Architects: Malcotti Roussey Architectes Location: Salins-les-Bains, France Associate Architect: Thierry Gheza Landscape: Fabienne Méline Structure Engineering: Cetel Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Nicolas Waltefaugle & Olivier Leblanc Closed since 1962, the salt works in Salins-les-Bain have been an important productive site since the middle ages right in the centre of the French city in the F..
San Francisco architects IwamotoScott have completed a design study for a tower (above, right) straddling a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The proposal was commissioned by New York’s Downtown Alliance as part of the Greenwich South project, a study into how to transform a 41 acre-site south of the World Trade Center site. “The Downtown Alliance commissioned the larger project that thi..
detailed railroad crossing 1. accessible railroad crossing 2. steel tube 3. water distribution unit 4. bench (cleaning feet) 5. drinkingwater fountain (filled by train) 6. toilet unit (wheelchair accessible) 7. waterfilter 8. toilet (flushed by train) 9. the only wave you don't want to ride (triggered by train) 'trestles 2.0' by dutch architects stefan de vos and jeroen lemans is a proposal for ..
TWILS, a furniture manufacturer based in the northern Italian town of Cessalto, have sent us photos of their 2010 collection of contemporary beds. from contemporist
Russian design studio Decolieu have completed the renovation of an apartment in Moscow by adding a low curved ceiling made of lime and wax. Called Wabi-Sabi the project involved dividing the existing space with a mezzanine to create two new children’s bedrooms and a bathroom. The walls are covered in thin layers of marble and a wooden staircase leads to the upper level. Here are some more detail..
Architects: Vandeventer + Carlander Architects Location: Seattle, Washington, USA Structural Engineer: Swenson Say Faget Marine Engineer: Headway Marine Residence Contractor: dBoone Construction Float Contractor: Trend Construction Floor Area: 2,824 SF Interior / 887 SF Exterior Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Ben Benschneider Continuing a long and distinguished history of floating homes in Seat..
During Milan Design Week 2010, we visited the Soft Architecture exhibition from Italian lighting manufacturer FLOS at Superstudio in Milan’s Zona Tortona district. Soft Architecture consists of a new collection characterized by the use of a special composite material (Under-Cover technology) of which Flos holds an exclusive license agreement in the lighting compartment for its production and com..
british architect john pawson in collaboration with salvatori and lighting specialists KKDC exhibited at the interni think tank exhibition, milan. the installation entitled ‘house of stone’ was a simple, house shaped architectural structure made from recycled stone- consisting of 99% stone scrap and just 1% natural resin to act as a bonding agent. the linear MoMo LED light source produced by lig..
With the combination of design, quality and functionality arises this new A-cero´s work: a house of 1.500m2 defined by a set of clean lines and perfect volumes. The grey colour of the concrete that make up the whole building and an architectural wide black pergola, there are the elements that, at first sight, stand out in the house exterior. Furthermore, huge windows have been included in the fa..
Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has designed a conceptual transport system that would involve airships powered by seaweed. Called Hydrogenase, the project envisages that by 2030 there could be farms in the ocean producing biofuel from seaweed and acting as hubs for the aircraft. Here’s a lot of text from Callebaut: “HYDROGENASE” ALGAE FARM TO RECYCLE CO2 FOR BIO-HYDROGEN AIRSHIP Between engi..
