This is Photographic Architecture.

Filip Dujardin is a Belgian photographer who engages in a unique kind of architecture, a photographic architecture built on remixing, juxtaposing, and synthesizing.

Kelly Chan on Architizer notes Dujardin’s images have been “likened to old factories along the American rust belt as well as new projects by OMA and work by Steven Holl.”
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This is a Controversial Skyscraper.

Last week Dutch architecture firm MVRDV unveiled the design for “The Cloud,” collective name for these two skyscraper towers. They are two “connected luxury residential towers” in Seoul, South Korea.



It didn’t take the internet long to erupt in outrage, pointing out that the design resembled the World Trade Center twin towers, shortly after being hit by the planes.
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This is a Contemplative Space.

We love shipping containers here at Super Nrmal. Especially when they’re artfully re-used, as Portuguese artist Didier Faustino has done here with his structure called Sky is the Limit.

Perched atop 20m-high scaffolding, the two containers offer a view of the sea in South Korea, in what feels like a very contemplative space.
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This is a Contoured Hardwood Floor.

Dutch company Bolefloor is charting its own path from A to B (hint: not a straight line) with an atypical kind of hardwood floor.

The technical innovations that result in the contoured floorboards minimize the waste that’s a by-product of milling straight-edged boards, allowing, says Bolefloor, “More floors per forest.”
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This is a Rolling City.

When the city of Åndalsnes in Norway sought a new masterplan, Swedish architects Jägnefält Milton responded with a plan that not only recognized the city’s existing rail network, but was focused entirely on it.

The rolling masterplan called for a mobile architecture that would move buildings according to seasons or events on both existing and new track.
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