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Sanaa wins Pritzker Architecture prize

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Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog: Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, Sanaa archtitects

Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima Photo by Takashi Okamoto, Courtesy of Sanaa.

Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog: The Rolex Learning Center, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland

Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog: The Rolex Learning Center, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland

The Rolex Learning Center, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland. Photos by Hisao Suzuki, Courtesy of Sanaa

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog: The Rolex Learning Center, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland, Floor plan

 

Floor Plan Rolex Learning Center, Courtesy of Sanaa

 

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the architectural firm, Sanaa, have been chosen as the 2010 Laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The formal ceremony for what has come to be known throughout the world as architecture’s highest honor will be held on May 17 on historic Ellis Island in New York.

The purpose of the Pritzker Architecture Prize is to honor annually a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.

Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog: New Museum of Contemporary Art New York City, New York

New Museum of Contemporary Art New York City, New York Photos by Hisao Suzuki, Courtesy of Sanaa

 

“They explore like few others the phenomenal properties of continuous space, lightness, transparency and materiality to create a subtle synthesis,” the jury citation said. “Sejima and Nishizawa’s architecture stands in direct contrast with the bombastic and rhetorical. Instead, they seek the essential qualities of architecture that result in a much appreciated straightforwardness, economy of means and restraint in their work.”

“All in all a building is the equivalent of a diagram in space used to describe in abstract form the daily activities that take place within it” is one of the avantgarde concept from Studio Sanaa.

Some of their most notable works are the The Rolex Learning Center Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne in Switzerland, the New Museum of Contemporary Art New York City in New York, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa in Ishikawa Japan and the Dior Building in Tokyo’s Omotesando district.

Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan Photo by Sanaa

Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog: Christian Dior Building Omotesando Tokyo, Japan

Christian Dior Building Omotesando Tokyo, Japan Photos by Hisao Suzuki

 

Photos: Sanaa,Takashi Okamoto,Hisao Suzuki, | Pritzker Architecture Prize

Frederic Geurts architectural, monumental, dialogue and balance

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The work of the Belgian artist Frederic Geurts consists of monumental, but very fragile architectural structures, in which the artist goes to the extreme in exploring the boundaries of the force of gravity and the materiality of the structures.

Frederic Geurts: “I cannot act in a vacuum. I need context. I would like to play and interact with the environment. Both the spatial architectural aspects as well as the meaning of a place are important. In that sense, I am more  a designer. Like for example an architect who starts creating after he has received a package of demands given by his client. I create such a demands program for myself.”

In the below, Dutch spoken, video Frederic Geurts gives a few days before the opening of his most recent exhibition called (un)balanced a tour to Jan Boelen the artistic director of the Z33 art centre.

 

 

 

Photos: Frederic Geurts (un)balanced |

Maxim Zhestkov: Architectural video worlds

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Maxim Zhestkov, a motion-, graphics designer and video artist, is inspired by many different fields like for example: science, fashion, architecture and/or space. He creates architectural worlds where sounds blend with space and shape.

Zhestkov: “I have tried to reflect the concept of the universe between the infinite and border as a pulsating place of energy and magnetism.”

 

Modul By Maxim Zhestkov

Zhestkov: “Any composition needs to begin with one or two main elements. The smaller the elements, the greater number of them there should be. You need to start with one or two main ideas and gradually build up the smaller elements until the space becomes rich with life.”

Nokia By Maxim Zhestkov

Photos and video : Maxim Zhestkov | Vimeo

Light, Architectural Projection Mapping

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In a live visual event during the Branchage Film festival, Seeper and Flat-e have digitally attack Mont Orgueil Castle.

Using cutting edge 3D Projection mapping techniques the Castle was showered in light. The projections of light are morphing over time as the entire architectural form of the castle distorts and morphs. Objects pour out the windows, the walls unravel.

The below video gives an impression of the performance titeled the Battle of Branchage .

Photos and video: Seeper | Flat-e | Youtube

Zaha Hadid super contemporary architecture

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Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

Nowadays she is working on projects that range from master-plans in Singapore and Istanbul, to an opera house in China, a museum in Rome, and a skyscraper in Dubai. In 2007 Hadid opened two substantial buildings in Germany: a car factory for BMW and the Phaeno Science Centre, for which she was shortlisted for the 2006 RIBA Stirling Prize. Both demonstrated her ability to translate the essence of her virtuoso spatial invention in solid form.

The Johann Sebastian Bach Pavilion which she designed for the Manchester Hall project in 2009 is one of the remarkable examples of her work and vision.The “Floating band” is wrapped around a space and the spectators and shows once again the essence of architecture as the third skin and the shaping of space, light and sound. It is a metaphor of music and its effect on the environment.

Zaha Hadid was part of the recently ended exhibition Super Contemporary at the Design Museum. The exhibition showcased 15 new commissions from London’s most dynamic creatives, who had been asked what they would give back to London.

Photos by Zaha Hadid | Johann Sebastian Bach Pavilion