Kengo Kuma - Lucien Pellat-Finet Shinsaibashi
Chuou-ku, Osaka, Japan
Check out his other work - http://kkaa.co.jp/c/works/
Sunday 15 May 2011
Friday 13 May 2011
Wednesday 11 May 2011
Habitable Sculpture - Miguel Arruda
Thanks archdaily!
With «Habitable Sculpture» architect Miguel Arruda transports a formal memory of one of his early sculptures from the 60s to the present day and gives it the scale and spatial experience of architecture.
The «Modulo» exposed in Gallery Diario de Noticias, in 1968 is now subject to an extension 56 times its original size. This new volume gives a certain level of habitability, which allows him to interpret the concept of Habitable Sculpture. Both fisical object aprotche and tactile values of its first volumes, are today exercised on the exterior and interior.
With «Habitable Sculpture» architect Miguel Arruda transports a formal memory of one of his early sculptures from the 60s to the present day and gives it the scale and spatial experience of architecture.
The «Modulo» exposed in Gallery Diario de Noticias, in 1968 is now subject to an extension 56 times its original size. This new volume gives a certain level of habitability, which allows him to interpret the concept of Habitable Sculpture. Both fisical object aprotche and tactile values of its first volumes, are today exercised on the exterior and interior.
Tuesday 10 May 2011
Interview with Joshua Prince-Ramus - REX architects
Interview with Joshua Prince-Ramus of REX architects
REX architects
Thanks Designboom
" joshua prince-ramus was born in 1969.
he received a bachelor of arts in philosophy with distinction
from yale university in 1991 and a master of architecture from
harvard university in 1996. joshua prince-ramus is president
of REX and principal in charge of all projects. he was the
founding partner of OMA new york. while REX was still known
as OMA new york, prince-ramus was partner in charge of the
seattle central library and the guggenheim-hermitage museum
in las vegas. in addition to the recently completed at&t performing
arts center’s dee and charles wyly theatre in dallas, texas,
other cultural projects by REX include museum plaza,
a 62-story mixed-use skyscraper housing a contemporary
art center in louisville, kentucky, and the new central library
and music conservatory for the city of kortrijk, belgium.
current projects also include the istanbul headquarters for
vakko and power media, turkey’s preeminent
fashion and media companies; the university of louisville’s
college of business campus in kentucky; and a line of public
furniture for belgian furniture company quinze & milan.
REX recently placed second in both the international competition
for the new edvard munch museum in oslo, norway,
and the finnish innovation fund’s low2no sustainable development
competition in helsinki, finland. he is currently a visiting professor
at columbia university’s graduate school of architecture,
planning, and preservation, and has previously been a visiting
professor at both harvard and yale.
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we met joshua prince-ramus in new york on may 13, 2009.
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what is the best moment of the day?
when I come home and my daughter yells 'daddy' and
runs to me.
what kind of music do you listen to at the moment?
sufjan stevens.
do you listen to the radio?
no.
what books do you have on your bedside table?
the master and margarita (by mikhail bulgakov) and
seven pillars of wisdom (by t. e. lawrence).
do you read design / architecture magazines?
no.
not even flip through them?
I flip through them (admits).
where do you get your news from?
my blackberry, in the morning, on my way to work.
I have a web news service.
I key in issues important to me and articles from the
new york times, the wall street journal, etc. get dumped
onto my blackberry.
I assume you notice how women dress.
do you have any preferences?
simple and elegant, but also sexy. I have a huge
partiality to prada and to miuccia (prada).
what kind of clothes do you avoid wearing?
I like very simple colors - light blue, white, grey and black.
I'm really uncomfortable with anything that has detail.
all I have are pure cuts.
I would never have a shirt that had funny buttons,
or a funny pocket.
do you have any pets?
not at the moment, but I had a cat.
when you were a child, did you want to
become an architect?
yes. since a very very very young age. since 5.
my grandfather was a very successful engineer and had
worked with a lot of very good architects and exposed
me to the field."
read on HERE
REX architects
Thanks Designboom
" joshua prince-ramus was born in 1969.
he received a bachelor of arts in philosophy with distinction
from yale university in 1991 and a master of architecture from
harvard university in 1996. joshua prince-ramus is president
of REX and principal in charge of all projects. he was the
founding partner of OMA new york. while REX was still known
as OMA new york, prince-ramus was partner in charge of the
seattle central library and the guggenheim-hermitage museum
in las vegas. in addition to the recently completed at&t performing
arts center’s dee and charles wyly theatre in dallas, texas,
other cultural projects by REX include museum plaza,
a 62-story mixed-use skyscraper housing a contemporary
art center in louisville, kentucky, and the new central library
and music conservatory for the city of kortrijk, belgium.
current projects also include the istanbul headquarters for
vakko and power media, turkey’s preeminent
fashion and media companies; the university of louisville’s
college of business campus in kentucky; and a line of public
furniture for belgian furniture company quinze & milan.
REX recently placed second in both the international competition
for the new edvard munch museum in oslo, norway,
and the finnish innovation fund’s low2no sustainable development
competition in helsinki, finland. he is currently a visiting professor
at columbia university’s graduate school of architecture,
planning, and preservation, and has previously been a visiting
professor at both harvard and yale.
---
we met joshua prince-ramus in new york on may 13, 2009.
---
what is the best moment of the day?
when I come home and my daughter yells 'daddy' and
runs to me.
what kind of music do you listen to at the moment?
sufjan stevens.
do you listen to the radio?
no.
what books do you have on your bedside table?
the master and margarita (by mikhail bulgakov) and
seven pillars of wisdom (by t. e. lawrence).
do you read design / architecture magazines?
no.
not even flip through them?
I flip through them (admits).
where do you get your news from?
my blackberry, in the morning, on my way to work.
I have a web news service.
I key in issues important to me and articles from the
new york times, the wall street journal, etc. get dumped
onto my blackberry.
I assume you notice how women dress.
do you have any preferences?
simple and elegant, but also sexy. I have a huge
partiality to prada and to miuccia (prada).
what kind of clothes do you avoid wearing?
I like very simple colors - light blue, white, grey and black.
I'm really uncomfortable with anything that has detail.
all I have are pure cuts.
I would never have a shirt that had funny buttons,
or a funny pocket.
do you have any pets?
not at the moment, but I had a cat.
when you were a child, did you want to
become an architect?
yes. since a very very very young age. since 5.
my grandfather was a very successful engineer and had
worked with a lot of very good architects and exposed
me to the field."
read on HERE
Saturday 7 May 2011
Terunobu Fujimori Again
Taipei News Article on Terunobu Fujimoru
Fujimori Flickr Set
Another great article
Fujimori Flickr Set
Another great article
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| Tanpopo House (his own house) |
Terunobu Fujimori
From Here Thankyou : Ouno Design
Photographs from Here : Edmund Sumner
Terunobu Fujimori, a leading historian of modern Japanese architecture, began to design his own architecture in 1990. Since then, he has created a number of original buildings unbound by previous forms or styles, offering continual surprises to the world of architecture. The exhibition, “Architecture of Terunobu Fujimori and ROJO: Unknown Japanese Architecture and Cities,” was presented last year as part of the “Venice Biennale: 10th International Architecture Exhibition 2006.” It was acclaimed for offering a glimpse of an unknown aspect of contemporary Japanese architecture, which enjoys a high international reputation.
Research in the field of architectural history is Fujimori’s principal occupation, but he currently creates architectural works, too.The main theme of his research into the history of architecture and city planning has been modern architecture, and particularly western-style buildings in Japan from the Meiji period onwards. His “Meiji no Tokyo Keikaku (Meiji Plans for Tokyo)” (pub. 1982, Iwanami Shoten), won him the Mainichi Publication Culture Award.As part of his research, in 1974 he joined with friends and colleagues to form the Tokyo Architectural Detective Agency. Carrying maps and cameras, the detectives walked around Tokyo, from the commercial arcades of the lower-class ‘shitamachi’ areas to the residential sections of the high-class ‘yamanote’ areas, seeking out western-style buildings that had long been forgotten and covered up. This endeavor resulted in the publication of “Kenchiku Tantei no Boken: Tokyo Hen (Adventures of an Architectural Detective: Tokyo)” (1986, Chikuma Shobo), which won Fujimori the Suntory Prize for Social Science and Humanities. Since then, he has continued his architectural detective work, publishing the results in all sorts of different media formats in ways that make them accessible to the general public.
During his urban walks to discover forgotten architecture, Fujimori came to know Genpei Akasegawa, Shinbo Minami, Joji Hayashi, Tetsuo Matsuda and others who were ‘collecting’ intriguing properties around the town from a similar perspective. This encounter led to the establishment of the ROJO Society in 1986.After devoting himself to his architectural history research and writings for so long, Fujimori made a debut as an architect in 1991 at the age of 44 when he created the Jinchokan Moriya Historical Museum under commission from his hometown, Chino City in Nagano.Fujimori’s architecture took a completely untried approach, enveloping a reinforced concrete structure with local stones, earth, and hand-cut planking. The result caught the public’s imagination, but the architectural community was more dubious until Kengo Kuma praised it for generating fond feelings of familiarity in people who had never seen it before. As more and more people began to appreciate his work, Fujimori went on to create the Akino Fuku Art Museum (1997), Student Dormitory for Kumamoto Agricultural College (2000), Grass House (Dandelion House) (1995) with dandelions planted on the walls and roof, Nira House (Leek House) (1997), which was planted with leeks, Ichiya-tei tea house for Morihiro Hosokawa (2003), and the Takasugi-an tea house (2004), set 6 meters above the ground like a treehouse. Nira House (Leek House) won him the Japan Art Grand Prix, and he was awarded the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize for Design for the Student Dormitory for Kumamoto Agricultural College.
Born in Nagano in 1946, Terunobu Fujimori studied at Tohoku University before graduate school at the University of Tokyo. He is currently a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science.
Photographs from Here : Edmund Sumner
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| Nemunoki Art Museum |
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| Yakisugi House - Above Five Pictures |
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| Takasugi An - Above two pictures |
Terunobu Fujimori, a leading historian of modern Japanese architecture, began to design his own architecture in 1990. Since then, he has created a number of original buildings unbound by previous forms or styles, offering continual surprises to the world of architecture. The exhibition, “Architecture of Terunobu Fujimori and ROJO: Unknown Japanese Architecture and Cities,” was presented last year as part of the “Venice Biennale: 10th International Architecture Exhibition 2006.” It was acclaimed for offering a glimpse of an unknown aspect of contemporary Japanese architecture, which enjoys a high international reputation.
Research in the field of architectural history is Fujimori’s principal occupation, but he currently creates architectural works, too.The main theme of his research into the history of architecture and city planning has been modern architecture, and particularly western-style buildings in Japan from the Meiji period onwards. His “Meiji no Tokyo Keikaku (Meiji Plans for Tokyo)” (pub. 1982, Iwanami Shoten), won him the Mainichi Publication Culture Award.As part of his research, in 1974 he joined with friends and colleagues to form the Tokyo Architectural Detective Agency. Carrying maps and cameras, the detectives walked around Tokyo, from the commercial arcades of the lower-class ‘shitamachi’ areas to the residential sections of the high-class ‘yamanote’ areas, seeking out western-style buildings that had long been forgotten and covered up. This endeavor resulted in the publication of “Kenchiku Tantei no Boken: Tokyo Hen (Adventures of an Architectural Detective: Tokyo)” (1986, Chikuma Shobo), which won Fujimori the Suntory Prize for Social Science and Humanities. Since then, he has continued his architectural detective work, publishing the results in all sorts of different media formats in ways that make them accessible to the general public.
During his urban walks to discover forgotten architecture, Fujimori came to know Genpei Akasegawa, Shinbo Minami, Joji Hayashi, Tetsuo Matsuda and others who were ‘collecting’ intriguing properties around the town from a similar perspective. This encounter led to the establishment of the ROJO Society in 1986.After devoting himself to his architectural history research and writings for so long, Fujimori made a debut as an architect in 1991 at the age of 44 when he created the Jinchokan Moriya Historical Museum under commission from his hometown, Chino City in Nagano.Fujimori’s architecture took a completely untried approach, enveloping a reinforced concrete structure with local stones, earth, and hand-cut planking. The result caught the public’s imagination, but the architectural community was more dubious until Kengo Kuma praised it for generating fond feelings of familiarity in people who had never seen it before. As more and more people began to appreciate his work, Fujimori went on to create the Akino Fuku Art Museum (1997), Student Dormitory for Kumamoto Agricultural College (2000), Grass House (Dandelion House) (1995) with dandelions planted on the walls and roof, Nira House (Leek House) (1997), which was planted with leeks, Ichiya-tei tea house for Morihiro Hosokawa (2003), and the Takasugi-an tea house (2004), set 6 meters above the ground like a treehouse. Nira House (Leek House) won him the Japan Art Grand Prix, and he was awarded the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize for Design for the Student Dormitory for Kumamoto Agricultural College.
Born in Nagano in 1946, Terunobu Fujimori studied at Tohoku University before graduate school at the University of Tokyo. He is currently a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science.
Friday 6 May 2011
Ruta Peregrino - The Structures
Ruta Peregrino - Photographed by Iwan Baan
La Ruta del Peregrino (Pilgrim's Route) stretches out on a distance of 117 kilometers. Approximately two million people participate each year in this religious phenomenon coming from different states of Mexico to walk through the mountain range of Jalisco, starting in the town of Ameca, ascending to el Cerro del Obispo at an altitude of 2000 meters above sea level, crossing the peak of Espinazo del Diablo to descend to it's final destination in the town of Talpa de Allende to meet with the Virgin of Talpa as an act of devotion, faith and gratitude.
La Ruta del Peregrino (Pilgrim's Route) stretches out on a distance of 117 kilometers. Approximately two million people participate each year in this religious phenomenon coming from different states of Mexico to walk through the mountain range of Jalisco, starting in the town of Ameca, ascending to el Cerro del Obispo at an altitude of 2000 meters above sea level, crossing the peak of Espinazo del Diablo to descend to it's final destination in the town of Talpa de Allende to meet with the Virgin of Talpa as an act of devotion, faith and gratitude.
Thursday 5 May 2011
The Green School by IBUKU [PT Bambu]
IBUKU
“Environmentalists and designers John and Cynthia Hardy wanted to motivate communities to live sustainably. Part of that effort was to show people how to build with sustainable materials, namely bamboo. They established the Green School, and its affiliates: the Meranggi Foundation, which develops plantations of bamboo plants through presenting bamboo seedlings to local rice farmers; and "PT Bambu, a for-profit design and construction company that promotes the use of bamboo as a primary building material, in an effort to avoid the further depletion of rainforests. The Green School, a giant laboratory built by IBUKU, is located on a sustainable campus straddling both sides of the Ayung River in Sibang Kaja, Bali, within a lush jungle with native plants and trees growing alongside sustainable organic gardens. The campus is powered by a number of alternative energy sources, including a bamboo sawdust hot water and cooking system, a hydro-powered vortex generator and solar panels. Campus buildings include classrooms, gym, assembly spaces, faculty housing, offices, cafes and bathrooms. A range of architecturally significant spaces from large multi-storey communal gathering places to much smaller classrooms are a feature of the campus. Local bamboo, grown using sustainable methods, is used in innovative and experimental ways that demonstrate its architectural possibilities. The result is a holistic green community with a strong educational mandate that seeks to inspire students to be more curious, more engaged and more passionate about the environment and the planet." Aga Khan via Architecture Lab
“Environmentalists and designers John and Cynthia Hardy wanted to motivate communities to live sustainably. Part of that effort was to show people how to build with sustainable materials, namely bamboo. They established the Green School, and its affiliates: the Meranggi Foundation, which develops plantations of bamboo plants through presenting bamboo seedlings to local rice farmers; and "PT Bambu, a for-profit design and construction company that promotes the use of bamboo as a primary building material, in an effort to avoid the further depletion of rainforests. The Green School, a giant laboratory built by IBUKU, is located on a sustainable campus straddling both sides of the Ayung River in Sibang Kaja, Bali, within a lush jungle with native plants and trees growing alongside sustainable organic gardens. The campus is powered by a number of alternative energy sources, including a bamboo sawdust hot water and cooking system, a hydro-powered vortex generator and solar panels. Campus buildings include classrooms, gym, assembly spaces, faculty housing, offices, cafes and bathrooms. A range of architecturally significant spaces from large multi-storey communal gathering places to much smaller classrooms are a feature of the campus. Local bamboo, grown using sustainable methods, is used in innovative and experimental ways that demonstrate its architectural possibilities. The result is a holistic green community with a strong educational mandate that seeks to inspire students to be more curious, more engaged and more passionate about the environment and the planet." Aga Khan via Architecture Lab
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