Video — Masterplan for Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station by SOM

fantastic design! m.







Architecture firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill has unveiled its vision to transform the Beaux-Arts 30th Street Station and its surrounding area in Philadelphia.

SOM’s masterplan covers a 175-acre (70 hectares) area around the station, which is currently the third busiest in the US and projected to see a further increase in transit activity.

The firm worked in association with Parsons Brinckerhoff, OLIN and HR&A Advisors on the project, which will involve the overhaul of the 1933 station building designed by Chicago architecture firm Graham, Anderson, Probst and White.

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Video — TCH TV: Opener by TronicStudio

sharp video production and graphic presentation by tronic studio. m.

Our story follows a group of Cool Hunters, evolved humans who used to live among regular humans, but as time passed, they infiltrated the global wired infrastructure system and live connected within the technology.

The Cool Hunters have adapted themselves to the challenges of the future. They are faster and more accurate at retrieving and distilling exorbitant amounts of information. As they become one with the machine, they access all and extract the essence of an idea, in mere seconds.

The Cool Hunters are connected to every one of us. They have access to all digital and analog structures. We see a glimpse of this in the first scene, as we watch a Cool Hunter looking through the machine and analyzing every detail of a young couple’s life — the architecture and design of their home, their clothes, their possessions, nothing is lost on the Cool Hunters as they scan for nuggets of ideas. They live to share their findings.

Directed and Animated by Tronic Studio
Music and Sound Design by Q Department

Video — Grand Palais Mirror Proposal by Vincent Leroy

stellar installation — it is unmistakably reminiscent of some of anish kapoors work but successful nonetheless … time will tell I guess? m.

the installation forms a sensory experience rather than a visual one. with the mirrored effect, the ground and horizon move slowly until they disappear, making you lose your mark. french artist vincent leroy slows down time and displays his magical mechanism, using the same technology as his boreal halo: inflatable with steel cables in slow rotation.

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Video — Stone Age Installation by Vincent Leroy

fantastic kinetic installation by the paris based artist. m.









paris-based artist vincent leroy takes movement as the motivation for his work. he prefers this over form, material, or color. instead, he focuses on adding rhythm, pauses, and creating different patterns to set and differentiate every piece. ‘stone age’ is his latest sculpture and is made of fourteen triangular mirrors that move subtly, breaking its surroundings into thin reflections of space. these mirror images deconstruct the environment allowing for different visions of it.

this sculpture situates itself between poetry and technology, generating the opportunity to test visual and physical experiences that relate to space. ‘stone age’ looks like a heavy and rigid structure, but it will surprise the user when it twists and deforms with flexibility and fluidity, creating a delicate contrast. all the movement is created using very low technology.

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Video — Towards Biology by Onionlab + Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

stunning piece! more after the jump. m.

‘towards biology’ is a piece created by onionlab in collaboration with ricardo bofill taller de arquitectura for the exhibition ‘time, space, existence’ held at palazzo bembo within the framework of the 2014 venice architecture biennale. in the work, viewers are asked to consider abstractly, from the values of ‘la fábrica’, the creative epicenter of bofill’s studio, and its work from the mid-1970s to the present day. it is a building that moreover lays the foundations and the methodology for the development of the workshop’s approach, which is based on innovation and focuses on ecology as well as on social and technological aspects.

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