March 31, 2008 | Articles | Features
Queue up for that Pritzker, please
Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the multi-chromatic Torre Agbar Tower in Barcelona and the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris, has received the Pritzker Prize.
It seems that there was always a queue to get the Pritzker. Before the beginning of the century, you could almost make a good guess as to the future recipients of architecture’s top prize - Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Lord Norman Foster, Frank O. Gehry, Thom Mayne, Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, and now it seems only right that their Gallic contemporary Nouvel be added to the star studded list.
In architecture, there are only so many well-respected honours to be bestowed upon the incredible mass of architects that ply their trade in what is the period in history with the greatest ever proliferation of man-made construction. It was as if Francois Mitterand had taken over the international stage of architecture, and declared another band of Grand Projets to be erected the world over. With all the endless bravado on show, it is pretty obvious that there aren’t enough awards to go round. It says something of the status quo; with the glaring over-proliferation of design in the world. It is harder still to deny that this is post-modernism at its highest point. Can there ever be too much design?
To many critics, the Grand Projets in Paris are more like an old-fashioned effort at empire-building. In La Ville-lumière (The City of Lights) alone, the Louvre, the Musee d’Orsay, La Villette (with its famous park by Bernard Tschumi), the Institut du monde Arabe by Nouvel himself, the Opera at Place de la Bastille and Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano’s Pompidou Centre make up an intimidating, grand array of landmarks that dot the city.
If you took a step back to appreciate the world today, a startling parallel emerges. What Mitterand had envisioned only years before, seems a must-do endeavor that most governments of this present day are executing, down to the last detail. You might be familiar with the grand designs gracing the avenues and plazas of Dubai, Shanghai, or Beijing. The Beijing Olympics alone have become the biggest excuse of the century for big-architecture. Empowered by ever-improving strands of technology, architects and designers in kind are taking advantage of this technological revolution to create everything imaginable. It isn’t so much a question of how and why you create; the attitude that pervades is what-can-I-create-that’s-new and just-because-I-can create, I will. Very soon, we might need a Pritzker to honour the most-embellished city. And at the rate things are going, we might just need two.
In all this currency of design frenzy, it was interesting to stumble upon an important dialectic established by Sam Jacob and Lebbeus Woods’ essays published in the recent Yale Architecture Journal Perspecta 38. In essence, Jacob champions his self-coined concept of a Pop Vernacular, “promoting an architecture that unabashedly engages pluralism, commercialism, populist taste, and even formless kitsch.” On the other hand, Woods, in his essay titled After Form: After Forms, challenges architects “to substantiate the promiscuous forms that are so readily produced in a time when anything can be built…a certain formal discipline - previously necessitated by material techniques - is no longer present.”
Clockwise from Right: Pritzker Laureates Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Lord Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano
The purpose of the Pritzker Architecture Prize is to honor annually a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. To date, Nouvel’s work has achieved almost all of this, with rigorously contextual and intuitive responses to almost all of his built commissions, which manage in one way or another to connect to their surroundings and uplift the human spirit.
In the years of mass-construction to come, my only hope is that the Pritzker Prize maintains its unerring conferment of its prestigious medallion upon only the most deserving and apt recipients, for the sake of the profession and its inherent values and principles it has fought so hard to protect.
March 27, 2008 | Broadcast | News
URA plans new community space at Dhoby Ghaut MRT station
URA has unveiled plans for the development of the open space above the Dhoby Ghaut MRT station which will be Singapore’s latest venue for community activities and performances.This is all part of the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)’s plan to increase the number of public spaces along the Orchard Road area. -CNA
March 26, 2008 | Broadcast | News
Hong Kong: Open door to creativity, says top architect
by Una So, The Standard
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
When it comes to design, not many people in Hong Kong understand the difference between the good, the bad and the ugly, an internationally famed and award- winning architect said . Rocco Yim, the Hong Kong architect behind Tamar’s The Door creation, said because of this, there is little public pressure on the government to elevate its game in public buildings design through open competition, rather than relying on the problematic tendering process.
“Public architecture is the expression of a city’s spirit, but administration people are deciding the face of Hong Kong,” he said.
Hong Kong tends to be too conservative for creativity, Yim said, noting the problem is that architecture has been dominated by developers who are mostly conservative, preferring to stick with “formula” glories dating back decades.
Sounds like an all-too-familiar story; read more from The Standard
March 25, 2008 | Broadcast | News
Outsourcing: An Indian perspective
Back in 2005, then a fresh graduate in architecture, I was offered a position by a leading outsourcing architectural firm in Noida, India. The pay sounded good, the work environment seemed great, the fact that they had contacted me made me feel so significant, but alas I still didn’t go for the interview. The reason… because somewhere I felt I didn’t want to be losing my creativity in drafting plans, making 3d models – that was killing the innovation that I could only give birth to - whether in terms of writing or design.
But today, I must say, the scenario is changing in India. The outsourcing bandwagon is experiencing unprecedented growth. A gigantic difference in the preliminary salaries of a graduate and a fresher joining an outsourcing firm, the foreign work environment which one can experience sitting in India, the yearning for a fast track career growth is taking a whole lot of talent to such firms.
Read her full article on World Architecture News.
March 25, 2008 | Broadcast | News
Mumbai
Mumbai (formerly Bombay) was always acknowledged for its colonial architecture. But post independence, urban architecture here has been now proliferating with its use of concrete and glass. The commercial and entertainment capital of India is mushrooming at an irrepressible pace. To mitigate the pressure on its resources, the city is being redeveloped on a massive scale. The aim is to convert this capital into a world-class city and a top business destination, thereby realising the ‘Vision Mumbai goal’.
Read her full article on World Architecture News.
March 23, 2008 | Broadcast
architects, word nerds.
Ever heard an architect speak? Ever wondered what on earth they were saying?
Here’s to all you haters of eloquence: http://zahahadidblog.com/reviews/2007/07/17/tom-dyckhoff-writes#more-246
March 23, 2008 | Broadcast | News
Trailer:Archiculture
View Trailer Here
From Archinect:
When we heard about the film Archiculture, we were instantly attracted to its subject matter. David Krantz and Ian Harris, two recent architecture school graduates, decided to take time away from their day jobs to create a documentary film that peeks into the lives of 5 architecture students in their final thesis semester at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture. We were moved because we knew how well it would be received by all those that have lived through their final thesis, and the friends and family that were there to support this incredible endeavor. The amount of hours and perseverance is hardly known or considered among those not involved in the industry. We were happy that these film makers felt it necessary to share what these individuals experience during this important time of preparation. The creativity, stress, emotion, competition, critique and finally, relief, as they prepare to present their most extensive work in order to graduate and enter their professional lives as architects.
Mission Statment, from the Archiculture website:
Archiculture is a documentary that captures five diverse students in a single studio at one university throughout the entirety of their thesis project. The film will convey a mere sliver of time, wholly representative of the experience to create a student’s paramount work. The footage will illustrate the range of emotions and process of this extremely intense period at the conclusion of an academic career. It is our goal for the documentary to possess educational, entertaining, realistic and inspiring qualities in response to the dynamic world these students cross.
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Timeline
September 2006 - December 2007: Pre-Production
January 2008 - May 2008: Production
June 2008 - December 2008: Post Production
January 2009 - June 2009: North American Tour
Fall 2009: Film Premiers
Spring 2010: DVD release
March 19, 2008 | Broadcast | Events
Apero
In the tradition of the SWISS BOX there will be an “apero”. The Year 2 Concrete Exhibition would be showcasing 18 concrete sculptures by the National University of Singapore Year 2 AR2326 students.
SDE Exhibition Hall
National University of Singapore
18 March - 25 March 2008
Opening Night:
18 March 2008 at 6pm
With drinks and snacks
March 18, 2008 | Broadcast | Events
Ecology.Design.Synergy
28 March - 20 April 2008
Gallery opening hours: Mondays - Fridays, 11am - 6pm
Saturdays - Sundays, 12pm - 6pm
The exhibition features pioneering developments in sustainable design with a broad international public in mind. It is thought-provocative while raising awareness of pressing environmental issues.
Under six key themes - temperature, air, sound, light, materials and human scale - the exhibition documents the process - Exposition (Introduction, Development (Variations) and Recapitulation - of 10 innovative, aesthetically refined, energy-efficient, and sustainable buildings, common and company-specific projects, realised as well as work-in-progress, in Europe and in the USA, such as the RiverParc Development in Pittsburgh, the Senscity Paradise Universe in Las Vegas/Nevada and the Norddeutsche Landesbank in Hannover.
It also demonstrates that investigating solutions and new problems pose both fascinating tasks and rewarding challenges - curiosity, commodity and delight drive the process to discover new technologies and to improve upon the already achieved.
Ecology.Design.Synergy
Sculpture Square, 155 Middle Road
Tel: 6735 4555
Email: mail@singapore.goethe.org
March 14, 2008 | Features | Opinions
Canteen Brick-Down
The Site is never a blank canvas – it is always already a palimpsest of narratives and forces. This video installation elucidates a particular narrative in the site of the NUS Arts Canteen – of dislocated forces between its present and past. This area of dislocation resides between the layers of the intimate red-brick columns of the old Canteen and the white grandiose structure that now stands. By mapping the past onto the present through the manipulation of the conventional architectural Plan, this video creates a ‘back-talking’ amidst the structural coordinates of the old and new, when both collide in real time, in this work. The process of physically marking out these various coordinates becomes a performance of an architectural plotting of the old brick columns with life elements. One is drawn along with the moving brick column on its quest of re-locating its position within the Site. A disjuncture in logic and expectations starts to surface when the dislocation between the boundaries of time and space are made apparent by the physical manifestation of the brick column in a site that has been completely obliterated.
Did it stand at the spot beside the guy eating his lunch? Or behind a food stall where the vendor is now standing? The different durations of activities in real time and the static fact of the old brick columns which are being plotted out in the video destabilizes ones’ experience of the space – planting questions of what once stood there.
While we, as a society persist forward and negotiate a physical and psychical landscape of constant dislocation, this installation reveals the unmarked truths of Site and its narratives, bringing to the foreground, latent past forces which resist dematerialization.
March 14, 2008 | Event | Reports
YUP!
The Young Urbanist Programme [YUP] was a 1-day workshop initiated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and was held on Monday 10th March 2008. The workshop, held at the URA Centre, was an enrichment programme for the students during their school holiday and was attended by 30 Primary 5 students from Radin Mas Primary School and River Valley Primary School. Really Architecture [re:act] was engaged by URA to plan, organize and facilitate the workshop, as well as to curate the exhibition. Through problem-based urban activities, the programme aimed to instill creativity and sensitivity in our future generation, while giving them a taste of being an architect or urban designer for a day.
The objectives of YUP were to raise awareness and educate students on the importance of a well-designed built environment, as well as to introduce simple Urban Design (UD) and planning concepts, so as to build up an urban design-conscious culture from young.
Matthew Chong, a teacher at River Valley Primary School, said it was important for the students to learn about their environment at a young age so they would be aware of their surroundings and be careful in the way they live.
Led by Chief Facilitator, Belinda Huang, the programme also hoped to encourage students to nurture a keen sense of observation and interest in their built environment and to inspire students to think, design and plan as architects and planners through a design exercise and presentation session. Using URA’s City Gallery as an aid to introduce Singapore’s urban planning & design and coupled with games to add interest to the learning, the workshop was intensive, fast-paced, energetic and creative.
Armed with the YUP Activity Booklet produced by URA, the students were broken up into teams of 5, each led by a facilitator and a teacher. They went on an outdoor site study in the vicinity of the URA Centre and returned to an art and craft session on model-making, site-planning and designing to simulate the real work of architects and urban planners. The students were all in laughter as they cut out pieces of cardboard windows and dabbed their Styrofoam trees with glue.
Claire McColl of Radin Mas Primary School said she learnt how to be creative with cardboard and plastic bottles and also how to work in a team.
The tasks given to the students helped to reinforce their learning and understanding of the built environment.
Teo Hui Ting, a student of River Valley Primary School, said that through the workshop, she finally understood how hard it was to plan and build a city.
At the end of the workshop, students got to present their findings and designs to professional planners and architects. Parents of these students were also invited to sit in the presentation to give encouragement and support to their children. As such, the workshop reached out not only to students, but also to teachers and parents.
Chong Keng Hua, of [re:act], said they are in talks with URA to organize more of such programmes and they hope to include students from polytechnics, ITEs and even parents in future workshops.
FFW was at the workshop and we noticed that even though there were chaotic moments at times (kids will be kids), the students were genuinely serious about making their models as realistic as possible and almost did not flinch when they presented their works to the professionals at URA. This collaborative initiative by [re:act] and URA was a rousing success and everyone involved left with a greater appreciation of our city’s architects and urban planners and new friendships.
FFW applauds the efforts of [re:act] to introduce art and design to students at such a young age and we are looking forward to more of such inspiring initiatives.
Chief Facilitator
Belinda Huang
Other Facilitators
Kang Fong INg
Jessica Wong
Li Ziqi
Kee Jing Zhi
Kenn Goh
Bu Shukun
Koh Kaili
March 14, 2008 | Broadcast | News
Fxfowle International Presents New Bridge in Dubai
In its endeavor of providing with a new Multi-Modal and Bridge, FXFOWLE INTERNATIONAL emerged victorious in an International architectural design competition held for the same. The bridge spanning 1.7 kilometers in length and 205 m in height, will be the largest and tallest spanning arch bridge in the world, once it is completed. Chosen by Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), the firm’s winning bridge design is poised to join five existing Dubai Creek crossings, providing an impetus for the advancement in infrastructure and transportation initiatives in Dubai. The Sixth Crossing at Dubai Creek will unite the areas of Jadaf on the Burj Dubai Side to the west of the creek to the developments of the Lagoons and Festival City to the east.
The much awaited bridge will possess six traffic lines in each direction besides the two lanes for the extension of the City’s Green Metro Network coupled with a sustainable transportation station, pedestrian walkways and a multi modal access to the future Dubai Opera House.
In the words of Sudhir Jambhekar, FAIA, LEED, Senior Partner at FXFOWLE INTERNATIONAL. “The bridge’s design was inspired by multiple sources, each evoking similar imagery – from the rhythmic grace of Dubai Creek’s current and the elegant splendor of the sand dunes adjacent to the City, to the lighting patterns of the lunar cycle and the design of the future Opera House – resulting in a final structure with a graceful bifurcated arch and a form that activates the creek, frames the future Opera House, and links several of Dubai’s districts.�
Images courtesy of Fxfowle Architects
March 14, 2008 | Broadcast | Events
Exhibitions at URA
Singapore 1:1 ISLAND
16 November 2007 - 11 April 2008
Singapore has been likened to a 1:1 scale, life-sized gallery of
architecture and urban design. “Singapore 1:1 Island” highlights
Singapore’s architectural and urban design uniqueness through a selection
of architectural projects completed island-wide, outside of the city
centre, over the past four decades. For more information on the exhibition,
please visit http://www.ura.gov.sg/spore1_1
President’s Design Award 2007
15 February 2008 - 11 April 2008
The President’s Design Award is Singapore’s most prestigious award for its
designers and designs. It recognises the significant achievements and
contributions of the nation’s design talents. The Award entered its second
cycle in 2007 and was conferred on seven Designers of the Year and seven
Designs of the Year. This exhibition showcases the works of the 2007 Award
Winners. For more information on the President’s Design Award, please visit
http://www.designsingapore.org
The National Art Gallery of Singapore
7 March 2008 - 28 March 2008
The National Art Gallery of Singapore (working title) is a new visual arts
institution which will contribute to building Singapore as a regional and
international hub for visual arts. To seek the best design concepts for the
National Art Gallery, the Ministry of Information, Communications and the
Arts (MICA), in association with the Singapore Institute of Architects
(SIA), launched a two-stage architectural design competition in February
last year. This exhibition showcases the three winning entries. For more
information on the National Art Gallery, please visit
http://www.nationalartgallery
The exhibitions are open Monday - Friday, 9am to 7pm; Saturday, 9am to 5pm
and are close on Public Holidays. Admission is free.
The above exhibitions are open for public viewing at The URA Centre,
1st Storey Atrium:
How to Get There
The URA Centre 45 Maxwell Road
Nearest MRT Station: Tanjong Pagar
March 11, 2008 | Others
Canteen Brick Down
5ft Creatives bring to you a an experimental short film titled ‘Canteen Brick-Down’. A special collaborative effort by 5ft Creatives and Debbie Loo, this experimental short file takes the theme ‘Site, Situation, Spectator’ and attempts to forge a relationship between architecture and art, demonstrating the complexities of merging creativity within space. This video is dedicated to the old, red-bricked NUS Arts Canteen.
March 10, 2008 | Broadcast | Events
Dance Dance Dance
Inspired by Murakami’s novel, DANCE DANCE DANCE is a quirky musing on everyday life. Combining dance, movements, images and the human body for a full sensory experience, DANCE DANCE DANCE promises to excite you with its provocative charm. Bodies moving into space, bodies moving with space; bodies moving with images, bodies moving into images; this multi-disciplinary performance is a visual feast that enthralls and engages the mind and senses.
Conceived and Directed by Choy Ka Kai, and with set design by Torrance Goh from FARMWORK, this is one performance that’s set to be a blast.
Also featuring a whole slew of local talents, with Performance and Choreography by Joavien Ng, Sceneography and Illustration by Mohd Fared Jainal, Interaction Design by Khoo Eng Tat, Sound Design by Jeffrey Yue, Clothing Design by Grace Tan from kwodrent, and Dramaturgy by Ken Ikeda.
3 to 5 April 2008, Thu to Sat, 8pm
72-13, Mohamed Sultan Road
60mins without intermission
Tickets: $28
Concessions for students, NSF and senior citizens: $15
Discount available for Group Booking.
more at 72-13. [Images and Text from 72-13/Theatreworks]
see here for information on the participants.
March 10, 2008 | Showcase
Canteen Brick Down
This experimental short film titled ‘Canteen Brick-Down’ is a special collaborative effort by 5ft Creatives, Debbie Loo and picturemaker, Shaun Koh. Produced specially for the National University of Singapore’s Arts Festival in 2008, the film takes the theme “Site, Situation, Spectator” and attempts to forge a relationship between architecture and art, demonstrating the complexities of merging creativity within space.
Through a mapping of the past onto the present through the manipulation of the conventional architectural Plan, this video creates a conversation between the structural coordinates of the old and new, when both collide in real time, in this work.
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March 6, 2008 | Digests | Reports
China Digest #03
Olympic Fever
There can’t be any doubt that in the coming months we are going to be swept away by articles, opinions and reports on the architecture of the 2008 Olympic Games. Like we have been swept away the past years with images of the bird’s nest and the watercube. Now there are less than 200 days to August 8, 2008, some newspapers think it is a good idea to recycle and update some of their material. The bulk of these articles have repeated and echoed each other during the last years and it is sad to realize that not a lot of progress on the architectural or urban debate has been made. It still seems Western vs Eastern, foreign architects vs Chinese architects. In a country that is making such an amazing progress in its architectural and urban development it is sad to see and read that the focus of the (foreign) reports on it do not differ so much as, let’s say, five years ago.
The Guardian seems to be at the forefront of this coverage and feeds the public over and over with the same two/three Olympic buildings; the birds’ nest, watercube and media building. Probably not unsurprisingly for a newspaper that is based in the country that will host the 2012 Olympic Games in a fairly simple, not to say disappointingly simple, building. Focus of attention is of course the bird’s nest. Two recent articles aspire to heat up the discussion as follows; “Beijing has splashed out $440m (£224m) on the spectacular “Bird’s Nest” stadium to underscore its rising economic power and ambition.â€? While another tries to contextualize the Olympic Green as follows; “If all goes to plan, the Olympic Park might yet turn out to be an Unforbidden City, a people’s palace gardens of the future.â€?
China Daily also featured a piece on the Olympic Architecture, called This bubble is not bursting any time soon. In the article Tsing Hua University’s professor of architecture Li Xiaodong states that “The Water Cube looks very Western. I think architecture in China should reflect ideas about its identity instead of just copying Western architecture all the time, just as the Chinese did in ancient China.” John Pauline, Australian firm PTW Architects’ regional director, of course, disagrees with this and states that “This is a perfect hybrid of Chinese and Australian sensibilities and styles.” And as such the eternal debate on Chinese architecture can keep going on for a while.
Alex Pasternack reports in a lengthy article more on “The Water Cube, Bubble-Clad Olympic Wonderâ€? and contributes at a certain part to the Chinese architecture debate as follows; “Though its design has been criticized by some as “not Chinese enough,” the building, which was designed in cooperation with a Chinese design institute, is modeled in part on the rectilinear shapes of traditional Chinese architecture: Beijing’s courtyard homes, the old city wall, and the Forbidden City are all rectangular in shape.â€?
And this, almost seamlessly brings us to another hot topic in China; what is Chinese architecture? A discussion not only limited to architects but also to the apple-crew. Their new Beijing is soon to open near Qianmen Street, an historic half-mile long avenue at the south end of Tiananmen Square and according to a press release “Apple’s store will blend in with the Chinese architecture rather than use its standard storefront designs.�
For the laymen, Chinese architecture is all about fengshui. And imagine what just recently happend? Talking about a coincidence. The Feng Shui Institute (FSI), an international resource and research center for the promotion of traditional Chinese and contemporary feng
shui, names the following structures who designs are faithful to feng shui principles; Burj Al Arab (Dubai), City Hall (London), The Kingdom Center Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Sydney Opera House (Australia), British Airways Headquarters (UK) and the Kansai Airport Terminal (Osaka). To what conclusion can this lead? That contemporary fengshui has taken over the world and we do not even realize it?
More about Chinese architecture can be found in the article ‘Germs in the concrete jungle’ which deals with a report on a judging panel of internationally known architects that visited Shanghai in December 2007 to tour five of the best examples of excellently designed buildings by Chinese mainland architects. The experts were judging the Taiwan-based 2007 Far Eastern Outstanding Architectural Design Award, in cooperation with Tongji University’s Urban Planning and Architecture Institute.
The winning design was the Exhibition Center of Qingpu District New Town, by Liu Jiakun.
If you happen to be interested in real traditional Chinese architecture and happen to be in the neighborhood of Brussels, Belgium, it might be worthwhile checking out the exhibition “La Chine sous toit: First international exposition of Chinese architecture.â€? A grand exposition highlighting the evolution of Chinese architecture runs until April 20, 2008 at the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels, Belgium. The landmark exposition entitled “La Chine sous toit” (China under one roof), organized in cooperation with the Hunan Provincial Museum, showcases over a hundred miniature models of domestic structures and other daily objects recovered from tombs dating from the Han dynasty (202-220). All those above discussing Chinese architecture should jump on a plane to Brussels and meditate a bit in the museum.
We end on a more contemporary note.
The Crystal Mountain Development Tianjin, China is a project designed by the Dutch firm De Architecten Cie, in association with international engineering group DHV. The total Crystal Mountain site area is 43km². 28km² will be land reclaimed from the Bohai Sea by DHV. The master plan for client TEDA Investment Holding Co., Ltd. and TEDA Ocean Development Co., Ltd. incorporates 9.2 million square metres of office space, 7.9 million square metres of residential development, 0.8 million square metres of hotels, and 2.5 million square metres of commercial space, including educational establishments and hospitals.
While in New York, Yung Ho Chang, Ma Qingyun, Doreen Heng Liu, Ackbar Abbas, and Mark Wigley will discuss the reciprocating influence of contemporary Chinese architecture and urbanism on spatial practices worldwide. The China Lab Charrette: Mixing Up the Mega-Block will be held at GSAPP in conjunction with the forum. Charrette entries will be reviewed by a jury including Jeffrey Inaba (Columbia GSAPP, C-Lab), Doreen Heng Liu (Principal, NODE Architecture), and Eric Chang (Associate, OMA Beijing). The China Lab has the following mission statement; Over the next 25 years, it is projected that China will account for 50% of the world’s new construction. Much of this built environment will be designed in a fraction of the time, and with about one fifth of the manpower, normally considered necessary. It is the mission of the China Lab to be an active agent, both through research and design, in this rapidly-moving wave of spatial production.
March 1, 2008 | Showcase
Multiply Architects- Website
We were approached to do a website for an architecture firm and after initial conversations, we thought, how would a website look if we messed up the grid? So we used the idea of the grid, made some parts of the website strictly on the grid and then for the project pages, we messed up the whole grid in a completely random manner.
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