The design for the 10 storey (54 meter tall) flagship Louis Vuitton store in Japan aims to establish an architectural equivalent of the identity of Louis Vuitton in which classical and modern qualities are blended, reinforcing each other. The design inspires the visitor with a feeling of being in the House of Louis Vuitton by celebrating the qualities that make up the essence of the company, its products, its history and its future. read more
The Welcome Center, designed by Till Schweizer, is situated at a crucial point of the JinHua Architectur Park.
The pavilion overlooks at a significant bend of the river bank, therefore it marks the turning point in the overall direction and perception while entering or leaving the park. read more
UNStudio create futuristic design for first Dubai Museum of Middle East Modern Art
Dubai is set to embark on a cultural journey as the realisation of UN Studio’s Museum of Middle East Modern Art begins, the Ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced this week. It will be the first museum of its kind in Dubai and will be located on the banks of Khor Dubai in Culture Village. read more
We were able to get some images from the Re-sampling Ornament show and an article that was published in Switzerland. We plan on having more spicific content on the individual projects later in the week. So for now enjoy>>>>> read more
A great exhibition on R. Buckminster Fuller is currently on view June 26 - September 21, 2008 @ the Whitney. There is a great collection of videos on the site and some basic background info that would bring you up to speed if you knew very little about Fuller. We will have some tricks & treats dealing with Buckminster’s work later in the week, for now have a look at the video below. read more
Here is a sampling from xiaming’s flickr page that has a series of the Olympic Center photos. The ones here specifically are of the Water Cube done by Australian architects, PTW. What makes this collection exceptional is that there are few creative, high quality images that were taken during its construction phase. Please take the time to visit xiaming’s page to see more images from the site and other amazing shots taken in China, Korea, Japan + others . read more
Over the next several days, weeks, months we will be expanding the photo journalism and general image collection over on our flickr page. It will consist of images that are new, old, original and found. We have a new link in the third column on the right of the page. When there are major additions or guest contributors there will be some mention of it on the front page in the form or a post or announcement. Over time it will be trimmed and pruned but for now it is a bit of a free for all. enjoy>>> core.form-ula on flickr
Photos: Richard Nickel, Courtesy of the Richard Nickel Committee, Chicago, Illinois & Key Portilla-Kawamura
01. 06. – 21. 09. 08
Re-sampling Ornament Curators: Oliver Domeisen, Francesca Ferguson
Exactly 100 years after Adolf Loos wrote Ornament and Crime, a manifesto that effectively relegated ornament in architecture to the peripheries of the discourse, “Re-sampling Ornament” takes a first step towards tracing its re-emergence. For decades the language of architectural ornament has remained largely unspoken, but for a few memorable post-modern architectural experiments. Yet from Owen Jones ‘Grammar of Ornament’ to John Ruskin, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan and William Hogarth – and contemporaries such as Kent Bloomer, a rich vocabulary of opposing and often contradictory theories exists to be readapted, re-sampled, and once again applied at the heart of architectural practice. read more
A big thank you to suckerPUNCH for the Prefab-China post. They have amassed an impressive collection of designers that are all pushing the limits within their respective field.
