Our good friend Brian Ripel, founder of RSVP studio, won the New York City Racks competition for the indoor bike racks, which was sponsored by Google. The first prototype, according to the competition, is to be deployed at Google’s offices. I’ll try to get an image from Brian later on to post it here. .
SOFTlab entered the City Racks Competition. The proposal was not just about creating a bike rack for New York City, but about creating a networked environment and brand to nurture a culture of bike riding. The design takes advantage of the dispersive nature of bike racks and current technology to record, measure, and display personal, neighborhood and citywide data.
We didn’t make it to the final 10, but we’re still pretty happy with what we produced. Check out more images after the jump below.
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Today was the first of MoMA’s P.S.1 warm-up sessions for the summer. Work A.C’s winning entry, P.F.1 has, in a way, restored my faith in the competition. After a few years of The installation is in my view, one of the smartest and best ever to be assembled in the museum’s garden. Not only is it very current as an idea (urban farms), it is simple, utilizes common materials in a different way, it is cheaply made and absolutely cool. It was definitely refreshing to see.
More images after the jump below.
So it is indeed official, the P.S. 1 series this year was taken by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood (WORKac) with their ‘Urban Farm’ proposal.
Read the New York Times article here.
One of my spies have told me that this year’s P.S. 1 Young Architect’s competition went to WORKac. No public announcement has been made yet so I can’t confirm it now, but my source is pretty reliable.
More later on.
The Happy Corp’s LVHRD DL this time around was between Konik and FxFowle. Paul and James (FXFOWLE) dueled David and Sean (Konik) for 120 minutes in the Music Hall in Williamsburg. The program: It’s the year 2029, a new wildlife research facility in Alaska is to be created by re purposing metal from the Alaskan pipeline. The teams had to leave it all in the field by designing and making a model in only 120 minutes.
This time around Konik’s project won, with a giant straw tower and some big time model chomping.
Watching the ‘duel’ itself, was in the fun scale, somewhere between watching paint dry and an American soccer game. I think having a commentator on site would make it about 1000 times more fun. That should do.
I’ll post more images later on.
UN Studio has announced a pretty interesting competition:
The after image is the image of the building that you take home with you; your personal memory of the environment.
The face of a building is always on the outside. Why can the face not be replaced altogether by a moving picture gallery, a changing kaleidoscope of images? We invite you to replace the traditional one-dimensional architectural image by something far more advanced and intangible. This can be a range of inexhaustible, ever-renewing composites of perceptions, memories and thoughts.
Check out the announcement in their site here.
