You have to admire a culture that builds its architecture with great accuracy, as well as demolition its architecture with the same standard. Have a look at the Kajima Corporation.
Event: Metal Artist to Create Installation for Meditation Center Artist: Miya Ando Venue:Against The Stream, 4300 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027 Dates:Nov 8, 2008- Oct 2009 Public Unveiling: Oct 9-11, in conjunction with The BRN Inaugural Conference read more
This coming Saturday-the (summer) Pre-Fab China program at Pratt will have their final review. It will also mark the last official day of teaching for Evan Douglis at Pratt. For the design studio, the students are asked to propose a design project that incorporates the sub-frames of bicycles for their architecture. I thought it would be appropriate to show some exciting work from Shukuno Rintendo designs. Enjoy>>
With 4 weeks left in the PreFab B/C/V/C/B Studio we will be increasing the content pertaining to bikes. Here are some images of Dekochari, it is typical Japanese phenomenon, deko is short for decoration and chari is slang for bike. Dekochari are actually the kids version of dekotora, which are decorated trucks. Satoshi Minakawa made these photos of these awesome vehicles. via Today and Tomorrow + wikipedia
Where: Japan, USA, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, England, Brazil
How: inflatables
When: 1998 – Present (2008)
Why: Tomás Saraceno looks to the sky and sees possibilities for rethinking how we live in relation to one another—for reshaping notions about nationality and property, and revising our ideas about the fixity of the built environment and the organization of cities. Air-Port-City, Saraceno’s ongoing project, envisions networks of habitable platforms that float in the air. read more
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