We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to one of our Honorable mention winner for our "Iceland Greenhouse Restaurant" competition – John Ng from United Kingdom!
John Ng from United Kingdom
ELSEWHERE was founded in 2011 by John Ng in London. ELSEWHERE has been shortlisted for, and has won, a number of international competitions. He has lectured on the projects and research of ELSEWHERE at AA, universities in the UK, Syracuse University, and Israel Institute of Technology. ELSEWHERE’s work has been published in AA Files 76.
John Ng has been a First Year Studio Master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London since 2012. He is also an MA Architecture Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art since 2017. He has previously studied architecture at the University of Bath and received his diploma from the AA in 2011.
Elsewhere focuses on architectural competitions as a main production of architectural projects and knowledge.
Architecture is … an endless interior where context and enclosure become a single continuum. Architecture is … to forget about junkspace and imagine projects that can only be completed after we are dead. Architecture is … where time is a spatial organisation. Architecture … is a model so big that it becomes its own inhabitable subject. Architecture is … to pressurise air and make a continuous space, experience and breathe it all in with spectacular brevity. Architecture is … an internal sky under which to do nothing (and feel good about it) Architecture is … to wear the roof like a great big fascinator. To understand architecture … one must consume it, in one beautiful gulp. Don’t talk about it. Don’t google it.
11 years. 35 competitions. 30 didn’t make it. 1 win. 3 honourable mentions. Now 1 up. Many years of controlled disappointments. Yet fondness is found where “fail” is at its most spectacular. “We could say that competitions are to everyday architecture what competitive sport is to everyday fitness training.” – Farshid Moussavi, writing on competitions in Architectural Review in 2013. A chance to go beyond what architecture is, but what architecture can be. The desk top at night. Clicks, saves; tools and trials. Restart.
Stay hungry and curious. Alternate between: 1) Travel 2) Make projects.
Design a sustainable food court structure for the heart of a classical music festival
Design a yoga guest house located within rich bog wildlife
Design a home with no artificial lighting
Design a comfortable and accessible home for the elderly in Portugal
Design a guest house and olive oil tasting room located in Portugal
Design a new concept of small-scale home
Use architecture to create different emotional states
Present your best work and submit your favorite architectural visualization
Design a safe and supportive space for children struggling with a terminal illness
Design a portable reading room that encourages reading in any location
Reimagine the workplace of the future, and design the new way of working
Design an iconic new skyscraper constructed from timber
How would you represent the best that humanity has to offer through architecture?
Design a concept for affordable housing in Milan
Design THE architect's t-shirt!
Submit your online portfolio!
