Urban plan conditions
The project is located on a long and very narrow site, on the edge of Parc La Vilette in Paris’s 19th district, within an urban development done by Reichen & Robert architects. On the northeast, new Paris tram route is passing along the site. The site is bordering with tram garage on the southwest, above which is a football field. The first 3 floors of the housing will...
Basket apartments by OFIS arhitekti [VIDEO]
EXPO 1: NEW YORK Rockaway Call for Ideas.
Artists, architects, designers, and others are welcome to present ideas for alternative housing models, creation of social spaces, urban interventions, new uses of public space, the rebuilding of the boardwalk, protection of the shoreline, and actions to engage local communities.
Twenty-five selected proposals will be presented publicly in the press and social media and...
Lascaux IV, Cave Painting Centre.By Snøhetta - Duncan Lewis with Casson Mann.
The team won against several of Europe's leading architects including Mateo Arquitectura, Auer+Weber and Jean Nouvel. A subterranean complex of tunnels and chambers will surround the historic paintings, estimated to be 17,300 years old, creating a low-rise building that folds up from the landscape.
Speaking about Casson Mann’s winning design, Jury member Bernard Cazeau, Président du Conseil Général de la Dordogne, said...
ANIMA. The first project by Bernard Tschumi in Italy.
From what little is known about new proposal by Bernard Tschumi, basically, it offers some doubts on the outer skin and more interest in the program's internal organization.
ANIMA is a cultural center that will be built in Grottammare, city in the province of Ascoli Piceno, intended to generate stronger ties between the people and the territory. Architecture intends to associate its image to the most...
The Competition. Trailer
"The Competition" / doc movie on a competition of architecture. Madrid-based architect Angel Borrego Cubero, of OSS, has directed and produced the first documentary focused on the tense process that often characterizes an architectural competition. Appropriately titled The Competition, the film captures a fascinating account on how five world-famous architects – Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Dominique Perrault, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster– toil...
10th anniversary of PechaKucha!!
10 years ago, in February of 2003, the very first PechaKucha Night was held. After coming to the realization that architects tend to talk way too much, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham architecture devised a lecture format that ended up revolutionizing the way we present. During 10 years, PechaKucha 20×20 has inspired creatives from 600 cities (Madrid also, Paloma Hernaiz y Jaime...
REM 2013 by Tomas Koolhaas.
Architecture is often viewed from the outside, as an inanimate object represented in still imagery. 'REM' exposes the human experience of architecture. The resulting documentary is more revealing than the generic poster image, and more evocative than the intellectual reality of architectural renderings. The audience (through the camera) gains a rare insight into the reality of the hidden internal life of the buildings. 'REM' brings the human back into...
Region 0. Open call.
In the audiovisual media, Region 0 is an informal term for “worldwide.” Region 0 - The Latino Video Art Festival of New York (“the Festival”) embraces the idea of audiovisual works transcending international barriers. The first edition of Region 0 took place in March 2011 and during 2012 travelled to Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Spain and other locations in the United States.
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Culture of smoking: From Taboo to Taboo by Brigada
Taking inspiration from the phenomenon of smoke, the main goal of the agency Brigada was to recreate its very essence in the gallery space itself by completely altering a well-known exhibition space. Playing with the idea of taboo, their intention was to design an anti-exhibition – a display that hides the exhibits even from the museum itself.
...Works in progress, SFMOMA expansion by Snøhetta
Construction of its expansion will begin this summer. From June 3, 2013 through early 2016. This expansion is about much more than the extension of the museum's physical footprint. The new building will both transform the museum and enliven the city by opening up new routes of public circulation around the neighborhood and into the museum.
The sketches for SFMOMA's expansion, developed in collaboration...





























































































































