we’ve finally moved back into the city from the beaches! the sydney office has now expanded and is now located at:

184-186 st. johns road
glebe. nsw. 2037
+61 295 716 336

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this thursday, london metropolitan will host the opening night of an international travelling exhibition that documents the first fifteen years of urban future organization. (more…)

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tom verebes (OCEAN UK) will be presenting a lecture at uts next tuesday entitled ‘computational urbanism: strategies confronting rapid urbanisation and the problem of disposable buildings’. (more…)

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urban future (au) were recently invited to participate in architectura 21 – a map of young architecture practices with portuguese links.  luckily, being an international practice, we had one to deliver.  the article profiles the tri-wall, a collaboration between the offices of urban future , studio wsh and the university of technology sydney (mda Lab) which featured as the interior space for the transcapes / artificial nature exhibition launched at the uts gallery, sydney.

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over the past few weeks, one of our number has been working on a ‘refraction engine’ for the australian fashion week.

in collaboration with tim richardson for fashion label friedrich gray, we worked on the brief  which called for an ‘exploded glass’ sculpture as a futuristic gateway to the collection.  with the collection titled ‘refraction’, the piece took a fractal geometry approach to a practical level, breaking down the images of the models and shearing them into shards of light and dark. (more…)

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topostruct is a program for structural topology optimization written by sawako kaijima and michalatos panagiotis.  it’s development was influenced by the ideas and methods discussed in the book “topology optimization, theory, methods and applications” written by m.p. bendsoe and o. sigmund. (more…)

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following on from two very catchy EP’s: grønt lys i alle ledd / togens hule and verdens største land / fot i hose, norways casiokids have just lanched their debut album topp stemning på lokal bar (translated: ‘top mood at local bar’).

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we were entertained with a particularly powerpoint slideshow illustrating the u.s. military’s intepretation on the situation in afghanistan… (more…)

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this tuesday saw the opening of chico monks exhibition at the robin gibson gallery in darlinghurst, sydney.  for the past four months monks has been manic in collecting vast quantities of scrap perspex, cutting, scratching and painting it in order to create a prolific collection of intriguing mini environments. (more…)

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rhino 4.0 / grasshopper 0.60057

after a long session of inactivity (due to our gh3d workstation frying), we’ve been starting to patch together the urban future – gh3d particle system development.  we’ve also been teaching scripting, matsys and prefabrication techniques within our digital masters studio at usyd.  (more…)

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