Project Title: Phoenix Flowers, Garscube Landscape Link Location: Garscube Road/ M8 Flyover, Glasgow, Scotland Cost: £1.2million Construction start date: 21st September 2009 Completion date: 28th June 2010 Summary The first phase of the regeneration of the Speirs Locks area in Glasgow has been completed with the opening of the Garscube Link, a new public realm intervention which re-connects Nort..
For the Young Architects Forum Atlanta’s 10UP! National Architectue Competition, participants were challenged to create a temporary installation for Atlanta. The winning 45 ft tower, Periscope, designed by Brandon Clifford and Wes Mcgee of Matter Design Studio, is an “inhabitable installation with iconic implications to advocate bold architecture for the Atlanta community and young designers acr..
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..
