The Project is called 555 Kubik realised by Urbanscreen, Art Direction is from Daniel Rossa. The featured Building is the Kunsthalle Hamburg by O.M.Ungers.
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Takes it a big step further than just Colorful Deconstruction, a project I did during 2007 EASA Summer School in Elefsina, Greece.

“What exactly do the vectors represent?”

“They don’t represent anything. They are just themselves—embodied energy.”

“They contain energy?”

“Yes. Can’t you see it?”

“I see white lines on a black surface.”

“Tell me, what do you see when you look at that building? Bricks, windows, metal, glass?”

“Yes.”

“That’s all?”

“Yes.”

“Ah, then that’s the problem. You can’t see energy, just its effects.”

“The vectors contain the energy that it took to make them. It is a measurable amount of energy, but it has not yet been measured. It consists of physical energy, intellectual and emotional energy. Certainly we will be able to measure it by its effects, if and when there are any.”

“So, then, the vectors are a form of energy?”

“Yes, that is what they are.”

“Well, there’s nothing new there. Any drawing, any word or act has the potential to have an effect. All you’re doing is seeing it differently.”

“Exactly!”
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Fascinating Project by Lebbeus Woods and Christoph Kampusch that is quite a read on his site. A site which i may strongly recommend among architecture blogs, that offers written pieces (yes my friends … more than 10 words) mostly by Lebbeus Woods . Themes go deeper to the core of society and perception of architecture and art and offer great insights to his masterful work. Each of the posts generates a vibrant discussion in the comments.

A good start seems to be the posts Doom Time and Dead Words.

a concert- and theater-hall by Zaha Hadid in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.

a skyscraper-cactus by Asymptote in Busan, South Korea.
(the atmosphere of this rendering reminds me somehow of Blade Runner)

via (german) baunetz.de and dezeen.com

Some screenshots of Dux and Jackson walking through Kowloons corridors after the Jump…

Among the new EU member states Estonia is the most aspiring, at least when it comes to economical development. However the urban legacy from Soviet times is widely ignored. These modernist concrete deserts from the 1960s and 70s exist around the world and to what failed urban planning can lead got apparent with last years Banlieu riots in France.
To anticipate such developments Florian Bartholome and Robert Ostmann (yeah, that’s me) propose with their diploma project a big scale intervention in the district to completely change it’s character.
The thesis, that was just rewarded with the Celebration of Cities Award, shows how a river can become a landmark and identification symbol for the inhabitants and above all initiate social, ecological and economical developments.

The documentation of this diploma project which was part of Dr. Wouter Vanstiphout’s class at Technical University Berlin can be downloaded as a short summary (pdf 7mb) or as a detailed version (pdf 55mb) and if you don’t like pdf than there’s still the flickr page containing all important images as well as photos of the presentation.

The winners of the Celebration of Cities Competition which is initiated by the International Union of Architects will be exhibited at Venice Architectural Biennal this autumn.

Natürlich ist das nicht die einzige Frischluftlocation…

da wär natürlich zum einen der Klub der Visionäre, der letzten Samstag mit den Jägermeister-Junkies Luciano und Ricardo Villalobos erneut die Herzen der Minimal Fans extatisch zum springen brachte und die einzige Location, die tatsächlich auch für Abkühlung sorgt: Das Badeschiff, wo am heutigen Mittwoch eine neue Clubreihe startet: expand your mind mit der rivastar band live und den djs Daniel Wang, Beju und Noema.
steht auch alles im republish kalender