Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu propose to build 1,000-foot walls around excavated central park.New York Horizon, the first place winning design of the EVolo 2016 Skyscraper Competition by architects Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu. ‘the ambition is to reverse the traditional relationship between landscape and architecture, in a way that every occupiable space has direct connection to the nature,’ explains Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu."The annual award established in 2006 recognizes visionary ideas for building high- projects that through the novel novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments. The FIRST PLACE was awarded to Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu from the United States for the project New York Horizon. The design proposes a continuous horizontal skyscraper around the full perimeter of a sunken Central Park. The project would create 7 square miles (80 times greater than the Empire State Building) of housing with unobstructed views and connection to the park. "..(Read...)

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ECAL students Damien Ludi and Colin Peillex created the “Rocking-Knit“, a rocking chair use its own kinetic motion to knit a hat."Rocking-Knit is a new interpretation of the rocking chair. It offers its user productive moments of relaxation. The to-and-fro movement of this armchair knits hats for the winter and requires no exertion whatsoever. "..(Read...)