Museo La Congiunta

Swiss architect Peter Maerkli won the honorary award of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award 2012 for the archaic art museum La Congiunta in Giornico. In this video, he talks about the concept of the architecture of the museum.

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Carmody Groarke

The artist Antony Gormley, who works predominantly in metal, required more space to store raw metal materials, as well as a space for heavy and noisy processes in finishing sculptures. This robust garage-like building provides workshop and storage facilities within the yard of his existing London studio (designed by David Chipperfield, 2003).

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Soundtrack: Part Chimp - You Decide

Ai Weiwei VII

In this unprecedented look at Ai and those close to him, Klayman’s camera captures his forthrightness and unequivocal stance. She gives a larger picture of the artist as an individual, a symbol of China’s oppression, and a powerful voice against a country that still denies its citizens many basic freedoms. - K.Y.

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Atelier Bardill

The building, also a recording studio, is in village Scharans. A transformed barn, the building's blank exterior, devoid of windows and roof, betray nothing of the intriguing world inside. Architect Valerio Olgiati.

video via media.swissinfo
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Sasha Waltz

The company Sasha Waltz & Guests was founded in Berlin in 1993. To date, more than 250 artists and ensembles architects, visual artists, choreographers, filmmakers, designers, musicians, singers and dancers have collaborated as Guests on over 30 productions.

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trailer Dialog 09 Neues Museum via  vimeo :

Hiroshi Nakamura

"An architect's job to decide the discretion of the building form or the texture can now be handed over to the nature and to the dwellers. Such “looseness” we thought would be suitable for the idea of the weekend house." 

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Soundtrack: Mogwai - Batcat

Go Hasegawa

Go Hasegawa, a young architect based in Tokyo, is establishing himself as an exciting new member of one of the great ‘schools’ in Japanese architecture. 

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Hasegawa exhibition in Toto Gallery via world-architects

video lecture - Body Sence:

Jim Sanborn

The Topographic Projections and Implied Geometries Series

These images were produced by direct, large format, light projection. The projector, powered by a mobile generator, was moved from site to site. All of the pieces were photographed at night using long exposures. 

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Soundtrack: Thisquietarmy - The Hierarchy of Angels

Valerio Olgiati

A private collection of pictures and photos from all around the world regulary edited by Valerio Olgiati

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One idea video:

Donald Judd Studio

Donald Judd moved to 101 Spring Street in 1968. Over the next 25 years, Judd renovated the building floor by floor. 101 Spring Street became a place where Judd explored his ideas on permanent installation and considered art in relation to architecture.

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Soundtrack: Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

Wiel Arets Lecture

Wiel Arets - Recent Projects, hosted by the Mackintosh School of Architecture

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Tlacolula Units

Tlacolula restores community through traditional barrio neighborhood design. The units, produced with local materials and made to suit different levels of income, can be articulated into various patterns.

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Steilneset Memorial

Peter Zumthor designed this memorial on an island in Norway to commemorate suspected witches who were burned at the stake there in the seventeenth century. Artwork by Louise Bourgeois. 

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British Barn

Subverting the traditional, conservatively cozy British barn conversion, Carl Turner created a getaway in rural Norfolk for himself and his friends to visit, repose, and consider the beauty of agrarian minimalism.

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Soundtrack: Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat

KUU

Minus K House

A private dwelling in Shanghai composed of two components - a weekend house and a residence for the worker. The design is a collection of 3m by 3m volumes that connect to one another to result in a flowing and porous circulation within.

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Soundtrack: Eluvium - I Am Light, I Am Darkness

3 Cubes Collide

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video via vimeo