vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

nora GRAW: conventional films are restricted in physical conditions of the film set or collage an artificial surrounding to suggest the wanted atmosphere and aesthetic. animated films create an abstract world that mimics qualities of the physical that are extracted and exaggerated in animated films where characteristics are adopted to create an environment that through its aesthetic creates an all-around coulisse. the goal is to create an environment for this profession with characteristics of that coulisse layering of scenes and interconnect various stage settings to take part in the “real world”.

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new york NEW YORK

fashion photographer jay harrison delicately straddles the line between the commercial and beautiful. both sides of his work have a careful composition that investigates the entire depth of the frame exploiting its layers and distinctions of color. sometimes kitsch, sometimes heart wrenching his saturatedimages establish a distinct style.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

atelierMANFERDINI: the organizational grid of the project creates a visual connection between the historic center of appignano and the hillside landscape. at the building scale the line work creates plastic effects of lights and shadows that wrap the museum and the open theater.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

neil DENARI: commissioned by the museum of the city of new york for the fast forward: neil denari builds on the highline show on hl23, vert-eco is a 21ft tall painted aluminum structure that is an analog to the vertically expanding east facade of hl23. with a 6 ft wide counterbalanced base, two progressively perforated surfaces sandwiched together with an internal frame undulate up and out, creating distorted views next to the ascending rotonda stair. like hl23, vert-eco is a meditation on minimum footprint, maximum expansion concepts.

engineered and fabricated by dante martinez / tisi, buenos aires, argentina

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

Dumene COMPLOI: in the contemporary architectural process the technique of the dissolving surface into a three dimensional continuous structural space, highlights the challenge of environmental enclosure. using the department store as a testing ground, the approach focuses on a smooth transition between structure and skin in scale and material, in order to allow the creation of an environmental enclosure that in certain areas creates spatial poche.

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portland OREGON

goth chicks and crustaceans lounge in the barren landscapes created by photographer cymagen. the real and the fabricated cohabitate within the frame and their distinction is unrecognizable. through the manipulation of color and texture traditional subjects reject context and embrace fantasy.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

oyler wu COLLABORATIVE: the la forum for architecture and urban design sponsored an open competition in the spring of 2008 to design what they termed a “liner” for their newly acquired headquarters on hollywood boulevard. because the space is shared between woodbury university and the los angeles forum for architecture, the competition brief asked for something that could be moved from the space and stored while not in use by the forum.

project design and fabrication team: dwayne OYLER, jenny WU, phillip CAMERON, jian HUANG, huy LE, erik MATHIESEN

engineering: buro happold, los angeles

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bangkok THAILAND

disjointed moire patterns become spatial in this monochromatic series by michael paul young. the offset faceted landscapes create depth through shifting geometries that move through the page. primitive pixelated sblack and white surfaces become contemporary through their application to surface and their sophisticated faceted manipulations.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

edward KIM: the proposal for city_x is derived from the act of distorting the existing grid plan using logic of growth. the friction, between found condition of the orthogonal grid and the need for its disregard, emerges as the catalyst for the distortion that enables the city to adapt to individualistic desires. instead of relating public space to existing urban infrastructure, existing orthogonal city grid is distorted following the growth of this unconstrained geometry, causing compression and expansion of existing city blocks. the distortion creates series of subtractive voids which provide sites for potential projects and developments.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

paulCAMBON: Tensile and compressive members differentiated across a field. This diffused network of physics occupies that embarrassing place in between the local and general which traditional tectonics and its singular gravitational assumptions fails to articulate. Typology is no longer needed, gravitational forces occupy a topological environment.

Materials: single sheet of paper backed birch veneer laser cut, stretched, and folded in on itself, panels sutured together with monofilament.

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