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. 

Architectures of Change Exhibition at P3

Architectures of Change; Four Continents, Five Perspectives Exhibition Open: Friday 29 June - Sunday 15 July 10:00-18:00 Mon-Sat, 11:00-17:00 Sun Ambika P3 is delighted to invite you to the opening of the exhibition Architectures of Change: Four Continents, Five Perspectives, organised by the British Council as part of the International Architecture and Design Showcase 2012,  and jointly presented by the University of Westminster to coincide with the London Festival of Architecture on Thursday 28 June 18:00 - 20:00. The exhibition will include architecture and design from the Caribbean, Namibia, Serbia, South Africa and Taiwan andremains open every day until 15th July.   In addition the Department of Architecture has organised a series of talks and discussions to take place within the context of the exhibition, and further information is available at www.p3HubSpace.org.uk   Ambika P3  University of Westminster 35 Marylebone Road London, NW1 5LS  t. 020 7911 5876 www.p3exhibitions.com p3.exhibitions@westminster.ac.uk

BA Interior Architecture at OPEN 2012

A few photos by recent graduate Olivia Dunin of the current BA Interior Architecture installation at University of Westminster's OPEN exhibition.  The installation, which re-purposed discarded office chairs and incorporated student designed and fabricated frames from The Tell-the-Tale Detail Exhibition, will be transported to Freerange at the Truman Brewery and then on to the VOLA London Showroom as part of the London Design Festival. 


See a photo of last year's installation here.

Free Range 2012

Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame by Trahan Architects

From Archdaily:

"Designed by Trahan Architects, in coordination withMethod Design and CASE, the new $12.6 million venue", is currently under construction and "will house donated memorabilia.  Being the focus of the organic interior space, the atrium will serve as a space for community gatherings and special events. A system of 1150 unique cast-stone panels will be washed with natural light, sculpting the interior walls."

More at Trahan Architects and Archdaily.

Berndnaut Smilde makes real clouds appear inside gallery

Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde makes real clouds form inside of empty rooms. He uses a fog machine and carefully adjusts the temperature and humidity to produce clouds just long enough to photograph.

Watch a video of Smilde creating a cloud at booooooom.com.

OPEN 2012