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VOLUME 95 NUMBER 7
ON THE COVER In the Heritage gallery at the Future City Exhibition Center, a nearly 6,000-square-foot space by Various Associates that celebrates the transformation of Shenzhen, China, over the last four decades, historic images stream across a low-platform screen, while the facade’s cast-acrylic filigree panels are visible through a street-front window, all of it contained in the landmark Golden Business Center, one of 15 projects in this issue’s special “Big Ideas” section. Photography: SFAP.
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features 118 THE MOD SQUAD by Michael Snyder
A house by Ohtake in Ibiúna, Brazil, channels the country’s long and sometimes checkered history with modularsystems construction. 126 OPEN ROAD by Michael Lassell
In Gothenburg, Sweden, a national law granting public recreational access to private land inspires the World of Volvo, a mass-timber exhibition and event center by Henning Larsen. 134 FLOOR PLAN by Rebecca Dalzell
A fantastical epoxy commission anchors the Tuscan seaside family retreat of VMCF Atelier’s coprincipals, who’ve filled the home with pieces by themselves and other notable creatives.
142 HIGH RESOLUTION by Elizabeth Fazzare
With Lanwuu Imagine, a photography studio in southern China, Aurora Design upends a paradigm and brings an experiential, must-visit space into focus. 150 RIGHT ON TRACK by Wanda Lau
For the Silicon Valley headquarters of Nuro, a maker of electric, autonomous vehicles that transport consumer goods, Elkus Manfredi Architects delivers two state-of-the-art facilities. 158 THINGS ARE LOOKING UP by Jen Renzi
From a zero-carbon government campus in California to a rehabbed Australian train station aglow in pastels, blue-sky concepts fuel ambitious community revitalization projects across the globe.
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special section 43 15 BIG IDEAS
departments 22 HEADLINERS 27 DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block 34 PINUPS edited by Rebecca Thienes text by Jen Renzi 38 SHOPTALK edited by Georgina McWhirter
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113 CENTERFOLD Wicker Park by Athena Waligore
At Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru in India, Enter Projects Asia builds a rattan wonderland where travelers can shop, dine, and retreat into biophilic bliss. 170 BOOKS by Wilson Barlow 171 CONTACTS 175 INTERVENTION by Jesse Dorris
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Dreaming up exotic farscapes, founding impossibly complex imaginary cities, man ufacturing thin air into unpredictable objects and forms, hewing intricately distant futures…what was once the province of science fiction writers and prophets has now, it seems, become standard fare. And all in a day’s work for architects and designers nowadays. I should slowly walk back that “standard fare,” because I have no intention of trivializing unfettered creativity, after all! It’s just that irrepressible imagination has become an essential requirement for the craft, because there is no room for any kind of “average” in our industry anymore. And gag me with a spoon if it is not so. We need new, and as always, we need it now! And it just so happens, I have a whole lot of new for you right here in the following pages. It’s how our super-hot summer days issue, built from the ground up with—what else? —big ideas, came to be! Let me start you up in style with some highlights. Elkus Manfredi Architects designed not one, but two fab facilities for a growing robotics company—Nuro—developing auto nomous vehicles that transport consumer goods (talk about an idea-maker!). In Brazil, a mod modular house—in robust blue—by Rodrigo Ohtake offers open-plan living, diaphanous screens to soften the hard edges, and a wildly alive green roof. And our chockablock Big Ideas section proves innovation comes in every shape and form, like a northern California installation—Plaid!—blending technology, site, sustainability, and, yes, three varietal wines in colored vessels (I’ll drink to that!). Plus, for the first time ever, we literally traveled the globe to bring you a trade-show bonanza—from four favorite fairs—with the hottest product ever, not to be missed! Soooooo my friends, wanna feel inspired for your next big idea? Well, all you have to do is turn the page! xoxo,
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