Last week, Bustler reported that DawnTown, the annual international architectural competition for Downtown Miami, published a preview of all competition entries in a Flickr gallery just a few days before the official announcement of the winners on Friday, December 4. Now the results are in, and the first prize goes to the team “office 247” (Rosalea Monacella, Craig Douglas, and Armando Oliver Su..
American designer Robert Brou has sent us photos of the Barnacle Stool he has created. From the designer: The design was entirely created in the moment while in the shop. The body is constructed of 12/4 (3″) Maple lumber that is laminated together and then sculpted with a variety of grinders and sanders. This sits atop eleven Ash legs that are dyed purple. Each leg is set into the body at a slig..
A-cero Architects have sent us photos of a house they designed in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid. The balance on which rest the three principles defining this construction, beauty, firmness and utility give us the key to confront its forcefulness, which emerges as a great sculptural work. It is a plastic reality: the singularity of the house defines a researching purpose that places value on aesthet..
Last weekend, the installation “Lighttube” by German architect Marco Hemmerling was introduced at the 9th annual festival Arbres et Lumières in Geneva, Switzerland. The concept for the illumination at Square Pierre Fatio in the city center is based on two major aspects of spatial perception. In first place the installation amplifies the relation between the central column and the surrounding tre..
WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture, the design competition organized by UCLA’s cityLAB, culminated with the announcement of “Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park” as the winning proposal of the professional competition and “R_Ignite” and “Aquaculture Canal_New Orleans” as the winning proposals of the student competition – WPA 2.0 (SE). Winner of the professional competition: “Carbon T.A.P.// Tunn..
MAD Architects, china, urban forest, urban design, green roof, residential building, nature, inspired by nature, forest, stacked forest Inspired by mountainous Chinese landscapes and the traditional villages built their hillsides, MAD Architects has unveiled plans to create a towering vertical Urban Forest. Designed for Chongqing, China, the projects consists of a stacked vertical forest set in ..
Swedish design studio Form Us With Love have created the Ogle pendant lamp for the Swedish lighting manufacturer, Atelje Lyktan. Ogle has the functionality of a spotlight combined with the elegance of a pendant lamp. from contemporist
Yesterday, Bustler reported about the AIA Seattle 2009 Honor Awards that were presented to Washington State’s most outstanding architects and design teams earlier this week. One of the award winners that received the Citation Award in the ‘Envisioned’ category was a team comprised of Seattle-based firms zero plus and STAVE for their proposal for a thematic pavilion for the Expo 2012 in Yeosu, Ko..
From the designers: Anima was bud from observation, from the special link created between a man and a chair, between a soul-body and a furniture-body. Following a line of contact points between the body and the chair, the sensation is of an infinite and fluid line. Anima is made of 3 mm of stainless steel plate in self production. from contemporist
Radical Craft was awarded third for their proposal Soms Atoll for the World Sustainability Center (one of the winning proposals by KOW was previously featured on AD). For the project, the architects questioned the possibility of the World Sustainability Centre in Friesland creating a new interpretation of the relationship between the man-made and the natural. The Soms Atoll operates at the scale..
