Architects Merkx+Girod have sent us these images of the interior they designed for Foster + Partners‘ Vivaldi Tower near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The 24-storey building, for financial services company Ernst & Young, includes a restaurant and bar, auditorium, meeting rooms, library, newsroom and fitness facilities plus offices, video conference rooms and an executive boardroom. See our previ..
Young Irish artist Debbie Smyth has created a series of objects by weaving tape measures. Smyth was one of the winners of Dezeen’s competition to show work at Talent Zone at Tent London last month, where she also showed her Pins & Thread project. See our earlier story. Debbie, who graduated in textile design this year, uses techniques like knitting, knotting, basket making and origami. The follo..
Situada en el borde de un acantilado de setenta metros de altura, la casa ofrece una serie compleja de espacios de estar fluidos, inscriptos en un perímetro conformado por una serie de curvas y contracurvas que se extienden en respuesta al paisaje y al sol. Las áreas de día componen un voladizo sobre el océano permitiendo excelentes vistas de la costa. La planta más baja forma una base construid..
June 15th, 2006 This competition entry was submitted with Hannah Tribe and myself and was awarded first place. Let’s hope they go ahead with the suckah. This proposal aims to serve the dual purpose of consolidating North Sydney’s major public transport interchange and providing North Sydney with a tangible and defining marker. The scheme comprises a thin steel roof that links the three sites and..
Architects: Sou Fujimoto Architects Location: Oita, Japan Project Team: Yumiko Nogiri Structural Consultant: Jun Sato Structural Engineers Design Year: 2006-2007 Construction Year: 2007-2008 Site Area: 236,57 sqm Constructed Area: 150,57 sqm Photographer: Iwan Baan A home for two plus a dog. The house itself is comprised of three shells of progressive size nested inside one another. The outermos..
La ubicación de la casa, sobre el borde de un impresionante acantilado de 300 metros con vistas a una playa de arena negra, al volcán Teide y a una gran extensión de la costa norte de la isla de Tenerife, ha resultado decisiva para la propuesta arquitectónica. La idea de la casa consiste en insertar una pieza monolítica de hormigón y vidrio sobre una plataforma de madera en el borde del acantila..
Addition to Residence Koenigswarte, Sesto- Italy completed November 2007 Located on a steep hillside in the Italian Dolomites this new-built hotel has been developed as the interweaving of the free-flowing topography- indexed and organized by series of timber strips- and the serial sequence of apartment units perpendicular to it. Skin organisation as strata Since the overall shape was developed ..
Vivaldi Tower interior by Merkx+Girod Ernst & Young Amsterdam Interior design for the new office building of Ernst&Young designed by Foster Architects, located at the Zuidas in Amsterdam. The architecture of the 26.000 square metre, 22 storey-high building is very clear and straightforward in reaction to which Merkx+Girod designed a ‘softer’ layer for the entire interior. Special attention was h..
An exhibition of the British graphic designer Alan Aldridge opened at the Design Museum in London last week. It is the first UK retrospective featuring illustrations and graphic design works by Aldridge, who was one of the key graphic designers of the sixties and seventies and who worked extensively with The Beatles. Above: Beatles illustrated lyrics, A Hard Days Night 1969 The exhibition runs t..
Architects: ARAD - Bahram Kalantari, Kourosh Dabbagh Location: Tehran, Iran Design Team: Majid Pazhuhi, Niloofar Niksar Technical Team: Anoushiravan Kharrazi, Mehdi Holakouie, Mona haddadi Project Manager: Eskandar Hadjizadeh Structural consultant: Behrang Baniadam (Afarinesh consulting co.) Site Area: 10,500 sqm Constructed Area: 4,200 sqm Project year: 2006 Photographer: Kamran Adl, Ali Daghig..
