The main venue of DESIGNTIDE TOKYO serves as a platform for designers to give polished, carefully considered presentations of their work.

This year, architect Ryuji Nakamura(中村竜治) has been selected to design the main venue at DESIGNTIDE TOKYO. How will he interpret the works by this year’s participating designers? What kind of space will he create to showcase them? Fans of Nakamura’s previous work are no doubt already looking forward to what he will come up with this time.

Brainstorming sessions for potential ideas are already underway. Look out for updates on Nakamura’s ideas and creative process in the coming weeks! / via DesignTide

————————————

Ryuji Nakamura Profile
Architect. Born in Nagano in 1972. Worked at Jun Aoki&Associates. Established Ryuji Nakamura Architects in 2004. Main Works: JIN’s GLOBAL STANDARD NAGAREYAMA, Space for Exhibition “ribbon project of mina perhonen”, Scenery for Opera “Le Grand Macabre”, and Installation at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo “Where is Architecture? Seven Installations by Japanese Architects’” etc. Main Awards: Good Design Award, JCD Design Award Grand Award, THE GREAT INDOORS AWARD (Netherlands), and Competition of Kumamoto Art Polis “West Square of Kumamoto Satation” Second Prize etc.
http://www.ryujinakamura.com

OMA (The Office for Metropolitan Architecture) has unveiled more images of a residential project for Singapore, called The Interlace. The project is comprised by 32 6-storeys-apartment blocks and stacked in hexagonal arrangements.

Designed by Ole Scheeren, partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), The Interlace breaks away from Singapore’s standard typology of isolated, vertical apartment towers and instead explores a dramatically different approach to tropical living: an expansive interconnected network of living and communal spaces integrated with the natural environment. Thirty-one apartment blocks, each six-stories tall and identical in length, are stacked in a hexagonal arrangement to form eight large-scale open and permeable courtyards. The interlocking blocks form a vertical village with cascading sky gardens and both private and public roof terraces.

OMA is led by six partners – Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu and Managing Partner, Victor van der Chijs – and employs a staff of around 220 of more than 35 nationalities. Architects, researchers, designers, model makers, industrial designers and graphic designers work in close collaboration, and expert consultants are intimately involved from the beginning of the design process. / Via Dezeen & OMA