2020.02.16

VOL.189

Competition
	Dezeen Awards 2021 Open for Entries
	Dezeen Awards 2021 is currently accepting entries. Dezeen Awards is organized by Dezeen, the world's most influential architecture, interiors and design magazine, and is judged by a panel of leading figures in the world of architecture and design. Aoyama Design Forum is proud to support this award this year again.

Trend Reports
	¡ÚADF Web Magazine¡ÛAhsa Farmstay Vernacular Architecture Plays a Huge Role in Sustainable Tourism
	Ahsa Farmstay offers tourists from all over the world to be hosted in the farm stay in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand. This project allowed the architects to consider a relationship between architecture and culture. In Chiang Rai, as in other rural areas of the country, traditional building techniques are not passed down from generation to generation. As people's life styles are changing, their traditional homes are becoming less relevant. Vernacular houses are either improperly adapted to "modern extensions" or dismantled and sold as recycled wood.

Trend Reports
	VASE NA by Bo Zhang
	"VASE NA" by a contemporary artist and designer, Bo Zhang, is to integrate the lines and color into the space and present the seemingly existing space, but there is no actual existence. Usually vase is container with borders. VASE NA¡Çs design use white frame¡¤color paint¡¤pattern, and angle transformation to break the inherent space constraints, color constitute the body of vase¡¤ embodying sense of depth¡¤change and realism. The concept between virtual and real: create a vase in space with gradient colors from different small frames. But the vase does not exist, it is just a space with color, which creates a sense of space but no boundaries. Different experiences of angle transformation: Moving the line of sight, the color of the vase will change. changing the perspective, the interwoven frame structure will produce depth, level changes and 3D effects. These design elements have led people to a ¡Èvisual roaming¡É.

Trend Reports
	Singapore News February 2021
	We have received a new report supported by GARDE! ¡ÈNEON PIGEON¡É, a restaurant & bar modeled on an izakaya, opened at Carpenter Street in Singapore at the end of last year. It is a space that used recycled rebar from Singapore construction sites and oxidized perforated metal. And guests will be welcomed by a ¡ÈNEON PIGEON¡É sign in Japanese text, made with many small bulbs.