Seljord Monster

The myth about a sea serpent in the lake of Seljord has become a point of departure for a development programme for the area. The brief was to provide a viewing platform for the monster... 

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Rintala´s lecture Marginal Qualities in a Terminal Culture

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Ken Niizeki

More than 7000 blocks of concrete were utilized to create a highly textured finish to the elevations while providing a solid aesthetic to the house.

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Soundtrack: Boris - Heavy Friends

Jiakun Liu

foto Iwan Baan

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Liu Jiakun, principal architect of Jiakun Architects discusses how the historical legacy of chinese architecture can be applied to contemporary building practices.

video via designboom

Ai Weiwei V

An independent documentary film about Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Directed by Alison Klayman

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CNN talks with the maker of the upcoming documentary "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry"

Chipperfield Lecture

Lecture by David Chipperfield in The Harvard Graduate School of Design, 15.11.2011

Architecture struggles to find an identity in the society impatient for the new, where the virtual seems real and where the notions of permanence seem to contradict the spirit of time...

Wang Yun

Descrete Plot, Xixi Wetlands 2011

Since the 1990s, Wang Yun has conducted a large number of surveys and carried out research into settlements around the world. He set up his office Atelier Fronti in 2001 and has designed a number of buildings of great influence in recent years.

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Atelier Schilders

Steven Vandenborre is interested in the basic forms of buildings. The result calls a Gestalt, which he defines as a German term for a very simple but strong volume.

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Soundtrack: dEUS - The Architect

Lebbeus Woods

"Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms."

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Soundtrack: Nadja - I Am As Earth

Ai Weiwei IV

Chinese artist says he is under investigation for spreading pornography, after pictures including One Tiger Eight Breasts. 

via guardian

Chinese netizens have begun stripping down to their birthday suits and posting their nude pictures on the internet after dissident-artist Ai Weiwei announced Friday that Beijing police were now investigating his assistant Zhao Zhao for "spreading pornography online".

via shanghaiist

Soundtrack: Nine Inch Nails - We´re In This Together

Copper House II

Thin copper sheet is used to make the structure waterproof from the rains, initially reflecting the landscape,and through the passage of time and seasons, patinas into a verdigris to be absorbed by the environment.

via studiomumbai

photos of Ariel Huber via photo.edit-bilder

Soundtrack: KC Loy - All Indians Arise

Hunsett Mill

An extension to a 19th century mill keeper’s house in the Broads. The house is adjacent to the well-known historic grade 2 listed Hunsett Mill. The house was the residence for the keeper of the mill until 1900, when electricity made wind-powered pumps redundant.

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house webside via hunsettmill

Casa 712

triangular geometry minimizes the distribution spaces, reduces the cost and allows a constant and homogeneous relation between inside and outside.

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construction photos via flickr

Soundtrack: Centella - El Hervor

Zumthor Exposed

Laban Centre, London, competition 1997

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Soundtrack: Hungry Ghosts - Peak

U-40

Vincent Hecht presents 'U-40 Japanese Architects', documentary about young Japanese architects such as Junya Ishigami, Hideyuki Nakayama, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto.

video via under40japanesearchitects

Slinky Bridge

Tobias Rehberger: "My idea of a spiral was inspired by the Slinky, the toy developed in the 1940s. Right from the start the two main elements were a black spiral and a colourful band for walking on that went through the spiral. We tried to make the spiral itself structural..."

video via domusweb

Soundtrack: Lali Puna - Move On

Ai Weiwei III

Thousands of people have donated money to pay a massive tax bill served on Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.

"People threw money as a paper aeroplanes, or transferred money into my account"

One reader, from Guangzhou, told the BBC he had sent money because it was a "rare opportunity to support what I believe".

via bbc

Soundtrack: Komunisti - První den roku nula ( Balaclava cover)

Sukkah

This video project is a portrait of an ephemeral city that appears within the ‘permanent’ city... Every fall, the neighborhood undertakes a drastic transformation. In order to commemorate the Exodus, a temporary dwelling structure, known as Sukkah, must be built outside the house and inhabited for seven days.

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Kumiko Inui

Located in Takasaki Gunma, 'small house h' is a private residence constructed out of concrete and wood, features a square plan subdivided into four triangular rooms.

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Soundtrack: Zeni Geva - Implosion

Urbanized

Urbanized is Gary Hustwit’s documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. With music of El Ten Eleven.

via urbanizedfilm

Soundtrack: El Ten Eleven - Hot Cakes

Architecture of Fear

Architecture of Fear explores how feelings of fear pervade daily life in the contemporary media society.

via z33

Spoken Word: Henry Rollins 

Shibaura House

Kazuyo Sejima & Associates

Shibaura House is a unique and diverse workshop space located in a business district. Every one can participate in discussions and workshops of diverse theme such as business, social problem, art and design, even life style.

via japan-architect

via shibaurahouse

Soundtrack: Mono - The Sky Remains the Same As Ever

Brockholes

The buildings and open spaces form a village-like cluster, floating on a large pontoon. As well as giving unlimited flood protection, this brings the visitor into the magical territory amongst the reeds at the water’s edge.

via adam khan architects

via brockholes

Soundtrack: PJ Harvey - Hanging In The Wire

Ai Weiwei II

Ai Weiwei, detained by authorities for almost three months this spring, has said officials have ordered him to pay £1.5m in tax.

"It's a game they play all the time … They needed an excuse to take me away for 81 days."

via guardian

Soundtrack: Zeni Geva + Steve Albini = Painwise