot in the woodland of Noorderplassen-West.
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June 11th the first Museum entirely dedicated to Graphic Design will be opened by our Queen Beatrix in Breda.
For the opening my friend Teun Castelein will make his graphic statement out of concieved content from 250 participants. Everybody is welcome to design its own flag and mail it to flag@graphicdesignmuseum.com. All designs will be printed on unique flags and put against the building. The result will be an explosion of information. A colourful art piece at the old baroque building of the supermodern Graphic Design Museum.
Really a piece of art that makes people think about modern visual communication, about the position of musea in the contemporary image-culture and the fact that everybody is a designer/ image-maker nowadays.
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the smallest permanent pneumatic roof of the world…. by 5elf berlin
My dear friend Alex Thomass of 5elf recently sent me images of his latest project, the smallest permanent pneumatic roof of the world.
‘5elf Berlin found an economic solution to roof a penthouse terrace with a pneumatical construction.The highly light-transmisive ETFE foil enables a weather protection without darkening the area which is closed on three sides.Thus the view to the sky is free and the roof with its easiness goes completely in the background.
SSE breaking ground ceremony ( © OMA)
That was quick: The Shenzhen Stock Exchange has broken ground. OMA won the competition just a year ago, now has moved a team of architects to Shenzen and starts building.
The Cult of Celebrity: Superstar Architects in the Academy debate with George Baird, Thom Mayne and Mark Wigley, moderated by Vedran Mimica, 17 April 2007
I just got news about the Berlage Institute’s lecture series this term. It’s starting rather late, but as always impresses with a highly profiled list of speakers. It’s the pattern we all know and love: A few well known names mixed with a bunch of people maybe less known but definitely worth noticing.
Here’s the details:
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sudapan flyer
Supersudaca, a befriended south-american think-tank has launched Sudapan – Endless(s)trips, an international competition about the urban potentials of mass-tourism in the Caribbean. The competition focuses on the 140km resorts-strip of Riviera Maya, on the Mexican coast.
The competition tries to put forward of the key territorial issues of Latin America and the Caribbean for their inclusion in the contemporary global agenda. Endless(s)trips is a competition of ideas about the urbanism potential of the massive beach tourism in the Caribbean.
Endless(s)trips is a space of reflection an proposals for rethinking the relation between the local elements, the tourists, the environment, tourism managers, the State, the infrastructure and the landscape. It is an opportunity to imagine other cities, other territories and other ways of tourism management.
Due to its size, dynamism and complexity, the Mayan Riviera is an intense and urgent case of great potential, an urbanism laboratory in the Caribbean coast.
Endless(s)trips is supported of the IAAC (Advanced Architecture Institute of Catalunya) and sponsored by Prins Claus Fonds.
* Tourist strips are the mono functional strips of tourism activity developed along the coast line.
Jury
Vicente Guallart (Valencia, Spain, 1963)
Winy Maas (Schijndel, The Netherlands, 1959)
Prof. Carel Weeber (Nijmegen,The Netherlands, 1937)
José Castillo (Mexico)
Bruno Stagno (Santiago, Chile)
Full explanation is available at www.sudapan.org. Feel free to contact info@supersudaca.org for more information. Anyway, make sure you check out their slideshow on the type of ‘urbanism’, created by all-inclusive tourism.
Erection of the Euromast, designed by Huig Maaskant
Since the fog is holding Rotterdam hostage since a few days (my wonderful theory burst into pieces…) you’ll be happy to hear that next weekend (Oct. 11th to 14th) we’ll have the architectur film festival in town.
Reservations are possible since a few days so get to the phone (010) 411 5300 and make sure you get to see a few delicacies.
Our preliminary tips would be:
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german architecture & theory magazine arch+ put the first three videos or their interview marathon at the documenta online.
yes, its the same format as the serpentine gallery event and yes, its also Koolhaas and Obrist who are interviewing.
The first online videos are with Marie-Luise Scherer, former ‘der spiegel’ reporter (on journalism and writing), Karl Schloegel, historian (on bottom-up europe) and Thomas Schütte, sculptor (on his archi-scultures, life as an artist and many things more).
Unfortunately the interviews are almost completely in german. I didn’t know RK speaks such good german…
Looking forward for many more to come. The complete list should include:
Thomas Bayrle (*1937, Künstler, Frankfurt/Main)
Gottfried Böhm (*1920, Architekt, Köln)
Hannes Böhringer (*1948, Philosoph, Berlin/Braunschweig) Continue reading ‘documenta interview marathon’
a friend of mine just pointed me to one of the latest events in the AccessAllAreas program: skating Zaha’s Phaeno in Wolfsburg. Unfortunately the video of a
50-50 down a 15 stair rail with a mean kink at the end which reminds of that Pat Duffy kinkrail in SF by Mack McKelton from Berlin.
is pretty unspectacular from an architects point of view. …. apart from the six-pack closeup for the girls maybe… There will be more coverage soon under accessallareas
via DRMTM and skateboard.de and nillomatic
I finally managed to update the calendar. Plenty of lectures, debates and events this week. Starting from a picnic at the Sonnenveld House, the last debates in the PowerLounge, 100% Design exhibition at the VanNelle and finally the Rotterdam Day Of Architecture on the 26th.
It looks like this is the final spurt before the summer-holdidays, so get your notebooks ready and enjoy some air-conditioned lecture halls. From July on not too much is happening.
dezeen had it a week ago, and I thought it gets a bit boring to post OMA stuff all the time. But somehow nobody jumped on it and I think this 2006 (?) project is really worth mentioning.
No doubt, its great they are using the possibilities in all those arab countries to realize the wet dreams of the 70s. But somehow one would expect something new.
On the other hand, maybe this does mean, that OMA is really getting rid of that avantgarde-trauma to produce something new ALL THE TIME. I actually find it comforting to see that we might surpass this obsession and finally move beyond the anyway strange contemporary concept of avantgarde (sorry for misinterpetation, Miguel!). More towards a refined architecture, even a paradigm, a settled style that would allow to develop something refined, learn from projects instead of starting over and over again. An architectural canon! ;-)
Well, maybe just a (strange) dream. probably this would be horribly boring… But how much great architecture is produced anyway? We could have hobbies, earn some money, go on holiday…
It also reminds me of an article in the DesignObserver on CCTV, that toms pointed at in an earlier post.
‘In the end, all the political discourse and self-serving manifestos mean little. We are left to judge this building as a piece of architecture built in 2007, in a climate of growing awareness of sustainability. Building a project of this scale with so much extra steel to support an aesthetic expression seems like a missed opportunity, if not something completely bordering on civic negligence, especially in China, one of the countries which necessarily must embrace sustainability soon. Imagine if Koolhaas had used this opportunity to build the lightest, most green building in the world? Imagine if he had marshalled all of his rhetorical verve and diplomatic savvy to argue for the critical importance of such architecture? Instead of responding to fortune cookies, Rem Koolhaas could have changed the world.’
more pics on OMAweb and the press release on: dezeen 1/2 and dezeen 2/2.
it needs to be mentioned, but eikonographia anyway has again the best images of OMAs latest. And the best pairs too. dezeen has the full pressrelease with plans etc.
pic via eikonographia
The doors will open at 20.20. / Tickets can be bought for 5,- euro at the door.
Location: Off Corso, Kruiskade 22, Rotterdam hope to see you there!!!
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On Tuesday, April 10, 2007, Martin Berendse of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science will officially open the Dutch Electronic Art Festival. The opening will take place at Rotterdam’s new Las Palmas cultural center at 7:00 pm. A performance by the Belgian group Code31 will be the highlight. DEAF, one of the most important international festivals devoted to art, media and technology, is organized every two years by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media. DEAF07 runs from April 10 to 29, 2007, in Rotterdam. Continue reading ‘DEAF’
singapore, new jersey, kentucky
OMA Beijing has another beautiful variation on the classic skyscaper. To be built in Singapore. No twists, no morphs, no parametrics. Nevertheless bold and inventive. Like it…
What is the Rotterdam office actually busy with at the moment? Haven’t heard so much lately…
New Jersey was the NYoffice, right?
