vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

florian FEND / maria JOANNA-HELINURM / mirko DANELUZZO: The building is composed of four main units (or lobes) connected into one large mass by peripheral annexations. The annexes are used to define the boundaries of the outdoor rooms, to blur the perimeter of the building and provide vertical circulation. The extensions filter, frame, contain services and access points. The overall building mass uses a combination of skylights and surface fissures to capture light and give depth to the complex.

[MORE]

cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

alan LU: This project deals with a new hybridity of institutional and consumer space in which the library is preserved as the last remaining guardian of print and the physical book. To accomplish this, we must reconstitute the typical programmatic makeup of the library into a scheme that folds in privatized culture and the very activities that were once thought to threaten the idea of free public space itself. It is only in this way where we exploit private programs for its inherent abilities to attract and keep the public can the institution of the library continue to exist and even prosper.

[MORE]

kortrjik BELGIUM

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

tecla TANGORRA + robert IVANOV: The beginning of the project was based on the gills of the manta ray. How from one surface it’s divide himself to making progressive openings. The complete geometry is triangulated to make more architectonic effects.

[MORE]

london ENGLAND

press release: Zaha Hadid and Lemghari Essakl, Managing Director of l’Agence pour l’Aménagement de la Vallée du Bouregreg (The Bouregreg Valley Development Agency) signed an agreement for the architectural design of the Rabat Grand Theatre at a ceremony held in Rabat on November 5. During the event, Mr. Essakl also signed the project financing agreement with Mr. Salaheddine Mezouar, Moroccan Minister of Economy & Finance, Mr. Taieb Cherkaoui, Minister of the Interior, and Mr. Abdelouahed Kabbaj, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Hassan II Fund for Economic & Social Development.

[MORE]

los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

karsten t. HUITFELDT: Instead of treating the problem of structure as purely an architectural one, this project is borrowing techniques and effects from other fields such as the movie/entertainment industries and visual arts to create a notion of collapse and ephemerality that is not necessarily a result of physical laws and engineering but rather of formal, emotional and visual considerations.

[MORE]

brooklyn NEW YORK

studio mode: Aether.SCS02 is conceived as a cloud, capable of registering the properties of a collective audience and, through a set of layered behavioral protocols, catalyzing an atmosphere of shifting color and light. A group of three intricately crafted forms emerge from a field of charges instantiated within the gallery space. These structural skins pulse a soft white light in their dormant state and await a proximity trigger to activate illumination within each form’s unique color spectrum. Through querying the states of the adjacent forms and the movements of its audience, the piece arrives upon unpredictable atmospheric conditions by continually blending and shifting its coloration.

[MORE]