Wooden disobedience

//photos1// //photos2// //photos2//

Tadashi Kawamata makes wooden parasites, arguing, establishing dialogue with the places they attack. It’s an apparent disorder but poetically beautiful, daring with its temporariness.

dutch PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE

DUS is an architectural office from Amsterdam experimenting with public space. Their materials are casual enough to shock in unconventional contexts. Check out what they make surprising spaces with umbrellas, bags, mirrors, tables and flour:

//DUS website//

Alternative practices awarded

This is a proof that alternative, low budget practices can be noticed, awarded and mentioned next to as famous buildings as Norwegian Opera and Ballet in Oslo.

//text and pictures//

The special mention of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2010 went to Passage 56 / espace culturel écologique – collectively managed ecological garden organized in an abandoned passageway of rue Saint Blaise as a result of a popular initiative.

//text and pictures//

Parasitten of Bureau Detours i Århus was a finalist in 2008. It’s an extra-legal construction of three terraces with panoramic views set into a colonnaded structure of a dockyard in the port.