When there’s a squeeze for space in urban areas, what better way to maximise the space you have than to use the rooftops of buildings. These creative schemes make the most of building roofs while at the same time turning urban areas into creative playgrounds.
Neon lights are often only associated with shop signage but there are many artists using neon to create stunning installations.
Take a look at this ambitious urban infrastructure project in Auckland, New Zealand, The Waterview Connection.
Designers have long expressed their creativity by using innovative textiles and motifs and these three examples are no exception.
If you feel dizzy at a fairground then some of these designs might not be for you – moving pieces of architecture and installations to work in tune with their environments or to tell us something about modern life.
Kampung Admiralty, designed by WOHA, has won the prestigious World Building of the Year 2018 award at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Amsterdam. The mixed-use building is “Singapore’s first integrated, public development that brings together a mix of public facilities and services under one roof” – as the architects explain.
The worlds of art and fashion collide on both side of the English Channel over the next few weeks.
As the architectural gaze increasingly focuses on sustainability, it’s no surprise that timber structures are very much in vogue amongst a creative group of architects pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with this most natural of materials.
Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art is set to take place from January 4 -7 2019 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong bringing together academics, artists and professionals in the field of computational media art in a four-day symposium whose core theme will be the topic of Machine Learning and Art. For this blog post, we thought this is such an interesting subject that we’d explore the area a little more. It’s certainly a fascinating area!
These installations allow the visitors to hear the work, rather than simply look at it and sometimes encouraging them to help bring the work to life by contributing their own sounds.