Tomohiko Yamanashi | Photo: Don Amatayakul
ART4D SPEAKS WITH TOMOHIKO YAMANASHI, ARCHITECT OF NIKKEN SEKKEI, TO EXPLORE ALL THE THINGS CONCEALED IN HIS WORK, INCLUDING SCIENCE, CULTURE, SUSTAINABILITY, AND THE ROLE OF THE ARCHITECT IN THE FUTURE, WHERE CLIMATE CHANGE WILL BE THE MAJOR CHALLENGE OF THE COMING DECADE
ABIE ABDILLAH, INDONESIAN FURNITURE DESIGNER FROM STUDIO HIJI, COMBINES INDONESIAN CRAFT WITH AMERICAN HARDWOOD TO CREATE AN CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE DESIGN WITH A LOCAL VALUE
IT SEEMS LIKE HUMANS ARE COVERTLY PROPELLED BY STORIES WE HAVE BEEN MADE UP OF: GOD, DEMOCRACY, OR CAPITALISM. ARIN RUNGJANG REVISITS FICTION AND POWERS THAT SHAPE HUMAN SOCIETY INTO WHAT IT IS WITH HIS ARTWORKS
LOOK AT THE NEXT STEP OF OPENBOX WITH ITS SIX VETERAN ARCHITECTS PROMOTING TO THE STUDIO’S ASSOCIATE TEAM, UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE TWO FOUNDERS, RATIWAT AND PRANG SUWANNATRAI
CHIANG MAI DESIGN WEEK (CMDW) HAD BEEN HELD FOR EIGHT CONSECUTIVE YEARS NOW. THIS YEAR’S CMDW ARE AROUND THEMED ‘LOCAL RISE-ACTION’ WHICH ASKS HOW A MAJOR CONCEPT SUCH AS ‘SUSTAINABILITY’ MAY BE ADAPTED TO FIT A CITY SUCH AS CHIANG MAI
A GROUNDBREAKING HOTEL WITH THE TAGLINE “ANYTHING BUT STANDARD” THAT DEVIATES ITSELF FROM THE NORM OF MOST HOTEL CHAINS, BY WHICH INTEGRATING ART, MUSIC, FASHION, AND DESIGN TO CREATE A SPACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN FEEL LIKE THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN WAYS
STAY TUNED FOR ARCHITECT EXPO 2023 OR ARCHITECT’23, WHICH IS HELD UNDER THE THEME ‘TUM THAD: TIME OF TOGETHERNESS’ THAT REPRESENTS THE COMING TOGETHER OF ARCHITECTS FROM ALL FIELDS, AS WELL AS OTHER CREATIVES AND DESIGNERS IN THE MOST QUINTESSENTIALLY THAI CHARACTERISTICS: THE FOOD CULTURE
WITH ART4D’S INVITATION, VICHAYA MUKDAMANEE, DEAN OF SILPAKORN UNIVERSITY’S FACULTY OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND PRINTMAKING, SPEAKS THE NEW DIRECTOR OF BANGKOK ART AND CULTURE CENTRE (BACC), ABOUT THE BACC UPCOMING GOAL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE NEW GENERATION, FUTURE OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN THAILAND, AND THE ROLE OF ART SPACE AS A PUBLIC AREAS OF MANY IDEOLOGIES.
CENTRAL CHIANGRAI CELEBRATES THE NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH A CHRISTMAS TREE MADE FROM LOCALLY SOURCED MATERIALS AND ADORNED WITH CHRISTMAS BALL THAT INCORPORATES THE DESIGNS FROM SIX INDIGENOUS TRIBES IN CHIANGRAI TO REPRESENT THE MODEST TRIBAL WAY OF LIFE AND THEIR DEEP RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE
A SEQUEL TEA SHOP OF KAOMAI ESTATE 1955 WHERE PAVA ARCHITECTS UTILIZE THE ‘RECONSTRUCTION’ DESIGN PROCESS TO BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL VIBE OF 70-YEAR-OLD TOBACCO-CURING BARNS
