Author: PA Next Team
Istanbul and New York-based architecture practice, GAD led by Gokhan Avcioglu revealed plans for a hotel in ancient Cappadocia in Turkey. GAD’s original designs for a hotel project in Cappadocia have been featured in a set of new designs created by GAD’s visualization team.
Iridescence, Behnaz Farahi’s Interactive Collar, Uses Hundreds of Actuators and Vision-Activated Technology to Follow Your Gaze and React with Life-Like Behavior. Created by renowned designer and technologist Behnaz Farahi, the Iridescence is an interactive, 3D-printed, and emotive collar, uses hundreds of actuators and vision-activated technology to follow your gaze and react with life-like behavior. The project was commissioned by the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago for a 15-month exhibition entitled “Wired to Wear” starting from March 21, 2019. Text description provided by designer. What if our clothing could sense the movement and emotions of those around us? How might…
Tune in to Episode 05 of the PA Talks series with Chris Precht, an award-winning architect and co-founder of Studio Precht on ‘Reconnecting Nature and Architecture’, interviewed by Hamid Hassanzadeh.
Avanto Architects designed the sculptural structure of Loyly Sauna in Helsinki, Finland with a rectangular black box and wooden “cloak”.
A series of colliding discs form the external shell and define the internal programme of Atelier Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of Qatar, which is based on a mineral formation called the “desert rose”. The project led by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel is located on a prominent site within a newly developed civic quarter that connects it with other cultural institutions including I M Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art. More than a decade in the making, the National Museum of Qatar is designed to tell the story of the country’s history and its ambitions for the future. “This is a…
Tune in to Episode 02 of the PA Talks series with Mario Carpo, an architectural historian, and critic on his latest book The Second Digital Turn, released on October 13, 2017, interviewed by Hamid Hassanzadeh. In this book, Carpo has discussed Voxelation or Voxelization style in Design. The interview covers Carpo’s insights on the fundamentals of this style and where it comes from.
Tune in to Episode 01 of the PA Talks series with Han Tumertekin, Principal Architect of Mimarlar ve Han Tumertekin on Parametric Architecture and its future in the Middle East, interviewed by Hamid Hassanzadeh, founder and editor in chief of ParametricArchitecture.
There are plenty of challenges surrounding students before and during their application to college. On the path to your transition to higher education, you need to maintain a good GPA, prepare for your exams well, and also put together a strong application that will get you into the chosen school. Although these issues can be rather pressing, handling most of them is easy, especially with a bit of help. For example, you can always hire a tutor to ace your exams or ask professional writers to “write my paper for me” and maintain good grades this way. Yet, there is…