In February this year we announced the convening of the international competition of the "Observatorio Panamericano." A few months later, we bring you a summary of the winning projects, which may participate in the negotiation table to define the development and implementation of these projects.
In this first edition, the topic has been Emergency Interventions, setting the stage for the projects in the American Continent, affected by successive disasters, natural or man-made phenomena, occurred in the last two years and still unresolved.
The sites in the competition and the strategies have been the following: Petropolis: Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. HOW CONSOLIDATE AN INFORMAL...
Today we present a new animated short of FACTORY FIFTEEN, a creative studio specialising in film, animation and architectural representation. They have several animated shorts, and they are making their new film: Jonah - Artwork.
Jonah is a story set in the fishing town of Zanzibar of a changing man in a changing town. Aggressive tourism sparked through Jonah's discovery of the world biggest fish has caused the town and himself to change beyond recognition. The town is now a glowing, tacky, money making, wildly opportunistic beach town, which has abandoned its original fishing roots. As an old man Jonah is ashamed of what his old fishing town has become and decides to hunt down the...
“Hutopolis: city visions” is an exhibition that collects one year of research, experiments and events organized in Asia and Europe by the Hutopolis research program with the goal of creating feasible solutions for urban planning in China.
Following “Next step: Hutopolis”, presented during Beijing Design Week 2011, “City visions” wants to understand how the re-use and enhance of the traditional city patterns could lead towards a new evolution of the city. The renewed exhibition will take place at this year´s edition of the “Beijing...
Yesterday the Nederlandse Tuinbouwraad (NTR) announced the City of Almere, along with it’s MVRDV-designed proposal, as winner of Floriade 2022: Horticultural expo as city centre extension. The event takes place once every ten years in the Netherlands and is currently ending in Venlo.
UThe MVRDV plan for Almere is not a temporary expo site but a lasting green Cité Idéale as an extension to the existing city centre. The waterfront site opposite the city centre will be developed as a vibrant new urban neighbourhood and also a giant plant library which will remain beyond the expo. The ambition is to create a 300% greener exhibition than currently standard, both literally green and sustainable: each...
We show this project months ago here. Grant Associates, a landscape architecture consultancy, in collaboration with Wilkinson Eyre Architects, completed the project Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.
Today we bring a publication of Françoise-Helène Jourd, just released by the publisher Gustavo Gili. This little book is intended for architects, engineers and urbanists, with the intention that to be a companion throughout the process of developing their projects.
Pequeño manual del proyecto sostenible is a practical and synthetic guide to think and to edit projects of architecture and urbanism from the perspective of environmental sustainability. Through 69 questions and answers concerning the location, the program definition, and the different phases of the project, Pequeño manual del proyecto sostenible...
ECUMENÓPOLIS - COAC audiovisual program presents for next Monday, coinciding with the 7th European Landscape Biennial, the movie: "Un Architecte dans le paysage". A documentary on the work of one of the most important figures of the current landscape: Georges Descombes, led by Swiss architect and filmmaker, originally from Argentina, Carlos Lopez.
Halfway between landscape and contemporary art, the work of the Swiss architect Georges Descombes remains largely secret. Very prestigious in the world of landscaping, especially in the United States and the Netherlands, he nevertheless keeps away from the current architectural scene. Carlos Lopez's documentary sets out to discover the creations of Descombes in Switzerland...
"Fluxus to the People" is a program of concerts, activities, schedules, conferences, and a documentary that explores the space of the collective imagination presented by the Reina Sofia Museum. Paisaje Transversal participate in the cycle of the Fluxus movement Arganzuela organizing a tour, which will be called "Espacios de batalla."
The itinerary that propose Paisaje Transversal is inspired by the flux-tours, in these itineraries, open to the arts community, the city and its transformation were be explored. The tour of the neighborhood shows Arganzuela social conflict and the cracks of neighborhood associations.
By the late '60s Fluxus practice was transformed and...
The "VIII Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo", which promotes the Ministry of Development of the Government of Spain, held from 10 to 14 September in Cadiz over forty architects and planners, among the most outstanding Latin American outlook to reflect on the ability of architecture to improve the lives of citizens in three different scales: buildings, cities and landscape.
The winner of the Pritzker Prize Álvaro Siza Vieira, the winner of the National Architecture Prize Oriol Bohigas, the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the VIII BIAU Juan Navarro Baldeweg and the winner of Cervantes Prize Jorge Edwards will offer the lectures.
We'll talk a long time about crisis. They'll continue hitting to everybody by the foolishness of a few. They have crushed our pockets, our work, the employments, the landscape ... so when someone is able to see some beauty in this landscape and does brilliantly, he deserves to be highlighted. The name chosen, could not be better, "Iluminosis" illuminated parts, whose pun refers to the "aluminosis" disease of the buildings in Spain, well known and caused by poor composition of the materials used in construction in the 50s of XX century. (Another speculation with bricks).
Images taken by Luis Veloso, not only are excellent examples of 'ruins under construction' (I recommend reading the article about Aris Kostantinidis published in the famous issue number 06 of METALOCUS unfortunately out of print for years), but also interesting are composition,...
