Grenier publique sur Architizer. Density! Hacking! Micro-Units! How The BMW Guggenheim Lab Identified 100 Urban Trends. In 2008, urbanists announced that for the first time, more than half of the world's population was residing in cities.
The importance of the urban arena as a global social force was becoming clear, and the BMW Guggenheim Lab, an "urban think tank" opened in 2011, presented an opportunity for the Museum to start necessary conversations about what's next for cities worldwide. Two years later, the Atelier Bow Wow-designed Lab has closed shop, and the initiative has unveiled its findings in an exhibition back at the Guggenheim's Fifth Avenue headquarters, entitled Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab.
Add To Collection Save this image to a collection Exterior view of BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin. Image via Solomon R. Architizer had the opportunity to preview the exhibition, on view at the Guggenheim through January 5, 2014. Non-Iconic Architecture Exterior view from First Street at dusk. Micro Architecture Image via Solomon R. Maker Movement. "Beyond the Clouds" - entrée finaliste pour la compétition de Port intelligent. "Beyond the Clouds" is a Smart Harbor competition entry by international award-winning experimental team Zuhal Kol, Carlos Zarco Sanz, and Jose Luis Hidalgo.
Their proposal was listed as a finalist in the international ideas competition hosted by Young Architects Competitions earlier this year. Focused on exploring the potential value of the world's harbors, the competition challenged participants to reimagine existing harbor sites into a modern recreational and tourist area -- with the freedom to interpret the meaning of recreation to their own accord. Participants also had to account the social, political, and economic relationships of the harbor with the modern city environment into their designs. Scroll down to see project images and to learn more about the proposal. Click above image to view slideshow"Beyond the Clouds" - finalist Smart Harbor entry by Zuhal Kol, Carlos Zarco Sanz, and Jose Luis Hidalgo.
Project description Click above image to view slideshowWind turbine diagram. Parkcycle Swarm par Rebar Group et N55. Here are more public spaces on the back of bikes: a swarm of tiny mobile parks covered in grass are being pedalled around the city of Baku this month (+ slideshow).
Designed by John Bela of design firm Rebar Group and Till Wolfer of Scandinavian collective N55, the Parkcycle Swarm project consists of four pedal-powered miniature parks. Each one has a bike in the centre and is surrounded by a rectangular metal frame with a grassy surface. One of the parks has a tree attached to the frame and another folds up like a sun lounger. They can be cycled to a chosen location and installed for public use. Visitors to the micro-green spaces are encouraged to take a break, have some lunch, relax and sunbathe. Urban Design & Urban Think Tank. Cricklewood mobile Town Square par Spacemakers. A mobile town square that packs into a miniature clock tower on the back of a bike will be appearing around north London this month (+ slideshow).
London agency Spacemakers enlisted design firms Studio Hato and Studio Kieren Jones to create the world’s first mobile town square for Cricklewood in north London. Pont de Singe ballon d'hélium pont par Olivier Grossetête. French artist Olivier Grossetête used three enormous helium balloons to float a rope bridge over a lake in Tatton Park, a historic estate in north-west England.
Oliver Grossetête created Pont de Singe, which means "monkey bridge", for the Tatton Park Biennial, which this year was themed around flight. Cloud City par Studio Lindfors. The results of the What if New York City. . .
Passant Cloud par Tiago Barros. Manned Cloud par Jean-Marie Massaud. Here's another designer dirigible: Manned Cloud is a flying hotel proposed by French designer Jean-Marie Massaud.
Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. The whale-shaped airship, developed with French national aerospace research body ONERA, will be able to accommodate 40 guests and have a range of 5,000 km. Manned Cloud will have a cruising speed of 130 km/h and a top speed of 170 km/h. Nouvelles images de Manned Cloud par Jean-Marie Massaud - dezeen. Il veut traverser l'Atlantique porté par 365 ballons.
Juil92013 Email Traverser l’Atlantique porté par 365 ballons à hélium.
C’est le pari insolite que s’est lancé Jonathan Trappe. Cet Américain va faire un voyage de 4.000 km qui pourrait s’étendre de trois à sept jours. Son aéronef a été créé afin de pouvoir supporter tous les aléas. Zébra3/Buy-Sellf. Party Wall by CODA opens at MoMA PS1. Wall made from skateboard offcuts for MoMA's PS1. News: American studio CODA has won this year's MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program competition and will insert a wall made from skateboard offcuts into the courtyard of the PS1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York.
The Young Architects Program is an annual contest organised by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) that invites emerging studios to propose a temporary installation that can host the summer events of the PS1 Contemporary Art Centre. CODA's winning proposal, entitled Party Wall, is for a linear structure that will incorporate events spaces, seating areas, stages and projections areas, as well as pools of water that will function as "cooling stations". INSTANT CITY, UN FUTUR DÉPASSÉ ?