Architectural tour of Deptford
On 31 March, the Architecture for Everyone Urban Pioneers were given a tour of Deptford by Young Architect of the Year winner 2009, David Kohn, and Arthur Smart from Witherford Watson Mann architects.
Urban Pioneers Walk
Today the Architecture for Everyone Urban Pioneers will be braving the horrible weather and taking a walk around Deptford Creek in preparation for the workshop week between 12-16 April 2010!
Lead by Architects David Kohn and Aurther Smart from Witherfold Watson Mann, 15 participants will explore the local area and gain an Architectural insight into this interesting environment!
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Tetris Architecture
Grindin’ by Dutch electro group, Nobody Beats the Drum, directed by Rogier van der Zwaag. Believe it or not this isn’t CGI, its a sequence of 4,085 photos of the real thing! See it being made here
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass
You might remember OK Go from their last all conquering video outing the choreographed visual treat that was ‘here it goes again’ with them running simultaneously on treadmills but I think this last goes one better.
Directed by James Frost it was filmed in a two story warehouse and took the band and a team from Synn Labs several months to design and build.
It’s true ingenuity at it’s complicated best that really represents design as I like to see it – It’s got to look great and it’s got to work great.
High Hope for Parkour as the sport’s popularity grows.
One of the ‘Architecture for Everyone’ workshops in Sheffield will be working with a couple of Parkour experts. The signposted interview below provides a good contribution towards including Parkour as a healthy method of movement through a city. Design possibilities galore…..
Go to the address below to see some of the positives parkour can have within an urban environment:
Parkour: 'The art of movement'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/england/8153857.stm
The Seed Pavillion, China Design Expo 2010.
The british pavilion sits on a landscape which resembles an unfolded piece of paper.
The concept behind thomas heatherwick’s british pavilion at shanghai expo 2010, is an enclosure that throws outwards from all sides, a mass of long radiating cilia.
The centerpiece of the pavilion is the seed cathedral, a six storey high cube-like structure, pierced by approximately 60 000 7.5m long slim transparent acrylic rods which sway gently
in response to any wind movement. During the day each of these rods will act like fibre optic filaments, drawing on daylight in order to illuminate the interior. At night, light sources at the interior end of each rod will allow the whole structure to glow from the outside.
The pavilion will be situated on a landscape which resembles paper which once wrapped the building, but now lies unfolded on the site. The surrounding space will provide an open venue
for public events and along with shelter for visitors.
David Ope
David Ope’s hallucinational and abstract animated gifs are as close to online art as you can come.
