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OPH ARCHITECTS
PHOTO COURTESY OF OPH ARCHITECTS
WHO
We are OPH Architects.
WHAT
An architecture design firm founded by Pilin Hongwittayakorn, who was working as an intern at Japanese architecture firms in Tokyo from 2011-2012. At the end of 2012, he started his own studio in Bangkok. From 2014-2016, he joined Kei Kaihoh Architects, an architecture firm in Tokyo as a project staff before he officially founded his own firm in late 2016.
J HOUSE
USING ‘BOXES’ INSTEAD OF VERTICAL PLANES SUCH AS A WALL IN THIS PROJECT, STUDIO MAHUTSACHAN SHOWS US THE OTHER WAY AROUND TO DEFINE SPACES AND THE SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND HOMEOWNERS
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LAS VEGAS IN SINGAPORE
THIS ICONIC LANDMARK, IN THE NEW BOOK BY LEE KAH-WEE, IS AN ARTIFACT OF THE SPATIAL HISTORY OF GAMBLING IN SINGAPORE WHICH COULD BE TRACING A PATH FROM THE 1880S COLONIAL SINGAPORE
TRANS-ARCHITECTURAL JOURNEY
LAST MONTH, BEFORE LIVE PERFORMANCES WERE BARRED, “LINDBERGH’S FLIGHT: A TRANS-ARCHITECTURAL JOURNEY”, AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION BY THAI AND JAPANESE ARTISTS RETOLD A TRANS-ATLANTIC VOYAGE. A SMALL GROUP OF AUDIENCES WENT THROUGH ALMOST EVERY SQUARE INCH OF SLURE: SPACE FOR ALTERNATIVE EXPLORATION, AND ONTO A SIDEWALK OF CHAROENKRUNG ROAD
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#ARTOFFLINE
DIRECTED BY YOUNG COLOMBIAN VISUAL ARTIST AND FILMMAKER MANUEL CORREA, #ARTOFFLINE PREMIERED IN 2015. HOWEVER, NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED IN THE ART WORLD IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS AND WITH THE NEW CORONAVIRUS, THE ISSUES CORREA DISCUSSED THEN ARE WORTH OUR SERIOUS ATTENTION NOW
ANIME ARCHITECTURE
THE LATEST PUBLICATION PROJECT BETWEEN VOLUME AND STEFAN RIEKELES BRINGS VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE IN JAPANESE ANIMES SUCH AS AKIRA OR GHOST IN THE SHELL TO THE FORE AND GIVES US A GLIMPSE OF HOW THESE VISIONARY IMAGES INFLUENCE OUR REAL WORLD
HYPERLOCAL MICRO MARKETS
ROTTERDAM-BASED DESIGN STUDIO SHIFT ARCHITECTURE URBANISM HAS CREATED THE MOBILE HYPERLOCAL MICRO MARKETS WHERE WE CAN EASILY BUY FRESH PRODUCE CLOSER TO OUR HOMES, WHILE KEEPING THE SOCIAL DISTANCE FROM OTHER SHOPPERS
SAM YAN GYM
THROUGH THE USE OF GRID PARTITION SYSTEM, LOOKLEN ARCHITECTS OVERCOMES THE SITE’S CONSTRAINTS AND TRANSFORMS THE OLD OFFICE LOCATED IN SILOM NEIGHBORHOOD INTO THE 24-HOUR FITNESS CENTER CALLED SAM YAN GYM
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LOWERLINE STUDIO
PHOTO COURTESY OF LOWERLINE STUDIO EXCEPT AS NOTED
WHO
Founded by architecture and visual art enthusiast, Warut Duangkaewkart, who has been working in several fields such as architecture, event design, exhibition design, photograph and visual art.