Big idea is how to transform the pattern into architecture. Transforming pattern into architecture needs a system that is capable of adopting the possible constraints by changing the pattern’s scale as well as the form of the pattern. I studied pattern with this premise and pattern’s transformation into architecture.

SUNGGOO YANG

“quote from c3 magazine”

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, designed by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen song: Amy Winehouse

It is a very good example of how light can be used as a design element.

Zorlu Yapı Yatırım A.Ş. (Zorlu Building and Investment Co.), a member
company of Zorlu Holding, acquired 96.505,33 sq-m of land located in Istanbul, through a public bidding organized on March 7th 2007 by the Republic of Turkey, Priministry, Directorate of Privatizations.

Turkish and international architecture and urban design offices are invited to apply for qualification for ZORLU CENTER to be designed and built on this land as a mixed urban use complex. Architects, city planners and urban designers are invited to submit their credentials under the conditions specified at the web site cited below. The minimum requirement is to have completed a project work with a minimum 100.000 sq-m of built-area from concept design to tender documents. National and international awards, prizes, medals, international publications and jury memberships will also be among the criteria for selection.
Zorlu Yapı Yatırım A.Ş. will remunerate every selected project submission with a fee at international standards. Turkish competitors
may apply by forming consortia with international partners.

More detailed info on the web site dedicated to the competition. The competition phase is organized and directed by the former general secretary of Aga Khan Awards.

I just stumbled upon a new magazine on urbanism, including lots of critical texts with well known good names. MONU (Magazine on Urbanism) calls for submissions of each issue via its website. However the last issue is announced for Winter 2006 but the site is not updated yet.

It is good to have such a magazine which focuses not only the single artifacts of the architectural production, but the overall field where architects are actually should play. One wishes such a magazine and its alikes reach a wider community.

Steven Holl explains housing development project, Beijing Looped Hybrid. The project aims to create a city within a city rather than freestanding good looking towers. It is exciting to listen a project from its architects. The presentation has two sections. First one is below, the other one is on the rest of the post.

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Everyone watching the famous TV series Nip Tuck may realize that, most of the scenes are interior shots, even though the story takes place in a sunshine filled city like Miami. However, there is something attractive in those spaces. Every interior set is carefully designed into the smallest object. The heavy use of artificial light, the absence of direct sunlight and the struggle to avoid of the outside view is considerable. Apart from these points, the sterilized, hygienic use of the interior spaces is interesting. They are so well designed that it would be insane to use them. One can feel that none of the people in the story actually uses those spaces. Actually the players are like visitors in the rooms they are in. They do not use the props in the sets, they do not mess up with the furniture, everywhere is so tidy, clean, hygienic and thus so disturbing, so stressed. Thus it goes very well with the plot and the characters…

One considers who is behind of all of these. It was Ellen Brill, the architect who designed all of the interior sets of the Nip Tuck TV Series. And Nip Tuck is not the only one she took care of. She is also the interior set decorator of many TV  series and films. More can be found on her neat web site.

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This almost transparent but massive structure is very close to Chernobyl but it is not related with the nuclear power plant. It is called OTH (Over the Horizon) or Steel Yard, a military radar facility which is capable of transmitting the radar signals far beyond the conventional radars. Since electromagnetic signals travel in straight lines, large scale radar facilities had to be developed to set up early warning systems.

More pictures are on this Pripyat website

Ünlü Danimarkalı mimarlık grubu 3xn İzmir Çandarlı’da bir yazlık site projesi yapıyormuş. A10 dergisinin 10.sayısında bahsedilen projenin detayları mimarların sitesinde de var. İşte onların tanımı ile Çandarlı’daki “Wide Planet Resort“

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Haydarpaşa taşınma süreci içinde iken, bu bölge 1-2 sene için İstanbul’un yeni kültür merkezi olabilir. Üstelik orada bulunan yapı ve malzemeler kullanılarak. Shigeru Ban’ın New York’ta Nomadic Museum (adı gibi kendisi de göçebe olan bir yapı) yeterince ikna edici bir örnek.

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