MORFAE

The main objectives of this centre, located in a protected forest and nature reserve in Chittagong District in the south of Bangladesh, are nature education and interpretation tours, in an effort to create awareness and promote biodiversity, conservation and eco-tourism.

Cerith Wyn Evans will create a firework display on a floating platform in the Rhine, adjacent to the oldest bridge in Basel, the Mittlere Rheinbrücke.

A two-dimensional black cube forms the negative centre of a huge circle of couscous. The cube stands for the Kaaba – known more for its religious function than for its pure design, it is one of the most recognizable icons of Arab culture. It is often referred to, however, as a very early example of modern aesthetics, as well as of the non-figurative representation of the world in Islam.

This mosque on the suburban periphery of the port of Chittagong in Bangladesh seeks to fulfill the traditional role of a mosque as both a place of spirituality and as a gathering place for the community.

The award winning mimijumi Very Hungry bottle looks and works like a breast, shocking some but satisfying hungry babies and frustrated moms.

The piece involves footage of a live musical performance with London-based music collective Chrome Hoof in 2009, alongside scenes of Coates, accompanied by a stuffed buzzard and a trombone, responding to redevelopment plans in the area of London’s Elephant and Castle.

The rooms are organized vertically and by inserting exterior spaces back into the house, the surroundings can be felt at all times. The gardens are accessible from each room and openings are positioned specifically so that the view of the sky and the forest can be enjoyed even through other rooms.

“Kasbah” by Kader Attia is an installation representing a shanty town located on Cockatoo Island.

For the proposed museum building, the architects have taken a bold step and inverted the typical exhibition space typology. The full exhibit gallery program is conceived as ten, 3-dimensional monolithic objects, a dramatic departure from the gallery defined exclusively as an interior space.

The given condition of making an open indoor space led to the idea of scattered house-shaped indoor rooms that would give a village-like view. In this way an interweaved scenery of indoor and outdoor was made possible.

A double object like the duplicity of our desires and the contradiction of our needs: “Double-Je” is an armchair which reflects the hidden side which we all have.

Luzinterruptus, is an anonymous artistic group, who carries out urban interventions in public spaces. They use light as a raw material and the dark as their canvas. The three members of the team come from different disciplines: art, lighting and photography.

A former hat factory is transformed into offices. The industrial loft offers ideal conditions with its open structure for the development of new ideas.

AquiliAlberg reveal their Grossmarkthalle Memorial Site competition proposal along the news of the groundbreaking of Coop Himmelb(l)au’s new premises of the European Central Bank (ECB).

To celebrate its launch during Designers Days event in Paris, Specimen is proposing a special co-edition in partnership with Terres Nuages. The O10* lamp designed by Guillaume Delvigne is a piece which is joining the realms of furnishing.

The staircase as a compressed spatial motion element of a former free field.

A bathroom where mutually alternating fragmentary mirror surfaces and lighting fixtures form a jigsaw puzzle of an image and a reflection.

To build with air, the abiding dream of every architect.

Russian version of ‘Plug in city’ where the project is a parasitical element clamped between the blind facades of houses.