The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines

The recent resurgence of interest in the architecture of the 1960s and 1970s has largely neglected the role of the many experimental publications that were the engine of that intensely creative period. Assembled together for the first time, these remarkable documents offer a unique view of a key period of architectural innovation and challenge today’s architects to provoke a similar intensity. This exhibition tracks the critical function of the little magazine in architecture during these years.

CCA  

Light control

 

Spotwelders is a video-editing facility, primarily working on music videos and advertising. Video-editing is an arduous and intense process. designing room with good light control and acoustics achieving unity and good working space . We also discovered that video-editing is a process requiring a large amount of space for lounging. Clients come to the facility and remain for days on end, occasionally going in and out of the editing suites to check on progress and make decisions. There’s always some kind of seating arrangement at every door and the side walls contain about 42 window which are 12-foot wide. We really like the couches.

accommodating poverty

Sean Godsell an amazing architect designer, has found a clever solution for a humane cause. Designing emergency shelters for the displaced or homeless people in urban environments. The design converts into an emergency overnight accommodation. The bench lifts to reveal a woven steel mattress and the advertising hoarding is modified to act as a dispenser of blankets, food, and water. It also acts as a small gallery space where art can be exhibited. The shelter has the potential to be solar powered and its glass roof and back double as a digital projection screen.

The first prototype is located in Melbourne, Australia
For more information Sean Godsell Architects

enter Holiday Home

Institute for contemporary art, Philadelphia

The Holiday Home is an experiential installation exploring areas in which the holiday home departs from modern design conventions. The orthogonal surfaces of the archetypal house are extruded and skewed creating the sculptural armature within which the dichotomies of home and holiday home are played out. The new architectural shape emulates escapism, the expectation of a holiday as removed from everyday routine. Visitor movement through the installation activates unexpected view corridors and the multi directional shadows create unpredictable perspectives. The perception of time is intrinsically interwoven into the project as light conditions subtly modulate; the sense of season and time of day become more abstract, as you may find on holiday where time is unbound by the frameworks of contemporary patterns of living and dwelling.

Goodmorning innovation

Widex, collaborated with Goodmorning Technology, a strategic design studio with a truly international mindset.Established in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark. Producing an exclusive packaging design for a digital hearing aid. As the packaging is opened, a simple two-layer raster effect shows a sound wave spelling out the Widex slogan ‘High Definition Hearing’. This is probable the best interactive packaging design with the most simplicity and innovation that we have seen. Just an amazing design that communicates a message of integrity with black and white.

check out the video of the design from Goodmorning technology below and you will know what we mean