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I|K Studio shared with us their masterplan design with an energy network for an academy outside of Port-au-Prince. This design will serve as a model of offset power production independent from a central utility. More images and project description after the break. read more »
Our friends Simon Kim & Mariana Ibanez from I|K Studio sent us this info on their installation for the exhibition “Crossing: Dialogues for Emergency Architecture”. The opening is May 12 at the National Art Museum of China.
You can see more images and architect’s description, after the break. read more »
This villa is located in plot #55 of the ORDOS project.
Architects: I|K studio – Mariana Ibanez, Simon Kim
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Project team: Chris Shusta, Anthony Dimari, Juta Cinco, Aimee Epstein, Michael Powers, Elizabeth Bishop, Carnaven Chiu
Structural Consultant: Paul Kassabian
Design year: 2008
Construction year: 2009
Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China
Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China
Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox
Urban Interventions / Vallo Sadovsky Architects
Vallo Sadovsky Architects recently sent us their latest book, Urban Interventions. We have featured one of Vallo Sadovsky Architects’ projects before, BA_LIK. That project gets to the heart of what this book is about. Small urban interventions can completely transform and…
This is Hybrid / a+t research group
Following years of research, a+t publishers presents the first theoretical-practical book on hybrid buildings. Taking its inspiration from the four issues of a+t magazine’s Hybrid series, the book takes a look at the theories and projects which have had…
Louis Kahn Drawing to Find Out / Michael Merrill
We recently featured the companion to this book, Louis Kahn On the Thoughtful Making of Spaces. This large format book draws together over two hundred—mostly unpublished—drawings of Kahn’s Dominican Motherhouse. It offers a fascinating look into Kahn’s design process…
