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Liu Dan’s Perfection

Liu Dan’s Perfection

Liu Dan’s paintings of rocks and landscapes reflect an accord with early, more basic or ’’pure’’ eras of artistic expression in both East and West, and express a personal understanding of natural forces whereby the macrocosm is fully expressed through reduplication of the microcosmic.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Yang Jiechang’s Gu and Qi

Yang Jiechang’s Gu and Qi

Now a prominent, Paris-based representative of China’s artistic diaspora, Yang Jiechang is proficient in ink wash painting, gongbi (fine line), and calligraphy. Yang’s painting is particularly significant in its rare expression of radical thought via masterful manipulation of traditional media.

Duration : 12m
Maturity Level : all

Zheng Chongbin’s Process

Zheng Chongbin’s Process

In his practice, Zheng Chongbin has extended the possibilities of ink, and incorporated a new expression of depth and structure into ink painting. His powerful abstract paintings and installations make a compelling case for the future internationalism of ink painting.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

Klara Hobza: On Diving through Europe

Klara Hobza: On Diving through Europe

In her grand art endeavor Diving Through Europe, Berlin-based Klara Hobza investigates the boundaries of what is conceivable by diving the European rivers, stretching from the North Sea to the Black Sea in the course of 20-30 years.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Roni Horn: Saying Water

Roni Horn: Saying Water

Have you ever stood by a river and stared into the black water? In this video acclaimed artist Roni Horn takes us down by the riverside, performing a powerful 40 minute monologue based on her associations with water, including tales of sex and murder. In this video Roni Horn explains how water shows us who we are. How it is ambiguous. And makes us extended. How it can be a dark fluid making us disappear. How it is a soft entrance to not being.

Duration : 39m
Maturity Level : all

Elina Brotherus: The Human Perspective

Elina Brotherus: The Human Perspective

The human body is the focus of the work by the acclaimed Finnish photographer Elina Brotherus, who uses herself as material. In this Louisiana Channel video she presents two video works describing the passing of time reflecting her own life situation. In this video she talks about her work and why she uses herself in her own work. How she was shocked when as a student she saw her first self portrait and it didn’t correspond with her own image of what she looked like. How she today is used to seeing her own portrait. She says she is very interested in the passing of time because of ageing and the fact that she - being a woman at forty - finds herself in an irreversible situation.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno: Cloud Cities

Tomas Saraceno: Cloud Cities

The exhibition Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin presents a large installation by the artist that occupies the entire space of the historical gallery. The artist’s works, which incorporate tendencies in science and architecture and, as works of art, explicitly implement natural principles in order to address immediate problems in our globalized world such as overpopulation, environmental pollution, and diminishing resources, are highly contemporary visions that embody current and potential discourses on the relationship between nature and society.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno: Cloud City (Ville Nuage)

Tomas Saraceno: Cloud City (Ville Nuage)

Spider webs, the consistency of soap bubbles, astrophysics, and legendary visionaries like Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) are some of the most important sources of inspiration to the artist Tomás Saraceno, who was born in 1973 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. He calls his balloon-like objects Biospheres, that is, spaces containing life; held by black rope nets and suspended in the air, some of them are accessible to viewers and some of them are inhabited by plants.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Robert Rauschenberg: Night Shades and Phantoms

Robert Rauschenberg: Night Shades and Phantoms

Exhibition Making-of

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

The Garage Museum

The Garage Museum

Teaser of the Museum

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

Royal Academy for Nature Conservation - Ajloun, Jordan

Royal Academy for Nature Conservation - Ajloun, Jordan

The project for an Academy was originally proposed to be on a site inside a nature conservancy reserve, but the architect convinced the client to use an adjacent abandoned quarry which is outside the reserve. The basic philosophy was that the building would use the parts of nature which have been injured in the past, instead of adding a new intervention on virgin land.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Micro Yuan’er - Beijing, China

Micro Yuan’er - Beijing, China

Cha’er Hutong is a quiet spot one kilometre from Tiananmen Square in the city centre. Number 8 in this neighbourhood, located near a major mosque, is a typical da-za-yuan (big-messy-courtyard) once occupied by over a dozen families. In concert with the families, a nine-metre-square children’s library built of plywood was inserted underneath the pitched roof of an existing building.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

New Power Station - Baku, Azerbaijan

New Power Station - Baku, Azerbaijan

As part of the regeneration of an old industrial area, a new building echoes a recently restored power station beside it. The original brief asked the architects to demolish the old, late-19th century power station located on a natural harbor in the Bay of Baku, and build a new events hall in its place, but after a site visit, the architects proposed two new buildings linked by an enclosed bridge to house event spaces, while preserving the old power station as an exhibition space.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Issam Fares Institute - Beirut, Lebanon

Issam Fares Institute - Beirut, Lebanon

A new building, radical in composition but respectful of its traditional context, floats above an exterior courtyard. The American University of Beirut (AUB) held an invited competition for the design of a structure to accommodate a modern-day think tank on its lush middle campus, one that was in harmony with the rest of the university, especially mindful of the surrounding greenery, and to preserve, as far as possible, existing sightlines to the Mediterranean.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Casa-Port New Railway Station - Casablanca, Morocco

Casa-Port New Railway Station - Casablanca, Morocco

A dynamic transport hub that anticipates the needs of the city of the future. This transport hub, designed to anticipate 25 million passenger trips per year in the future, comprises a large passenger hall opening onto a wide square to the southwest and the platforms to the southeast, a shopping center located on the lower level of the hall, an underground car park and an office building.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Ceuta Public Library - Ceuta, Spain

Ceuta Public Library - Ceuta, Spain

Incorporating an archaeological site as a key feature of the building, this library has become a cultural landmark. An original 14th century Marinid archaeological area is at the core of the reading spaces of the Library. The excavations were included in the interior space of the public building, and the architects worked with the supervising archaeologist to creating a sense of openness and transparency between the Library and the Marinid centre.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Superkilen - Copenhagen, Denmark

Superkilen - Copenhagen, Denmark

A public space promoting integration across lines of ethnicity, religion and culture. A meeting place for residents of Denmark’s most ethnically diverse neighborhood and an attraction for the rest of the city, this project was approached as a giant exhibition of global urban best practice.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

40 Knots House - Tehran, Iran

40 Knots House - Tehran, Iran

Innovative low-cost techniques that reinterpret traditional brick facades. Persian carpets are world-renowned, and bricks have a strong relationship with Iranian historical architecture. Here they are fused into a contemporary facade that appears as a collection of intricately interwoven modules.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Thread Cultural Centre - Sinthian, Senegal

Thread Cultural Centre - Sinthian, Senegal

An ecologically sensitive meeting place demonstrates how art and architecture can be part of rural life. Thread is a socio-cultural centre that houses two artists’ dwellings and studio space for local and international artists. Nicolas Weber, of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, had been supporting the efforts of a Senegalese doctor, Magueye Ba, in running a medical centre and elementary school programme serving an isolated network of rural villages in the Tambacounda region.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Bait Ur Rouf Mosque - Dhaka Bangladesh

Bait Ur Rouf Mosque - Dhaka Bangladesh

In an increasingly dense neighborhood of Dhaka, the Mosque was raised on a plinth on a site axis creating a 13-degree angle with the qibla direction, which called for innovation in the layout. A cylindrical volume was inserted into a square, facilitating a rotation of the prayer hall, and forming light courts on four sides.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Bunateka Libraries - Various Locations, Kosovo

Bunateka Libraries - Various Locations, Kosovo

Bunateka is a word play from the Albanian words biblioteka, or library, and bunar, meaning well or source of water. The architect, living in Kosovo until the age of 12, grew up and was educated in Switzerland, Nearly 17 years later, as he returned to his home town of Lutogllavë, he saw nothing had changed. So the idea for the Bunateka emerged from the aspiration to establish libraries in Kosovo’s rural areas in order to provide disadvantaged youth with opportunities to access books and educational materials.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Makoko Floating School - Lagos, Nigeria

Makoko Floating School - Lagos, Nigeria

Some 80,000 people reside in Makoko, in a stilt settlement south of Lagos, built over water, served by only one English-speaking primary school on reclaimed land susceptible to flooding. The Floating School is a prototype structure whose main aim is to generate an alternative building system and urban culture for the populations of Africa’s coastal regions.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Manouchehri House - Kashan, Iran

Manouchehri House - Kashan, Iran

A boutique hotel and textile centre located in the historic quarter of Kashan, in the province of Isfahan, the project entailed the restoration of a 19th century merchant home, typical of the historic residential buildings of the area which have for the most part fallen into complete disrepair.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge - Tehran, Iran

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge - Tehran, Iran

The architects first conceived the two-to-three level, 270-metre-long curved pedestrian bridge of varying width, a complex steel structure featuring a dynamic three-dimensional truss with two continuous deck levels that sits on three tree shape columns, with a third where the truss meets the column branches.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all