Category Archives: Architecture

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City of Dreams Pavilion: Burble Bup

Burble Bup_Bitterang Governor's IslandThe winner of this year’s two-round City of Dreams Pavilion competition, hosted by Figment, ENYA, and SEAoNY, is Bitterang and their Burble Bup entry. Entrants were asked to imagine a socially and ecologically-sustainable public meeting space.

Burble Bup will be constructed on Governor’s Island for an early-June opening date. Bitterang “strives to bring happiness and pleasure into the built world by referencing that pleasurable world which surrounds us. Our work explores multiple themes including pleasure, frothiness, biological matter, animal posturing, babies, sculpture and coloration all unified through bel composto.” Burble Bup certainly fits the bill with its biological quality.

According to Figment: “…The recyclability of the project occurs at various levels, some materials are recycled into other projects or reused, while others are toys to be enjoyed by children. None the less, all materials chosen will enhance our surroundings after their deployment in our pavilion.”

The other four finalists can be seen on Figment’s site, as well.

via architizer

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Festival of Ideas

“The Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8, 2011, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations, from universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to affect change. A first for New York, the Festival will harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to shape it. It will take place in multiple venues Downtown and is organized around three central programs: a three-day slate of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty independent projects and public events. The Festival will serve as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to participate.”

Worth checking out, I think. More information here.

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Bordbar

Bordbar recycled airplane trolleysBordbar, based in Cologne, processes used airplane trolleys and transforms them into high quality designer objects for private use. Bordbar trolleys are available in a variety of patterns and colors, with interior elements varying from office file cabinet, to shoe closet, to minibar, as well as the ability to implement personal requests.   via architonic

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Open House: Droog

Open House_Droog Event LogoSounds interesting. I’m in.

“Open house is a project by Droog led by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Open house will be presented in a one-day event on Saturday, April 23rd, 2011. The event will be kicked-off with a symposium at Studio-X New York introduced and moderated by Mark Wasiuta of Columbia University, followed by a bus trip to Levittown, where visitors can view and participate in several house installations in the neighborhood, designed and executed by architects, designers and artists in collaboration with the homeowners. One of the installations will showcase concepts for future open houses, with proposals for new housing configurations and regulatory modifications.”

The event is free but there is an optional transportation fee from Studio-X to Levittown.

UPDATE: POST-VISIT FOLLOW UP HERE.

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Dig: Installation and Performance

Dig_Snarkitecture at Storefront for Art and Architecture“Dig is an installation and performance by Daniel Arsham/Snarkitecture
at Storefront for Art and Architecture and made possible by OHWOW that explores the architecture of excavation.

Installation. The gallery will be filled almost in its totality with EPS architectural foam, then excavated with simple tools to transform the material into an unexpected cavern. (March 29 – April 4)

Performance. In the final stage, Arsham/Snarkitecture will both create and inhabit Dig for the duration of the installation (April 23). There will be excursions by invitation only, but people will be able to view the performance from the street. More details here.  via Creative Everyone

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Double Happiness

Double Happiness responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seem to be prevailing over all. This nomad piece of urban furniture allows the reactivation of different public spaces and enables inhabitants to reappropriate fragments of their city. They will both escape and dominate public space through a game of equilibrium and desequilibrium. By playing this “risky” game, and testing their own limits, two persons can experience together a new perception of space and recover an awareness of the physical world.

Designed by French-Portuguese architect Didier Faustino. Urban reanimation device. Recycled billboard space.Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture. via Broken City.