hong kong CHINA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
jaenes BONG, jonathan ALOTTO, sam CHO: The proposal of Pushkinsky Theatre (The Veins) has imagined Moscow as a complete organ body, and Pushinsky Theatre as the beating heart symbolizing the spirit and the passion of the city of Moscow. The Pushinsky Theatre (The Veins) investigates the metaphoric quality of a heart membrane sculpture with its veins tectonic system embellishing the red glowing flesh of heart as ornament.
bryan TEXAS
The installation discusses issues of intimacy and self-contemplation, combining different sensations in a “blue mood” by combining two different sensibilities.
‘Black Narcissus’ highlights the importance of encompassing all methods of fabrication; digital and analog in terms of technology, management efficiency and time towards the production the project. The piece is constituted of 1,000 pieces including the 644 pieces of CNC routed syntra, 50 large flowers with jewel like crowns and 100 small flowers. The idea was to produce a structure that combines a parametrically designed large form ornamented and gardened with nonparametric flowers. Through this gardening process of aggregation, the flowers produce a sensation of excess in a garden of delight.
cambridge MASSACHUSETTS
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
alan LU: SuperStadium is a proposal for an Olympic complex for Harbin’s bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics that seeks to integrate the multitude of Olympic arenas and villages into one continuous entity. With the economic burdens of hosting the Olympic games a key issue in the local and global economy, the proposal attempts to inject the current model of sporting arenas with a social and cultural initiative. Thus, the building itself becomes a series of typological layers, with the ground floor programmed as a cultural landscape with libraries, museums, convention halls, and screening rooms.
kobe JAPAN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
24° Studio: Crater Lake, an installation - environment where people have a place to meet to observe the beauty of the surrounding environment and more importantly to call forth an emphasis on sustaining social interaction, which was the important catalyst that brought Kobe residents to revitalize their city after the disaster. The installation is situated in the man-made Port Island, Shiosai Park that provides a vast view of the Kobe urban center, its surrounding mountainscape and seascape.
london UNITED KINGDOM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
william ECKERSLEY: It is a collection of large format images that I’ve shot over the last four years depicting the urban environment at night. London tends to covered by clouds, so daylight is flat, diffused and grey. At night however, you find sharp areas of light and shade in sometimes sickly colour temperatures from all the different light sources (sodium, halogen, fluorescent, etc). With the eerie lack of humanity, it’s also possible to view the urban environment without it’s inherent purpose of serving and facilitating human life, and so revealing to me questions about its “genius or folly, beauty or ugliness.”
san francisco CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
OTA+ (Kory Bieg and Alexa Getting): This building proposal challenges the traditional definition of a museum and the conventional relationship between building and site. The ground floor of the building is reduced to a nominal footprint, enclosing only enough space for basic services, structure and ticketing functions. The ground plane is primarily reserved for exterior public space, including an art park, Hall of Fame, and garden walk.
new york NEW YORK
Less than a month left to support Means of Production’s “Higher Power,” a cruciform surge protector that watches over your devices, shielding them from evil power surges, costly energy vampires, and the horrors of AC contamination. The idea originated when plugging a bulky adapter into a regular power strip and discovering that it blocked several outlets.
To find out more, watch the video, and support the project visit – Higher Power.
alex PINCUS, industrial design
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athens GREECE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
christos KOUKIS: Metaplasia comes from the greek word ‘μετάπλασις’ (mĕ-tap′lă-sis) which means change in form. As a scientific terminology is being used in cases where a cell type is not robust enough to withstand a new environment and so it mutates in another type more adapted to it.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
jenny e. SABIN: A greenhouse for the 21st century stands in the American Philosophical Society’s (APS) garden. An outgrowth of the Museum’s current exhibition, it was conceived by artist and architectural designer Jenny Sabin. Her ecologically savvy structure re-envisions greenhouse architecture using digital design tools. It is also a striking work of art.
Made of recycled and recyclable materials, the 52’-long structure has no glass and requires no heat. It is supported by curving, structural ribs that hold 110 translucent, jewel-toned cold frames (mini-greenhouses) filled with edible and ornamental plants. The 2’ x 1’ x 1’ cold frames are removable and portable, intended for winter gardening in small urban spaces.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
brett PHILLIPS: The Living House is the restructuring of the human to architecture relationship. Typically architecture is thought of as an entity that can be controlled. This architecture is alive and spontaneous, and creates a relationship where both parties need and compliment each other, creating an engaging bond between both participants.
