London studio Orproject installed an undulating tree-like structure in the doorway of the Italian Cutural Institute in Belgrave Square for last month’s London Festival of Architecture. Called OR², the structure is a shading device and comprises a series of polygonal segments with integrated photovoltaic cells that are connected by bolts to form a single surface structure. The photosenstive segme..
Live from Milan: architects and designers Christoph Klemmt, Ran Ankori, Maya Carni, Francesco Brenta, Laura Micalizzi and Elisa Oddone have created Project Or, a vortex-shaped installation in a courtyard in Milan that reacts to sunlight. The installation is made up of photo-reactive segments that are translucent when in the shade but coloured when exposed to sunlight. Here’s some more info from ..
GRAFT Architects have completed the Aria Pool Deck, Restaurant & Bar at the City Center development in Las Vegas, Nevada. City Center is a mixed use, 18 million square feet, development by MGM Mirage that features buildings by several world renowned architects. The unique seventy-six acre urban resort is located in the heart of the famed Las Vegas Strip and is a collection of luxury hotels, cond..
We’ve got a thing for criss-crossing bridges at the moment so here’s another one, this time designed by NEXT Architects and Rietveld Landscape for Amsterdam. Called Melkwegbridge, the design separates pedestrian traffic from cyclists and wheelchair users. Pedestrians cross over an arc to afford views from the summit, while the path for those on wheels zig-zags agross the water in order to achiev..
Oslo architects PUSHAK have installed an indoor terrain of moss arches and screens for the London Festival of Architecture, which opened last weekend. The project is PUSHAK’s first outside their native Norway and is part of The Architecture Foundation’s international exchange programme for emerging architects in Norway and the UK. Moss Your City can be seen at The Architecture Foundation until t..
Eindhoven designer Nacho Carbonell built himself a giant iron nest for Design Miami/Basel this week. Called Bush of Iron, the structure contains a seat for one person facing a desk-like recess inside the prickly wire shell. This piece is the last in Carbonell’s Diversity series for Galleria Rossana Orlandi, shown in Milan earlier this year (see our earlier story). Miniatures of the other pieces ..
A temporary retaurant by London firm Carmody Groarke has opened on the roof of a construction site overlooking the 2012 Olympic Park. The structure is made of scaffolding and boards borrowed from the construction site, covered in recyclable plastic sheeting. Located on top of the 35 metre-high Westfield Stratford City development, the pavilion is called Studio East and houses Studio East Dining ..
The national cultural event, Imaginez Maintenant, features work of young multidisciplinary designers (all under the age of 30) in nine French cities. Finding inspiration in Gilles Clément’s description of “wandering plants phenomenon,” Nicolas Dorval-Bory and Raphaël Bétillon’s selected project creates an experimental journey, inviting visitors to explore an unlikely landscape. Open from July 1s..
DMY Berlin 2010: designers For Use/Numen of Vienna and Zagreb wove a web of adhesive tape around scaffolding at the DMY Berlin venue in the Tempelhof former airport last week. The project involved wrapping 45 km of tape about the posts over four days. It was one of three projects awarded in the DMY Awards (see Tafelstukken by Daphna Isaacs and Laurens Manders, also awarded, in our earlier story)..
MINE THE GAP, the 2010 Chicago Prize Competition, has some winners. The competition’s goal was to find innovative solutions to fill the massive hole remaining from the cancellation of the Calatrava-designed Spire Tower along the shores of Lake Michigan First Place: The Second Sun, by Alex Lehnerer, Team Leader, Meghan Funk, Lyndsay Pepple, Chicago, Illinois. Second Place: Return to Paradise, by ..