Global Day For HAITI

Global PechaKucha Day For Haiti is a charity event, with the aim to raise $1,000,000 for rebuilding Haiti.

It will take place on Saturday 20th of February from 6pm to 9pm at the Round Foundry Media Centre in Leeds. It's a global event with over 200 cities participating & each city is going to broadcast live around the world.

We have really great speakers, including Phil Khorassandjian (Architect, currently in Haiti - live link), Rommi Smith (Parliamentary Writer in Residence) & Simon Wallis (director of Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield). Other presenters include musicians, artists & architects.

Please try and come if live in Leeds or close by. Free entry, lots of beer & orange juice!

It's for a really good cause and 100% of the donations are going directly to Architecture For Humanity for construction work.

Turning Dunes Into Architecture

Architecture student Magnus Larsson details his bold plan to transform the harsh Sahara desert using bacteria and a surprising construction material: the sand itself.

Termite Pavilion

If you’re in London this weekend, don’t miss the Termite Pavilion at Pestival.

The piece is in part based on the pioneering work of Dr Rupert Soar and the TERMES project, a team of international experts based in Namibia who have created the first ever 3D scans of termite mounds. Their findings have been a embraced by entomologists and architects alike, and have featured in Sir David Attenborough’s ‘Life in the Undergrowth’ series.

A team of architects and engineers selected a central section of the termite mound scan and scaled it up to a size which would allow humans to move through it. The structure arrived in kit form and was put together on site. It is made of cross laminated timber, sourced from Austrian spruce, for reasons of sustainability, durability and cost.

The Termite Pavilion is an art and science collaboration between Softroom Architects, Freeform Engineering, Atelier One, Chris Watson, Haberdasherylondon, KLH, and Pestival.

Visiting info.

Via Bustler.

ODOS Architects

Grangegorman Residence by ODOS Architects from Dublin.

Via ArchDaily.

What is Architecture?

Driftwood

I was in London last weekend and went to see this year's AA summer pavilion at Bedford Square. It was perfect weather, raining all day, which made Driftwood feel much more authentic. The pavilion was designed by 3rd year student Danecia Sibingo.

Ofis Architects

Farewell chapel by Ofis Architects based in Slovenia.

Airside / Wallpaper

For their July issue, Sex Special, Wallpaper* has commissioned Airside's Malika Favre to rework her Alphabunnies typeface into a new, sexy typeface specially for the issue.



Airside are also selling individual letter prints, each in a limited edition of 10, at the Airside Shop.

King Roselli

The Lateran University library by King Roselli Architects is simply brilliant.

HSH Architects

Some nice work by HSH Architects from Czech Republic.

Kyu Che

Kyu Che is an Architect/Artist based in San Francisco where he has received international recognition for his projects, which range from high-end interiors to experimental art projects.

Alphaville

Alphaville architects from Japan.

Jensen & Skodvin

Jensen & Skodvin Architecture from Norway. Great attention to detail and the surrounding environment.

Philipp Schaerer

Philipp Schaerer.

Esther Stocker

Esther Stocker.

Heatherwick Studio

The always inspiring work by Heatherwick Studio. I seem to have missed the completed shots of the East Beach Cafe, so I thought I'd share.

Commonwealth

Founded in 2005 by Architects Zoe Boira Coombes and F. David Boira, Commonwealth is an art and design studio based in New York City. Harnessing a new fluidity enabled by machine languages, Commonwealth's interests are as material and emotional as they are technical. Simply stunning concepts and visual work.

Tham & Videgard Hansson

Very impressive architecture by Tham & Videgard Hansson from Sweden.

Eureka Carpark Melbourne

This way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark in Melbourne, created by Axel Peemoeller, uses distored letters on the walls, which can be read perfectly when standing at the right position.

London Festival of Architecture

I was in London during the previous weekend and while strolling the streets, quite accidentally, I came across the DRL TEN Pavilion on Bedford Square. Designed by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang, it's the winning entry for the DRL Pavilion competition by the AA.

In the opposite direction was the SWOOSH Pavilion, designed and constructed by the students at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. More about the projects at AADRL.

I also went to the NLA Sky Walk as part of the London Festival of Architecture at Montague Place nearby. The temporary 160 meter walkway, designed by Carmody Groarke, provided a really interesting platform for viewing the performances and the exhibitions on the lawned areas around it.