Turism. Spaces of Fiction from the 3rd of December intill the 24th of May in Barcelona.

Beaches and Mountains, forests and cities, heroes and villans…
Real landscapes or imaginary paradises represent today the wish of millions of people.
Tourism, today, is the number one economic activity in the world. Capable of delivering us all our wishes and desires, capable of reproducing and building places where the tourists becomes the inhabitants of this spaces of fiction.
With their opening exposition, Disseny Hub Barcelona brings us closer to the reality of the industry and the designers that make it happen.
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(Copenhagen, November 21, 2008) The Mountain Project was announced as the winning entry in the Housing Category at the 2008 World Architecture Festival in Barcelona.

How do you combine the splendors of the suburban backyard with the social intensity of urban density?
The Mountain Dwellings are located in the Ørestad, a new urban development in Copenhagen, Denmark. When commissioned to design a traditional housing block and a separate parking house, we instead decided to combine the two programs. The program consist of 2/3 parking and 1/3 living. What if the parking area became the base upon which to place terraced housing - like a concrete hillside covered by a thin layer of housing, cascading from the 11th floor to the street edge? Rather than doing two separate buildings next to
each other - a parking and a housing block - we decided to merge the two functions into a symbiotic relationship. The parking area needs to be connected to the street, and the homes require sunlight, fresh air and views, thus all apartments have roof gardens facing the sun, amazing views and parking on the 10th floor. The Mountain Dwellings appear as a suburban neighborhood of garden homes, floating over a 10-storey building - suburban living with urban density.

The design of the Mountain Dwellings began under PLOT (JDS + BIG). The construction administration was later executed by BIG with respect to the PLOT design.

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The much awaited 17th edition of VOLUME is out!
It should be in book stores by the end of the week… JDS’ interview will be posted up soon…but in the mean time here’s quick preview of what’s in store…

Volume 17: Content Management

Large quantities don’t faze us. We are accustomed to profits in the billions; city populations, visitors, sales in the tens of millions; personalized recommendations, search results, comments by the thousands; and scientific discoveries by the hundreds. But no sooner had we felt that plenty of money, information, and possibilities were normal than we began to face a world of scarcity. Perhaps we’ll go down in history as those who witnessed the arrival of an era of unlimited availability only to contend with massive shortfalls. Resources of all kinds are said to be dwindling: the sudden loss in assets, equity, and funding; the decreasing availability of non-renewable fuels; and the slowing output of the global food supply chain. It’s like playing poker under more favorable house rules, but with steadily disappearing cards.

At the close of this era of expansion and surplus C-Lab speculates on one of the period’s emblematic inventions: Content Management, or the collecting, organizing and sharing of digital information. Our retrospective appraisal of recent developments in the managing of information offers insight into the ability of Content Management to serve the current realities of digital abundance and material shortage, and to protect both vast and extremely limited quantities.

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images and text thanx to Jesse Seegers at Volume/C-Lab

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BEAUTIFUL LOSERS celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation

In the early 1990’s a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the “establishment” art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become a movement that has been transforming pop culture.

Starring a selection of artists who are considered leaders within this culture, Beautiful Losers focuses on the telling of personal stories. It speaks to themes of what happens when the outside becomes “in” as it explores the creative ethos connecting these artists and today’s youth.

text and images thanx to beautiful losers

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A film club, in the heart of Copenhagen, screening films in Gloria Biograf. The focus is on films related to architecture, design and art.

On the 3rd of november 21:30 at Gloria, we will be screening, for the first time in Denmark, the film:

Koolhaas Houselife

Koolhaas HouseLife is a film on one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture of recent years: The House in Bordeaux designed in 1998 by Rem Koolhass/OMA.
Unlike most movies about arcitecture, this feature focuses less on explaining the building, its structure and its virtuosity than on letting the viewer enter into the invisible bubble of the daily intimacy of an architectural icon.

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Archigram’s Plug-in City, Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon and Yona Friedman’s La Ville spatiale rank among the incunabula of the 1960s. Combining visionary architecture, pop culture, art, and situationist rebellion, they became known far beyond the narrow confines of urban planning. Till now, however, there has been no exhibition dealing explicitly with megastructuralists’ vision. MEGASTRUCTURE RELOADED seeks for the first time to show them in context.

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Photo Stein Bjørge for aftenposten

Yestarday was a big day as the old ski jump was bottom dismantled to make way for the new JDS_HOP

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