The author of the project and director of the firm, Studio Link-Arc, the Chinese architect based in New York, Yichen Lu, worked in the studios of Steven Holl and Gehry Partners., full_html
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China Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015 by Studio Link-Arc

China Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015

50 Years in the making. The mysteries of a building, the New York World's Fair Pavilion by Philip Johnson, is the subject of Kickstarter project MODERN RUIN: A World's Fair Pavilion, Matthew Silva's new film about the abandoned 20th-century icon. ,…
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New York World’s Fair Pavilion in the present day. Image via Silva's Kickstarter

Modern Ruin: New York World's Fair Pavilion by Philip Johnson

It is highly probable that a temporary sales pavilion will be built before the selling of any new housing project in China. These pavilions become an opportunity for architects to test and try out new ideas and experiments.

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Night view. Prototype for Temporary Sales Pavilion. Photography © Su Shengliang. Courtesy of OPEN Architecture

Prototype for Temporary Sales Pavilion by Open Architecture

After years living and working in our office, the co-working space STUDIOBANANA, in the neighbourhood of Tetuán, Madrid, we had the opportunity to work on a project in the area through a private client., full_html
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Espacio Gourmet by Losada García Arquitectos. Photography © Alfonso Herranz

Espacio Gourmet by Studio Banana

Last September we announced here the beginning of the proposed Gwangju Follies of 2013. Once finished, we bring here the final results., full_html
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Architect David Adjaye and writer Taiye Selasi have developed a folly called the Gwangju River Reading Room. It is positioned on the embankment of the Gwangju River, connecting the street level above with the grassy flood planes used as a seasonal park. The structure draws inspiration from traditional Korean pavilions and houses a “human rights” library of 200 books from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie´s Half of a Yellow Sun to Emile Zola’s Germinal. Courtesy of Gwangju Biennale Foundation

8 follies by Ai Weiwei, Superflex, David Adjaye, Rem Koolhaas and others

OpenHouse is an intervention by Raumlabor that seeks to expand the uses of public space in a constantly changing environment with a clear loss of identity. Anyang, located about 25 km south of Seoul, is affected by the same violent process as other…
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OpenHouse by Raumlabor. Image © APAP. Courtesy of RaumlaborBerlin

OpenHouse by Raumlabor

The Spanish architect Alberto CAMPO BAEZA has designed the PIBAMARMI pavilion at the 2013 edition of MARMOMACC in Verona, Italy, winner of the Fair’s International Award Architecture in Stone 2013 for the office building of the Castilla León Junta…
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Pibamarmi Pavilion by Alberto Campo Baeza. Photography courtesy of Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza

PIBAMARMI PAVILION by CAMPO BAEZA

How to match Shukhov’s pioneering works with Vyksa’s metallurgical tradition and turn them into a contemporary pavilion? , full_html
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Balancing Pavilion. International competition

Throughout history, follies have been used widely in architecture, visual arts, and literature as a provocation, a frivolous diversion or strategic places of madness and satire freed from the constraints of societal norms. Follies have been employed…
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Gwangju Folly II 2013

Over the years the designs have come from architects and artist as Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei in 2012, Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA in 2009 or Rem Koolhaas in 2006. , full_html
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Intervention by UVA. Serpentine Pavilion by Sou Fujimoto. Image courtesy of UVA

Sou Fujimoto Serpentine Pavilion Intervention by UVA