Articles tagged with: Venice Architecture Biennale
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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Lotus Room: Future Room by Zaha Hadid Arhitects
Sunday, September 14th, 2008 |Tags: futuristic, Lotus, room, Venice Architecture Biennale, zaha hadid
Rooms of the future are going to be unlike nothing you ever expected. You might have heard of Lotus rooms before, but it probably put into your mind smoke filled dim lit rooms packed with people sitting around with lit stubs in their fingers or hookahs hanging from limp hands. The Lotus room of the future, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, will clear your mind in a jiffy and transport you to a world where things contract and expand as you wish.
The Lotus room can fluctuate between two states of either expansion or contraction, allowing you to choose between rooms that are spacey or condensed, appearing to be cocoon from the outside world. The mobile status of the room is achieved by interwoven layers which fold and unfold to provide furniture when the room expands when desired. The concept leaves the owner with a flexible ever-changing view of the room. The Lotus room will be on show between the 10th and 23rd of this November at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Via: Yatzer
Posted in: Architecture, Concept, futuristic