In public space we trust
Untitled #158 is the new architectural sculpture by Aeneas Wilder, where passers-by can observe the surrounding landscape and undergo a contemplative experience. The round construction offers a 360º view and is aligned with uniform vertical wooden slats. The installation is part of pit, the project of Z33 - house for contemporary art that brings artworks in public spaces of Limburg district (Belgium).
Photos by Kristof Vrancken - All rights reserved.
DOING IT DIFFERENTLY
It’s all about creativity and innovative entrepreneurship, pop ups, collaboration and the sometimes seemingly crazy. Doing it Differently looks at a range of creative and innovative solutions to the challenges of urban living. Creativity in all its forms is essential to the healthy evolution of urban environments, particularly when undergoing such rapid change.
Kylie Legge is a founding Director of Place Partners, a multidisciplinary place making consultancy based in Sydney Australia.
Since 2008 the Norwegian studio TYIN Tegnestue Architects has been working in developing countries in order to find solutions to social needs, involving local people in both the design and building of the projects.
Built in Spring 2011 the Klong Toey Community Lantern is a public space where the inhabitants of the informal dwelling of Klong Toey in Bangkok (Thailand) can play, work and meet.
(Source: architekturclips.de)
The 5th IABR: Making City is therefore issuing a call to all involved – administrators, policymakers, politicians, entrepreneurs, designers and citizens: If making city is what we have to do, we must really go about it differently, by building strong alliances, by formulating an urban agenda, and by putting design first
From 12 April to 31 August the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris (France) hosts the exhibition Re.architecture, Re.cycle, Re.use, Re.invest, Re.build analysing new approaches and stategies of building sustainable and user-friendly cities. The exhibition features the projects of 15 European associations and collectives who engage in collaborative and cross-cutting urban and architectural practices, as exyzt, Coloco and Raumlabor.
Public Design Festival invites all of you to meet Observatorium, the Dutch artist group of Waiting for the river project, on Tuesday 28 February at 35 Via Vigevano in Milan.
In the former ASA Factory of Guimarães (Portugal), ConstructLab/Exyzt with coordination by Alex Roemer has been building the Laboratòrio de Curadoria (Curator’s Lab), a creative place devoted to artistic production. Very soon Patrick Hubmann, both esterni’s carpenter and designer, will join the team. The initiative is within the frame of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture.
Stay tuned for updates.
At the site of a deactivated garbage incinerator in the heart of São Paulo (Brazil), Anna Dietzsch, Levisky Arquitetos Associados and Davis Brody Bond have designed a brand-new 130,000 square. Victoria Civita Plaza - Open Museum of Sustainability is a huge wood deck that folds and changes shape, creating social spaces with various functions.
Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good is the theme of the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale, occurring in Fall 2012. The American entry focuses on interventions ranging from urban farms to guerilla bike lanes, temporary architecture to poster campaigns, urban navigation apps to crowdsourced city planning. Submit your projects by February 6!
Public Design Festival 2011 _ Photo by Guglielmo Trupia
The artist Kenn Andrè Stilling has designed an iron sculpture and a 47 meter long light green bench for Dan Turélls square in Vangede (Denmark).
Der Rettungsring (The Lifesaver) is a white and red semi-floated sculpture conceived for the event Odyspree 2010 in Berlin (Germany). plastique fantastique designed this creative structure, where people could enter, walk, sit and have a rest on the water.
Located in Taipei (Taiwan), Silent Garden is a new concept of refuge: a silk cocoon that dialogues with the environment and restores the tie between nature and human beings. It’s a project by architectural designers Francisco Giménez Carbó, Jason Kao and Patricia Meneses.
The project by David Molander focuses on the traffic junction named Slussen, located in the heart of Stockholm (Sweden) and aims at documenting the relations between memory, urban landscape and human beings. During the period of a year he collected hundreds of night and daytime images and film clips, that he cut up and then reconstructed into a large-scale moving collage of the area.
‘gassho’
by Koji Kakiuchi / Yaomitsu designing department, in Iwate, 2011, Japan
Using traditional japanese construction methods, they created a small open-air shelter conceived at a scale of a DIY project, which involves the notion of memory and time. In fact the construction sits on the some remaining foundation of the homes, that were swept away during the March 2011 tsunami. It took only 8 hours to assemble this simple cabin, so people are encouraged to do the same across the area with the goal to provide a space for victims to meet and exchange words about their past, present and future.
Plaza España by Herzog & de Meuron, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 2008
A urban water basin with a geyser like fountain in the middle, where citizens can relax and stay togheter.This public square evokes physical phenomena like the erosion and eruptions that have been essential in shaping forms of the Canary Islands. Around the basin, many architectural landscape elements represent the Islands’ diverse ecosystems and topography. Moreover its graphic motif reproduces the foundations and surviving walls of the old Castillo.
