Opening soon… a new club and event space in Shoreditch that we’ve done some work on. Line up is amazing already. Gonna be hothothot.

Preview

More pics coming up

The brick series was House of Jonn reaction to the ‘RAW’ theme imposed by the Royal Academy of Arts for this years summer exhibition.

We were rejected….

Without sounding like whinny losers this was the reaction we were expecting and in a way played up to. The architecture room was co-ordinated by David ‘vitality, risk taking and a necessary sense of adventure’ Chipperfield.

We could not help but prod a little fun at ourselves and the theme by creating 4 very impractical and improbable brick types to live upto the RAW theme.

These included the  acrylic Banana brick, Cock Arch brick, Wizard of Oz brick and the Recession proof brick. All were produced as editions of 25.

The above images show the Wizard of Oz brick depicting a scene from the story of Dorothy and Toto on the yellow Brick road.

Above is the Banana Brick and below is the Icon Brick.

SOOOOOO since graduating from the Royal College of Art last year House of Jonn’s Jordan has been involved in a rather unique project known as ‘Fidelio in the Gulag’. which we briefly blogged about in a previous post. After a long long long long long year of hard work and many unknowns the project has finally come to fruition and I could not be more happy!

The project has been director Michael Hunt’s vision and has been realised by the SCDLP architects office who myself and Thomas Greenall have worked alongside to achieve this. Our role was to facilitate the performance of this site specific opera through the creation and installation of set design interventions that worked within context.

In July, 2010, Perm State Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre will present a unique production of Beethoven’s only opera “Fidelio” on the territory of the former GULAG camp for political prisoners “Perm 36″, which is now a museum of the history of political repressions.

The production is conceived by the creators as a site-specific piece and not as traditional onstage performance. The epic number of cast members, inspired by the universal idea of love and freedom of Beethoven’s great opera, will bring the whole experience of the camp alive to the audience.

I’m really happy to have had this opportunity to share this project with you, I’ll make sure to post some additional images of the set in particular in the next posts.
Also we are currently in the process of making a short film of the project so I’ll get some clips up soon.

photos by Alex Gushin Salt

Over the past few months I (Jordan) have been conspiring and collaborating with the brilliantly talented Alain de Botton on his new literately project. Un-fortunately I really can’t go into too much detail about this project because it’s top secret but I can say it’s been a rather top notch experience.
It’s a challenging project but the subject matter has been fascinating and inspiring.

I have included some images below that did not make the final cut – but hopefully they give a little [cryptic] taster of what’s to come….

The ‘Workhouse of the Infrastructural [Counter] Reformation‘ project was exhibited in 2009 during London Design week and has also now been published in this amazing book (no bias obviously) called Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands.

“‘Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands’ is a collection of the latest, provocative projects from the field of digitally-enabled architecture. Oscillating between the analog and the digital, from concept to realisation this is a book that maps process.

The book covers a spectrum of London’s leading graduates and young practices, featuring projects from the Architectural Association, Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), University of Westminster and Royal College of Art, and case studies and interviews with architects including Amanda Levete Architects, Plasma Studio, JDS Architects, sixteen* (makers), Horhizon, marcosandmarjan, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Philip Beesley, David Greene, Samantha Hardingham, Usman Haque and Neil Spiller”

The book was co-authored by Ruairi Glynn and  Sara Shafiei and designed by Emily Chicken.

Some other work to watch out for in the book is Adam Nathaniel Furman project “The Church of Perpetual Experimentation”. To say we love it would be an understatement.

Get yourself a copy here.