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Completed last year, the Songzhuang Artist Residences are located in one of China’s best-known artist enclaves, on the eastern outskirts of Beijing. Its 20 stacked units are composed of 20-foot-tall concrete boxes housing studio spaces and slightly irregular, 10-foot-tall volumes for living areas. Its form reflects both the upheaval experienced by many of the area’s artists, whom authorities evicted from their previous homes near Beijing’s Old Summer Palace, and the site’s former use as an industrial storage lot.

It is designed by DNA.

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Tonight I went to UBC LASSER 104 for Akihisa Hirata’s Lecture titled “Tangling”. People may think that his work is just mimicing nature with organic forms, actually there is a strong logic and theory behind it. After the lecture, I totally understand why his design attracts so many attention in the architectural field of Japan and the world.

It is hard for me to document everything on the lecture, but i would like to make a few notes to illustrate some of his ideas.

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In June 2003, many years after his famous book “Delirious New York”, Rem Koolhass published another article “Delirious No More, waning space I_NY”.

Here is the article Via Wired magazine.

1850-1933

New York is built, from 1850 to 1933, in a single spurt of imagination and energy. The first prototype of the modern metropolis, Manhattan is turned into a laboratory to test the potential of modern life in a radical, collective experiment. A free-form coalition of developers, visionaries, writers, architects, and journalists intersects with popular expectations to make the city an extreme and exhilarating democratic machine, one that is able to process all newcomers into New Yorkers. more »

A canadian and a german together founded the firm Cheungvogl in Hong Kong. Both worked in Foster + Partners before, they  had designed lots of projects worldwide. Here is one of their projects: Two identical houses in Tokyo.

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