los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

steven MA: Taiwan Tower is to be located at the southern tip of Central Park, across from the Economic and Trade Park to the north. Its 360m height surpassing the Dadu Mountain vantage point
and affording a view of the Taiwan Strait. Here, visitors will be treated to a panorama view of the parks, the city and the natural surroundings. Taiwan Tower will become the first stop for tourists visiting Central Taiwan. It is designed to be a portal or tourist services as well as the most important landmark building in Central Taiwan. As a key tourist stop, Taiwan Tower is anticipated to receive tourists 24hrs a day and it will accommodate round-the-clock tourist and recreational activities.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

bin LU: This thesis is a discipline research about painting. It investigates the architect and the painter, trying to figure out architecture out of painting. In architecture color has been used as a final application to geometry, a last layer on tectonics, used as a lighting device, media, bringing out qualities of materiality, ornamental and generally decorative.

Using color from the beginning in a generative way, one can gain the freedom to design architectural functions as multiple conditions in space rather than limited to objects.

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louisville KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

keith STONE / ben MCCLURE / carolyn PARRISH: we have here a riverfront granary in henderson, ky., that has been reused as a recreation-fitness center, with the silos as structure for a canopy and their interiors for program. it includes: indoor and outdoor rock climbing walls and skateboarding facilities; a marina, restaurant and bar, and aviary (a nod to ornithologist john audubon’s storied research and enduring legacy in henderson). the overarching goal was to meld the landmark granary with a new profile that creates interstitial experiences above and below the canopy and along the waterfront. the canopy’s shape is informed by the site, the activities underneath, on top and inside (speed, strength, fitness), and the tempering effects of minimal and saddle surfaces.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Woodbury University Degree Project - Columbarium at Sea: The Poetics of Transcendence in Hong Kong Harbor

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

tin-shun BUT: The world’s urban population is growing exponentially. In 20 years according to the U.N Census, a shortage of land in fully developed coastal cities such as Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo will reach into the afterlife. By 2030, “No Room for the Dead” will become a rising social, political and cultural issue in many urban cities. My vision is to create an alternative typology for the dead in order to accommodate this growth and to mitigate the negative effects of urbanization.

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london ENGLAND

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

ben KIKKAWA: Visualization of connection with others. The red string was done by participants at the installation. The more people comes the more red it gets. The more string there is the more dimension occurred. 1D, 2D, 3D… space. A participatory space design installation. This installation was held for a week at Zushi - Kanagawa - Japan

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pordenone ITALY

thesis project winter 2009studio Greg Lynn, University of Applied Arts Vienna-Austria

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

mirko DANELUZZO: The music center is located on the waterfront in Toronto, an evident part of the city’s skyline, representing the vibrant on growing music scene. The project uses the preexisting Canada Malting Silos industrial building to convert it into the contemporary form of a cultural contamination beacon. The project is defined by a series of layers that have different performative qualities embedded that modify the character of the building as a person flows seamlessly through the space and experiences the curated environment of the building.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

bin LU/nicola BECK/ekaterina ZAVYAKOVA/mira LEE: Today materials are scientifically engineered to serve demanding purposes in a profit and performance oriented world. The expertise of manufacturers grows rapidly to maximize efficiency and push material limits.

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TEXAS

We are pleased to announce the winners to the TEX-FAB REPEAT Digital Fabrication Competition. We received a total of 73 entries from across the globe representing 18 countries on 5 continents. The jury consisting of Patrik Schumacher, Marc Fornes, Lisa Iwamoto, Chris Lasch and Blair Satterfield conferred and decided that the winning project that will be built for the TEX-FAB Event in Houston in February 2011. Of all the entries the Jury selected 1 Winner, 4 Runners-Up and 7 Honorable Mentions which will be exhibited along side the winner.

image: vlad TENU / minimal complexity / winner

chicago ILLINOIS

collaboration between dominic PETERNEL + stephen COORLAS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

dominic PETERNEL: “Gator Boots” was designed in Paul Preissner’s studio “High Contrast” at the University of Illinois-Chicago spring semester 2010. The studio focused its efforts on blending shape and form in order to create a newly identifiable visual type and also looked to rearrange visual expectations resulting in the growth and creation of new audiences.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

john FARRACE: Los Angeles is a huge city that, because of its size and transportation infrastructure, allows for an unprecedented amount of diversity contained in a single city. The people of Los Angeles are connected through massive freeway systems that become extremely clogged and, as a result, the act of driving takes longer than it should. Because of this, driving becomes an introverted experience. We lose interest in the environment (specifically the built environment) around us because none of it engages us and/or pertains to us; we get preoccupied with the radio, our cell phone, shaving, reading the newspaper or whatever.

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