Numen/For Use Tape Tokyo 02 Grand Projects—How Far Will You Go? 21_21 Design Sight, → GRAND PROJECTS: HOW FAR WILL YOU GO? 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT by Exhibition Director, Naoko Aono Tokyo, Japan [link] Tethered and taught, 21,120 meters of tape stretch into a translucent organ, squeaking and groaning as squirming, curious museum goers crawl through […]
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Tatzu Nishi
Tatzu Nishi “Capsule Hotel 21” Grand Projects—How Far Will You Go? 21_21 Design Sight, → GRAND PROJECTS: HOW FAR WILL YOU GO? 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Tokyo, Japan [link] Through October 1st, 2017 Constructing a capsule hotel in Ando’s elegant architecture, Nishi’s project transforms the public space into a semi-private space, raising questions about rising costs […]
DPMT7
DPMT7 Un Teatro del Nuovo Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnatti, OH [link] Elevating the ubiquitous structures of urban construction, the semi-temporary systems of renewal become the allegorical model for a new norm. An opera of the common displaced within the institution inverts and dissolves the typical, reversing context of exterior (mundane) to interior (sacred) and […]
John Hejduk
John Hejduk Jan Palach Memorial [link] Cooper Union, New York House of Suicide and House of Mother of Suicide As architectural meditations, John Hejduk’s constructions are uncharacteristically rootless- tentative inhabitants that stir a moment till eternity, elusive appearances that despite their eventual departure, are forever marked in memory. Inspired by David Schapiro’s poem, two spiky […]
Dennis Maher
Dennis Maher A Second Home [2016] architectural salvage, construction materials, antique furnishings, toys, architectural models, video projections, audio The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh [link] Maher’s immersive installation transports the viewer into a miniature, magical world of curious inventions and constructions. Utilizing current trends in architecture and design, repurposing and salvaging are key strategies of the project. […]