Ofunato Civic Center and Library by Chiaki Arai Urban and Architecture Design

Located in Ofunato, a town on the distinctive Sanriku Kaigan coastline of Iwate prefecture in northeastern Japan, Ofunato Civic Center and Library is a cultural building complex.

A few of the designer's sketches for the project are shown above; more can be found at archdaily.

Tokyo-Berlin_Berlin-Tokyo by Florian Busch Architects

Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo was an exhibition showing the 150-year-long history of mutual exchange in painting, architecture, graphic, photography, film, video, and performance. The exhibition comprised over 530 works showing how movements of influencing each other shifted between these two cities and culminated in the upper hall of the New National Gallery with the works of living artists from Tokyo and Berlin.

Finished in 1968, the New National Gallery is Mies van der Rohe’s last and arguably most modernist work. Rather than building walls following or working against this grid,  Florian Busch Architects proposed an exhibition design which would not be a top-down implant but translate Mies’s Cartesian grid into an undulating layer, gradually evolving in response to negotiations between the artists, the curators, and the designers.

more at archdaily.

Bamboo Booth 2012 by Vo Trong Nghia

This exposition booth was exhibited in the “Vietnam Architecture Exhibition 2012″, held in Hanoi for 5 days in April, 2012.

With the dimension of 3 x 8.6 m rectangle and 4.2-meter high and more than 10-ton weight, the booth was constructed in two days by using approximately 500 bamboos as the only material.

from archdaily.

Westminster BA Interior Architecture Exhibition in Blueprint Magazine

The Westminster BA Interior Honours exhibition at Truman Brewery Interior Educators show is featured in the September Issue of Blueprint Magazine!

The pieces shown in the magazine were previously featured in OPEN 2012 and  mentioned in this post.

Arthur Ganson's Kinetic Art

Sculptor and engineer Arthur Ganson talks about his kinetic art.

Hotel Gent by Tazu Rous

The Japanese artist Tazu Rous (aka Tatzu Nishi, Tazro Niscino, Tatzu Oozu and Tatsurou Bashi) creates spatial ‘encounters’ with unusual proportions using iconic objects taken from public space.  He is constructing a hotel room setting around the tower of Sint-Pieters Station. The division between public and private space is eliminated, because the huge clock that normally towers high above the people will now come palpably closer. In the intimacy of Rous’ room, the visitor comes face to face with a public monument which, in the course of his daily routine, he always observes at a distance, only half consciously and in a fraction of a second.

from archdaily.

Designing the Extraordinary Exhibition at the V & A

As part of a season of events celebrating British design, the V&A presents the first major solo exhibition of the work of Heatherwick Studio, one of the most inventive and experimental British design studios practising today.

As part of the exhibition, Heatherwick studios installed 'Theshold',  suspending 208 white traffic cones as a canopy to the main entrance of the museum.


The exhibition runs from 31 May - 30 September 2012.