October 31

REPORT FROM THE MEGALANDS
Megastructure Reloaded: European Arts Project, Berlin (09/20/08-11/02/08)

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Review and photos by Peter Lang

raumlabor_berlin & Plastique Fantastique, Küchenmonument (ktichen monument), background Tomás Saraceno, 3 x 12MW (Air Port City), 2007/08 Tomás Saraceno, 3 x 12MW (Air Port City), 2007/08

“If anyone hasn’t noticed by now the sixties are back with a vengeance. Publications on pop-art and pop-architecture, utopian and dystopian dreamlands, political, sociological and systems based designs and architectures are proliferating in bookstores like never before, and more and more exhibitions are dedicated to examining the creative production from this period. Sometimes this has meant incredibly thin projects, excuses for cheap associations between a misunderstood past and a superficially interpreted present, but things have been by and large getting better. Read more

October 30

Kew Gardens Treetop Walkway & Rhizotron

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The best landscape architectural interventions are the ones both effective and subtle. The idea behind the project designed by Marks Barfield Architects for the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew (just some 10 km south-west of London) it’s very simple and suggestive. It’s a treetop walkway, meaning you get to take a walk and behold the trees, and the overall garden panoramic, from a definitely priviledged point of view. Read more

October 29

Yearbook 2008 Presentation @ Triennale, Milan

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October 28

China According to China

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Only a few posts ago we were wondering about what was left after the magnificence of the Olympic Days in Beijing. Far from the stereotypical, rhetoric and simplistic look of the western, 0300TV produced, directed and filmed China According to China, a five-part documentary where answers and reflections about the country’s complexity come from some of its most brilliant contemporary protagonists, in terms of both practice and thought. The documentary features Urban China, Turenscape, Ai Wei Wei, Amateur Architecture Studio and MADA s.p.a.m. For the whole documentary click here.

October 27

New York Happy City

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We will be posting some good stuff from the web every now and then. Most of the times it’ll be some slick architecture studio website, a particularly active creative community, or again some very interesting project. Sometimes, we’ll post an awesome video like this. This new NYC touristic commercial shows no new cutting-edge architectural projects nor does it sport any convincing statistics, but it definitely delivers a nice view of New York City and all the exciting, glamorous, magical things that make it famous. Of course this is a pretty partial portrait, but the artwork is great. Plus, it reminds us that a city is never just an urban conglomeration, but an intensely living place shining with its native hearts, souls and minds, and this is a good thing to keep in mind whenever intervening on it.

October 22

Filippo Romano goes to China

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Shortly before the last Olympics, Yearbook friend and contributor Filippo Romano went to China and portrayed Herzog & De Meuron’s Beijing National Stadium. Here are some of the pictures he took.

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October 20

Park Nights: Manifesto Marathon @ Serpentine Gallery, London

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Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Marathons are famous by now, and we’re proud to say The 2008 Skira Yearbook of World Architecture was displayed in last weekend’s Manifesto Marathon at the Frank Gehry-designed Serpentine Gallery Pavillon in London.
The Yearbook was presented as a Manifesto you could read amongst those exposed by various artists, and our editor-in-chief Luca Molinari was also there attending the event.
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October 20

Meet The Skira Yearbook Of World Architecture 2007-2008

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One long, intense year in the making, the first (ever) Skira Yearbook of World Architecture is finally out.
Here’s an excerpt from Luca Molinari’s introduction to the volume, as part of the concept behind the project:

“How much of the magazines and books on architecture that we have read over the last year sticks in our memory? […]
The idea of the Yearbook is a very simple one — stems from just this need: to provide a durable means of recording the most interesting projects and ideas, so that it is possible to go back to them at our leisure, to hold in our hands a whole year’s worth of works, events and occasions that will help us to look forward.
We like the idea of going slowly. Of not being in a hurry to ride the wave of the new… […] Read more

 

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