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Architizer: Something is rotten in the state of Taiwan. →
Yo dudes, this ain’t right. City officials in Kaohsiung canceled a massive open competition for a 30-acre cultural park comprising EIGHT buildings and a masterplan.
Architects spend an obscene amount of time and money assembling designs, renderings, presentation books, and shipping…
Starchitect video interviews straight from the '80s →
Charles Gwathmey, Philip Johnson, and Hugh Newell Jacobsen and more. Thank you kindly, Duke University!
All the Pavilions at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo - eVolo | Architecture Magazine →
To see all 79 pavilions, courtesy of eVolo | Architecture Magazine
Of the 79 countries to build Pavillions in the Shanghai World Expo this year, here are some of the show-stoppers
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Denmark Pavilion
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Finland Pavilion
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Germany Pavilion
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Hong Kong Pavilion
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Italy Pavilion
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Latvia Pavilion
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Luxembourg Pavilion
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Norway Pavilion
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Poland Pavilion
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Portugal Pavilion
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Serbian Pavilion
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Singapore Pavilion
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South Korean Pavilion
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Spain Pavilion
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Swedish Pavilion
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Switzerland Pavilion
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UAE Pavilion
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UK Pavilion
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Vietnam Pavilion
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Czech Republic Pavilion
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Heads up…
For those interested in contributing to 48HR Magazine the theme for the premiere issue is : HUSTLE
What you should know…
Hello from 48 Hour Magazine
The theme for our first issue is Hustle.
Hustle is where the quick-witted trickster meets the Protestant work ethic. It’s virtuous labor and the con artist’s graceful swindle. It praises the ratty and rough morality of making money, and the glory of giving it all you’ve got.
Hustle is the aging athlete who replaces ability with sweat equity. The reporter who beats the world to break a story. The entrepreneur living on credit cards and couches. It was also a popular folk dance in America at the end of the 2nd millennium.
Most hustles straddle the border between the legal and illicit: the grey market, the game, The Kennedys. The people clawing their way up or clambering down.
Hustle is Janus-faced, holding together meanings that want to fly apart. It still echoes its original 18th century usage, when it referred to “the act of shaking together” (usually dice in a game of chance). And that’s just what we’re doing now.
48 Hour Magazine bounces collective ingenuity against wild improbability, hoping for a hot roll. And yes, we also chose the theme because we’ve got two days to make a magazine that’s worth a damn and the only way that’s going to happen is with raw, ruthless hustle.
We want you to get right to the marrow of the word. Let’s do it.
CONTRIBUTOR’S GUIDELINES
We want submissions ranging from 140 characters to 4,000 words. We’re dying for strongly-reported narratives, design fictions, interviews, data visualizations, cartoons, family portraits, how to guides, maps, obscure histories, recipes, war reporting, photo-essays, blueprints, ships log’s, scientific papers, charticles, wood cuts, product reviews, and box scores. Photography, essays, flotsam and filth. Short stories. Even shorter poetry. We want unusual takes on our theme, and the most extreme examples of its obvious senses.
We want you to make it. We want to publish it first. We don’t want your rights. We strongly encourage you to submit work created during the submission period.
ON YOUR MARK! GET SET! GO!
Regards,
The Editors
48 Hour Magazine
Heads up…
The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design proposes DINGBAT 2.0, an open international design competition, reconsidering Los Angeles’ the Dingbat apartment building for the 21st century. All designers, architects, artists, engineers, students, and other interested parties are fully eligible for participation in this competition.
The competition calls for the consideration of two design issues regarding the Dingbat and it’s impact on the urban fabric of Los Angeles. Two boards (digital-only submissions) will be required for the competition. One board will address the typology of the Dingbat at the scale of the individual building (are they to be retrofitted? replaced?), and the second board will consider the larger urban scale of an entire city block within a ‘Dingbat neighborhood’. Three separate sites in three distinct Los Angeles neighborhoods will be considered for the competition.
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Check out… The Archigram Archival Project
What you should know…
The project makes the works of the seminal architectural group Archigram available for free online for public viewing and academic study. Over 200 projects and hundreds of images.
The project is run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster. It is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and is made possible by the members of Archigram and their heirs, who retain the copyrights of all images.
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Jill Jonnes lecture EIFFEL’S TOWER: and The World’s Fair where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count is today at 6:30pm, 41 Cooper square.
See Lectures…
Read the article ‘Double Vision’ about 41 Cooper Square by Surface Magazines senior editor Dan Rubinstein.
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The final exercise of the Unpacking My Library exhibit was in February but you can still see it if you click here
What you should know…
The exhibition is hosted by Urban Center Books and is in essence a collection of photographs of architects and their libraries. The exhibit provides an insight as to what informs the practice of the architects; Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Steve Holl, Todd Williams, Billie Tsein, Micheal Graves, Toshiko Mori, Stan Allen, Micheal Sorkin, Henry Cobb, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
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Heatherwick Studio, Sitooterie II Redux
The wowerful installment of the British Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Exposition is The Seed Cathedral; a 67 ft cube by Heatherwick Studio.
The cube is made up of 60,000 slender transparent rods, each 25ft long and each encasing one or more seeds at its tip. During the day the rods act as optic fibres that draw in daylight to brighten the interior. At night the light sources inside each rod illuminate the structure. As the wind moves across its surface, the buildings optic members sway gently to create a dynamic effect.
What you should know…
The Seed Cathedral is an improvement to the design by architect Thomas Heatherwick who employed like materials in the creation of Sitooterie II an installation in Essex, UK that has much the same programmatic aesthetic as The Seed Cathedral.
More important than its innovative facade is the new interior space generated by the form. It is a space that is simultaneously primordial in its almost organic undulations and cavernous feel and futuristic in its aspirations to the imaginative. Heatherwicks’ experiment is a success as he manages to improve on his original idea by creating a delightful spectacle of light.
You don’t have to go to Shanghai to get a sense of the British Pavilion, click thumbnails to enlarge…
most images via Arch Daily
