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375 / Jonathan Bonezzi and Ryan Lane: Collaged Collections

Submission #375 | Jonathan Bonezzi and Ryan Lane: Collaged Collections — “145,000 sqft. the new art museum at 106-72 marginal street, Boston; culminates contemporary ideas in architecture about allure, collage, and collections as ideological drivers for the spatial and representational design process of the project. thinking about the irresolute and the misaligned and the unknown; the project looked towards contemporary ideas about allure and collage to produce deceptions and irregularities in the project to draw the user in. we pose to question in this post-digital age of architecture what it means to be simultaneously object and field.”

374 / Aidan Crossey: [New] York

Submission #374 | Aidan Crossey: [New] York — “[New] York revisits the idea of an urban fabric and context as a platform for storytelling and atmosphere creation/development though a “speculative” urban design. Occurring in Lower Manhattan, [New] York re-frames the ideas of Archigram’s plug-in and walking city through a kinetic architecture that tends to the cities needs. The machine, residing in a fantastical projection of Manhattan, directly and indirectly, interacts with the urban fabric through three programmatic infrastructural moments: advertising, refueling, and a theater. “

371 / Dhruva Lakshminarayanan: Respite In Cacophony

Submission #371 | Dhruva Lakshminarayanan: Respite In Cacophony — “Our sensibilities, therefore, have been doctored through the years to imagine this Disney land like, stereotypical representation of the city, when the reality is as diverse, as the google images suggest sameness. Before actually arriving here, I too fell victim to this ‘surreal façade’, contriving a glitzy, glamorous cityscape to be my future abode.”

345 / Abdul Umaru: BiO'Clock Club

Submission #345 | Abdul Umaru: BiO'Clock Club — “The BiO'Clock Club is a pre school playgroup situated in the heart of the Golden Lane Estate, Barbican, London. The design proposal aims to encourage its users to garner an interest for their organic surroundings. The structure employs several clever mechanisms to not only enhance its aesthetic but to also serve a functional purpose.”

339 / Jack Blythe and Marc Francl: Housing for the Arts

Submission #339 | Jack Blythe and Marc Francl: Housing for the Arts — “Housing for the Arts focuses on sharing the housing project and the site as a whole with the community through the integration of interconnected arts programs. These programs are composed of live/work residential units for local artists, exhibition spaces, classrooms, and mural walls created by artists and community members alike.”

330_Tzu-Jung Huang: Sutro Performance

Submission #330 | Tzu-Jung Huang: Sutro Performance — “Sutro Performance continue exploring performative and vernacular ornament through implementing atmospheric devices which elaborates environmental narratives. The performative ornaments regulate environment through the exchange of fluid and showcase the mesmerising behaviour in nature to prototype a sustainable paradigm in San Francisco.”

292_Michael Willhoit: Spelunk'd

Submission #292 | Michael Willhoit: Spelunk'd — “Within a 50'x50'x50' cube, two playful programs combine and collide to create an arena for leisure. Cave diving was the inspiration for Spelunk'd, with caverns and crevices both inside and out, punctuated by folding forms of relaxation. The space hangs above the ground with irregular vaults, but invites with punctures in its flow.”

290_Justin Heu: Density n Void

Submission #290 | Justin Heu: Density n Void — “A brief focus into designing a new urban mixed use building... residential, commercial, office space. Redesigning what we formally know about a building and warping it inside out. Residential units are encapsulated into tunnel like voids that face each other and can hide away with privacy smart glass.”

141_Edmund Tan: The Ruins of Bluecoat

Submission #141 | Edmund Tan: The Ruins of Bluecoat — "The project is connected with Bluecoat, in my view the most lively art gallery in Liverpool, also because they are dedicating part of their 2017 programme - which focuses on 300 years since the building’s foundation - to concrete.

106_Christiana Pitsillidou and Biljana Kašule Nikolić: Hyphen City

Submission #106 | Christiana Pitsillidou and Biljana Kašule Nikolić: Hyphen City — Those are the very initial ideas of the eight films under study, which further explore its site less qualities depending on their level of fiction, speed and psychogeography. Given that the river’s visual history is extraordinarily experienced at certain speeds and environments; the space of the Los Angeles River has been plot-mapped and observed through hyphen speculations varied from real to fictional scenarios of fragments.