Some nice stuff from the Art-Academy's "carnival" in January. I was tutoring there for a 3 week period in January - in a workshop on the topic of Carnival. We are looking forward to participating more with the students at the academy as we will be curating the diploma exhibition at Kjarlvalsstaðir in April - together with artist Finnur Arnar.
The office doozers Buddie and Grimur are making a 1:50 scale model of the VILLA GRAUGAARD
I attended a exciting conference in the city of Vejle, DK. The topic was to generate a vision for this new hybrid house, the modern library. We had a whole day of input - brainstorm/conceptulization - hands on doing. See the interesting model our group came up with.
Lina and David joined us at our office in 101 Reykjavik. Lina is joined by Kristjan Eggertsson in this foto while David is under cover - fresh fotos of David will come later. Notice the crisp white snow falling in the background. This calls for a trip to the mountains this weekend......
Runolfur owner of the photostudio PHOTOPOP has shot some great pictures of the project in Guldsmedgade.
Here is a preview of the project for KOMATSU KFD. We are collaborating with CEBRA architects.
Lecture by Flavio Janches
at Aarhus school of Architecture november 22 at 15.00 p.m.
The lecture will be about the significance of public spaces in the most vulnerable parts of society, and what part the designer/architect/landscape architect and urbanist have to play.
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Considering the circumstances of which VAERKSTED came to be, I thought this article (published in POLITIKEN on saturday november 17, 2007) was sheding some light on the tendecies in the present urban development, and especially the movement between megacities and large cities.
It describes how the cities that have been existing in the shadow of the succes of megacities, are now experiencing a shift of focus from the general public. The main reason is that these cities have been competing with megacities, during the revolution of the information society. The megacities had the advantage in numbers of inhabitants, and other cities were left in the wake to become demobilized as remains of a former era, the industrialization. But wat has happend is, a new economical and social power has appeared. The demands of the creative people was forgotten in the megacities, which were typically planned to satisfy the general population. The new creative class, who were to define the character of a new society, had a need to inflict their vision, on the city in which they were to live and work. And at the time of the shift, the economy of creative people depended on succes, thereby only allowing a few percentage of these people to have a business. This was mainly due to the high prices of residential and office space in the megacities. What the megacities could not provide, was a frame work where the content were yet to be applied. This frame work was the large, volumious structures from the industrial era. The new "creative cities" now had something to offer. And because it is in the nature of the creative mind to, do new things, that does not depend on anybody having done it before, the cities which have attracted these people, now consists of great varieties of urbanity, and are becomming the new centers of focus from the outside world.
This put in to an Aarhus context, is for me quite relevant. The article talks about these tendencies in a very large scale, from megacity to large cities, but it really is a tendency which can be seen in all urban contexts. In Aarhus, as in many other cities of the same scale, there has been an explosion in real estate prizes, which makes it hard for new creative businesses, without a lot of capital, to get of to a good start. But anyway the tendency has been a reluctancy to move out of the city center, because of insecurity about lack of attention, even though the economical advantages has been obvious for a long time.
I see the establishment of studios like VAERKSTED, offices like PLUMROSE and galleries like MOGADISHNI as the first step towards a creative decentralization of Aarhus.
Here is some pictures from our interior project for the dermalogica in Aarhus, Denmark. The project is now finish and the SKIN BAR is now open to customers.
ALAN BERGER lectures at Arkitektskolen Aarhus
Thursday november 15th/10.00 a.m./Auditoriet, Nørreport
The fascinating illustrations from the book "Reclaiming the American West" (Princeton Architectural Press 2002), at once made Alan Berger known outside North America. They show reclamation-projects in a grand, but for most unknown american landscape, scared by the exploitation of the ground for raw materials.
Alan Berger is a professor in landscape architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he is the founder ansd director of P-REX (the Harvard Design School Project for Reclamation Excellence), who perform research as well design tasks in the field of landscape architecture. With his latest release "Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America" (Princeton Architectural Press 2006), he is yet again expanding his field of operation and shifting focus towards the de-industrialised areas and the rapid, horizontal, urbanizition, which we also recognize form a european context.
The works of AlanBergers are published in a number of renowned magazines such as AA Files, Landscape Journal, Praxis and others. Before Harvard Berger was an associate professor at University of Colorado and has taught and lectured at several univerities in the US and Europe.
Alan Berger is a guest professor at the Institute of Urban Planning and Landscape this semester.
Soon the new interior of dermalogica designed by KRADS and situated in Guldsmedgade - Aarhus - DK is installed. Its taking a lot of sweat and craftmansship.
Two shots from a study on how the roof and volume could turn out for this villa project!
The work on Villa Chess is moving forward - here are some shots taken at the site today.
Because of EUROPAN 09 we took a trip to Austria for checking out the site. We also checked out some super nice Austrian Architecture. We off course learned about the history of Vienna and enjoyed the clubs, bars and restaurants.
We have been pre-qualified to participate in a competition for the new Headquarters of the bank Landsbanki in Reykjavík. We have teamed up with aart a/s and LIW Planning and are looking forward to work with them on this project. This is a two phase competition and the first phase is planned to be finished in the beginning of December. The competition site is in the heart of the Reykjavík city center and will be facing Reykjavík's future Concert house that is now under construction.
Students from The Danish School of Journalism made a small interview about Reclaim the Streets project. Palle Feldborg talked to Signe and Karoline on a sunny Friday morning.
KRADS ARCHITECTURE has been announced second prize winner in the KVOSIN competition for Reykjavik city center. It is a shared second prize with Gehl Architects as the other winning office. The city has suggested to buy elements from our proposal, and Gehl Architects, as an input to the winning office Studio Granda. Their proposal is going to be developed into the future local plan for the area. Concerning our project the city has shown special interest in the way we suggest solving the Lækjartorg (square) in front of the burned down historical buildings.
Backstage Architecture is a collection of projects that represents an original panorama of architecture on a global level across a network of professionals. In it are the names and contacts of architects under 40 from forty-five different countries, one per country, each selected and presented by a referee in the book Worldwide Architecture.
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