vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project in one sentence.

julia KOERNER: the design of the thesis project ‘superhuman enticement’, situated on manhattan’s east river, demonstrates how an artificial paradigm change can be exploited for both generalization and specification of therapy and factory building typologies as well as formal beauty, enigmatic effects and organic aesthetics in architecture.

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london ENGLAND

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

guy SARGENT: the project what lies beneath the surface began in june 2006, it examines both landscape & architecture and is constantly evolving. i have no idea how long it will run as i can’t see an end to it at the moment. as it has progressed it has become obvious that it is influenced and informed primarily by history and it’s affect on my life. there is a timeline through it all where moments in history start to link up.

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hammer springs NEW ZEALAND

guardian uk: no new cloud type has been officially classified since 1951 but gavin PRETOR-PINNEY who runs the cloud appreciation society believes that there is a new cloud that deserves international recognition. he calls it asperatus, which means rough in latin, and he is working with the royal meteorological society to have it officially classified by the world meteorological organisation in geneva

photograph: merrick DAVIES

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brooklyn NEW YORK

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new york NEW YORK

thom MAYNE: 41 cooper square, the new academic building for the cooper union, aspires to manifest the character, culture and vibrancy of both the 150 year-old institution and of the city in which it was founded. the institution remains committed to peter cooper’s radically optimistic intention to provide an education “as free as water and air” and has subsequently grown to become a renowned intellectual and cultural center for the city of new york. 41 cooper square aspires to reflect the institution’s stated goal to create an iconic building –

photographs courtesy of iwan BAAN

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new yorkNEW YORK

erick CÁRCAMO & nefeli CHATZIMINA: we are interested in the exploration of form through accumulation assembly with extreme differentiation and exuberant reflections, refractions as special effects of surface. our research is based in the development of prosthetics through ideas of novelty, adequate complexi ties and the production of image as a vehicle to reconfiguring the perception of beauty and compensate absent functions, aesthetics. this project is based in buenos aires, argentina, to explore one of the densest –

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cologneGERMANY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

LICHTFAKTOR: the members of lichtfaktor use light to give expression to their creativity. they take advantage of a variety of light sources to produce photos and videos in cities by night. the cologne artists’ collective, consisting of vj $ehvermögen (photographer and vj), vj beat.surfers (programmer und vj) and jiar (communications designer and graffiti artist), experiments with the possibilities yielded by bulb (long-term) exposure and painting. their aim is to explore all aspects of “lightwriting” and to develop it further.

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