Even better than the real thing
A nice post of some of the work that was on show here at Super Colossal (thanks Marcus). About 800 people on the opening night went through and the gallery floor was in something of a state the following morning… Congrats again to the Street as Platform masterclass led by Dan Hill, (City of Sound) and Mitchell Whitelaw (theteemingvoid), for the courtyard almostrealtime sensor feed and visualisation. Harris st
Updating towers research page
We’ve been developing the arquine towers work through the year, mainly from the inside organisational aspects of circulation, structure and social zoning that the open towers suggest. These are two newer images of the developed tower research. See full details in the
(im)material processes
We posted a few months ago that Offshore was invited to exhibit at the 2008 Beijing Biennale. Its taken a while but we’ve got around to posting some images from the trip to the opening. (im)material processes: New Digitial Techniques for Architecture, curated by Neil Leach, also produced two books to coincide with
UTS Exhibition 04.12.08
The UTS end of year exhibition Opens tonight. “Even Better than the real thing.” The work on show ranges through the three themes Urban, Process and Material. The exhibition will be up for a week in the UTS gallery and lvl 5 Studios, Building 6.
4 x Universities
Last Night (19.11.08) Anthony presented at the 4 x Universities talk at Tusculum, the NSW headquarters of the Austrlian Institute of Architects. Other speakers were Dr Marc Aurel Schnabel (Sydney), Catherine Lassen (UNSW), and David Stafford (Newcastle) with introductions by Paul Berkemeier. Here’s the link.
UTS Ask an Expert
Ben invited 9.10.08 to lecture as part of the new UTS Deputy Vice Chancellors’ series of talks and discussions titled “Ask an Expert”. Ben’s talk was called, you guessed it, “Ask an Architect”. The talk was to students and academics outside the faculty, and discussed the role of the digital in architectural design and production.
Iron Architect - 2
Thanks to Jo and Marcus from DArch for a great afternoon!!! It was a fiesta of Blue tape, networks, foam and a hot wire cutter and tons of kids. Check out concurrent posts at SO-AD and Super Colossal. Congrats to Andrew Burns and Co, from Sydney Uni who walked away with the prize after a heated kitchen stadium battle!
IRON ARCHITECT - SYD 2008
Offshore Studio with SO-AD will be participating in the most intense culinary architectural mash up experience since the classic Iron Chef New York battle between Bobby Flay and Iron Chef Japan, Morimoto San. (See below from Wikipedia if your memory needs jogging.)
The battle will be in Customs house, Monday the 6th October, as part of Sydney Architecture Festival organized by DArch. Starts at 1pm.
“Bobby Flay (New York Battle and 21st Century Battle): Flay entered into a bit of a rivalry with Iron Chef Japanese Morimoto during the show’s special New York Battle. Flay complained that his side of the kitchen was poorly laid out (it was noted in an Iron Chef America “Behind the Scenes” episode that the kitchen was hastily set up in the provided forum). At one point Flay received an electric shock, transmitted by a wet floor and faulty wiring, when he grabbed a metal pan on the range. When Flay stood triumphantly on his cutting board at the end of the battle, Morimoto declared that he was “not a chef” for disregarding the cleanliness of one’s cutting board. Morimoto won, and Flay demanded a rematch. He got his wish, and his revenge, in the 21st Century Battle in Japan, where, at battle’s end, he tossed the cutting board off the counter before climbing on it, so as not to offend Morimoto again. Flay is now an Iron Chef alongside Morimoto on Iron Chef America.”
How could we forget!!
Architecture and Geometry Conference
Offshore Studio presented at the Architecture and Geometry Conference at ANU organized by Stephen Frith from the University of Canberra on the 29th of Sept. Some excellent talks including a great talk on the mathematics of form, from Prof Stephen Hyde from the Department of Applied Mathematics at ANU. Others included Marc Schnabel from USyd, Minifie Nixon, Mesne, Mitchell Whitelaw from the School of Creative Communication at Canberra University, Brendan Murray
Sending cardboard to the Italians
With so much news floating around about the Biennale opening, we thought we’d show you the model we sent. For a great round up that we’ve been enjoying, check out Super colossal and some of the links they’ve been posting. We liked this article from AJ in particular.