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12/23/2023
Thrilled!
We are delighted to inform you that UNITEDLAB Associates has won the American Architecture Awards 2023 with '416 Memorial Park' at the Arts Club of Chicago.
Thank you, Chicago Athenaeum, and Congrats to all winners!
With Curtis Fentress.
08/27/2023
Thrilled to inform you that the Wave Pavilion by Sang Dae Lee of Bigtogether Foundation has been shortlisted for Urban Commissions 2023.
Urban Commissions is a design competition initiated by Dubai Design Week, Dubai Design District (d3), and Dubai Culture & Arts Authority in 2014. Its purpose is to celebrate the UAE’s burgeoning design-conscious urban development and foster engagement with the local design community and its products.
The winning design will be unveiled at Dubai Design Week 2023, scheduled for November 7-12, and will subsequently become a permanent fixture in the Dubai Design District (d3).
04/08/2021
We designed, installed and maintained for six months with Cloud Forests, a Pavilion for Children’s Play. This is a pro-bono project, all commission fee $4000 was used for the materials.
Cloud Forests by UNITEDLAB Associates Cloud Forests awakens the children's senses and creates new play spaces for children. It appeals to adults as an art installation. The installation is largel...
03/03/2021
We designed Sambou Toura Drame, an elementary school in Marsassoum, Senegal.
NGO Let's Build My School (LBMS), a UK registered charity which was founded in 2016 to build schools in developing countries with a particular focus on remote areas which lack educational facilities.
Team: Sang Dae Lee, Yue Peng
12/18/2020
Head in the Clouds: UNITEDLAB Reimagines Playground Design - Architizer Journal The Cloud Forests pavilion demonstrates that activating the imagination and designing for inclusivity will benefit cities as much as citizens.
09/11/2020
We honor to announce that Cloud Forests win the International Architecture Awards 2020.
Since 2004, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd. have organized The International Architecture Awards as a way in which to honor the best, significant new buildings, landscape architecture, and planning projects designed and/or built around the world’s leading architects, landscape architects, and urban planners practicing nationally and internationally.
Read all about it at internationalarchitectureawards.com
Photo by UNITEDLAB Associates
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We just awarded a Pavilion for Children's Play!
The architects at UNITEDLAB Associates intended to provide an installation work that children can play with their body in the outdoor exhibition spaces. The team designed a playing art with fresh, vibrant colors; Pink and White.
The Cloud Forests is an installation that caters to people of different generations, so all ages can appreciate its design; Adults living around enjoy it as an art object, and children play with it.
The installation is mainly composed of three materials: pink flexible height bars, white balloons, and aluminum wires.
What else is unique about this project? It had a very low budget of just $4000! Read all about it at internationalarchitectureawards.com
09/11/2020