Classroom of the future wins commendation

LAVA and ARUP received a commendation in an Australian competition to design relocatables - classrooms for the future.

L A V A wechselraum stuttgart exhibition

Der WECHSELRAUM präsentiert in der Ausstellung „Tomorrow never dies“ das Büro L A V A – Laboratory for Visionary Architecture – das 2007 von Chris Bosse, Alexander Rieck und Tobias Wallisser gegründet wurde. Die drei Grenzgänger arbeiten nicht nur auf drei Kontinenten, sondern auch zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit. So entwickeln sie visionäre Kombinationen aus Hightech und Natur und finden spektakuläre und doch oft einfache Lösungen für ein humanes urban design. Was gestern Zukunft war ist heute schon real. Und wieder gibt es ein neues Morgen…

WECHSELRAUM Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA
Zeppelin carré (Innenhof), Friedrichstrasse 5
70174 Stuttgart
T             +49 (0)711 6404039       F -602950
www.wechselraum.de

Masdar city centre features in German school program

The city centre of Masdar in the UAE, designed by LAVA, is featured in a new brochure on sustainability designed for school children in Germany. 

The Plan interview podcast

Chris Bosse spoke on the Adelaide based radio show The plan after his lecture at the university of south australia
http://www.theplan.net.au/?p=1113

great opportunity to exchange some thoughts with   JohnByleveld and his colleagues.
 JohnByleveldCreator of 'The Plan' on Radio Adelaide 101.5fm - architecture, environment and affect

Youth Hostel reimagined

LAVA has created a new typology for youth hostels with the revisioning of the Berchtesgaden near Munich, Germany.

Gone are the daggy dormitory rooms and impersonal spaces of your typical hostel.

Shelter in Trama magazine equador

Bosse debates the harbour city at Woollahra festival

Chris Bosse debates the harbour city at the Woollahra Festival with President of the Australian Institute of Architects, Brian Zulaikha, Helen Lochhead, Phillip Thalis and Chris Johnson.

WAF winners

Chris with some of the winners of the WAF leisure award...

and David Cook from Behnisch, Stuttgart whose Inzell Speed Skating Stadium won the 2011 WAF Award for World Sport Building of the Year. 

Chris Bosse judges at WAF again

Just spent the day judging 15 entries in the leisure category.

While most of the entries were of outstanding quality, including Australians Kerry Hill and WOHA, and a resort in Tasmania,

Lotus : Raas Jodhpur