Schneider Studer Primas - Retirement community facade renovation, Zurich 2010.
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Mark Bradford - from the traveling Pinocchio is on Fire exhibition
Mark has a WONDERFUL website, I’d advise everyone to visit it and download Skinny Jeans
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WikiHouse: Build Your Own House in 24 Hours via arch daily
WikiHouse, an Open Community project that puts you in the driver’s seat of design and construction has recently unleashed the opportunity for anyone to realize their own vision of architecture.
You can use your own design and enhance it with other components via the open online community. Once your design is completed, the model is used by WikiHouse to create drawings, which are ready to be CNC milled out of 18mm locally sourced plywood. The pieces can be easily assembled with no power tools, with ribs spaced at 600mm and lateral stabilizers to ensure structural integrity.
The entire process requires no formal knowledge of construction and is extremely adaptable for your own personal customization.
Definitely the highlight of the Hackney Art Festival
110728 - It’s amazing how you just bump into people that you used to know. Yesterday I met someone I hadn’t seen for six years. And two weeks ago I managed to wonder into the exhibition of someone from the year above at school. His name’s Alex Chinneck, and the exhibition was named after the piece directly above - Fighting fire with ice cream. Like so many artists at the moment, he seems enamored with the lure of architecture and the poetics that it contains. By playing with domestic building materials, especially OSB, he lends them a painterlyness, while they give back a playfulness because of their usually rigid meanings. Of course these “rigid meanings” are quite easily subverted, and as with other art that deals with buildings, it sometimes comes across as a little glib. They seem more about the process than the end product. That said it’s interesting to see art interested in architecture, time to get architecture more interested in art.
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Great images from photographer Joachim Shmid show how unused space in Brazil is turned into football fields - regardless of shape!
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