kaohsiung TAIWAN
paul preissner architects: This proposal for the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center facility introduces a new form of personal, civic and cultural relationship into the world. Uniquely situated at the threshold between city and port, this contemporary colossus can reshape the relationship that individuals and communities have with designed passenger experience and engineered maritime activity.
chicago ILLINOIS
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
ryan MACYAUSKI + marcella MARTINEZ: high contrast offers a way to regain a sense of political purpose within architecture, by recommitting architecture to visual reflection of contemporary culture, while at the same time avoiding the pitfalls of relentless abstraction and needless invention. we propose to engage in effects in a novel way, not through gymnastic routines of form, nor through cluttered collage differences, but to utilize a full bandwidth of effects, to provide true projected sensation.
critic: paul PREISSNER - uic school of architecture
london UNITED KINGDOM
unconventional computing & architecture
friday 26 february, 9.00am - 6.00pm
this one-day conference explores new materials for architectural practice in the 21st century. international architects and scientists will explore the decision-making properties of matter and how this may be applied to create increasingly life-like buildings.
architecture, evan DOUGLIS, event, lisa IWAMOTO, paul PREISSNER, symposium, the bartlett
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warsaw POLAND
paul PREISSNER: the museum’s sculptural volume is designed along conceptual terms of fluidity, velocity and lightness in order to produce a seductive and progressive artifact within the historic context of the city. the building appears like a mystical object floating above the extensive artificial landscape strip, both spanning the trasa lazienkowska right up at the edge of the embankment. this seemingly defying gravity by exposing dramatic undercuts towards the surrounding entrance plazas. the building does not sit as a barrier to the site, but another viewing opportunity to the historic context and surrounding city.
chicago ILLINOIS
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
katlyn REICHELT + dana ELKHOURY: in precedent study, current building form and program was explored. often letter forms exist within current building types, and program is flattened to the lower levels. although these letter forms may have value, current programmatic conditions are not sensitive to the smaller communities in which we live our lives. using current formal letter types and adding varying program based on the letter forms inherent organization, new building forms are created through a strategy which gives each building type its own genetic code based on programmatic needs. by using multiple letter forms in a single building we are able to achieve a more interactive and responsible building typology for the individual occupants and the city.
chicago ILLINOIS
paul PREISSNER ARCHITECTS, LIMITED: by developing the plaza as a choreographed series of meetings and outdoor performance spaces, the proposal for sundsvall is able to reach from the historic art center to the advancement of the city/river. the theater offers a gradient of moments, from the impromptu participations in the plaza, to the formal performances within the hall.
location: sundsvall, sweden
client: steen&strom sverige ab, the municipality of sundsvall
program: arts centre, dance theatre, city plaza, parking
area: 16,000 sm
status: design 2008
lexington KENTUCKY
team: paul PREISSNER (quavirarch), anton BAKERJIAN, ian MAHONE, rebekah SCHABERG, warren, WEAVER
paul PREISSNER: organized by the university of kentucky college of design, a two day charrette produced this alternate proposal for the centerpointe development project in downtown lexington, kentucky. It decidedly creates a new form of public engagement and civic interactivity through the imposition of a massive volume of program which reframe the views to its context (instead of focusing attention inwards, the project assists with the outward observation of lexington).
architecture, paul PREISSNER, university of kentucky college of design
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incheon Korea
suckerPUNCH: describe your project in one sentence
paul PREISSNER: the proposal for the city tower offers a project which situates itself within the city as a communicative participant in a democratic population, instead of an object to be looked at. the proposal suggests that as a central part of the new community, the city tower softly delivers its visual affection in a manner enabling its attraction to be felt by all. as architectural responses for tall projects routinely offer technical achievements as the basis for its appreciation, our proposal liberates its audience from pre-required expertise to enjoy an atmospheric experience. this ability to create new audiences for the project enables a new form of cultural activity and community to develop.
paul preissner: the taiwan pop music center project provides a unique and critical opportunity to reconsider the role of contemporary pop music within the world. as the most successful form of performance art, pop music has proven to have the capacity to reframe points of view, galvanize positions, introduce new forms of visual and acoustical pleasure, deliver the most compelling form of oration and organize capital into some of the most significant economic industries in history.
