Architects Bell Phillips created this folded stainless steel staircase for a south London home. Entitled Origami Stair, the project links two existing apartments to form one duplex in the Victorian building. The six millimeter-thick steps are framed with a glass balustrade. Photographs are by Kilian O’Sullivan. Here’s some text from Bell Phillips Architects: ORIGAMI STAIR Camberwell, London Bell..
New ICT Park at Konza There are 4 regions that compromise the Nairobi Metro Region area. The city area of Nairobi measures 684 sq kilometres alone, with the larger metro area covering 3,000sq. km. The land of Nairobi’s region falls from the edge of the Rift Valley in the west at an elevation of 2,300 metres, to 1,500 metres to the east of the city, with the centre of the city standing at 1,700 m..
Cultural Stage The Port of Amsterdam commissioned Roos Burger & Yvon Yzermans, two collaborating art historians, to develop a cultural facility in Houthavens West. The Port wants to improve the attractiveness of the area to the public by realizing a cultural meeting place in the transforming area between city and port. The idea of NL Architects is to construct a flexible ‘base’ that can facilita..
Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Richard Hardy has shared with us his short film imagining an autonomous, artificially intelligent, sustainable city Click on the symbol in the bottom right of the video player above to view the movie in full-screen HD. The city would adapt to its natural environment and derive energy from available renewable resources. In The Transcendent City, Hardy envi..
Architects: Paul Kaloustian Location: Gemayze, Beirut, Lebanon Client: Joe Mourani Project Area: 140 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Paul Kaloustian Located in the iconic night life district of Beirut, the MYU bar/restaurant inhabits an old small liquor factory. The design concept is based on creating 2 separate spaces of bar and restaurant defined by 2 vaults different in scale. These vaults which..
This is a summer beach house in the resort community of the Pines on Fire Island New York. The typology of the homes in the Pines is recognizable to anyone who has visited an East Coast Shoreline resort town. It is a builder- driven typology reflecting the pragmatism of the inhabitants of these coastal communities. Almost always the “good sense” pragmatism that allows these homes to be built aff..
Chris Bosse has sliced up the Panton chair as part of the Re-loved: designer stories at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney until 10 October. re-LAVA ed: Geometries beyond the blob Bosse, director of innovative architectural firm LAVA, is one of several designers commissioned by the Powerhouse to use a pre-loved chair to tell a story about a piece of furniture they love. He chose a design classic that ..
Fashion designer Iris van Herpen collaborated with New York company .MGX by Materialise and artist Daniel Widrig to create 3D printed clothes. Created as part of her Spring/Summer 2010 collection called Crystallization, the designs were inspired by the transformation of liquid into crystals. The piece was unveiled as a preview at Amsterdam International Fashion Week last month and is the first o..
Onat ÖKTEM and Ziya İMREN have receievd an Honorable Mention in the Middle East Technical University Student Center & Public Square Architectural Competition. They have shared their competition entry with us... The main concept of the design is to create an in-between condition between a built environment and the landscape. The inner and outer spaces flow into each other in an historical site wh..
Dutch architect Frank Havermans has built a sunken concrete pavilion by a stream in St. Oedenrode, the Netherlands. The KAPKAR/TO-RXD landscape observatory is built into a bank and made of concrete cast in bark. The pavilion is entered by a ramp that takes you into a space containing two benches. A second ramp takes you further down into an small enclosed space with slit that looks out onto the ..
