To coincide with Icelandic design festival DesignMarch, which began in Reykjavik yesterday, here are some parchment gas masks by Reykjavik designer Sruli Recht. Called Masked – In Flight, the masks are made of folded parchment and contain respirators with replaceable filters. They form part of the Non-Product series of objects from Recht’s fashion studio. More about Sruli Recht on Dezeen: R¿ng (..
ARCHITECTS: Risco (Manuel Salgado, Joao Almeida eTomás Salgado) www.risco.org ARCHITECTURE TEAM: João Almeida (site architect), Cristina Picoto, Catarina Pires e GianLuca Bono. INTERIOR DESIGN: FSSMGN (Fernando Sanchez Salvador e Margarida Grácio Nunes) www.fssmgn.com INTERIOR TEAM: Ana Tsukagoshi, Claire Campens, Eliana Candeias Alves, Miguel Ribeiro Carvalho, Nelson Magro, Sofia Torres Pereira..
Influenced by the coming season and of nature, this chair is inspired by a bird’s nest. My idea was to create a graphical chaos which still felt like a unified whole. The chair’s supporting structure consists of a bottom, seat and four stabilizing legs. To create a “nest feeling” I played with birch strips in different thicknesses and hurled them around the supporting structure. In order not to ..
Architects: Felber Szélpal Architekten ag, Solothurn Location: Solothurn, Switzerland Contractor: Galli AG, Surface and Civil Construction Structural Engineering: BSB+Partners, Engineers and Planners Furniture: Theo Jakob AG, Berne Project Year: 2006 Photographs: Bruno Helbling, Zurich The narrow form of the property together with its descending topography has amazing architectural consequences ..
Peru studio 51-1 Arquitectos and Colombian architects Ctrl G have won a competition to design an extension to the Modern Art Museum of Medellin, Colombia. Drawing on the brick structures of the local barrios, the new building will be made up of stacked boxes. These will create a series of terraces that visitors will access by internal or external circulation. The information below is from the ar..
San Francisco architect Stanley Saitowitz has completed a museum in Florida, USA, which is wrapped in a perforated metal skin and cantilevers out from its glazed base. Called Tampa Museum of Art, the building is divided into two volumes, each organised around a courtyard. The first contains public areas of the museum and the other is for offices and curatorial facilities. A cafe and bookstore ar..
Architects: Suppose design office Location: Hiroshima city, Hiroshima, Japan Project Team: Makoto Tanijiri, Masafumi Shimatani Client: Yusuke Yamamoto Total Floor Area: 83.99 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano When I design, I think about space without any stereotypes. To delete the all common sense in my mind is a key for me to bring up new or beyond ideas of spaces. The hair sa..
Canadian designer Omer Arbel has created the 28 series of pendant lamps for BOCCI. 28 is a result of a glass blowing technique developed by Omer Arbel whereby air is intermittently blown in and then sucked out of an intermittently heated and then cooled glass matrix. The result is a distorted spherical shape with a composed collection of inner shapes, one of which houses a low voltage lamp. 28 p..
Architects: GH+A / Guillermo Hevia Location: Graneros, Chile Collaborators: Tomás Villalón, Francisco Carrión, Guillermo Hevia García, Marcela Suazo Client: Nestlé Chile S.A. Contractor: Precon S.A. Bioclimatic Consultant: Biotech Lighting: Opendark Project Area: 2,800 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Cristián Barahona, Guillermo Hevia H. & Guillermo Hevia García The new building, part of Nes..
Gulp is three thousand translucent drinking straws interwoven to form a dense, spherical lampshade. Made from one continuous length of interconnected straws, you could – if you possessed Dyson-like suction – put one end in a drink and gulp it down through the other. Each piece takes seven days to make and is made to order. from contemporist
