August 31

In Whose Name? and The Unguarded Moment. ABBAS and Steve McCurry. MAGNUM veterans’ works @ 21st Visa pour l’Image

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mostraInternational Festival of Photojournalism

From 29 August to 13 September 2009

Association Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan

Hôtel Pams, 18 rue Emile Zola, 66000 Perpignan
Tel: +33 4 68 62 38 00 – Fax: +33 4 68 62 38 01
e-mail: contact@visapourlimage.com
www.visapourlimage.com

August 28

Showroom Ofimodul – stación-ARquitectura Arquitectos

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The Project is a small showroom and the design center for a company specialized in office furniture. The site of the project is inside a terrain of commercial use where the furniture is manufactured for the Ofimodul Company in Monterrey N.L., Mexico. Read more

August 27

The 12xMilano series
Nàbito Dreaming Milano by Nàbito Arquitectura

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(Here’s the last video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project Nàbito Dreaming Milano by Nàbito Arquitectura)

The city dreams about itself, making fun of all the icons that helped making Milan a european metropolis with a renowned worldwide identity…

…Dreaming about a future which is already gone…

(Drawings: blackboard and stained chalks, cm 200 x 120)

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August 26

L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui is coming back next month

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“The birth of AA goes back to the Thirties, and curiously enough arose from the invention of synthetic rubber, so-called industrial or artificial, which had interested a young engineer just out of the Ecole Centrale after one year of studies. A rare phenomenon, which would have enabled this young prodigy named André Bloc, born in Oran, I think, to become a student of the Ecole Polytechnique, or the National School of Mining Engineering, if the crisis had not convinced him to put an end to his studies and find work (which was hard) at a time when young engineers were accepting cleaning positions. André Bloc was lucky. His boss, an amateur publisher, entrusted him with a review on rubber, and in view of the young engineer’s interest in modern industry, offered him the editorship of a small review on architecture.”

Such, according to Claude Parent, were the origins of L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. The “small review” would later become an historical cult reference for the whole architectural scene, with more than 20,000 readers (mostly subscribers), before mysteriously disappearing (as we reported back in this old post).

But then something happened (involving Jean Nouvel) and here it is again, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, coming back next september with a sparkling new website (apparently still in the making?). Read more

August 25

The 12xMilano series
Milan Section Week by MARC

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[Read the Italian version of this post, with an interview to Subhash Mukerjee]

(Here’s the eleventh video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project Milan Section Week by MARC)

In a recent issue Corriere della Sera featured a statistic according to which the world’s 5 most visited museums are all in New York and Tokyo. They are the most attractive cities in the world.

But in both cities few buildings are really recognizable for their image.

Architectural languages give the illusion of an identity. But if we strip buildings of their image, we discover that the section of a city, made of horizontal slabs, is almost indifferent.
If we think carefully, we remember cities for their intensity much more than for their buildings.

Milano Section Week proposes:

- to take Milano’s “clothes” off, focusing urban politics on section indifference;
- to forget its façades, taking advantage of its horizontal surfaces’s vitality;
- to look for its identity through compact public spaces, instead of architectural images or through big spaces, impossible to “activate”.

Milano: identity and indifference. Read more

August 24

Piazza Municipio in Povegliano (TV) by Microscape

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(Text by MICROSCAPE, photos © Francesco Castagna © MICROSCAPE)

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In Povegliano, the administration’s choice to pursue the definition of a genuine “civic center” through design is even more courageous if you think that here the “res publica” or the society’s best values are placed as a guide for planned urban expansion instead of being a result of it. Read more

August 21

Smart Surfaces and their Application in Architecture and Design

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The latest book designed by onlab, published by Birkhäuser and edited by Thorsten Klooster is out now!

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The process of creating smart surfaces leads via the perception of the associated phenomena to the understanding of surface as an approach to design. Smart surfaces expand the range of design options available to architects and designers and, more importantly, their use leads to new concepts which can also meet the changing requirements of buildings and design. Read more

August 20

The 12xMilano series
Green Tube – an ecological compressed city by Lorenzo Capobianco

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(Here’s the tenth video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project Green Tube – an ecological compressed city by Lorenzo Capobianco)

How will Milan change?

The Milan of the future will be a polycentric city, the real first italian city-region.
The Milan of the future will be a fast city: moving and working dynamically.
The Milan of the future will be a slow city: human being dimension life.
The Milan of the future will be a green city: green rays will connect the center to suburban areas.
The Milan of the future will be a city-region: high speed train Milan-Brescia in 30 minutes.
The Milan of the future will be the capital of glamour: MODAM draws new skyline. Read more

August 19

UNStudio/ Ben van Berkel to build Raffles City Hangzhou in China

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UNStudio’s design for the mixed-use Raffles City development is located near the Qiangtan River in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, located 180 kilometres southwest of Shanghai. With a city population of 1.69 million, Hangzhou is one of the most renowned and prosperous cities in China and is well known for its beautiful natural scenery, particularly in the West Lake area. Read more

August 18

The 12xMilano series
Public spaces, homeopathy and test cases on wheels by ExternalReference Architects

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[Read the Italian version of this post, with an interview to Massimo Tepedino]

(Here’s the ninth video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project Public spaces, homeopathy and test cases on wheels by ExternalReference Architects)

BUTTERFLY VERSUS ELEPHANT

Butterflies are lightweight insects with powerful large wings, if compared to the size of their bodies. Their sense organs range over a wide number of items, including eyes for vision and antennae for smell. Butterflies are prompt in responding to the stimuli coming from the environment and have a short lifecycle. On the contrary, elephants last for decades but are not lightweight. If their environment changes, it takes some time for them to change as well.
Our proposal is to work on butterfly buildings, light and movable pavilions which may activate temporary public space within the city of Milan. Read more

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