Within these drawings, viewers will observe deliberately empty spaces. The building, designed as a multi-use space with a high density of users, takes fascinating influence from Chinese landscape drawings. The Shanfeng Academy, designed as a cultural and sports centre for Mountain Kingston Bilingual School in a new district of Suzhou, China – is a strikingly thoughtful project. That’s why my design of the year comes from OPEN Architecture – a practice that continually challenges the way we interact with the spaces around us. ![]() Great design should shape the way we live for the better. Shanfeng Academy in Suzhou combines a theatre, gallery, library and cafe with sports and dance facilities, which serve 2,000 students Photograph: HEZHENHUAN/OPEN architecture Women’s portrait busts at Trinity College Old Library, Dublin Individually the collective of curators are brilliant – Jayden Ali designed the hugely celebrated Fashion Masculinities at the V&A, Joseph Henry is currently the Loeb fellow at Harvard, Meneesha Kellay is the senior curator, contemporary at the V&A and Sumitra Upham is head of programmes at the Crafts Council – and together, there was a certain alchemy that made the exploration of spatial practice for diasporic communities both gleeful and momentous. ![]() ![]() “There is reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend,” was the James Baldwin quote that served as the provocation for Dancing Before the Moon, the British Pavilion presentation at the 18 th Venice Architecture Biennale. Photograph: British CouncilĬhosen by Charlene Prempeh and Lewis Gilbert of creative agency A Vibe Called Tech Thunder and Şimşek a large-scale installation by Jayden Ali at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2023.
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