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AV Proyectos 77 SANAA

Dossier SANAA. Seven Projects

Pritzker laureates in 2010 and authors of promi- nent works like the Zollverein School of Design, the Rolex Learning Center, and the Louvre-Lens Museum, Kazuyo Sejima (Ibaraki, 1956) and Ryue Nishizawa (Tokyo, 1966) set up SANAA in the capital of Japan in 1995 with the name Sejima + Nishizawa and Associates. Twenty years have passed and the office stays true to its architecture, refined and immaterial. With thin slabs delicately posed on the ground, slender columns and light, diffused envelopes, their projects –seven of which are presented in the following pages– reflect upon the relationship between program and context, creating atmospheres that question our perception of reality.

John Pawson. New Design Museum

The old Commonwealth Institute in Kensington, West London, will be the home of new Design Museum, tripling the exhibition space of its old headquarters in Shad Thames – and which now contains the Zaha Hadid archives. John Pawson (Halifax, Yorkshire, 1949) has designed the interiors of the museum, built in 1962 by the British practice RMJM. The project is included in the broader transformation carried out by the Dutch firm OMA with the London-based practice Allies and Morrison, and that comprises three residential blocks called Holland Green, which have helped finance the conversion project of the new museum, slated to open at the end of November.

Dossier SANAA, Seven Projects
La Samaritaine, Paris (France)
Tsuruoka Cultural Center, Yamagata (Japan)
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (Israel)
Hitachi City Hall, Ibaraki (Japan)
New National Gallery, Liget Budapest, Budapest (Hungary)
The New Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga (Japan)
Sydney Modern Project, Sydney (Australia)

Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), New Wing Competition
Burgos & Garrido / LLAMA Urban Design
Lopes Brenna, Moramarco + Ventrella, Filippo Bolognese
SMAR Architecture Studio
Honorable Mentions

Pabellones flotantes, Floating Platforms

goCstudio
‘wa_sauna’, Seattle, Washington (United States)

Elise Morin + Florent Albinet
‘Walden Raft’, Picherande (France) / Košice (Slovakia)

Erkko Aarti, Arto Ollila & Mikki Ristola (AOR)
‘Viewpoint’, London (United Kingdom)

PAD studio + SPUD Group + Stephen Turner
‘Exbury Egg’, Hampshire (United Kingdom)

Elena Chiavi + Ahmad El Mad + Matteo Goldoni
‘Antiroom II’, Valletta (Malta)

New Design Museum. In Detail
John Pawson
London (United Kingdom)

Stephen Walter, Obsessive Cartography
Mapping the World

Shirley Baker, Slum Britain
‘Women and Children; and Loitering Men’