"Zaha Hadid, une architecture" is the first exhibition held inside the Mobile Art pavilion since the installation of the pavilion in front of the Institut du monde arabe.
Architects Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger, former recipients of MAK-Schindler Scholarships for the Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program in Los Angeles, teamed up in 2003 to found the Viennese...
On Thursday July 9, 2009, at 3pm, the ninth edition of Beyond Media, international festival for architecture and media, will open at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy. It includes a rich program...
Sea, la società che gestisce gli aeroporti di Milano, ha presentato oggi alla Triennale "La Porta di Milano " , un nuovo progetto architettonico per la realizzazione di un'opera d'arte...
The exhibition Fluid Architectures gathers spaces of flow and immateriality created by artists in response to these contemporary notions the city. These fictional spaces made of light, moving image, and...
Artist Tomás Saraceno follows the tradition of those who have looked up to the sky to envision works of uncommon optimism that explore systems of interdependencies, both inside and beyond the natural...
The Media Facades Festival reflects on a worldwide trend of large digital moving images integrated in facade structures and investigating their communicative function in the urban environment
spectra [amsterdam] è il lavoro commissionato all’artista e compositore Ryoji Ikeda per DREAM AMSTERDAM 2008; il suo primo progetto per uno spazio pubblico e la sua prima opera su larga scala...
Two days of workshops, discussions, walks, presentations, installations and screenings that articulate approaches and experiences around the contentious nexus of culture and urban regeneration in Rotterdam,...
Organised by Media Architecture Group in Vienna, the conference Media Architecture will bring together international speakers from the architecture, planning and media communities for the first time to...
In September 2007, Heatherwick Studio led the winning team in the competition to design the UK Pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 Expo. The event is set to be the largest Expo ever with two hundred countries taking part and over 70 million visitors expected.
The theme of the Expo is “Better City, Better Life” and a key client objective is for the UK Pavilion to be one of the five most popular attractions. The studio’s design has three main aims: the first is to be a pavilion whose architecture is a direct manifestation of the content it exhibits; the second is to provide significant public open space in which visitors can relax; the third is to find a simple idea that is strong enough to stand out amidst the busy-ness of the hundreds of competing pavilions.
These aims are captured in two interlinked and experiential elements based around the subject of nature and cities – Seed Cathedral, and a multi-layered landscape treatment of the 6,000sqm site. The Seed Cathedral is a platform to show the work of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew and their Millennium Seedbank. In the circulation zone under the landscape that surrounds the Seed Cathedral a series of installations explore in more detail the particularity of nature and UK cities.
The Seed Cathedral is a 20-metre high building, constructed from 60,000 transparent 7.5-metre long optical strands, each of which has embedded within its tip a seed. The interior is silent and illuminated only by the daylight that has filtered past each seed through each optical hair; a quiet space in which to contemplate this formidable collection of the world’s botanical resources.
