new york NEW YORK

SOFTlab: After a month of printing, kickstarting, laser cutting, and binder clipping we are done! CHROMAtex.me will be opening this Thursday night at the bridgegallery. Thanks everyone for your support through kickstarter! It has been a ridiculous amount of work, but also a lot of fun. The people that have volunteered to give a hand have been great. We all can’t wait till Thursday night.

opening thursday august 26 6-8pm
bridge gallery 98 orchard st NY (between broom & delancey)

athens GREECE

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

pantazis EVANGELOS: Vagio: a venture to integrate two elements that have coexisted for many years, but were rarely considered as one entity, jewelery and garment. Argent welding and cloth sewing were equally combined into design compositions that range from skirts to mantles and scarves to shirts, from casual to formal and from usual to extraordinary. Clothing characteristics which were fixed in form and function were reconsidered and replaced by jewelery elements and vice versa. Most designs have a modular-flexible character that offers more than one way of being worn.The outcomes of this attempt were presented in an exhibition which took place in a photographic studio in the centre of Athens in February 2009. Next exhibition is scheduled on September 2010.

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istanbul TURKEY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

alper DERINBOGAZ/ frederik DE SMEDT/ kamil KAPTAN/ salih KUCUKTUNA : Avant Garde architect usually has been disliked in architectural discourses as well as in the market . Even then young architects have been opening up new opportunities for practice. So we have found Jack’ s story very similar to this in the Beanstalk Fairytale. He has never been approved by his mother and his curiosity for the world above the clouds had always caused trouble for him. It was mostly his curiosity driving the whole story which is similar to the experimental designers story. We are not sure if the Avant Garde still exist but we have tried to create a free play space around the concept of the beanstalk for young architects in this four days workshop.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

Leong Leong: The temporary installation for the W/ Project Space in New York’s Chinatown completed by LEONG LEONG is the latest in a series of projects that explore the translation of a legible figure into a continuous visual field. From the street, the installation appears as a glowing, enigmatic box, its contents and purpose unknown. Once inside all reference
to the boundaries of the gallery are obscured by a five-sided figure made of rigid building insulation.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Table Cloth is a collaboration between the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, The Herb Alpert School of Music, and UCLA Design Media Arts. It is made possible by generous support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the UCLA Arts Initiative.

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

ball nogues studio: The installation in the courtyard at Schoenberg Hall serves as an integrated set piece and backdrop for performance and everyday social interaction. We understand the work as a tablecloth to adorn and activate the architecture of the campus. Tables are places where people interact socially. Dining tables, specifically, facilitate organization and communication within the typical American home.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

06.04.10 – 07.18.10 | SCI-Arc Gallery
davidclovers: Immuring

Exhibition discussion:
Architects David Erdman & Clover Lee, and SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss discuss Immuring

Friday, June 4, 7pm
Opening reception follows

The exhibition remains on view in the SCI-Arc Gallery through July 18.
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lexington KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

mike MCKAY + liz SWANSON: BIG PINK is a full-scale installation created for the entry to the Creative Cities Summit in Lexington Kentucky. The installation consists of over 500 hand-cut pieces of rigid insulation, stacked using no glue or fasteners.  The stacked layers form a large undulating wall 16’ wide by 22’ high.  Large apertures frame certain views to the city and allow for light to project into the space.

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new york NEW YORK

TURNING PINK W/ LEONG LEONG
Opening Reception/
Asian Flush!
Thursday
May 27, 2010
7:30-9:30PM

May 24–June 6, 2010
Open Tuesday,
Wednesday, & Thursday
3PM–8PM
Open Monday & Friday
by appointment
917.262.0027

W/ ———––
141 Division Street
New York NY 10002

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vancouver BRITISH COLUMBIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

kimiis: this installation was designed for the “bright ideas” exhibition by interaxon of toronto, ontario.  Displayed at the ontario house at the vancouver 2010 winter olympics, participants were able to engage in the largest ever thought-controlled computing experience:controlling the lighting of three prominent ontario landmarks – the cn tower, niagara falls, and the parliament buildings in ottawa – using the power of thought.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

lee-su HUANG + gregory thomas SPAW: inspired by the economic effectiveness of commercial plastic packaging, osnap! attempts to exploit the inherent advantages of widespread current technologies. vacuforming facilitated immediate testing and the ability to mass-produce units for an effective evaluation of performance. digital fabrication techniques ensured the consistent precision and quality of the working molds, allowing for fast turnaround times in iterative design development and proofing of concepts. together, these processes facilitated an exploratory approach to different joinery techniques, geometries, and streamlined production.

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