Gwanggyo Project Competition Won by MVRDV Architects
Award-winning architects have come up with an extraordinary design for a new self-sufficient city made up of organic ‘hill’ buildings. The cluster of green towers are designed to be home to 77,000 people and also house offices, shops and schools. Architects MVRDV came up with the revolutionary plans in which every floor of each tower is fringed with lush box hedges.
It is hoped this will improve ventilation and reduce energy and water consumption in the eco-friendly city called Gwanggyo. The amazing new city, seen in these visuals, to be built 20 miles south of Seoul in South Korea, is expected to be completed in 2011.
Guillaume Reymond Creates Real Life Transformer
The Swiss/French artist Guillaume Reymond presents “real life” project, a series of performances TRANSFORMERS that brings together different types of vehicles, gathering them according to a precise choreography, and creating what looks from the sky like gigantic robots. So artist Guillaume Reymond’s full-sized giant Autobots aren’t not going to jump up and start smashing things, but it still looks rockin.
Superstar Project by MAD Architects
Chinese firm MAD architects imagine a futuristic Chinatown as a mobile 3-D star to house 15,000 people and include lakes, spas, sports facilities and even a digital cemetery. Chinese architect firm MAD unveiled their radical design at this year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture, an exhibition held every even year in the city.
Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees Project by Vincent Callebaut
The climate is changing and not in the good way as the global warming will affect large areas on Earth. One of the repercussions is that the ocean level will increase very much because the ice caps of Antarctic and Greenland, and the glaciers in the mainland will melt. Vincent Callebaut has named it as the “Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees” and he hopes that the same will make the transition from design to reality by the turn of the century. His designs depicts tropical residency, in affluent paradise of Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Five Franklin Place by Unstudio
Five Franklin place by Ben van Berkel of Unstudio will be build with a facade constructed from reflective black metal bands of varying widths. This facade treatment will offer privacy with maximum light and views within each residence. The metal bands twist like ribbons, wrapping Five Franklin Place with terraces and balconies, employing this decorative element as a functional tool.
Momenta Necklace Captures Life’s Exciting Moments
The Momenta PC is a finalist in Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition that you strap to your neck. Momenta necklace isn’t a whole lot more refined, but at least it’s a touch less noticeable. It’s got a camera that’s constantly recording what’s in front of you, but it also measures your pulse rate. When you get excited about something, it automatically saves the previous five minutes’ footage for you to review later.
Nike Project by Dominic Wilcox
Dominic Wilcox was asked by Nike to design a series of works for their ‘Nike 1/1′ and ‘art of football’ projects.
‘Cave’ is a container for your most special football shoes. Instead of just dumping your prized footwear in the bottom of your wardrobe , place them in this bespoke shoe home made from model football players.
Cave’ by Dominic Wilcox
Exhaust Grill Cooks Burgers with Smoke Heat
Waaa, that’s a really strange invention created for “Dining in 2015″ design competition by an Iranian team. Plug it directly into your car exhaust. It soaks up spare heat in the gases to do the cooking, and the clamshell design keeps those noxious fumes away from your food.
Ray Hotel Project by Hagy Belzberg
The Ray Hotel is a Hagy Belzberg project that uses the existing Ray warehouse in Venice to anchor the new boutique hotel .
The hotel reuses the warehouse and combines sustainable features with modern design. Along with the 57 rooms boutique style hotel, the design will include a spa, gym, museum, bookstore, lounge, restaurant, conference room and surf shop.
Elenberg Fraser Projects for Grand Central, Australia
Elenberg Fraser Projects was to design a concept for Grand Central which integrate soho apartments into a wellness centery, combining the facilities of a private business club, day spa & health retreat and producing a hotel style apartment building fused with a traditional chambers style office club.
Social Housing Project In Madrid
Two very different architects have produced very different low-income housing projects on the edges of Madrid. One, by the Dutch firm MVRDV, literally stands the whole idea of housing as it is practiced there on its head to dramatic effect. The second, by London-based David Chipperfield Architects, refines and abstracts the familiar forms of courtyard blocks into something monumental and crafted to surprise with subtle effects. Architecture today in many ways comes down to a choice between these two designs or a belief that both are valid approaches that hold each other in tension.
