Architects: Ron Arad Architects Ltd (RAAL) Location: Liege, Belgium Principal Designer: Ron Arad Project Director: Geoff Crowther Project Architect: Paul Madden Design Team: Joel Dunmore, Tuomas Pirinen, Marta Granda, James Foster, Julian Gilhespie Structural Engineer: Buro Happold (UK) Executive Architect: Jaspers Eyers (Belgium) Main Contractor: BPC (Belgium) Steel Roof Contractor: Iemants, (B..
American designer Christopher Stuart of LUUR Studio has created the Hopeless Diamond Sofa. “The Hopeless Diamond Sofa” by Christopher Stuart utilizes off the shelf materials from the local hardware store like copper plumbing pipe, shipping blankets, zip ties, and carpet padding. There are no difficult miters or glued joints. The form was inspired by a folding paper cup I used to make as a child ..
Project Title: The Black Pearl Residence Façade Design: Studio Rolf.fr i.s.m. Zecc Architecten Interior Design: Studio Rolf.fr Program: Residence and Workshop Date: 2008 – 2010 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands I think it was love at first site! That’s what I felt when we received the images from Zecc architecten. The Black Pearl, the residence of my dreams; especially for the story it carries. A..
캔의 재발견 흔히 우리가 버리는 캔을 재활용 하여 외피시스템으로 구현하였네요. 캔 재질이 알루미늄이라 한번쓰고 버리는 일회용이라는 것이 상당히 낭비죠. 물론 2차, 3차 가공을 통하여 다른 형태로 구현되는 것도 좋은 방법이지만 현재 가지고 있는 형태를 재활용하여 만든 시스템이 돋보입니다. 재활용센터에 가보면 캔을 찌그러뜨려서 블록으로 만들어 놓은거 보셨나요? 마치 개비옹 옹벽을 만든 것처럼 재활용 할 수 있을 것 같아요 ^^ Can Cube’s facade is a system of aluminium carbonated drink cans which are enclosed in an aluminium frame. The façade saves the energy wasted during recycling..
Slovak designer Zuzana Serbak is a brand new blood in the fashion industry. Her curriculum vitae reads Shoe Designer freshly graduated from the Prague Academy of Arts in Architecture and Design. Serbak’s diploma designs are edgy, futuristic, stylish and bold. They are examples of thinking outside the box and looking forward to a collection with no barriers and no restrictions. We always love loo..
Glen Irani Architects have designed the third in their series of Hover Houses located on the Venice Canals of Los Angeles, California. Situated on the Venice Canals of Los Angeles, California, Hover House 3 represents the third in the architects’ Hover House series. This series focuses on maximizing outdoor living on small lots by ‘hovering’ the building envelope above the grade level in order t..
Created by “fishing for compliments“, ”Nemore” is a garden, consiting of 36 bendable graphite poles. “Nemore” senses the visitor. Each pole has a behavior and reacts to it’s neighbours and to the visitor, the “alien neighbour”. Does a system arise from the poles behaviour, that we (the observers and the visitor) perceive as angst, curiosity, nervousness, etc.? Each pole has a distinct sound, tha..
Vienna Design Week 2010: Austrian designer Rainer Mutsch has created a range of outdoor seating moulded from sheets of fiber cement. The recyclable composite is more normally used in the construction industry, and is made from natural materials including cellulose fibres. Called Dune, the seats comprise loops of the material and can be used as individual pieces or a modular system. Mutsch develo..
Architects: Suters Architects Location: Churchill, Victoria, Australia Project Team: Joshua McAlister, Ian Prior, Graeme Christianson, Scott Francis, Rebecca Brewer Building Contractor: W. Parnall Constructions Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Emma Cross The Churchill Community Hub is a contemporary community centre that co-locates services within a larger building; it allows crossover of these s..
Essentia Designs have completed an office interior for Dentsu London. The Brief We were approached through project managers Interactive Space to work on the offices for Dentsu London, one of the most exciting creative agencies in the UK. The building is an award winning development by Amanda Levete which the Dentsu team have already christened the “spaceship” (Tokyo HQ is the mothership!). Our b..
