COLA project under construction. Covered Outdoor Learning Area for the Australia St Infants School in Newtown.
Infinity Forest appears in the Sydney Morning Herald! Urban planning goes out on a limb. SMH Article by Elicia Murray, Urban Affairs Reporter. p5 July 14, 2009.
Very cool old school National film Board of Canada documentary about Igloo construction. Fully parametric design.
Laneways by George winning entry - Infinity forest is the result of an international collaboration between Isabel Cordeiro (NL), Katie Hepworth of Transit Lounge and Matt Chan of Scale Architecture. Infinity Forest is where you find yourself in a brief moment of concentrated nature - an oasis contained by a small reflective room iplaced precariously in the laneways of Sydney.
Brooklyn Digital Foundry have done some amazing work for architects, fashion houses and museums. They also produced the video for OMA’s Museum Plaza.
Associative Design the Berlage Institute found on dysturb.net. The studio was led by Peter Trummer and assisted by Martin Sobota.
Essay by Mike Davis titled Fear and money in Dubai that appears in
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism.
Interesting to read a pre-financial crisis critique of the situation in the UAE.
Scale Architecture was recently invited to exhibit their models from the Australian Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale. At the Object Gallery in Surry Hills, Sydney.
CV08 Scale architecture’s plan for Sydney 2030 was exhibited at Custom’s House and presented at the National architecture conference in Sydney in 2008. Using Sydney as an ‘urban laboratory’, this presentation and jury critique session will explore polemical visions for possible urban futures. A select group of emerging architects will present visionary responses to the critical issues of climate change, intensifying urbanisation, social inequity and cultural conflict. These contrasting visions will be reviewed and critiqued by a distinguished jury panel: Bridget Smyth (chair), Michael Hensel, Thomas Herzog, Peter Mould, Billie Tsien & James Weirick.