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Design: RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances] + Marcel Moonen. ‘Giardini in Silence’ is a proposal for the annual period of absence in between the Venice art- and architecture biennales. It reclaims public space from vandalism and security companies.
Design: Grimshaw, architects. A successful collaboration between architects and tensile designers reached its final stage last week at Frankfurt’s Light + Building festival and trade fair, where MDT-tex launched the final Tensilation Type EV canopy system.
Design: Bblur Architecture. Approval gained to wrap a giant slide around the ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The 178-metre-long helter skelter will be the “world’s longest and tallest tunnel slide”.
Design: FAHR 021.3. Amid the architectural diversity around the São Bento train station in Porto, Metamorfose this green metal ‘mesh’ design really stands out.
Design: Vo Trong Nghia Architects, Vietnam – one of the world’s edgiest architects will design the fourth iteration of SCAF’s Fugitive Structures architecture pavilion series in 2016, bringing his work to Australia for the first time.
Design: Gerry Judah. Six historic Lotus Formula 1 cars were incorporated in a spectacular sculpture by artist Gerry Judah that was the centrepiece of last weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, Britain’s largest car culture event.
Tomás Saraceno’s artistic project Aerocene is a series of air-fuelled sculptures that will float in the longest, most sustainable journey around the world without engines, becoming buoyant only by the heat of the Sun and infrared radiation from the surface of Earth.
Design: Paul Raff Studio. The sculpture Wavelengths captures the dynamic surface of a lake and transforms a public passage into a phenomenal experience. Wavelengths is suspended overhead in the vehicular and pedestrian passage of Market Wharf condominium.
A glass platform at the top of a cliff, the largest of its kind in Asia, nears completion in Chongqing City, southwest China. The hanging platform stands 280m above Karst Valley giving a breathtaking panoramic view.
Inspired by and reflecting the natural elegance of the Arizona canal, a nearly fifty mile long body of water that runs through Scottsdale, Golden Waters is mounted on a secure structure attached to the bridge, designed by artist, architect and philosopher Paolo Soleri.
Mobile Orchard, City of London Festival installation – design by atmos, architects – public art installation: urban fruit tree London, England, UK
Arboreal Lightning: Camden Roundhouse interior in London – design by atmos, architects – a performative stage beacon: Camden Roundhouse installation
Worldscape, Global Feast event London – design by atmos, architects – Worldscape dining landscape, Global Feast: culinary exploration London Olympics 2012
LightHive – design by atmos, architects – Architectural Association School of Architecture London interactive installation, for Zumtobel: LightHive London
Design: GAD Architecture. A modular sculptural installation, designed by Istanbul and New York-based architectural studio has featured in the famous Taksim Square during Istanbul Design Week.
House of Mirrors is an award-winning architectural sculpture created by London and Melbourne based design studio NEON for Sculpture by the Sea Bondi 2014, held along the Bondi to Tamarama costal walk in Australia.
Wunderbugs is an interactive wooden pavilion with sensors collecting environmental changes and allowing insects to modulate music.