Connecting Districts

Compresscity, designed by Master of Architecture graduate Garrett Ryan Miller from California College of the Arts, is a speculative architectural intervention  that allows for a more sophisticated cross-occupation of urban vacancies near commercial and industrial zones along the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle, Washington.http://www.evolo.us/architecture/compresscity-connecting-districts

To be famous

Marble Trend started its publishing life in June, 2007. The magazine is published in every 3 month under the direction of the experienced journalist Çağlayan Sueli. Besides 4 periodic issues, 2 special China issues are published.http://www.marbletrend.com.tr/

DC-Cam has commissioned Zaha Hadid to design...

The Documentation Center of Cambodia’s (DC-Cam) has commissioned Zaha Hadid to design the much-anticipated genocide studies institute in Phnom Penh. The new campus, known as the Sleuk Rith Institute, will serve as an extension of DC-Cam’s work as the country’s go-to archive for Khmer Rouge history as well as a leading center for genocide studies in Asia. Within a modest campus, the institute will house a “cross-section of pursuits,” including a genocide studies center, a school, a museum for memorial and education purposes, and more.

http://www.archdaily.com/443616/zaha-hadid-to-design-sleuk-rith-institute-in-cambodia/

the Process of Creating

The Death of Authorship is B.Arch thesis project by Yoon Her, done at USC – University of Southern California, Los Angeles. The title of the projects indicates the situation we are witnessing and confronting for the 21 century, and the design tries to offer one’s prospective mind throughout the site of Pershing Square, Los Angeles. The program cycle of this edifice is mimicking the process of creating, producing and consuming of authorship while the building will hold emergent activities including writing, reading, printing, binding and copyrighting.

http://www.evolo.us/architecture/the-death-of-authorship-preserving-ideas-through-architecture/

Complex Marine Ecologies

Jessica Hernandez, Edgar Garcia, and Bing Bai of the Master of Architecture II, Geofutures, Post Professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , under the guidance of the following faculty: Chris Perry and Andrew Saunders with Fleet Hower, propose an archipelago of remote islands which support a fragile ecology of marine wildlife, located in the Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii.

http://www.rpi.edu/