los angeles CALIFORNIA

The Taichung City Cultural Center stands as the gateway into Taichung Gateway Park in the Taichung Gateway District. The facility will include a world-class Museum of Fine Arts and a Public Library. Located on the northern end of the Park, The project will provide citizens with a multipurpose cultural, artistic and recreational facility.

The Taichung Cultural Center is first and foremost a symbol of progress. The building will command an International presence attracting venues and promoting new forms of the Arts. The building will have an iconic presence. The technologically advanced, environmentally mindful scheme projects a sophisticated, lively, progressive, forward thinking vision, catapulting Taichung into the 21st century.

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daegu SOUTH KOREA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

TheeAe LTD. (architect Woohyun CHO): The site is located in an urban area close to the downtown of Daegu, one of the biggest cities in South Korea. In contrast to its locality, this town is isolated from the major city development. The community gets older, and young couples have been moving out to other towns to provide better education for their children.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

University of Southern California
critic: Doris SUNG

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

Erin CUEVAS: While the automobile has evolved to fit the desires of drivers, infrastructure has remained static. Rather than fostering a proper environment for the contemporary mobile lifestyle, infrastructure instead produces a monotonous and often irritating experience of driving—especially during traffic. Is it possible for infrastructure to function the same was as cars, as an extension of the driver’s body and identity?

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hong kong CHINA

davidclovers’s design for breakers café is their first full brand concept and design project. Using the existing columns as focal points to re-shape the space, the design for breakers shifts the attention away from the walls to the ceiling, giving it a new sense of openness and extension. Using a mixture of contemporary geometry, abstract graphics and rusticated recycled materials, the design bravely assembles a new sensibility of the café experience. Flanking the gym and the pool, it is an intensely colorful and vibrant environment with spectacular forms while at the same time, the design remains open ended and comfortable to retreat and relax in.

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chicago ILLINOIS

Illinois Institute of Technology
critics: Ross WIMER & Gordon GILL

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Daniel CAVEN: Past ideas of towers acting as modern monumental statues in this modern world have become obsolete. Now towers must incorporate adaptive qualities for climate change and environmental conditions to withstand tests of sustainability as well as create a generative life. The Relief Tower is capable of generating active energy outputs as well sustainable mechanical devices that will achieve economic gains for major cities, such as Chicago.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA)
Design Research Laboratory (DRL)
critic: Theodore SPYROPOULOS with Shajay BHOOSHAN, Mustafa EL-SAYED, & Manuel JIMÉNEZ GARCÍA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SyntaxERROR (Cemil Ceyhan GONEN, Konstantinos PSOMAS, Sara Gemma SABATE GOMEZ, & Vishu BHOOSHAN):
. . . the future of control: partnership, co-control, cyborgian control. What it all means is that the creator must share control and his destiny, with his creations. — Kevin Kelly

Aeros, like the name suggests, relates to air, more specifically in the domain of flight.

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vienna AUSTRIA

University of Applied Arts Vienna, Studio Hani RASHID
critic: Hani RASHID

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Andrea SACHSE: In 2009 the six-story historical archive of Cologne collapsed and almost all records were either destroyed or lost their context. This destruction demands new solutions for secure storage that gives rise to new interpretations of information. Different frame(rate)s are used as the operational strategy of the building‘s framework. It describes the amount of sequential frames that generate a new perception of information space.

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delft NETHERLANDS

TU Delft, Hyperbody Design Studio

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Mariusz G. POLSKI: Even the most sophisticated building, designed in reference to a particular environment, is not permanently suitable. First of all, due to the impact of the building on its environment, for which it was initially designed. Second, due to an unpredictable and dynamic field of external stimuli that might trigger changes in the environment. In both cases, a solution that seemed to be suitable for environmental embodiment, turn out to be a more or less accurate attempt, that has no embedded capability to facilitate environmental feedback.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

IwamotoScott architecture: Trifold Madang is IwamotoScott’s entry for the Busan Opera House design competition. The title refers to the proposal’s formal schema as well as the cultural beginnings of opera in Korea. Our design research uncovered an interesting spatio-historical aspect of the tradition of opera performance in Korea—that it took place in Madang, or public outdoor courtyard spaces. Our proposal organizes the given tripartite program of the Busan Opera House and its major vertical circulation around three triangular voids.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
critics: Marcos CRUZ, Marjan COLLETTI, & Hannes MEYER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jeffrey LEE: The proposed design is located within Lea Valley in the district of Stratford, London, UK. Stratford was the host district for London’s 2012 Summer Olympic Games. The “Post-Olympic Park” concentrates on two key properties of the existing Olympic Village: the flow of the Lea river and the green space in-between the London Olympic site.

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