Ness Magazine

16/03/2021

Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, have been selected as the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates 🌟🌟🌟

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26/01/2021

The Fold by Atelier Scale is a mini-community playground that mobilizes children’s perceptions through landform. It is designed with the notion of returning to basics through the folding of spaces and leaves play open to the possible. Read more at nessmagazine.com

DATE: 2019 / LOCATION: Changzhou, China / AREA: 0.2 Ha (built) / PROGRAM: Community Playground / STATUS: Built / DESIGN: Atelier Scale / DESIGN TEAM: Huicheng Zhong, Liyang Chen, Bingxing Lin, Hao Lan, Jiahui Liang, Zhigang Liu, Qimei Ling, Zhihua Chen, Wanlu Ye, Wenxin Deng, Zheyi Yuan, Zhengzheng Xiong / CLIENT: Wuxi Vanke / PHOTOS: Qingshan Wu

22/01/2021

The Original Feelings Yoga Studio's design by Some Place Studio incorporates the idea of flow, central to yoga practice, to create a fluid and welcoming space. The design considers the demands of the pandemic but also a life beyond it. Read more at nessmagazine.com

DATE: 2020 / LOCATION: Berlin, Germany / AREA: 300 m2 / PROGRAM: Yoga Studio / STATUS: Built / LEAD ARCHITECTS: Some Place Studio (Daniel Prost, Bika Rebek) / CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: Yasmin Bawa, Denise Rudolf Frank / CLIENT: Original Feelings- Katharina Riedl / PHOTOS: Linus Muellerschoen

19/01/2021

The Daniels Building at the University of Toronto designed by NADAAA embodies a holistic approach to urban design and sustainability. It presented a case where problems of pedagogy came face to face with a physical environment that is inhabited and tested daily by an audience of experts, critics, teachers, practitioners, and students, the very protagonists of the medium. Thus, the building was designed to become a pedagogical tool, integrated into the curriculum with both sustainable/design elements and school programs on display both to students and the public. Read more at nessmagazine.com

DATE: 2018 / LOCATION: Toronto, Canada / AREA: 155,000 sf (built) / PROGRAM: Faculty Facility / STATUS: Built / DESIGN: NADAAA / PRINCIPALS: Katherine Faulkner, AIA; Nader Tehrani / PROJECT MANAGERS: Richard Lee, Tom Beresford / PROJECT TEAM: John Houser, Amin Tadj, Tim Wong, Alda Black, Marta Guerra, James Juricevich, Parke Macdowell, Dane Asmussen, Laura Williams, Peter Sprowls, Noora Al Musallam, Tammy Teng, Wesley Hiatt, John Mars, Mazyar Kahali, Matthew Waxman, Luisel Zayas / ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Adamson Associates Architects / PRINCIPAL: Claudina Sula, OAA / PROJECT TEAM: Jack Cusimano, Tina Leong, John McMillan, Martin Dolan, Zbigniew Jurkiewicz, Michael Lukachko, Zale Spodek, Gilles Leger, George Georges, Ke Leng Tran / CONSULTANTS: ERA Architects (Heritage Consultant), Entuitive Corporation (Structural), Entuitive Corporation (Building Envelope consultant), Mulvey Banani International, Inc (Electrical/Data/AV/Lighting Design), The Mitchell Partnership (Mechanical/Plumbing), Aercoustics Engineering Ltd (Acoustics), A. M. Candaras Associates, Inc (Civil), Public Work (Landscape), Upper Canada Specialty Hardware, Ltd (Hardware), Eastern Construction Company Ltd (Construction Manager), Daniels Faculty (Select furniture design and construction) / PHOTOS: Nic Lehoux

21/12/2020

We are happy to announce our third issue! Through our usual playful and theoretical approach, opens clues to the question "What’s an Object?"

Like in the iconic US quiz show Jeopardy!, giving answers in the form of questions is a way of going beyond common sense, cheating facts, or serious categories. It changes perspective and opens the game. The 240-page volume gathers tales of entanglements, reenactments, and recollections. It features architecture offices MOS and PRODUCTORA, design studio Stephen Burks Man Made, Brazilian architect Carla Juçacaba, Berlin-based architect and artist Sarah Entwistle, and many more. It spiritedly explores objects through articles such as Timothy Morton feeling the present in conversation with Florencia Rodriguez, Martin Cobas rifling through Lina Bo Bardi’s cabinets, and Penelope Dean bringing tables to the foreground.

Learn more about the issue at amazon.com

EDITED BY: Florencia Rodriguez (Editorial Director & Founder), Pablo Gerson (CEO & Founder), Santiago Bogani, Renee Carmichael, Isabella Moretti, Lisa Naudin, and Magdalena Tagliabue / DESIGN BY: Santiago Passero, Ignacio Espert / PUBLISHED BY: Lots of Architecture –publishers

01/12/2020

The Belgian architectural firm MIA architecture designed its own office, a mirrored, elevated prism that reflects its natural environment and blends in with the landscape. Read more at nessmagazine.com

DATE: 2020 / LOCATION: Beaufays, Liège, Belgium / AREA: 60 m2 (built) / PROGRAM: offices / STATUS: built / DESIGN: MIA architecture / LEAD ARCHITECTS: Geoffrey Noël / CONSULTANTS: Fabrice Gaillard (Landscape), Menuiserie Schmitz (Wood frame and joinery) / PHOTOS: MIA architecture

26/11/2020

Please join us for the Rethinking "American” Design inaugural virtual talk tomorrow, Friday, November 27 at 2 PM EST. This conversation launches both the Rethinking America issue of Harvard Design Magazine, guest co-edited by our Editorial Director Florencia Rodriguez, and the America(s) theme of Design Miami/, examining how new narratives and histories of design are being constructed just as notions of "America" itself are being questioned, challenged, and revised.

Moderated by Aric Chen, Curatorial Director of Design Miami; Johnston Marklee, Chair of the Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; and Florencia Rodriguez, Guest Co-editor, Harvard Design Magazine and Editorial Director, –NESS Magazine, in addition to fellow panelists Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Curator of Contemporary Design and Hintz Secretarial Scholar, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Isaac Scott, Ceramic Artist, Curator, Photographer and MFA candidate at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Ronald Rael, Writer, Architect and Professor of Architecture, Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley and Zoë Ryan, Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania in the conversation.

More info: https://shop.designmiami.com/pages/talks

24/11/2020

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum by Diller Scofidio + Renfro features 20,000 square feet of galleries, a state-of-the-art theater, event spaces, and a café. Inspired by the energy and grace of the Team USA athletes and the organization's inclusive values, the building’s dynamic spiraling form allows visitors to descend the galleries in one continuous path. This main organizational structure enables the museum to rank amongst the most accessible museums in the world, ensuring that visitors can smoothly share the same common experience. Read more at nessmagazine.com

DATE: 2014-2020 / LOCATION: Colorado Springs, Colorado, Unites States / AREA: 60.000 sf (built) / PROGRAM: / STATUS: built / DESIGN: Diller Scofidio + Renfro / PARTNERS: Benjamin Gilmartin, Elizabeth Diller, Charles Renfro and Ricardo Scofidio / PROJECT ARCHITECT: Holly Deichmann Chacon / PROJECT ARCHITECT, CONCEPT DESIGN: Sean Gallagher / PROJECT DESIGNER: Yushiro Okamoto / TEAM: Merica May Jensen, Ryan Botts, Charles Curran, Imani Day, Roberto Mancinelli, Anthony Saby, Rasmus Tobiasen, Ning Hiransaroj, Andreas Kostopoulos, Dino Kiratzidis, Emily Vo Nguyen, Jack Solomon, Valeri Limansubroto / EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT: Anderson Mason Dale / EXHIBITION DESIGNERS: Gallagher & Associates / CONSULTANTS: KL&A INC. with ARUP (Structural Engineers), ARUP (Acoustics, Audiovisual & Theater), The Ballard Group (Mechanical and Plumbing Engineer), ME Engineers (Electrical Engineer), Tillotson Design Associates (Lighting Consultant), Nes Colorado in collaboration with Hargraeves Associates (landscape architects), Jensen Hughes (Fire Protection), KIOWA (Civil Engineering), Dharam Consulting (costs) / CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AND GENERAL CONTRACTOR: GE Johnson / PHOTOS: Jason O'Rear

20/11/2020

Located in Silicon Valley, Roofless House by Craig Steely Architecture has three patios that articulate fluid interior spaces by creating their own exterior landscapes. Read more at nessmagazine.com

DATE: 2018 / LOCATION: Atherton, California, United States / AREA: 2900 ft2 (built) / PROGRAM: Single-family House / STATUS: Built / DESIGN: Craig Steely Architecture / PHOTOS: Darren Bradley

11/11/2020

Curated by Lukas Feireiss, curator, artist, and author working across disciplinary boundaries, Tatjana Schneider, professor of architectural theory at TU Braunschweig, and TheGreenEyl, translator of complex themes into large-scale installations and exhibitions, the exhibition Living the City tells over fifty stories from architecture, art, and city planning projects in the main hall of the former Berlin-Tempelhof Airport. What emerges is the way these stories are often simultaneous, contradictory, overlapping, and inextricably connected. The exhibition is closed until November 30th due to pandemic regulations but, fortunately, you can also experience it virtually. Read more at nessmagazine.com

Ph. Living the City, Exhibition View. © Jörg Brüggemann-OSTKREUZ, 2020.

DATES: 9/25 – 12/20, 2020 / LOCATION: Platz der Luftbrücke 5 12101 Berlin & Online / CURATORS: Lukas Feireiss, Tatjana Schneider, TheGreenEyl / COMISSIONED BY: the Federal Ministry of Interior, Building and Community within the framework of the National Urban Development Policy, Germany

09/11/2020

The Red Roof by TAA Design is a small house on ​​an eighty-square-meter plot located on the main road of the village Quang Ngai in Vietnam. In the search for a k typology, the design adopts a new architecture that is based on the traditional cultural lifestyle of the couple. Read more at nessmagazine.com

DATE: 2019 / LOCATION: Quang Ngai, Vietnam / AREA: 80 m2 (built) / PROGRAM: House / STATUS: Built / DESIGN: TAA DESIGN / ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE: Nguyen Van Thien, Nguyen Huu Hau / PHOTOS: TAA Design

05/11/2020

Atelier Scale designed Tetris Square in Guangzhou, China. Located in the nonwestern corner of Cloud City, a mixed-use complex, the framework of the square is based on a pixelated grid system that provides flexible use space. With a variety of areas to play, a special organization of trees, and the use of prefabricated materials, this project achieves a strong community identity on a low budget. Read more at nessmagazine.com

DATE: 2017-2019 / LOCATION: Guangzhou, China / AREA: m2 (built) / PROGRAM: public square / STATUS: built / DESIGN: Atelier Scale / DESIGN TEAM: Huicheng Zhong, Feimin Song, Hao Lan, YoungJoon Choi, Shaozhong Yuan, Wanlu Ye, Liujun Deng, Bingru Xiao, Yongkai Shen / CLIENT: Guangzhou Vanke / PHOTOS: Holi, Xi Tang, Feimin Song