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May 24, 20101

core.balance:Ephemeral Roof Exchange

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Wendy W Fok, Steven Ma + Dominik Szerlec have just won 2nd place for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge․Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities International Design Ideas Competition Open Group. ‘Ephemeral Roof Exchange’ is an exquisite proposal that pulls from a range of cultural and environmental sources. In the end it seems to balance performance and what the group calls ‘physical qualities of elegance’ extremely well. A detailed project description from the architects is located below.

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May 12, 20100

Multi-Pede Chair by FADarch

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Multi-Pede Chair designed by Francis Bitonti of FADarch is an adjustable chair with no mechanical parts; the chair is designed around an Electroactive Shape Memory Polymer core. Plug the chair into a standard electrical outlet and watch its material properties transform from solid to elastic, stretch, twist and push your chair into a new configuration. Unplug and watch your new design solidify. read more

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Apr 24, 20100

Robo chair by Luca Nichetto

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Robo, the new chair design by Luca Nichetto for Offecct has been presented during the Stockholm Furniture Fair, alongside his personal exhibition, which inaugurated the new Offecct Showroom in Stockholm. read more

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Mar 1, 20101

Event: Envelop{e}s

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“Envelopes” Exhibition, guest curated by Christopher Hight

Wednesday, March 3, 6 pm

Free gallery tour and preview with an informal discussion led by guest-curator Christopher Hight. Many of the participants will be on hand to answer questions.

Thursday, March 4, 6-8pm: Opening reception and the

Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present “Envelopes,” an exhibition that will explore new and sustainable potentials of the architectural surface in terms of the skin of a building and also as a sensorial space that envelops the body. “Envelopes” will feature full-scale, interactive models accompanied by architectural renderings in the form of drawings and computer animations, and documentation of the process of investigation into these models from eight international firms and designers. The exhibition will run from March 5 through May 5, 2010 and will be celebrated with an opening reception on Thursday, March 4 from 6–8 PM. The exhibition and opening reception are free and open to the public.

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Jan 24, 20100

Interview- EASTON+COMBS: Lux Nova

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On Fri the 22nd of 2010 we had an opportunity to sit down w/ EASTON + COMBS and discuss their entry into this years MOMA P.S. 1 Young Architects Program.

CF: What was the initial design approach?

E+C: In our project entry for the 2010 YAP we began by conceptualizing this year’s shift in the theme to include some consideration of sustainable design issues. One of the critical questions we have been investigating is the role of innovation within architecture’s response to sustainability, and we saw the PS1 project as an extension of this research. Innovation and the defining concerns of budget and the schedule, were therefore our primary points of departure, which quickly intersected through questions of material research, fabrication and efficient assembly methodologies. We felt very strongly that a successful design proposal must raise the bar simultaneously in the aesthetic character of the courtyard and in terms of a truly innovative agenda regarding sustainable design. Given the new criteria set forth by the MoMA and PS1 committee we also saw the commission as an opportunity for the MoMA to play an active role in addressing the larger question of sustainability in design culture in the 21st century.

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