Getting Things Done in Cardiff

Getting Things Done

Can you imagine a bus stop made from timber logs on Cathedral Road or a futuristic Japanese-designed shelter on Westgate Street? These are just some of the architectural projects that will be featured in an international touring exhibition that visits Cardiff next month.

Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay

Museum of London Docklands

A rare survivor of London’s historic docks will be celebrated by a major new gallery opening at the Museum of London Docklands on 25 March; the first part of a major development to transform the Museum of London Dockland’s galleries.

Akademie der Künste Berlin exhibition

Security Breakdown New York

An Exhibition on Design Possibilities for Public Space through Civil Intervention. ‘DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space’ presents “options available to the public in shaping its own cities. Increasingly critical citizens are demanding the right to have a say in decisions that affect public space.”

Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2016

The Finnish Nature Center building

500 submissions were received, of these,300 projects were selected to form a contemporary survey of Nordic architecture and will form the central body of the show. Nine will be presented in depth.

German Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2016

Munich store in Venice

The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) will be curating the German Pavilion exhibition, Making Heimat. Germany, Arrival Country, at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016.

Peterson Rich Office Architects: P.R.O.

Architect Nathan Rich

Peterson Rich Office Architects news
The Jong Oh exhibition at Marc Straus Gallery extended until February 26. Architect Nathan Rich and Marc Straus Gallery Director Ken Tan will discuss the reciprocal relationship between minimalism in sculpture and architecture.

Architecture of Independence: African Modernism

Architecture of Independence: African Modernism

This exhibition explores the legacy of modernist architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1960s and 1970s. Featuring commissioned photographs by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster and archival material, “Architecture of Independence” imparts a new perspective on the intersection of architecture and nation-building.

Building Images Exhibition in London

Building Images Exhibition

Building Images, an exhibition of the best architectural photography worldwide, will open on the 4th of February 2016 at the Sto Werkstatt in Clerkenwell, London.

SCI-Arc Events 2015: Los Angeles Lectures

SCI-Arc Presents Thick by Maxi Spina

The Southern California Institute of Architecture news – SCI-Arc announces Thick by Maxi Spina. Thickness is an increasingly elusive condition in architectural design. Alluded to in section, camouflaged in the figure-ground, and presented as a foil in the developable surface drawing, material thickness is an understudied architectural condition.

SCI-Arc Shanghai, China Architecture

SCI-Arc Shanghai

The Southern California Institute of Architecture launches SCI-Arc Shanghai, a New International Platform. New Director Hernan Diaz Alonso states, “SCI-Arc has become a mature, vital, and innovative institution operating on an international stage. We’re getting the school more and more involved on a global level.”

Aerocene Grand Palais Installation, Paris

Aerocene sculptural installation at Grand Palais, Solutions COP21, Paris

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.

In Pursuit of Antiquity Exhibition in Berlin

In Pursuit of Antiquity

Important architectural drawings held by Sir John Soane’s Museum, one of the most significant collections of its kind in Great Britain, will form a new temporary exhibition at the Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin.