LODEWIJK BALJON landscape architects LODEWIJK BALJON landscape architects’ work demonstrates the importance of the context, both time and place. The history of the site is a starting point for the future. Enhancing the character of the place, combined with an analytical treatment of the programme, forms the basis of the design. The activities of the firm range from the garden to the city. Interest in the complexity of the situation and the programme, and inspiration from the arts and crafts aspect is the binding component in the projects. Analysing the given situation and programme, researching the context and its potential, and sketching the consequences, results in an integral plan, where all possible aspects fall perfectly together.
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group is a leading international partnership of architects, designers, builders and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America and Asia. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes, not least due to the influence of multicultural exchange, global economic flows and communication technologies that together require new ways of architectural and urban organisation. BIG is led by partners – Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Klok Pedersen, Finn Nørkjær, David Zahle, Jakob Lange, Thomas Christoffersen and Managing Partners, Sheela Maini Søgaard and Kai-Uwe Bergmann – with offices in Copenhagen and New York. In all their actions they try to move the focus from the little details to the BIG picture.
Studio MA.A&D Studio MA.A&D is a design and architecture studio runned by Marcus Abrahamsson from Stockholm, Sweden that works in different constellations and collaborations within the design and architectural field. His work spans from product design, mainly focusing on public space furniture and spaces to larger scale architecture focusing on the development of materiality and production. He firmly believes in design and architecture coming from the needs of people and never works with fabrications of trends and pleasing current styles. Further more he also believes that at this moment the needs of people equal the needs of the environment. No question is greater than sustainability for our generation.
TORAFU ARCHITECTS Founded in 2004 by Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro, TORAFU ARCHITECTS employs a working approach based on architectural thinking. Works by the duo include a diverse range of products, from architectural design to interior design for shops, exhibition space design, product design, spatial installations and film making. Amongst some of their mains works are “Template in Claska”, “Nike 1Love”, “House in Kohoku”, “airvase” and “Gulliver Table”. “Light Loom (Canon Milano Salone 2011)” was awarded the Grand Prize of the Elita Design Award. Published in 2011were the “airvase book” and “TORAFU ARCHITECTS 2004-2011 Idea + Process” (by BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA CO., LTD.) and in 2012, a picture book titled “TORAFU’ s Small City Planning” (by Heibonsha Limited).
AND-RÉ AND-RÉ is multidisciplinary Portugal-based office, with a global international action, dedicated to the study, research and practice of architecture, design and art. The firm is directed by the partner architects Bruno André and Francisco Salgado Ré. The genesis of their creative identity lies in a spirit of constant demand. Their creations are the result of hard work, inspiration, will and encouragement of active minds that doubt and question the paradigms of reality, imagining alternate contexts, allowing them to bend the corners of innovation and go beyond. AND-RÉ approaches main issues with fresh spirit, innovative methods and open-minded personality. The office has been strengthening its position in the emergent architecture panorama, adopting an active critic posture before established contexts. Their goal is to pursue and maintain positive differentiated responses, in a time of fast paradigm changes. Currently the firm works on various programmes, of different types and scales. Their mission is to achieve high levels of quality, innovation and creativity in all projects. “We love architecture. We love design. We love art and their relatives. We do it with pleasure!” – AND-RÉ
Daily tous les jours Daily tous les jours creates new collective experiences for public spaces. They believe in participation – empowering people to have a place in the stories that are told around them. Coming from the fields of interaction design and narrative environments, they research ways to interact and tell stories. Their projects bring magic to everyday places, behaviours and objects. These experiences take many shapes: urban interventions, exhibitions, products, spatial design, events, software applications and films. Their work has won numerous international recognitions including prizes from 2013 Interaction Awards and Core 77 Design Festival. They recently won the first prize at the Unesco Shenzhen Design Awards.
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