Tokyo Designers Week 09: Japanese designer Nosigner presented a jewellery box with square drawers at Design Tide Tokyo earlier this week. Called Squares, the front of the piece is divided into squares of different sizes. The surface is pollished using a technique traditionally used for finishing mirror stands in the Tokushima prefecture of Japan. Drawers are only released if the central one is o..
Architect: António Sérgio Koch Location: Oporto, Portugal Program: Private House Site area: 1,275 sqm Constructed area: 655 sqm Project Year: 2006-2009 Photographs: FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra The building sit is a street corner, in a natural terrace by the sea and the occupation of that is based on the search for optimal morphology of the land as a form of resolution for the deploy..
Today's entry is a collection shared by photographer Peter Carr, from an event in Liverpool, England last year. Said Peter: "As part of Liverpool's Capital of Culture year, the French group La Machine were commissioned to create a large piece of street theatre, on the scale of their earlier work, the Sultan's Elephant. Many were expecting to see something using the iconic Liverbirds, the symbol ..
An incredible facade lighting installation in collaboration between Milan based architecture practice Piuarch and .PSLAB Beirut, the objective of this project is to explore the possibilities of an object or a building from a different perspective giving new life to existing objects. The new facade has created a contrast effect between contemporary glowing white plastic and the old solid architec..
Paris practice LAN Architecture have designed a 142m high “mirror tower” for Beirut, Lebanon. The tower is part of 486 Mina El Hosn, a development also consisting of a shopping centre and five blocks of housing. Located in the port area of the city, the tower will be clad in glass and steel mesh, reflecting views of the surrounding city. Here’s some more information from LAN: – 486 Mina El Hosn ..
Architects: Chiasmus Partners Principal Architect: James Wei Ke, Hyunho Lee Project Team: Oscar Ko, Gu Yun Duan, Feng Bo Client: Beijing Modern Dance Company Location: Beijing, China Program: Performance Hall, Practice Hall, Saloon Project years: 2008-2009 Photographer: Chiasmus, Jenny Hung The Red Diamond was until recently used as an old factory complex in the historic DongCheng district of Be..
Architects: ACXT Location: Derio, Bizkaia, Spain Project Architects: Gonzalo Carro & Javier Pérez Uribarri Collaborator: Carlos Miguel Guimaraes Project Development: Gonzalo Carro & ATHOS (Pedro Berroya, Aitziber Goikoetxea) Structure: Javier Eskubi, Amaia Oyón, Ángel Gómez Project Area: 2,600 sqm Budget: 2,600 sqm Design year: 2006–2007 Construction year: 2007–2009 Photographer: Aitor Ortiz BTE..
Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photographs of a community centre near Avelgem, Belgium, designed by Belgian architects Dierendonck Blancke. Dierendonck Blancke collaborated with architects Stefaan Onraet, Tom Callebaut and Jonas Desmyter to design the centre, built on an existing slope on the border of a nature reserve in a small village. The concrete building consists of a theatre, a..
A luxurious on-ground villa, that offers to its residents the comfort, spaciousness and interior flexibility but yet immobile? Or a limited in space and wavering but at the same time capable of transferring you to any place you want yacht? That could always be the question faced by clients of the luxury leisure sector. Trying to address this issue while simultaneously implementing the know-how a..
The Subjektbeschleuniger (subject accelerator) mimics signatures subatomic particles leave in collision detectors such as installed at the CERN in Geneva. I have always been fascinated by the beauty and simplicity of these signatures as opposed to their invisible meaningfulness. I use these shapes to create an image that still carries the symbolic reference of these signatures but that is dispen..
