Maka-Sojka Architects have won a competition to design a new facility for Polish public broadcasting corporation TVP in Warsaw. Driven by their desire to communicate transparency in journalism, and centralize the many programs involved in television, the project consolidates many different factors, much like journalism itself. Read more about the TVP Information Agency building after the break.
“Paraboloid Fiery End,” Warkworth, New Zealand, 1971. Contributed by Byron Kinnaird and Barnaby Bennett.
This is the third edition of “Radical Pedagogies” exhibition. Earlier versions of this show were presented at the 3rd Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2013) and the 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture, curated by Rem Koolhaas (2014), where it was awarded a Special Mention. For the occasion of its presentation in Warsaw, the exhibition opens up new directions and a new density of global interconnections. Eastern Europe, Africa, East Asia and Australasia become the protagonists, opening new insights into pedagogical experimentation after 1945.
The open air classroom in front of the school building. Open air classroom contains banches and arbor made of gabions filled with stones.
PrzedSzkole Architektury took place in Torun, Poland. The event was addressed to high school teenagers, who wanted to change the surrounding area of their school. For a first month they learned about urban planning. Then, they finally prepare their propositions for new space arrangement in the school surroundings. Students propositions were turned into professional architectural plan by an architect from Wandering Architect Society.
As a second part of the event, teenagers together with the architect and school teachers from Projekt Zewnętrza Association, reorganized school yard according the project, developed during first part of the event. There were created new space
Laka Competitions invites designers from around the world to submit their ideas of ‘architecture that reacts’. That means architecture which is able to respond and adjust dynamically to the current needs and circumstances. These circumstances are often unpredictable, but their consequences can be crucial. The architecture that reacts is the architecture that lives as a living organism, since it responds to the external stimuli and it develops because of it.— to react is to live
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