london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

philippos PHILIPPIDIS: The project is about a culture house located in the docklands of East London, which will anticipate the urban growth of Greater London and will act as a catalyst for local development. The programs include arts workshops, exhibition spaces, library and performance theatre which will work with local and regional scales. The design tools used to organise the overall composition were territorial differentiation and interstitial spaces, which were set by the relationship of the individual programs and their relationship with the context.

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boston MASSACHUSETTS

This project revisits the root of the western architectural canon, reinterpreting the top-down formal hierarchy of the Parthenon as a bottom-up system of emergence. In this theoretical scenario, “Parthenon-DNA” only becomes the Parthenon when it is subjected to the specific physical, experiential, and cultural pressures of its Acropolis site. If the same “DNA” were relocated to a different site with a different set of pressures, a different form would emerge.

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new york NEW YORK

NON-STOP: Speed Rail Tower Station
Honorable Mention, Van Alen Institute, “Life at the Speed of Rail Competition.”

The circumference of the mega-city is defined by the amount of travel time acceptable to the daily commuter. Speed rail will connect major city hubs, yet leave vast amounts of space between urban centers, outside of the mega city equation. For this speculative ideas competition NON-STOP proposes a way to link medium and even small urban centers to the speed rail circuit without increasing travel time.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

arthur AZOULAI & dane ZEILER: Tokyo’s most fashionable district, Harajuku, provides an ideal setting for a club with architectural ambition. In developing this project, our intention was to capture and create various qualitative atmospheres through specific modeling techniques. The strategies employed throughout the spaces focused on line continuity, extreme lighting conditions, and morphological elements. Through this process, we created a series of very distant qualitative atmospheres that generated unique experiences in each space. In doing so, we purposely created a building enclosure that would not index any of the interior spaces so that the subliminal journey would be a constant discovery of new atmospheric conditions.

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rome ITALY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Co-de-iT: The eye is, in itself, a poor organ for vision: while our peripheral vision feeds our brain with a general but blurred image, our ability to perceive the details is limited to a narrow zone of the retina (the fovea). Our brain, in order to complete and make sense to the eye transmitted data, is continuously making hypothesis, assumptions and conclusions from incomplete data, based on previous experiences.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
francis BITONTI: The formal logic is generated using a probabilistic branching method. The pavilion is first in a series of explorations examining the intersection of structure and noise.

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paris FRANCE

November 11th - December 3rd
Opening Reception: November 10th
6-9 pm
Galerie Dukan Hourdequin
24, rue Pastourelle
75003, Paris, France
ph. +33 6 61 93 49 29

William Huffman: Nicholas Di Genova has developed a unique practice that is as firmly rooted in the utterly fantastical as it is in the deeply scientific. His depictions of hybrid creatures examine wildlife illustration through a Sci-­‐fi lens. Di Genova’s highly detailed, and often encyclopaedic investigations of the natural world, yield monstrosities that are the most unlikely of amalgamations – these can be, for instance, a fusion of cat, goat and snake with cormorant, or tortoise merging into carnivorous plant and even a toad with eight, tentacle-­‐like tongues.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

nereida TRUJILLO: The “Blob” is a series of viscerally unsettling yet mesmerizing porcelain sculptures. They are reductive figural sculptures mimicking the folds and bulges of flesh.

VOTE for nereida’s sculptures at uncommon goods

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new york NEW YORK

Press Release: SOFTlab produced an installation for The Creators Project : New York 2011. Creators Project is a partnership between Vice and Intel. The two structures are made of plywood panels zip-tied together. The geometry is completely held together by the zip ties. There is no frame and the triangulation not only provides an irregular surface, but also a stable combination of points for each piece to rest on.

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new york NEW YORK

Press Release: “Transport” was commissioned by the Architectural League of New York for their annual Beaux Arts Ball event. Given the theme of transportation and the site of the historic Brooklyn Army Terminal, Leong Leong in collaboration with Jimi- nie Ha created a landscape of mutant cargo and shifting hues of color. The existing terminal, designed by architect Cas Gilbert in 1918, was transformed from a monumental industrial space into a series of atmospheric enclaves. Three separate environments created an episodic experience around eating, drinking, and dancing. Milk-crates shrink wrapped into ambiguous shapes clustered to form areas for gathering and socializing while a cloud of 400 UV lights illuminated the dance floor.

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