L: David Chipperfield’s Fayland House, via ArchDaily; R: Cosmo by Andrés Jaque, via Dezeen.
Contemporary Classic: David Chipperfield’s Fayland House in Buckinghamshire has been proclaimed the winner of the 2015 AR House Awards, with the Architectural Review praising the architect’s “radical new take on the English country house.” Judges waxed lyrical about Chipperfield’s restrained residence, but ArchDaily commenters had somewhat more mixed views…
Liquid Architecture: Andrés Jaque’s intricate water-purifying pavilion has opened in the courtyard of MoMa’s PS1 in Queens, N.Y. The Spanish architect’s installation, entitled COSMO, turns the filtration process into a public artwork, drawing attention to concerns about the city’s polluted waterways in the process. The piece will be on show in Long Island City until September 6th this year.
L: the Cornerless Guggenheim, via ARCHITECT Magazine; R: Zaha Hadid’s Guanhzhou Opera House, via ARCHITECT Magazine.
Photo Finnish: After yesterday’s big news that Moreau Kusunoki took first prize in the epic competition to design the Guggenheim Helsinki, Grieg O’Brien and Caroline Massie of ARCHITECT Magazine have dug in to the 1,715 entries to unearth some of the quirkier. Highlights include a cornerless building, a flying pig, and the mythical “Wounded Angel” — poetic stuff …
Broken China: Blaine Brownell recently explored a number of China’s newest landmark buildings and wrote this revealing article on the “underwhelming side of architectural realization” of many contemporary icons. His takedown covers detailing, construction quality, and finishes of structures by some of the profession’s biggest names, including Hadid and Isozaki — essential reading.
A glimpse of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop, via Buzzfeed.
Like a Speeding Bullet: Rocket manufacturers SpaceX have launched an exciting new competition offering university students and engineers the chance to contribute to the development of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop. The company is looking to build a prototype of the high-speed transit system — and have released a stupendously understated trailer to stoke anticipation (handy GIF above).
The Future Is Now: It’s 2015, the year that Marty McFly went “Back to the Future” — so it’s about time that someone invented a working hover-board. While several promising prototypes have already been produced, car manufacturer Lexus might have designed the most tangible realization of our transportation dreams yet — check out the sneak-peek video below…
