Augmented Structures

Augmented Structures installation on Istiklal Caddesi designed by Alper Derinboğaz and Refik Anadol.

Comic and Animation Museum by MVRDV

Domus With a design referring to the speech balloon, MVRDV wins the international design competition for China Comic and Animation Museum (CCAM) in Hangzhou, China

The design concept by MVRDV sees a series of eight balloon shaped volumes create an internally complex museum experience of in total 30.000m2. Part of the project is also a series of parks on islands, a public plaza and a 13.000m2 expo centre. Construction start is envisioned for 2012, with a total budget is 92 million euros.

check Domus web for more.

No more Nicolai: Critic leaving New York Times

Architect's Newspaper "According to an in-house memo, New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff is “moving on” at the end of this month.

The sweet but short memo about the critic—who this year submitted his own Pulitzer nomination package—was sent around this morning from culture editor Jonathan Landman."

check the Architect's Newspaper 

Bjarke Ingels in Taipei

BoPaper Bjarke Ingel's office BIG has an incredible performance all around the world designing, building many buildings at the same time. TEK, Technology, Entertainment and Knowledge Center of Taipei is reminding us the Tres Grande Bibliotheque project of OMA, it will be a pleasure to witness such a building in Taipei. Jacob Lange was the other partner of BIG in charge for this project and Cat Huang was the project leader.

for more inforation on this project, check Dezeen