Hong Kong Competition

Introducing an International Architectural design competition for the development of the Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) part of the Vocational Training Council (VTC) of Hong Kong.

Deadline for Registration: 16 June 2006
Please visit here for more details

links recovered, thanks Andres

Archi-stallations

Worldview is an urban installation for tourists that enables them to record their experience with both an instant-print postcard and a video clip and look through realtime windows into public spaces in other cities. See this and more architecture meets performance at the Hague

inspiration

I thought I would publish something for a little inspiration on making spaces with fresh air...you can thank the folks at treehugger in making more proactive in sustainability issues.



apartments in Guadeloupe

Interesting site featuring miniature cityscapes made from LEGO, via designboom

bad blogger

I've been out of commission the last couple days...short staffed at the moment; but managed to snap this...



the continued renovations to the Government Headquarters.

new ezine - Archfram

Presenting Archfarm, a publication about architecture focused on aspects that seldom have space in other communication channels. A place for critical thinking and the latest proposals on architecture and tangent issues. Archfarm is produced between Dublin and Madrid and is published as a collection of fascicles in pdf format that can be downloaded free of charge under a creative commons lincense. Its page composition allows for both screen reading and efficient printing-binding. The new website for Archfarm is available only in an english version with some structural improvements.

This issue features a new fascicle: Alfedo Puente, historian, interviews Sonia Cillari, artist. Her work breeds in architectural theory to build viewer-driven installations. One more new thing: there's a video in the fascicle, reproduced as video-streaming from their server.

Chicago Townhouse by Alexander Gorlin on Archidose

in a state of Flux

Flux Factory - a not for profit arts organization supporting innovation in things.

this both frightens me yet interests me...I really didn't think there were so many left over fuselages.

Proposed library in Guadalajara, Mexico by creative outfit LOT-EK

via treehugger

Design Within Reach features chairs by 2006 Pritzker Prize Winner, Paulo Mendes da Rocha

updates on BioClimatica2

return of the blog...Experientia - putting people first

and, lights that open and close like petals via design*sponge

Metropolis Magazine features two early education care facilities by Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen in Copenhagen, "stacking the interiors vertically onto a diminutive footprint...so as not to take light away from the neighbors".

Your Hidden City: Natural/Urban

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below was my selection

I've been reading on performance art and these names came up, Guerilla Girls. Described as "fighting discrimination with facts, humour and fake fur."

Architectural Review: Browser

Whilst I'm not the biggest fan of their Internet selections nor their criticism, every now and then Sutherland Lyall of the Architectural Review gets it right - well at least the choice of websites. Last month's issue (March 2006) featured Inhabitat & EyeCandy.

Congratulations on the recognition guys...I'll toast to you.

Hidden Place - Density

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the top image was my choice for the density category and the bottom was the collective choice. I felt the photograph, as it recessed into the perspective, revealed the nature of city life - congestion a trait shared by the collective choice. See more from the other members of the jury;

Lisa Chamberlain of Polis and who also covers real estate for the New York Times; Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG; Shawn Micallef of Toronto Psychogeography Society Blog; Miss Representation & Jimmy Stamp of Life Without Buildings

Architecture Conference

got to love those Latin-Modernists

Paulo Mendes da Rocha wins the Pritzker Prize. This is the second award for an architect from Brazil (see previous posts on Niemeyer)

via everyone

happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me...

honestly I'll try and send a decent post before the drinking begins

The jury has voted! Your Hidden City Best Density goes to Steph Goralnick's image "escalate". Juror Geoff Manaugh, of BLDGBLOG, interpreted density as "the light effects, where 'density' is interpreted as 'contradiction,' or multiple counter-motions in one frame."



Part of the open-source nature of this contest is that the other jurors may be posting their own winners. We were far from unanimous on our choices, and I invite you to discover the diversity of opinion by visiting the other jurors:

Lisa Chamberlain of Polis and who also covers real estate for the New York Times
David Cuthbert of architechnophilia
Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG
Shawn Micallef of Toronto Psychogeography Society Blog
Miss Representation
Jimmy Stamp of Life Without Buildings