Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Shanghai West Bund Biennial Opens

By schmidt hammer lassen architects

Shanghai West Bund Biennial pavilions designed by Danish schmidt hammer lassen architects.
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The Shanghai West Bund Biennial for Architecture and Contemporary Art, China, officially opened this week, and has pavilions designed by Danish schmidt hammer lassen architects...

Monday, October 28, 2013

Blooming Bamboo Home

By Team IAnD
Photography: Doan Thanh Ha; courtesy H&P Architects

Blooming Bamboo Home

H&P Architects from Vietnam provide an effective solution to “emergency housing” with this simple self-assembly home that can be mass produced at a total cost of only 2500$ in a span of 25 days…

Monday, October 21, 2013

Surfaces that speak!

By Marina Correa
Photography: Courtesy the architect

London-based designer Giles Miller’s surface tiles
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London-based designer Giles Miller’s surface tiles are truly a feast for the senses — visually, texturally and spatially. What makes Miller’s creations stand apart isn’t the use of extraordinary materials but ordinary material used extraordinarily well…

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Bio-mimicry in Architecture

By Team IAnD
Photography: Courtesy the architect

UN Head Office & Blue Planet by Architects 3XN
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Architects 3XN depict their diligent comprehension of futuristic design concepts with strong traces of bio-mimicry through two award-winning projects – the UN head office and the Blue Planet aquarium in Copenhagen…

Monday, October 14, 2013

Storytelling through Architecture

By Marina Correa
Photography: Philippe Ruault; courtesy the architects

Giraffe Childcare Centre designed by Hondelatte Laporte Architects
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The Giraffe Childcare Centre designed by Hondelatte Laporte Architects introduces a dollop of fantasy into the routine lives of suburban Parisian townsfolk…

Saturday, October 12, 2013

WAF’13 Landscape Award Winner – Australian Garden

By Perry Lethlean, Director, TCL
Photography: Courtesy the architects
  
Australian botanic garden by Taylor Cullity Lethlan & Paul Thompson
Photographer: John Gollings

17 years into the making, the Australian garden, winner of the ‘Landscape of the Year Award’ at the prestigious World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards 2013, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL) with Paul Thompson is a garden of discovery, multiple experiences and cumulative knowledge...

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

World Architecture Festival 2013 – a report

By Team IAnD
Photography: Courtesy WAF’13

World Architecture Festival 2013
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October 2 -4 2013 saw three busy days of ideation, discussion and critiques on global architecture and design at the World Architecture Festival held at Moshe Safdie designed Marina Bay Sands, Singapore – a venue as awe inspiring as the projects that unfolded within its festive panorama…
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