BAM NATURE IS AN IDEA 自然是个概念
487 Acrylic Petals with LED "droplet" tips are programmed in a mesmerizing display that makes this 7m long piece seem to come to life.
BAM worked in collaboration with ARUP and BIAD to develop these two proposals. The biggest competitor was the legendary Zaha Hadid.
However, in a very chinese fashion... there was no official winner, but with these truly victorious schemes BAM come out on top!
The process of developing the 2 schemes for the 100m tall monument in China
The solid paduak, rosewood, and burl table poses delicately on the stilleto legs. The breathtaking backdrop of the Hong Kong Skyline lies beyond.
One of the Big Bad Battle Brothers rolling down the street
L'Idiot Restaurant can help you think!? The "roughness" of the design stimulates a dialogue of active associations in the human mind.
里帝欧餐厅帮你思考！？“粗糙”的设计激起一种人内心中活跃的想法与设计之间的对话
Color changing paint and hundreds of fog emitting nozzles are the order of the day for BAM's newest work.
1:15 Model of Chongqing Cloud in Ken's warm embrace. Odd Scale, good size.
Molecular structure of Promacta
The Wintergarden Installation hangs in a large glass atrium space.
Read more to see photos and a design background.
BAM designers meditate on a 1:25 scale model of the proposed installation
The light at the end of the funnel
An installation exposing the perilous state of the Icelandic landscape, encouraging citizens to constructively embrace change within their pristine environment
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BAM will be published in the upcoming issue Kerb 18 for the acclaimed Plasticity Fantasticity competition. BAM’s submission, “Urban Hair Pandemic” was selected from hundreds of proposals for envisioning a fantasy future city.
An experimental installation attempting to make a garden remotely. A video of the game, "The Chaotic Rise and Fall of the White Masked Man and Other Common Acts," views the installation as a stage for living.
2009年在比利时秘密花园节上，BAM建筑设计工作室（北京）尝试如何远程打造一个花园。操作花园游戏的教程和指令则是通过电子邮件的形式发往比利时，该游戏由当地的合作者们在科翠雅克市布鲁艾勒博物馆的后院中共同“玩成”。
Biornis-Aesthetope: A fully supported avian habitat green roof structure
完全满足鸟类栖息地要求的屋顶花园结构
BAM is featured on Huffington Post and interview with Jake Walker discusses the process of making the proposals for the Nanjing Youth Olympic Memorial competition.
Check out all of the pictures and video of the Wu Yi Shan parade as it hits the streets!
To see the Wu Yu Shan video CLICK HERE
Video and Photos by Peter Le
BAM's lastest art installation is currently under fabrication. We can't tell you too many details about the installation yet but we will tell you it is the second of BAM's motorized, moving installations! Stay tuned or visit the Landmark yourself soon to see BAM's new pieces!
Check out this article on the Girlahead website, Mary Gostelow's Inside luxury travel and lifestyle world wide. There some pictures of big names at the table. Apparently the author wanted Ivanka Trump to lie down on the table... maybe that'w why we didn't get a picture of her next to it... Additionally the article talks about Jean-Jacques Reibel, who is the visionary who commissioned the table.
Hey there boys and girls... Not sure if you noticed but BAM-USA.com has a new category... RETAIL INSTALLATIONS! Over the past 18 months BAM has been doing more and more installations for retail environments, from up north in Shenyang to down south in Hong Kong! Tis the season, and stay tuned for many more BAM style installations...
BAM's 100m tall 400m long Titan has been released...
BAM is getting into video!!! Finally.... Check out the BAM YouTube Channel !!! and take a look at the "Nature Gate"
BAM is working this Fall 2012 with the local government of Wuyishan to design 9 parade floats for the city!
BAM designed fabricated and delivered a massive 200kg table milled out of solid paduak, rosewood, and burl poplar to the Intercontinental Hotel in Hong Kong. The table is installed before the breathtaking lobby view of the HK skyline, stop by for a blobtini.
CHECK OUT SOME PHOTO HOT OFF THE PRESS!!! AND SOME INSTALLATION SHOTS AS WELL...
BAM is the local architect for Peter Walker Partner's contribution to the Beijing Garden Expo to be unveiled in the Spring of 2013.
Although a relatively slow year in terms of the building economy in Beijing, BAM's seasonal work has ignited demand up and down the coast from Beijing to Hong Kong. Newest signed clients include The Place in Beijing and The Landmark in Hong Kong. Visit these destinations this Winter Season and be on the lookout for more spectacular BAM installations.
BAM has been collaborating with Studio 505 of Melbourne, Australia on their Wujin Lotus Pavillion Project. BAM is delivering a 7m tall organic 'droplet' chandelier based on the Concept and Schematic work of s505.
Find Nature Pixels by clicking the "Installation Art" tab! Allie Dailey/BAM and Martha Schwartz worked on this competition entry with two of the coolest engineers in the world, Neil Thomas (Atelier One) and David Wiley (aerodynamics). We didn't win, which means either Pipilotti Rist, Jenny Holzer, or Yayoi Kusama got the job!
The Clamshell Carstands have been picked up by news sources all over! See what they're saying in Italy HERE, and check out this piece on car blog "Auto Motto" HERE.
BAM has been featured by one of our favorite Chinese language design blogs! Sick!! Check us out over at Gooood.hk: Clamshell Carstands, and the Wintergarden installation. Click the project names to be directed over to Gooood!!
Google "carstands" and you get BAM info at the top of the search results!!! Here we go, BAM!
BAM's Ballistic Cloud also featured on designboom.com! The third of BAM's three major installations of 2011 can be viewed HERE on one of our favorite design sites! Alright!
BAM is super pumped that our Clamshell Carstands can be viewed on designboom.com! Click the link to jump to the site: Clams on designboom
BAM Beijing is honored and delighted to have Allison Dailey back in her post following her time in the Harvard GSD Department of Landscape Architecture.
BAM has the honor of collaborating with Albannach (London) to bring their incredible brand to Beijing. The new Parkview Green building near Ritan park will host the Scottish inspired restaurant and whisky lounge. Stay tuned for updates as Albannach takes shape as the premiere destination for whiskey and European cuisine in Beijing.
Check out the following newly updated projects on the BAM website:
That's right, Pete KL, TAB is back! Get ready for a whole new era of academic publication with the new and improved TABULA CASA. Now mining the creative depths of the local Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and of course the progenitor, Cornell University, TAB continues in its mission as a forum for news and discourse within the academic design communities. TAB 9 is out, so contact us to get your hands on a hot copy and, if you are lucky, the winning tshirt design-- and stay tuned for TAB 10 in the upcoming Spring Semester.
Check out the May issue of CASE DE ABITARE for interview by Li Difei on L'Idiot Restaurant.
In school or at work a lot of young designers create things that are not suitable for school projects or client presentation. TAB 9 is publication to showcase this work to other young designers. It includes documentation of installations, drawings, photoshops, essays, found items, anything funny, self-promotion, gossip, etc. TAB 9 is being organized now especially to showcase some of the work of students at CAFA in Beijing, however submissions are open to everyone! If you would like to submit please email BAM!!! Also to see some of the early issues of TAB which were started at Cornell University please visit THE FACTORY SCHOOL.
BAM Lecture "More Than a Pretty Face!" will be held 14 April 2011 6:30PM @ CAFA #7 Building Lecture Hall 4月14日下午6点半 @ 中央美术学院设计大楼一层红椅子报告厅
Biornis Aesthetope is featured in Utopia Forever: Visions of Architecture and Urbanism-- An inspirational exploration of utopias and radical approaches to city planning. Read more at GESTALTEN ONLINE.
The Beijing BAM office installed two ripping green LED signs in August. The signs feature BAM's explosive logo, brainchild of the graphic mastermind Lillian Ng.
BAM's 2009 annual report and the 2010 Q1 report were issued to shareholders this week.
Construction on BAM's new office, just south of the Beijing CBD, will be commencing shortly!
Dan Gass and Jake Walker speaking at Beijing Pecha Kucha night at UCCA, Saturday May 15
BAM's high profile Beijing project, the landscape for 22 Art Plaza, is slated for construction on the first phase 2-3 months from now!
New employee Tang Jiayin a.k.a. "Town" exhibits exceptional skill in drawing.
Bilbao architecture publication features BAM's design for the restaurant and profiles the firm
"Llamativamente Delicioso…" by Karine Monié describes the design of L'Idiot Restaurant, the featured interior design.
In the spirit of BAM's Fallen Oak Installation at Cornell University (working with the given materials of a site), 780 plastic bags are recycled into a sun canopy over a courtyard house this summer in the Capital. Not only does the canopy provide colorful shade, but it creates a surprisingly peaceful background noise in the breeze.
基于康乃尔大学落地橡木装置的理念。今年夏天在北京的一个四合院的遮阳篷下回收着780个塑料袋。遮阳篷不仅仅提供了荫凉，而且在微风中还产生了令人惊奇地和谐的声音。
Check out all the fun as the parade designed by BAM hits the streets in the small mountain town of WuYiShan.
BAM's garden and video installation "Garden Game" opened at the 2009 Secret Gardens Festival in Kortrijk, Beglium. Experimenting with how to make a garden remotely, a game of dice creates a maze of chaotically oriented hedge walls. The game is played by local teams of artists and builders who follow emailed rules. A video of the game views the installation as a stage for living: "The Chaotic Rise and Fall of the White Masked Man and Other Common Acts" is on exhibit at the Broelmuseum and a preview may be watched on You Tube - Kanaal van koenmoerman.
2009年在比利时秘密花园节上，BAM建筑设计工作室（北京）尝试如何远程打造一个花园。操作花园游戏的教程和指令则是通过电子邮件的形式发往比利时，该游戏由当地的合作者们在科翠雅克市布鲁艾勒博物馆的后院中共同“玩成”。滚动 骰子会产生一堵由障碍墙组成的混乱迷宫，跳舞者放置35张栽培床来使用骰子，一个手工制作的转盘，丝线和木柱，然后花园建造者使用骰子和转盘来准备并在栽培床上进行种植植物（竹子等等）。游戏由影像艺术家科恩莫尔曼纪录拍摄。戴着白色面具的人起伏的混乱状是录象装置的一部分，展现花园作为一个生活的舞台。该作品在布鲁艾勒博物馆展出。
China has embraced ballistic weather modification programs, employing as many as 35-37,000 and spending US $260m between 1995-2003. Shells, rockets, aircraft and hilltop burners are used to “seed” clouds with silver iodide or other chemicals that can either disperse moisture or make it fall earlier than it otherwise would.
中国拥有出色的天气控制系统，从1995年到2003年，中国雇佣多达37,000人并花费2.6亿美元利用炮弹，火箭，飞机来携带银碘化物或者其他化学制剂来凝结成云，达到驱散云层或者人工降雨的效果。
An era of Architecture comes to an end with famous buildings burning around the world. It’s time for the landscape to become the new urban iconography.
一个建筑终结的时代——世界各地许多著名建筑毁于大火。 将是园林景观成为城市新座标的时代。
January 2009 issue of Taiwan Tatler features L'Idiot Restaurant designed by BAM
台湾Tatler杂志2009年1月刊特别报道里帝欧餐厅的设计由BAM完成
WE People October 2008 issue now out featuring BAM and L'Idiot Restaurant in use.
January 2009 Issue of Conde Nast Magazine features BAM's L'Idiot Restaurant design
BAM设计的里帝欧餐厅出现在《孔德.纳斯特 》杂志的2009 年一月期刊上
Woody Allen attempts to steal another large head of celery.
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L'Idiot Restaurant design by BAM published in Esquire Taiwan Edition
里帝欧餐厅和BAM出现在台湾出版的《时尚先生》杂志
