Barcelona architects and designers Deardesign have completed a flagship store for mother-and-son fashion designers Lurdes Bergada and Syngman Cucala in Barcelona. The store, located in the L’illa Diagonal shopping mall, is divided in two by a faceted beech tunnel stretching the length of the shop. The wall comprises 1,000 uniquely shaped wooden panels held together by 2,400 screws. The interior ..
Merete Rasmussen is a Danish artist who predominately works with one-off sculptural forms in stoneware clay. She has lived and worked in London since 2005. Merete is interested in the idea of one continuous surface, with one connected edge or line running through the whole form. Clear, clean shapes; soft smooth curves in contrast to sharp edges; concave and convex surfaces; the discovery and str..
Carving a two-mile-long canyon through the heart of Southern California might seem like apostasy in this age of low-impact land use. But the Orange County Great Park is no ordinary place. To build this winding canyon, excavating machines will move over five million cubic yards of earth to create a sluice of space up to 60 feet deep, with selective cuts framing views of the Santa Ana Mountains, a..
Architects: PLOT = BIG + JDS Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Partner in Charge: Bjarke Ingels Project Leader: Finn Nørkjær Project Architect: Jakob Møller Contributors: Christian Finderup, Henning Stuben, Ingrid Serritslev, Marc Jay Collaborator: JDS, CC DESIGN Constructed Area: 2,500 sqm Project year: 2003 Budget: US $787,000 Photographs: BIG, Casper Dalhoff, Esben Bruun, Hanne Fuglbjerg, JDS Cop..
Korean designer Yangsoo Pyo has sent us photos of the Afro Chair he has designed. Description by Yangsoo Pyo: “Afro” is a chair that employed the image of the hair style “Afro Permanent hair.” Springs are used to visualize the tangled and puffed up texture of the afro hair. The springs used to create the “Afro chair” are the two-ring binder springs used to bind together a notebook. The two-ring ..
Project Facts & Credits: Location: St Patrick’s College, Old Dublin Road, Carlow Gross External area: 4,679 sqm Gross floor area: 3,726 sqm Project value: €18 million Construction value: €12.7 million Architect: Terry Pawson Architects Commissioning Client: Carlow County Council Project Funding: Carlow County Council, Department of Arts Sport & Tourism Structural Engineer: Arup, Dublin Services ..
Architects: Kanner Architects Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Architect in Charge: Stephen H. Kanner Project team: Damian Lemons, Nicolas O.S. Marques, Jay Fukuzawa, Clare Olsen, John Mebasser, Claudia Wiehen, Lincoln Tobier, Stephane Corbel Client: United Oil Project Area: 630.8 sqm Project year: 2009 Photographs: John Linden & Nicolas O.S. Marques Situated at La Brea and Slauson avenues..
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB) have designed Koerner Hall in Toronto, Canada, as part of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning. The design of the 1135-seat concert hall is based on the classic shoe-box shape of some of the world’s finest concert halls, and features two balcony tiers above the main orchestra level, and a third technical bal..
Beijng architects MAD have designed a convention centre for Taichung, Taiwan. The project will consist of a series of mountain-like buildings with pleated exterior surfaces, allowing natural ventilation and accommodating photovoltaic panels. The architects wanted to seamlessly integrate the topology of the landscape and the architecture. Here are some more details from Mad: – TAICHUNG CONVENTION..
Architects: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas Location: Pescara, Italy Client: De Cecco Spa Structure: Studio Ing. Toniolo, Sirmione (BS) Total area: 6,300 sqm Budget: 20M Euro Project Year: 2001-2009 Photographs: Moreno Maggi The New Business Centre for Pescara is the result of integration of two simple elements: a low height building with a punctured plane and the “annular” building sitting on top..
