April 26th, 2012
Tamsie Thomson, Director of RIBA’s London Region, says: “‘The Regent Street Windows project demonstrates that architects can use their creative ingenuity to add value to projects both large and small. Whilst shop windows might be smaller than the buildings people normally associate with architects, the creative ideas demonstrated here are just as big. These stunning window displays demonstrate that architects are experts at solving design challenges whatever the scale.”
A reminder that 00:/’s Co-Mute at Bose will be up from April 16th – May 6th.
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April 23rd, 2012
00:/ are looking for a part II architectural assistant with experience of the delivery of built projects and strong technical skills – with, of course, empathy with our ethos and approach.
Electronic CVs to be emailed to info@architecture00.net by Thursday 26th April 2012.
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April 19th, 2012
From 16th April to 6th May, the Bose store on Regent St. is offering a rather different retail experience, in the form of 00:/s ‘Co-mute’ installation: a shop window for the ears.
Co-mute has been designed as part of the RIBA Regent St windows project, which partners architects with world-class retailers on Regent St. 00:/s project with Bose offers a shop-window which is not consumed visually, but acoustically. It takes the form of a London underground ‘simulator’, constructed in CNC-cut laminated plywood, which recreates the 3D immersive experience of the London underground, but then allows visitors to block it out, using Bose’s acoustic noise-cancelling headphones.
“Bose’s product is an exceptional experience of sound. Zero Zero’s installation, Co-Mute, rises to the challenge of expressing this in a visual way. The installation takes the form of a London Underground tube carriage and invites the viewer to come in, plug in and play.” – RIBA
Co-mute will be installed at 185-191 Regent Street until 16th May.
Opening Hours:
Mon. – Wed.: 10am – 7pm
Thursdays: 10am – 8pm
Fri. & Sat.: 10am – 7pm
Sundays: 12pm – 6pm
Click here to go to the RIBA Regent St Windows Project
Click here to go to Bose’s homepage
Photography copyright Agnese Sanvito, used courtesy of the RIBA.
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April 18th, 2012
00:/ were invited by Beatrice Galilee to take part in ‘Hacked Milan’, part of the Milan Furniture Fair. Alastair and Nick built the first-ever zero-bolts prototype section of WikiHouse on the shop floor of La Rinascente, Milan.
Thanks go to the Hacked team, volunteers and staff of La Rinascente, in particular the Rinascente porters who, by the end of the build, seemed to have a better idea of how to do it than the original designers!
Video by Alice Masters.
Hacked Milan
Download the model here
La Rinascente
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March 30th, 2012
Check it out – we’ve been featured in the March edition of Architecture Today. Pat on the back to Sarah, David, Lynton, Joni, and Jean for all their hard work on SOAR works and thanks to Steve Parnell from Architecture Today.
“While waiting for the opportunity to build, 00:/ has been actively seeking to realign a ‘systemically wrong’ architectural practice with a new social model emerging from our malfunctioning economics and politics. Johar talks about the post-war Social State developing into the Private Economy, which is ostensibly making way for a more democratic Social Economy based on social media, open source, ‘wisdom of crowds’, ‘long tails’, ‘tipping points’ and other such Gladwellian rhetoric. Johar himself is rooted in this enterprise and at the time of writing, is the most influential of the architectural Twitterati with well over 3,000 followers.
So, they can talk the talk, and think a thought, but can they build a building?
00:/ has completed a couple of smaller projects including the Westminster Hub ‘incubation lab’, but SOAR Works is its first building of significant size. SOAR (Southey Owlerton Area Regeneration) is a community-led regeneration charity in north Sheffield, which is developing a reputation for commissioning architecture for its regeneration projects in the most unassuming areas.
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From the detailing to the spatial organisation, the project is intelligent and convincingly appropriate. Furthermore, the building came in on budget and received a BREEAM excellent rating due to its high level of insulation, heat exchangers and biomass boiler – a condition of the funding, but which SOAR’s Ian Drayton says is the only thing he would do differently due to the ongoing commitment it imposes.
But how is this an exhibition of alternative practice?
After all, it’s a conventional building delivered for a conventional client using a conventional contract. Project architect Sarah Hollingworth explains that it represents 00:/ practising what it preaches and describes how the architect helped the client with its business plan as much as with the building. Hollingworth was involved with SOAR as part of Sheffield School of Architecture’s live projects and this close understanding of the area’s and client’s needs helped. But the building’s evident success seems to stem more from the holistic understanding of the ethics and pragmatic modesty of the third sector and social enterprise, an insight that drives design decisions.
That good architecture requires a good client is a common cliché, but SOAR should be credited for appointing a small, young and untested practice. Its faith was well-placed. Whether 00:/’s laudable values can be maintained when the big-money clients come knocking remains to be seen. Until then, as an interesting, exciting and provocative contemporary YANAP, 00:/ is in a school of one.”
Read the full article from Architecture Today here.
-DS
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March 19th, 2012
Wikihouse is big in Japan!
Taken from the Spring 2012 issue of Courrier.
-DS
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March 9th, 2012
Designed by Architecture 00:/ and launched last October 2011, the Hub Westminster is one of the newest additions to the Global Hub Network, and now the new home to Architecture 00:/.
Kindly update your address books and direct all future post to:
Architecture 00:/
Hub Westminster
First Floor, New Zealand House
80 Haymarket Street
London SW1Y 4TE
Our phone number 0207 739 2230 and e-mails remain unchanged.
-DS
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March 9th, 2012
Wikihouse named one of Netexplo’s 100 outstanding innovations in 2012.
Netexplo is a unique setup for detecting, analysing and putting into perspective future mainstream practices in digital society. Its mission is to give managers from France’s largest businesses and public authorities the keys to grasp, understand and adapt to the ongoing, global digital revolution.
See the full list here.
-DS
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March 8th, 2012
London architect Lynton Pepper of 00:/ designed these open-source spectacle frames in 18mm plywood to be made from the offcuts of his studio’s WikiHouse project.
We’ve started a debate on Dezeen on our Wikiglasses! Take a look here to see what people have been saying…
Wikiglasses have also been included in Dezeen’s Top Ten: Spectacles and Shades.
- DS
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March 8th, 2012
Introducing, SOAR: The Movie.
Take a tour through one of 00:/’s latest buildings and see what local residents and small businesses have to say about the space!
SOAR Works was led by architects Sarah Hollingworth and David Saxby from 00:/, with the help of their partners Steve Fisher & Austen Cook (Momentum), Philip Boulcott & Michael Perkins (AppleyardsDWB) and Trevor Barrett & Lujun Zhou (pha/Foster & Partners) and their respective teams.
More about SOAR Works here.
- DS
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