Friday, January 23, 2009
Just bumped into this impresive architectural firm through the Architectural League of New York.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Recent interesting competition result:Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Continue with the previous post on the "imagination" of eVolo, if we want to see the "imagination" down to earth, definitely we could not miss the Rotating Tower, Dubai. Listed among "THE BEST INVENTIONS OF THE YEAR" and awarded "WORLDWIDE ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR" 2008, this building rocks the architecture of 2008. Whether this so-called dynamic building will really create a new page to the architecture in future, we really need to test our patience to see how smooth and successful it could be "operated" after the completion. 
" Visionary architect Dr. David Fisher created the world’s first building in motion...It will adjust itself to the sun, wind, weather and views by rotating each floor separately. This building will never appear exactly the same twice.It is amazing but you will have the choice of waking up to sunrise in your bedroom and enjoying sunsets over the ocean at dinner....
....the first skyscraper to be entirely constructed in a factory from prefabricated parts. So instead of some 2000 workers, only 680 will be sufficient...." to find out more...
passage & image from http://unusual-architecture.com/rotating-tower-dubai-uae/
Monday, January 5, 2009
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Ride on the wave of eVolo 2009 competition, here would like to show one past year winning work, "symbiotic interlock", that i like very much. I like the "injection" of the new 3d spine-like-form to the urban fabric, as claimed by the designer to investingate the way to reunite the isolated city blocks and insert multi-layered network of public space, green space and nodes of the city. Sunday, January 4, 2009
"Algorithmic Library, by Columbia University professor Alisa Andrasek, is a “genetic library” of computational algorithms whose geometric configurations form the structural basis of everything from fashion patterns to interior surfaces to urban high-rises.......Genware seeks to exploit the inner logic of life itself—the subtle variations in seemingly identically patterned desert dunes or the pathways of genetic engineering—to bring new form to the built environment. Biopaver uses the built environment as a way to manage nature by playing off of, rather than overwhelming, its own processes. Both approaches resonate with something particularly American, some faint whisper of the pastoral ideal and technological reality the country has long tried to reconcile, that “machine in the garden"........" to find out more...
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Catch up below interesting design competitions before the deadlines!
"Redesign the broken models of the 20th century. Challenge our patterns of living and working in a fuel-hungry world…come up with solutions that connect us, make us more efficient, more humane." to find out more...
"..... the future of the skyscrapper. What is the skyscraper in the beginning of the XXI Century? What is the historical and social context of these mega-structure? What is their response to the urban fabric? Is the modern skyscrapper a city in and of itself? Is the human scale lost?..." to find out more...Passage and image from http://www.evolo-arch.com/
".....the theme of farming. Once merely understood in terms of agriculture, today information, energy, labour, and landscape, among others, can be farmed. Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community. Whether cultivating land, harvesting resources, extracting energy or delegating labor, farming reveals the interdependencies of our globalized world...... Farming, beyond its most common agricultural understanding is the modification of infrastructure, urbanisms, architectures, and landscapes toward a privileging of production." to find out more...
"Foresight is a type of cultivated ability that relies on surveying, researching, and engaging the present towards particular, desired outcomes in the future. Our contemporary capacity to tap quickly into architectural successes and failures and make new tests, cataloguing our lessons, makes for a crucial disciplinary foresight of self-assessment and projection. " to find out more...
Passage and image from http://www.archleague.org/index-dynamic.php?show=844
5. World Space Creators Awards 2009
"WSCA is looking for ideas for new shop styles, new spaces for objects and people to come together. Your winning design will be built as an actual shop." to find out more...
Image by Sergio Calatroni Artroom/Ayako
Undeniable that 2009 would be a tough year because of economic slowdown. But look positively, this is when genuine designers and architect have more time to think and upgrade themselves. One way is to involve more research and competitions. Thus, I would like to start off my blog by introducing some interesting design competitions.
"Mafia is the consciousness of one's own worth, the exaggerated concept of individual force as the sole arbiter of every conflict, of every clash of interests or ideas.” quoted by the Sicilian ethnographer, Giuseppe Pitre.
Put aside the darkness of Mafia, I believe Architecture is also about the conciousness of one’s worth, something like pride, honour and social responsibility. Ride on this spirit, let’s start “Archimafia” !
New year new opening! Welcome to Archimafia!
