Panik » Architecture http://panik.com Cultivating Creativity Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:32:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Designing The Absent – Architecture Competition http://panik.com/2010/03/designing-the-absent-architecture-competition-2/ http://panik.com/2010/03/designing-the-absent-architecture-competition-2/#comments Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:18:12 +0000 Kit http://panik.com/?p=527

Pieterjan Grandry is a post graduate student in Visual Arts at St. Lucas School of Arts in Antwerp, Belgium and he’s organising this competition as part of a Masters project.  What an inspired idea!

Having seen the cathedral in Antwerp on our travels, we can see why Pieterjan came up with this project; the design goes against the standard design for a religious building of its type i.e. they only built it with one tower than the usual two.  We were intrigued by the project when we first saw it and decided to get in touch with Pieterjan and this is what he said…

“This may sound a bit strange – what has art got to do with architectural competitions? But it’s a way to organise an international brainstorm. To make everyone think about the concept ‘absence’. These international ideas will be put together in a book and in a series of exhibitions. These function again as a source of inspiration.”
Closing date 20th April 2010 – For more info and entry pack go here.

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GL bring into public focus the misuse of lighting on certain buildings whilst highlighting those that need some kind of strategic lighting.

Their basic ethos seems to be:

  • not all buildings need or deserve to be lit – strategic lighting plans should exist for all cities
  • architectural lighting is not a competition – brighter is not better
  • poorly designed and installed lighting should be prevented – cities should establish and enforce a minimum standard of quality
  • all wasteful use of light should be prevent – leaving the lights on all night in large glazed offices should be a criminal offence

If you visit their site or go to their Facebook group you can see upcoming events and past ones too.  Panik gives this a thumbs up – Besides it is surely about time we had some architecture up in here!

Below are some pics taken by the event organisers and participants.

(All photography and copyright David Barbour/BDP)

Manchester 2006

Manchester 2006

Dublin 2008

Dublin 2008

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