Urban Utopias: Donnybrook Quarter

NLÉ Architects : Makoko Floating School

Makoko Floating School, Lagos, Nigeria (2012)

NLÉ Architects

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Haiwei Xie : B.R.I.C. House

Haiwei Xie : B.R.I.C. House (2012 AR Global Architecture Graduate Awards Winner)

Designed by Chinese student Haiwei Xie at the Royal College of Art, the project title B.R.I.C. House combines the traditional English picture of domesticity with the acronym for the emerging economic nations − Brazil, Russia, India and China − whose diasporas are already well represented in Chelsea’s flush new arrivals. But far from catering to this global elite, the scheme is designed to be more inclusive. ‘The intention is to create a high-quality but low-price, high-density but low-rise housing development aimed at a diverse and multi-cultural society,’ says its designer. The architecture is shaped for the emerging groups of single parents, single persons and immigrants, and accordingly prioritises public space over private provision. Everything but personal bedrooms is shared, and Xie develops what she calls ‘public living rooms’, using development patterns borrowed from the four B.R.I.C. nations. (text quoted from AR website)

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Rebar : Civic Center Victory Garden

Civic Center Victory Garden, San Francisco (2008)

Rebar

Atelier Ryo Abe: Shima Kitchen

Shima Kitchen, Teshima, Japan (2010)
Architects Atelier Ryo Abe

TYIN Tegnestue: Klong Toey Community Lantern

Klong Toey Community Lantern, Bankok,Thailand (2011)

TYIN Tegnestue

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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope

  

  
Drawings by Peter Barber (Architects)
Quote by Theodor (Dr.) Seuss Geisel

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Li Xiaodong Atelier: Biblioteca Liyuan

Blblioteca Liyuan, Huairou, Pequim, China (2011)
Li Xiaodong Atelier

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