The 21st of September marked the start of the Storefront for Art and Architecture gallery's 25th Anniversary celebrations, kicked ...
And so I write this, in this modern day and age, in the age of me-ness, where the individual is king. Instant gratification, instant satisfaction - that’s the buzz that’s been circulating the globe. It comes as no surprise or novelty that I say that architecture has become victim to that too. Architecture with a capital A. But everyone knows that this is only the case for the big architects; the starchitects, as they’ve been aptly coined. Whatever happened to the everyday architect?
Meet Will Alsop in person at the Designing in Steel Workshop organized in conjunction with the S3 Design Competition. Join us as ...
We are proud to announce to all that the Magical Spaces Exhibition will be held at The Asylum, 22 Ann Siang Road. 31st October 2007 to 14th November ...
From left to right: John Phoenix, Ma Yansong, and Yosuke Hayano. [Image Courtesy of MAD Office and Archinect] Ma Yansong (马岩�) is a young architect whose Beijing firm Mad recently won an international competion for the design of a landmark residential tower in Mississauga, Canada's seventh largest city. Dubbed the 'Marilyn Monroe Building', it is a spectacular and sensuous skyscraper that was the favorite choice of the judges, the press and the public. Danwei TV recently caught up with Ma and asked him some questions about the Marilyn Monroe Building, and his views on architecture in China. To see more of Mad's work, take a look at their www.i-mad.com. Watch Danwei TV's Interview with Ma Yansong HERE on Youtube. *Warning: This Interview is conducted in Mandarin, by a Caucasian male. Sound bizarre? Watch it anyway!
[Image Courtesy of Mithun & Coolhunting.com] As myopic urban planners and developers pave over rich topsoil to create giant-box stores and auto malls in their pursuit of easy tax revenue and profits, a partnership of forward-looking architects have hatched a scheme to comingle agriculture with urban development Mithun, a consortium of cutting-edge architects in Seattle, recognize that when real estate and resources become scant, the solution is to build up. Their idea is simple: vertical, urban farms in which production equivalent to an acre of farmland is condensed footprint of a .72 inner-city acre.
By Judy Cheung "Mind of a City" is initiated as a dual-site project between Singapore and Vancouver. These two cities are paralleled as to suggest ...
TheatreWorks presents V.I.S.T.A Lab 1.0: IMPETUS Installation_performance By Choy Ka Fai, Zulkifle Mahmod, Ng Yi-Sheng, Torrance Goh/FARMWORK, Patricia Toh and Joavien Ng Several historical events escaped people's memories, ...
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Punggol 21 was much in the limelight as plans for the redevelopment of the estate was announced. Grand plans were announced for the estate but ...