The Danish Pavilion at Shanghai's World Expo 2010, designed by BIG, has opened to the public and will provide its visitors a Danish city life. BIG's architecture is a result of contemporary life analysis, due to the influence of multicultural exchange, global economic flows and communication technologies that together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. Now, BIG, will provide visitors with the opportunity to try some aspects of Danish city life in Shanghai.
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Strategy does not solely require a different way of thinking but an entirely different approach to life. The Middelfart Savings Bank is characterized by a dramatic roof scape, which will be putting the Danish town on the island of Fyn on the architectural map and simultaneously provide a new public space for local citizens.
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The Fundación Arquitectura Contemporánea is holding a Competition for Ideas for the construction of its future head offices and the San Pablo block in Cordoba, Spain. The new building is visioned as a public spot for interaction, debates, exhibitions and promotion of architecture. José Marini Bragança and Maria Helena Veludo have entered the competition and this is their proposal, which has been presented in phase 1.
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The vision for the AG café in Nagoya City Aichi, Japan, was to mix the concept of a gallery and a café. Kidosaki Architects Studio, with Satoshi Itasaka as the principal, aimed to offer a place where people could meet and look at art at the same time.
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From the 14th to 19th of April, you can find the brand, Moooi, at the showroom in Milan for the 49th Edition of the world's most famous furniture fair, Salone del Mobile. Their slogan is: The Other Face: new ways of highlighting your world, as an explanation to all their new products.
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The Reuben Street Apartments project uses a strategy of an articulated landscape of 1-2 stories with residential towers of 12+ stories. Envisioning this strategy into the surrounding void facilitates, the protection of the adjoining residential enclaves and the re-making of the urban node.
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