new york NEW YORK
meenal MISTRY: …it was the dresses—literally breathtaking—all exquisitely wrought this season with orientalist-inspired details: heavily bejeweled necklines, hand-painted florals on rolling sculptural drapes, and grand obilike loops that were revealed when a model turned. Amid the gowns were a few harem-panted jumpsuits. Cut in lace and finished with little bolero jackets and jewel-crusted clutches, they didn’t exactly read casual.
berkeley CALIFORNIA
Design: Thom Faulders / Faulders Studio
Design Team: Jason Chang, Charles Lee, Devin Rutz, Scott Blew
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
thom FAULDERS: GEOtube is a proposal for a new 170 meter tall sculptural tower for the city of Dubai. With an open structure and an exposed membrane skin, the vertical planes of the GEOtube tower are continually misted with local salt water via an external vascular water system. The result is a uniform growth of salt crystals upon its highly visible surfaces. GEOtube provides an identifiable icon for the city, a specialized habitat for wildlife that thrives is this environment, and an accessible skin for the harvesting of crystal salt.
brooklyn NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
kevin COOLEY: The goal of this project was to spend one month in Siglufjörður , the most northern town and one of the most remote areas in Iceland photographing the remarkable light they have there in the winter time. I was also working on Natural Forces a long term video project about the classic elements of water, earth, fire, and wind and our struggles as humans to live among these forces.
new york NY
‘Sukkah City’ is an international design competition to re-imagine this ancient phenomenon, develop new methods of material practice and parametric design, and propose radical possibilities for traditional design constraints in a contemporary urban site. Twelve finalists were selected by a panel of celebrated architects, designers, and critics to be constructed in a visionary village in Union Square Park from September 19-20, 2010.
Vote for your favorite Sukkah at nymag.com.
Image: Fractured Bubble by henry GROSMAN + babak BRYAN
babak BRYAN, fabrication, henry GROSMAN, installation, reboot
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new haven CONNECTICUT
Yale School of Architecture, critic Ben Pell, thanks to Joshua Rowley
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
melissa SHIN + william MUDGE : The Form(work) bench was inspired by the unique corduroy-textured concrete walls of Paul Rudolph’s Yale Art and Architecture Building. Each 1/2″ plywood profile fits precisely into the spacing of the wall’s texture (a nod to the original wooden concrete formwork) and articulates a sitting surface for two people. The surface emerges as a thickening of the wall’s sectional relationship between verticality and horizontality, and juxtaposes the roughness of the wall with the smoothness of NURBS surface geometry.
chicago ILLINOIS
Paul Preissner, instructor. University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
amelia TABELING + juliana ESPOSITO: The technique of High Contrast eschews both non-standard variation and collage as compositional structures in architectural design. This project for a hotel in San Juan pairs two contrasting geometries, the carefully proportioned rectangle and the subdivided, extruded triangle. High contrast is achieved on multiple scales for different audiences:
kaohsiung TAIWAN
paul preissner architects: This proposal for the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center facility introduces a new form of personal, civic and cultural relationship into the world. Uniquely situated at the threshold between city and port, this contemporary colossus can reshape the relationship that individuals and communities have with designed passenger experience and engineered maritime activity.
milan ITALY
Wendy Plomp sees her work as illustrations come to life, a little like a 3D collage. Her reinvention of simply daily materials, like wood, metal, cardboard, recycled fabrics gives ordinary objects an extraordinary spin. In Paper Cave she uses large quantities of paper to create flexible forms reminiscent to the organic shapes of a cave. With this intervention in space she creates something unexpected which gives an aesthetic experience.
seoul KOREA
1st PLACE - $1200
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
euibeom LEE / keunyoung RYU / kunho KIM:
Urban parks provide rest and comfort to people who live in the city regardless of its size or location. In addition, parks are where people can reconnect to the mother nature in the midst of busy city lives. Parks also serve as romantic dating spots, and sometimes create dramatic atmosphere. The urban parks bring out the most synergies when they are fully integrated with infrastructures, nature, climate, and events and add more livelihood and dynamics to the city.
architecture, competition, williamsburg waterfront performance venue
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vienna AUSTRIA
2nd PLACE - $800
with joanna-maria HELINURM + rangel KARAIVANOV
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:
justin DILES: Lenticular Field is a low-flying cloud of steel and fiber-reinforced iridescent Mylar hovering over East River State Park. On the ground, a concrete plinth houses program and bends toward a waterfront stage while the voluptuous canopy shades and zones the park, its surfaces absorbing Apollonian power by day and releasing this energy in a Dionysian frenzy at night.
architecture, competition, williamsburg waterfront performance venue
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