The Love Handles chair is a full-figured lounge chair inspired by the body’s hidden curves. It is a playful study in form and a nod to everyday beauty and imperfection. The chair’s subtle asymmetry, proportions, and cushioning offer surprising comfort and plenty of room to lounge, while its stable structure and durable frame ensure that people can freely engage with its various surfaces. The Lov..
Morphosis Architects is currently completing a massive project in Shanghai: The Headquarters and offices for Giant Group, including residence for the chairman & all Giant Group employees, hotel, training center and clubhouse, with a total of 258,300 sqf (23,996 sqm). Thom Mayne’s architecture has pushed building techniques in order to take his organics form to reality, and I think that the best ..
Architects: Vaillo + Irigaray / Antonio Vaillo + Juan Luis Irigaray Location: Navarra, Spain Project manager: Daniel Galar Irurre, architect Rigger: Pacho Jiménez Structure: Tadeo Errea- LANDABE Engineer: Luis Miguel Navarro Lighting: Anton Aman - ALS LIGHTING Facades: VITROCSA Client: Restaurante Marisol Project year: 2007 Photographs: Vaillo + Irigaray The organizational scheme is due to simil..
This vortex-shaped, temporary outdoor installation at Materials & Applications in Los Angeles warped the flow of space with a featherweight rendition of a celestial black hole. Hovering over M&A's courtyard, Maximilian's Schell was a spectacle the size of an apartment building constructed in tinted Mylar resembling stained glass. The piece functioned as a shade structure, swirling overhead for t..
제 주도 서귀포 핀크스 골프 클럽 가까이 조성된 비오토피아는 이타미 준과 유이화가 설계한 연립주택, 생태공원, 미술관, 교회 등으로 구성된다. 기존의 황폐한 자연을 개조해 자연과 함께할 수 있는 적극적인 건축 프로그램을 만들었다는 것이 특징이다. 2004년에 시작해 2005년부터 계획된 연립주택은 2010년에 완성된다. 비오토피아는 제주도가 지닌 휴양 요소를 충분히 도입한 저층 집합 주택이다. 자연에 대한 개념은 독일의 뒤셀도르프에서 실험된 예를 적용했다. 이는 황무지에 가까운 자연을 인공적으로 개조하면 10~20년 후에 새로운 자연으로서 다시 태어난다는 점을 확인하는 실험이다. 우리는 자연에 광범위하게 손을 대는 것이 아니라, 인공 요소를 최소한으로 가미하고 인프라를 정비해 미개척 벌판을 새로운 자연으..
Architects: AllesWirdGut Architektur Location: Arlberg, Austria Collaborator: Jan Schröder Client: Gemeinde Project Area: 625 sqm Construction Year: 2007 Photographs: Hertha Hurnaus & AllesWirdGut Architektur The compact building block is situated at the upper north area of the plot. The north corner of the mainly 1-storey high kinder- garden rises up into a second floor annex to correspond wit..
SsD Architects designed the Big Dig house in Lexington, Massachusetts. As a prototype building that demonstrates how infrastructural refuse can be salvaged and reused, the structural system for this house is comprised of steel and concrete discarded from Boston’s Big Dig utilizing over 600,000 lbs of salvaged materials from elevated portions of the dismantled I-93 highway. Planning the reassembl..
Danish designer Per Weiss has created the Leash sofa for the Danish manufacturer, Innovation. The sofa is part of Innovation’s 2010 “One Room Living” collection that they will exhibit at the upcoming 2010 IMM Cologne furnishing show in Germany. from contemporist
Project: A 2,500 SF residence for a couple occupying a tiny, pie-shaped site with views of the Mississippi River. Solution: The house is decidedly modern as it responds to both the neighborhood and its primary asset, an unobstructed view of the Mississippi River. The design is composed of two components; a white-brick cube, which aligns itself with the established streetscape of rowhouses; and a..
