Notch Festival in Beijing

visiondivision is invited to participate in an architecture production at the NOTCH FESTIVAL in Beijing with Svensk Standard for three weeks. The result will be published next month.

"The Village at Sanlitun is an open-plan shopping, dining, entertaining and cultural community in the heart of Beijing. The Village South blends a traditional hutong village lifestyle with 21st century modernity and sophistication. The Village North, openingin autumn 2009, comprises a cluster of glass buildings which house an enticing array of creative luxury brands.
NOTCH Festival will take place in both The Village North and South, both indoor and outdoor, will transform The Village into a Nordic fashion terminal, leading a new creative lifestyle and audio-visual culture in the town.
由香港著名太古集团旗下太古地产管理，位于北京三里屯的潮流腹地，汇集众多国际品牌旗舰店和环球店，其创新的建筑设计和人文气质为北京带来了一个全新的、融合了各种创想和潮流的、集购物、娱乐与餐饮于一体的人文风尚汇。街区型的有机布局将传统与创意、本土与国际的最新潮流生活方式兼收并蓄。南区广场和橙色大厅举办的一系列文化艺术活动带给人们变幻出新，惊喜不断的多方位体验。
从北区的钻石楼，户外下沉式绿色广场The Deck，到南区的橙色大厅和户外大屏，NOTCH将多方位、立体式渗透进三里屯VILLAGE的整个区域中。三里屯VILLAGE借NOTCH发布北欧最新时尚设计潮流，引领绿色创意设计生活时尚和视听文化新风潮。"

Las Palmas Exhibition

Dear friends and fans, if you happen to be in Las Palmas for the Biennial, feel free to stop by their architecture school (Escuela Superior de Arquitectura) to see the legendary visiondivision project The Merchants of Venice, it may be the last opportunity to do so in full format, and Las Palmas is lovely at this time of the year.



More info:

The 2G Competition. Venice Lagoon Park exhibition travels to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Opening Saturday, 7 March 2009 Monday-Friday, from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm Escuela Superior de Arquitectura. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Campus Universitario de Tafira n/n Tel: 928 277 530

As part of the Second Biennial of the Canary Islands: Architecture, Art and Landscape , the 2G Competition exhibition will be on view in Las Palmas from 7 March to 3 May. It can be seen at the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura de Las Palmas from Monday to Friday, between 9.00 am and 7.00 pm. Admission free.

Launched in Barcelona in September 2008, the 2G Competition exhibition includes the winning projects, special mentions and a selection of the proposals chosen as finalists. In October 2008 the show travelled to Venice, where it remained until the end of November.
For more information: www.bienaldecanarias.org

Barcelona exhibition

If you happen to be in Barcelona this or the next week, we could warmly recomend the 2G exhibition where visiondivision is exhibited with their proposal "The Merchants of Venice".
The exhibition will remain open from 25 September to 10 October.
If not, you could soak in some exhibition atmosphere below.



Opening: Wednesday 24 September 2008 From 8.00 to 10.00 pm Editorial Gustavo Gili. Rosselló 87-89. Barcelona Metro: Hospital Clínic or Entença (L5) Tel: 93 322 81 61

Venice Biennale and the 2G magazine

We told ourselves that we had to be exhibited at the Biennale before we turned 30, or leave the dirty business of architecture to commence a hot dog salesmen career in Solna Centrum.
With three years to go, we are finally there; not in Solna Centrum, but in Venice.
So if you plan to visit the Biennle this fall, schedule an important stop where the vd project The Merchants of Venice is exhibited.
More info about exhibition dates will come up later on.



Until then, why not buy the September issue of the 2G Magazine, they will feature visiondivision in it too. We also have an upcoming exhibition in Barcelona later this year, the date is not fixed yet, so we will tell you later.

Now the two youngsters are both in Stockholm, gathering speed and force for an outstanding fall, with an upcoming total makeover of the slow http://www.visiondivision.com/ and a bunch of competition entries full of wit, character and pure beauty.

Pit Stop II

The summer of 2005 we where asked to build the information pavilion for Chalmers Architecture School and HDK School of Design and Crafts at the Swedish building expo BO05. Because of the limited budget we decided to re-use an old project "Pitstop" (a bike caf'e) in a new slightly pimped version. The new added material was a military net sprayed with hologram sparkle. The new costume made the building almost invisible yet the sparkle made it look like a mirage towards the surrounding nature. The building was sadly run over by a fire-truck, may it rest in peace.


Exterior


Man resting against the military net.


Exterior


Exterior in red light


Interior


Close up of the military net and sparkle