Australia Abundant at Venice Architecture Biennale 2008

Saturday, October 4th, 2008 |

Tags: Architecture, Australia Abundant, Buildings, Eagle Talon House, New Holland Folly, Peter Stuchbury Architecture, Studio505, Venice Architecture Biennale

An exhibition is not just a platform to showcase your talents but is also a forum for interaction with others who share your views. They also give you the opportunity to reach out to a great number of people and educate them about something dear to your heart. The Venice Architecture Biennale 2008 saw a great number of entries from different countries, one of the most striking of which was Australia.

Australia’s Abundant exhibition intends to clear a certain misconception from the minds of the people about the blandness of Australia. Starting from the brightly decorated trees at the entrance to the exhibits, the lighting within and the exhibits themselves will leave visitors with no doubt about the cheery colourfulness of this island continent. Australia Abundant was curated by architects Durbach, Lewin, Thompson and Warner and designer Frost, and shows a beautiful melange of the past and the present popular designs. The exhibition saw participation from over 200 architectural firms, each one showing a distinctively imaginative design following the theme of ‘architecture beyond building’.

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Coll-Barreu Bring Back Cubist Design To Architectural Designs

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 |

Tags: Architects, Basque, Bilbao, Buildings, Coll-Barreu, cubism, health Department

The rebel state of Basque has always been in news. However this time, Basque is in news for a different news altogether. The Coll-Barreu architects have designed the health department headquarters of Bilbao, the capital city of Basque. The building is designed on the principles of cubism.

Cubism was a design and art movement from the modern era of the early 20th century. The building however is built in a cubist facade of glass and the facade is also the structure’s double skin frame. This insulates the building and the basement would contain a 150-seater auditorium. The design is cool, chic and not something that we would expect of a health department.

I would say, the designers of the health department have brought back the age old cubist theories back into force and the architectural wonder will surely make many to wish to visit the health department.

Via: DesignBoom