Following an international competition, Steven Holl Architects has been selected as the winner of the commission for the Expo Albania convention center and hotel in Tirana, Albania. The winning team, comprised of Steven Holl Architects, artist Agnieszka Kurant, Atelier 4, Atelier Markgraph, Stoss, and Arup, proposes an iterative process, collecting signatures from local Tirana communities and fusing them into a single wandering line, a continuation of artist Agnieszka Kurant’s project “End of Signature”.
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Steven Holl Architects Wins Competition to Design the Expo Albania Center in Tirana
https://www.archdaily.com/1016130/steven-holl-architects-wins-competition-to-design-the-expo-albania-center-in-tiranaMaria-Cristina Florian
Ephemeral 'Origami Lava' Installation at Catalonia's Lluèrnia Festival of Light and Fire
In the wistful irony of creating liquid fire through sheets of paper, David Oliva of Barcelona-based firm SP25 Arquitectura and Anna Juncà of Atelier 4 collaborated to fabricate an installation piece for the LLUÈRNIA festival of fire and light in Catalonia. Titled, "Origami Lava", the field of flame cloaks the 100 m2 surface of an abandoned building using over 10,000 pieces of origami.
https://www.archdaily.com/906048/ephemeral-origami-lava-installation-at-catalonias-lluernia-festival-of-light-and-fireVasundhra Aggarwal