Goodbye Donald! A Trumpian architecture and design round-up
As Joe Biden becomes the 46th President of the United States, we look into Trump’s controversial legacy. Goodbye Donald!
T Sakhi Architects has created an interactive wall installation addressing social barriers in today’s climate
What if walls dividing communities and countries could playfully bring people together? The ‘porous’ WAL(L)Z installation by T Sakhi Architects at Dubai Design Week “represents the act of resilience in overcoming any obstacle and transforming it for constructive change.”
Rael San Fratello has turned the US-Mexico border wall into a friendly meeting space for people of all ages… on seesaws!
California-based studio Rael San Fratello has re-imagined the US-Mexico border wall installing pink seesaws that allowed children and adults from both sides to play together.
Keep and Bear launches a lego-style US-Mexico border wall
If Trump won’t be able to build the US-Mexico border wall after the midterm elections, you can still build it in your own living room thanks to the new Lego-style kit by Keep and Bear.
Holy, holistic, resilient, rebellious and on-the-border: 5 recurring keywords at Venice Biennale 2018
5 recurring keywords at Venice Biennale 2018. National pavilions respond to to the FREESPACE main theme with visionary masterplans for Jerusalem Western Wall, a Trump defying US-Mexico border, the millennials’ occupation of Budapest’s Liberty bridge and more…
Border walls’ architecture from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
Trump’s wall and the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) splitting the Korean peninsula in two… These border walls are just the tip of a global iceberg. Archipanic explores protectionist and divisive constructions across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Should Trump’s US-Mexico border wall prototypes become US National Monuments?
Whether Trump’s dream to erect a US-Mexico border wall comes true or not, should the built prototypes rising near San Diego be protected as an architectural proof of the spirit of the times?
Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel is conceived as an “all-inclusive vandal resort” overlooking the Israeli-Palestinian border wall
Pillow fights, CCTV hunting trophies and an unconventional English tea room. Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem welcomes both Palestinians and Israelis just a few metres away from the controverse border wall.
Designers and Architects respond to Donald Trump
US-Mexico border wall, sustainability, women rights, travel immigration ban and Donald himself. Design and architecture community reacts to the policies of the 45° US President.
Berlin Border of Light
WHITEvoid interactive art and design studio set an installation featuring 8.000 glowing balloons that will trace the former Berlin wall to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its fall.
Korean Crow’s Eye View
The Korean Pavilion develops Rem Koolhas brief about “Absorbing Modernity” with a political and ambitious exhibition that features 40 works and projects from both North and South Korea. Curator Misuk Cho aimed to proove the potential of a unified country were two extreme ideas of modernity shaped two opposite cultures and architectures in much less than a century.