Architecture from other Blogs; My Picks of the week
Steven Holl Architects in China
Linked Hybrid,
a mixed-use complex of eight linked towers in Beijing, China:
By Steven Holl Architects
The project, which was last week named Best Tall Building 2009 in the Asia and Australia category by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, comprises apartments, a hotel, cinema, kindergarten, school, underground car park, commercial zones and a public green space.
see whole project review here:
via: Dezeen
Grow your own bridge
Competition entry by: Chetwoods
grow your own organic foodin the towers.
This competition winning entry by Chetwoods for RIBA international ideas competition to redesign London Bridge with a “living” crossing including space for allotments and a farmers’ market is a great morphing of ideas which will be intereting if actually implemeted.
see more images here.
Ocean Societies the New Frontiers
Ocean Societies
Could the middle of the ocean offer sustainable dwelling places for mankind in the future? Estonian architect Marko Järvela of Hirvesoo Arhitektibüroo, winner of the aesthetics category in the first design competition for seasteading, believes that sustainable water-locked living could in fact become a wonderful reality. He saw designing “SESU Seastead” (short for SElf-SUstained seastead), as an opportunity to find the reality in ideas that are “balancing at the edge of utopian.” Järvela says that his winning design for a mini-society in the ocean is based on a self-sufficient lifestyle that requires a rearrangement of priorities. see full review here
via Inhabitat
Last week i featured this pick on the same idea of ocean living societies:
“The Swimming City” by Andras GyorfiSeastead’s
It seems the idea of ocean communities is catching on to more architects. We will follow all the ideas and see where they will lead to.
