Perspective Urban Mediaspace / schmidt hammer lassen architects Digital Origami - Ce.Te.S Center / AKA architetti Shenzhen 4 Tower in 1 / Steven Holl Architects The living brige / Marchi Architectes Flowing Gardens - International Horticultural Fair in Xian / Plasma Studio
Fore Story Fore Story / JiNa Park Diaphaner Raum / Kalher-Korschildgen Architekten Rietberg Museum Rebuilding and Extension / ARGE Grazioli Krischanitz Manresa City Hall New Entry and Facade / ADD + Arquitectura Bergen-Belsen Memorial Info Center / KSP Engel und Zimmermann Architekten Infobox Route Charlemagne / Maurer United Architects
Wood for Future The Future is Wood / Silvio Carta + Stefano Tesotti Explora Hotel, Easter Island / Jos?Cruz Ovalle The Ananti Golf & Hot Spring Resort / Ken Min Sung Jin Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson The Cathedral of Christ the Light / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP BIP Computers / Alberto Moz?126 Espace Nordique for Biathlon / Tectoniques Multipurpose for Mentally Retarded Youth / Sielfeld & Vergara Arquitectos Piano Pavilion / Wingardh Arkitektkontor AB The Lantern / Atelier Oslo + AWP Marcus Prize Pavilion / Barkow Leibinger Architects
What if a story is given to transitional space? The courtyard of Monastery Wedinghausen, built in the 1170s, has a space full of light now. The Light Pavilion replaced the south wing demolished in 1885. Visitors are naturally led to the courtyard through the pavilion. The architect planned the facade with transparent glass, making the courtyard look bigger. At night the pavilion itself becomes a giant light with internal lighting on, illuminating the entire courtyard and enhancing spiritual experience. .......... by JiNa Park
Wood for Future
In the beginning was the wood - or at least the wooden hut. For Vitruvius, the wooden hut was the origin of all architecture. Centuries later the great theoretician of French Illuminism, Marc-Antoine Laugier, suggested that the hut was the archetype of all buildings. The Abbe Laugier's primitive hut, it is said, was constructed from short lengths of thin tree-trunks, interwoven to form a rudimental shelter. Only the historians can say how timber building really originated, but what we do know is that where wood is available, it has always been used systematically. Wood has always been recognised as a material whose surprising physical properties make it adaptable for many purposes. It is easy to work, and at the same time exceedingly good at performing structural, enclosing, and decorative functions that often also carry significant symbolic meanings. Being a natural material, wood is associated with the cycles of the seasons and is therefore perceived as "alive". .......... Written by Silvio Carta, Stefano Tesotti