Urban Art Projects (UAP) has completed a major art installation that transforms the streetscape of Albert Street, in the Australian city of Brisbane, through the inventive reworking of an existing multi-storey car park into a highly sustainable, visually compelling art project.

The artwork, ‘Landlines’, by Jennifer Marchant was developed and crafted in UAP’s studio in Brisbane. Wrapping around three elevations of the car park, the piece is created from 549 powder coated, laser cut aluminum panels, all 1.2m x 3.6m. Collectively these components of the design have been beautifully worked to represent the contours of a map of Cunningham’s Gap and the Main Range, Brisbane.

Illuminating an edifice adds a new dimension to its architecture, highlighting the attributes of the space with a broad range of colors and light intensities. A good demonstration of the enhancements of lighting design can bring, is seen in the work of Abhay Wadhwa.

Abhay has served as the lead designer on diverse lighting projects ranging from hospitality, infrastructure and institutions to transportation, residences and museums. As demonstrated in his intervention on Honk Kong's Peak Tower, he utilizes a broad range of techniques to overlay a dynamic layer of lights and colors.

Photography by Marcel Lam

Self-cleaning surfaces, phase changing materials and built-in sensors that generate energy from the footsteps of the visitors. The 3XN pavilion ‘Learning from Nature’ unites the most advanced technologies and intelligent materials in a preview of the innovative architectural design of tomorrow


The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art invited the Danish architecture firm 3XN to design a pavilion demonstrating cutting edge possibilities within sustainable and intelligent materials. The result is a pavilion that is built of bio composites with integrated intelligence that creates a dynamic interaction with its physical surroundings and its users.

Photographs courtesy of 3XN and photographer Adam Mørk

The Mexican Pavilion at the Salon du Livre in Paris last March 2009 exhibited some strong personality and character. The pavilion was designed to project the spirit of the cheerful country that it represented, full of life and rich with traditions. It shed the light on a modern country that looks ahead for the future while proudly embracing its past.

The pavilion was designed within a 1,000m2 space, subdivided into 3 isles accessible by two lane, three meters and the six meters wide.

Inspired by the interwoven twigs of birds’ nests—a form that supports and steadies itself—Bing Thom Architects and Fast + Epp Structural Engineers joined forces to showcase a new and unexpected design innovation using wood from British Columbia.



As part of the “Embassies Project” for the London Festival of Architecture (LFA), Canada House was transformed into a demonstration of Vancouver architectural and design expertise with an undulating, 30-foot-high wooden wall wrapped around the corner of the historic embassy building.

Photographs courtesy of Morley von Sternberg, Photographer

Motivated by the desire to occupy the SCI-Arc gallery in a way that exploits the spatial potential of the existing venue, this Oyler Wu Collaborative installation argues for an expanded relationship between tectonic expression and functional performance.
The installation proposes a vertical circulation system linking the floor level of the gallery to the catwalk above.  This circulation system, a.k.a. a stair, is equally concerned with its function, use, and performance as it is its visual and experiential qualities. The stair establishes a new form of movement through the space that challenges the closed nature of the gallery as a hermetic space for objects, effectively integrating it into the daily operations of the school.