IT Architecture

Looks like Mr. Johnson is serious about the move. Read more here.

See the previous post for Michael Wolf’s strangely abandoned Hong Kong Corner Houses. Similarly abandoned is his collection of ‘Transparent’ city scapes.

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‘Architecture of Density’, an exhibition of large scare color photographs by Michael Wolf, reveals the sheer density of living in Hong Kong.

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Prefab housing is not new; after all most of London is built on some of the principles. However prefab is now more relevant than ever as we search to find clean affordable ways of building. Prefab is mostly thought of as being regimented and lacking personality but new technologies allow the sort personlisation that is required both in terms of location and client needs. These needs require prefab to satisfy economic, environmental and energy constraints as we seek to house more and more people in ever expanding global economies. MOMA explores these possibilites in an exhibition covering the history of prefab, culminating in the construction of 5 buildings in the museums back yard.

The Cellophane House pictured above, explores the use of NextGen SmartWrap, ‘a building envelope that has the potential to generate energy, control climate, and provide lighting and information display on a single printed substrate.’ See a walk through here.

Also included in he exhibition is the System3 house and BURST*008

Read more on the MOMA site.

Precision construction and simply refined, this lightly transparent construction sits elegantly in the surrounds of breathtaking greenery. Runner up in the WAN House Awards 2007.

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The Indian city of Chandigarh shall soon have its own museum and research centre dedicated to the works of Le Corbusier, the architect who conceptualised and designed the city in the 1950’s. The building, which will be the sixth of its kind in the world, and the second in India, (after the centre at Ahmadabad in the state of Gujarat), is set to be inaugurated in October 2008. The centre aims to preserve, interpret, research and display Corbusier’s works.

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The Fourth Plinth on London’s Trafalgar Square is a continually shifting statement of our time. The plinth garners interest through public debate and presents sometimes light hearted, sometimes serious questions and reflections of our society. Should the plinth be given something more permanent or should we use it as a platform to make shorter, relevant statements? The issue with this is that we don’t leave a permanent marker of our time. Is it our right to place a permanent mark or is it our responsibility now to ensure that the plinth remains a platform for debate?

Visit the Fourth Plinth and see what’s being discussed.

Herzog and de Meuron make vertical very horizontal with stacked ‘container like’ residential spaces. See more pics here.

Edward Burtynsky’s photographs illustrate the vast magnitude of man’s capability to alter the landscape. Massive, lifeless landscapes of stone, rusting metal and building decay are intertwined with mist and monochromatic skies. The landscapes are other worldly and yet remind us how much man needs to consume on this planet.

Manufactured Landscapes is a film about the collection of these images and the statement of fact about the state of our consumption.

Watch the Trailer here.

If you are into order and geometry with a splash of colour then follow this link to the pages of Andy Gilmore. Andy’s art is definately inspired by the tools we use every day; Pantone loves him! A kaleidescope of tropical flowers reminiscent of Louis Poulsen’s Artichoke pendant is dappled in dense colour.

Andy is a New York state artist and explores the geometry in living form that most of us just don’t notice.

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