Khorshid Naderi-Azad Harvard Graduate School of Design, US
The Jiggly, Chewable, Hardly Reducible San Giuseppe Ball Hall is an imagined counterpoint to its ‘perfectly symmetrical’ neighbour, Foster + Partners’ Apple Park in Silicon Valley. It proposes a new rigour for the ‘bulbous’ and the ‘anexact’, says Naderi-Azad, who currently works at KPF New York.
Dream collaborator: Zaha Hadid, Ian Schrager
khokhonut.com
Valeria Laura Szegal Royal College of Art, UK
Inspired by a theatrical event on Moscow’s historic Garden Ring, Szegal shows how a one-off happening could be the catalyst for long-term urban transformation with the help of a stop-frame animation film. Russian-born Szegal, who grew up in Hungary, is currently working as a 3D-designer in London.
Dream collaborator: Peter Märkli
valeriaszegal@gmail.com
Yi Jennifer Yip The University of Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, city development is often prioritised over preservation of environment. Since the colonial rule, Hong Kong has relied heavily on reclamation for its urban growth.
Dream collaborator: Dreamers, activists, rule breakers
jyip0203@gmail.com
Meg Anderson University of California, Berkeley, US
Anderson’s project investigates the potential of a maze as the starting point for a communal social housing model. The design acknowledges the psychological impact of collective living, and promotes the act of wandering, getting lost and chance meetings. Anderson currently works for SO-IL.
Dream collaborator: Someone pushing the boundaries
issuu.com/meganderson0; andersme822@yahoo.com
Mathilde Berner and Léa Gauchoux EPFL, Switzerland
A ‘sublime and monstrous’ pleasure machine, Berner and Gauchoux’s sex and love palace, Eropolis, explores the role of architecture in the ‘rebirth of eroticism’ and the obsession with the body in today’s society.
Dream collaborator: Practices that believe architecture can have a real impact on our daily lives
lea.gauchoux@gmail.com, mathilde.berner@gmail.com
Iris Xiaoxue Ma and Christopher Yi Cornell University, US
Celebrated Encounters envisions a new set of spaces embedded into the walls of Sanskar Kendra, the museum designed by Le Corbusier in Ahmedabad. Water towers respond to the local climate, while markets and festivals enliven the public areas.
Dream collaborator: Caroline O’Donnell Architecture, Thom Mayne
xm84@cornell.edu; christopheryi90@gmail.com
Yiting Zhou and Courtnay Ives Manchester School of Architecture, UK
Responding to a local council brief, the Rochdale Bath House Project is a wellness complex connecting two heritage buildings. Zhou and Ives found common interest in architectural history and placemaking.
Dream collaborator? Practices with a passion for beautiful things and a creative approach to building re-use
yiting.y.zhou@gmail.com; courtnayives@gmail.com
Marcos García Mouronte Columbia GSAPP, US
Examining the national and corporate players competing for access to the South China Sea, Flickering Sovereignties examines how an ‘architecture of artificial islands’ could help solve territorial disputes. NYC and Madridbased Mouronte is currently part of the Independent Projects team at Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Dream collaborator: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
issuu.com/marcosgarciamouronte
Siong Yu Hsiang Wang Architectural Association, UK
Exploring post-colonial debates, Wang’s thesis project focuses on the ‘static and centralised’ practice of museology in the West through an often irreverent reclassification of cultural artefacts. Before his studies, Wang worked as an architectural designer in Taiwan; he now works with Meiri Shinohara in Tokyo.
Dream collaborator: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
w54291@gmail.com
Jerome Ng Xin Hao Bartlett School of Architecture, UK
Ng’s project offers an alternative vision for Singapore’s 1970s Metabolist-style Golden Mile complex, currently facing demolition. A fan of visual communication as well as architecture, Ng now works as a storyteller of the built environment, producing drawings and films.
Dream collaborator: A multidisciplinary studio that will allow me to continue my visual explorations.
jerome_ng_xinhao; jerome.xinhao@hotmail.com
Anna Östberg KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Östberg‘s Otium public bathhouse project is designed to combat decreased attention spans by engaging the body and mind through sensory awareness. A specialist in wood construction, Östberg is currently working at Urban Couture Architects in Stockholm.
Dream collaborator: Practices passionate about the craftsmanship of architecture
annaostberg.se; annakarolinaostberg@gmail.com
Cheng Zhu TU Delft, The Netherlands
Inspired by a photo of Paris’ Jardin du Palais Royal, Zhu’s Archi-Nature focuses on the renovation of the 1982 AMC hospital in the Netherlands. The design imagines a natural healing community and the development of ‘in-between space’ that seeks to improve patients’ recovery and staff performance.
Dream collaborator: Santiago Calatrava, Foster + Partners
ch.zhu@outlook.com
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A new Oxford Street pop-up celebrates IKEA's blue bagsIKEA's iconic blue bag gets its own pop-up concept store, the 'Hus of Frakta'.
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Audemars Piguet and Kaws have created the Royal Oak Concept watch we didn't know we neededThe Audemars Piguet x Kaws Royal Oak Concept Tourbillon 'Companion' is slick wrist-worn art
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A friendly rivalry coloured by kinship: Wendy Maruyama and Tom Loeser on their two-artist show'I wanted to make furniture, just not traditional furniture, but weird furniture,' says Wendy Maruyama on ‘Colorama’, a two-artist show presented at design gallery Superhouse (until 11 January 2025)
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Jaakko Torvinen and Elli Wendelin design transportable wooden buildingOur Next Generation 2022 showcase shines a light on 22 outstanding graduates from around the globe. Here, we profile architecture graduates Jaakko Torvinen and Elli Wendelin from Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland
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Kamal Ranchod uses architectural drawing to decolonise Egyptian historyOur Next Generation 2022 showcase shines a light on 22 outstanding graduates from around the globe, in seven creative fields. Here, we profile Kamal Ranchod, from the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture, South Africa
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‘Cripping Architecture’: Shaina Yang reimagines the world for a different body typeOur Next Generation 2022 showcase shines a light on 22 outstanding graduates from around the globe, in seven creative fields. Here, we profile architecture graduate Shaina Yang from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA
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Matthew Avallone proposes ‘inhabitable park-scape’ for togetherness in TijuanaOur Next Generation 2022 showcase shines a light on 22 outstanding graduates from around the globe, in seven creative fields. Here, we profile architecture graduate Matthew Avallone, from the Royal College of Art, UK
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