With their design, von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (GMP) won the 1st prize of the international design competition for the Tianjin Exhibition Centre. Joining Shanghai and Guangzhou, Tianjin will be the third city to have an exhibition centre of internatio­nal importance to be built. With a total square area of 1.2 million square metres and dedicated exhibition floor space of 400,000 square metres, one of the world’s largest exhibition centres will be created in the east of China over the next few years.

The site is located at Tianjin Avenue, the main traffic artery which links Tianjin’s historic centre with the Binhai Development Area at the coast of the Yellow Sea. To the north, the site borders the river Haihe which is instrumental in shaping the character of the city. The exhibition ground’s central access avenue runs between these two poles and generates a spatial connection between the traffic artery and the waterway. Read the rest of this entry »

Mondaine New Classic

The Mondaine New Classic is personified by its straightforward and unadorned case and crystal shape, its luxurious genuine black leather strap with red accent, and, of course, the famed red second hand modeled after the signal paddle used on the Swiss Railway. Available with the wearer’s choice of a brushed or polished stainless steel case, the Mondaine New Classic is also available with a Big Date function at the 3:00, or a Day Date function at the 3:00.

Our increasingly demanding schedules and busy lifestyles require us to keep a close eye on the time. Enter the unique Evo Alarm watch from renowned Swiss watchmakers Mondaine. Form meets function in this innovative design, which combines the iconic “analog” aesthetic of a classic Mondaine timepiece with the decidedly “digital” addition of an easy-to-use alarm. The Mondaine Evo Alarm features a quartz movement with a 40 mm case and a genuine leather strap. The face is available in either black with a stainless steel brushed case or white with a stainless steel polished case.

eVolo has teamed up with Mondaine to give away one Mondaine Evolo Alarm to a lucky reader. Please send your comments to magazine@evolo.us by November 30, 2013 to be entered into a raffle. Read the rest of this entry »

The design for the new Petersen Automotive Museum has been finally revealed. The announcement that the 20th anniversary of the company will be marked by complete exterior transformation and significant redesign of the interior followed the controversy. However, New York based office Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates is behind the cutting edge design for the new Petersen Museum. Undulating metal façade followed by stunning interior characterizes their proposal for the corner of Wilshire Boulevard at Fairfax in Los Angeles, showing California’s rich automotive heritage.

The new design for the Museum will transform the building into a landmark. Ribbons of stainless steel wrap the structure from three sides and over the top evoking the notion of speed and the organic form of the coach-built automobile. At night, the Museum is lit and transforms into an attraction for the neighborhood, known as The Miracle Mile. Read the rest of this entry »

Grown out of self-modifying patterns of vectors, based on electro-magnetic fields, Seoussi Pavillion by Biothing is the final act of computational design. The trajectories were computed in plan, via logics of attraction, further lifted through a series of structural micro-arching sections. Additional feature built into script allows for local adaptation to the site in regards to the section – pavilion is implanted into a steep hill.

Six different geometrical systems were used for the design of this pavilion and they are all steaming out of primary trajectories. The plan of the pavilion doesn’t have much in common with the traditional notion of architectural plan drawing – the dynamic blueprint of this piece of art is closer to musical notations – deep ecology of imbedded algorithmic and parametric relationships are the seed for possible materialization procedures and adaptation to the site conditions.

Programming of the views and distribution of lighting and shading in the pavilion is achieved through parametric differentiation of the angle, orientation and the size of the aperture, together with the relationship of metal and glass components within each cell. Read the rest of this entry »

KAMJZ presents this innovative concept wich focuses on creating an earthquake resistant building by making a sustainable design. This idea for the Water Damper Towers for the Taichung City Cultural Center in Taiwan would gather water to perform as a mass damper to regulate the seismic forces. The Taichung City Cultural Center is a project which aims to present the possibility of using local features to protect from the very location itself, turning limiting factors into a project feature. Read the rest of this entry »

SP+A’s design for Indigo Deli at Palladium in Mumbai was conceptualized to subvert the trappings of its mall context and the danger of repetitive manifestation of the brand architecture. The primary aim Mumbai-based architects within the design process was to combine the intimacy and warmth of traditional wine cellars with the program of retail shelving and the juxtaposition of program was derived from this aim and spatial intent.

The outcome of this desire is an insert into the raw space completely obliterating its rigid geometries. The project is quasi-dome, or quasi-surface and rejects the formal structure of both models as a hybrid that actually networks the structural prowess of both.

However, the main idea was to monologue the design intervention as a performative background for the variance of the multitude of products and events it contains. Read the rest of this entry »