STUDIO #02: call for papers!
STUDIO #02 ORIGINAL®
From the origins to the original up to the originality
(IMG: FILIP DUJARDIN, Untitled from series ‘Fictions’)
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Takuya Hosogane
Vanishing Point
Fernando Donis
Hong Kong Moon, 2010
Hong Kong is a city filled with artificial landmarks; rather than creating another, we propose to create an intersection between architecture and nature, a land art piece: the Hong Kong Moon, an always ‘full-moon’ illuminated by its constant flux, being a twenty-four hour hub between three regions (Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao) and therein the visible aerial gateway for international and domestic traffic from the adjacent airport (HKIA).
![Hugh FerrissThe sphere and the needle
In his paranoid-critical view the cupola becomes an ideal “sphere” whose womb contains “genuinely new and revolutionary techniques and inventions” destined to be “turned loose” in the buildings of Manhattan […] while the Latting Observatory is “the thinnest, least voluminous structure” and “with a negligible consumption of ground”, a “needle”. The Darwinian evolution of the Manhattan skyscraper would have happened, in Koolhaas’s surreal tale, through a “cross-fertilization” of the archetypal figures of the sphere and the needle, generating “a series of successful hybrids”
Roberto Gargiani, Rem Koolhaas/OMA: the construction of merveilles, 2008.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvxj66r92O1r0kxr8o1_500.jpg)
Hugh Ferriss
The sphere and the needle
In his paranoid-critical view the cupola becomes an ideal “sphere” whose womb contains “genuinely new and revolutionary techniques and inventions” destined to be “turned loose” in the buildings of Manhattan […] while the Latting Observatory is “the thinnest, least voluminous structure” and “with a negligible consumption of ground”, a “needle”. The Darwinian evolution of the Manhattan skyscraper would have happened, in Koolhaas’s surreal tale, through a “cross-fertilization” of the archetypal figures of the sphere and the needle, generating “a series of successful hybrids”
Roberto Gargiani, Rem Koolhaas/OMA: the construction of merveilles, 2008.
