Architect: Miguel Arruda Location: Olives Garden, CCB, Lisbon, Portugal Collaborator: Pedro Pereira Structure: Afaconsult Lighting: Donker by LGT Project Year: 2010 Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra With «Habitable Sculpture» architect Miguel Arruda transports a formal memory of one of his early sculptures from the 60s to the present day and gives it the scale and spatial exper..
Sjölander da Cruz Architects of Birmingham have completed this shelter at a park on a former wasteland in Amington, UK. Designed as a meeting place for young people in the area, the structure was developed in a series of workshops with residents. Here are some more details from the architects: Sjölander da Cruz Architects have recently completed a dynamic shelter for the young people of Amington..
Parador-Mirador en Pinohuacho. Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad de Talca. OBRA DE TITULO Alumno: Rodrigo Sheward Año: 2006 Proceso de diseño: marzo - septiembre Proceso de construcción: septiembre - diciembre Fecha de entrega de la obra: 19 de diciembre Staff de profesores: Juan Pablo Corvalán, Kenneth Gleiser, Andrés Maragaño, Fernando Montoya, Mauricio Ramírez, Carolina Reyes, Juan Román, ..
Based in Berlin, Plastique Fantastique experiments with public architectural works to create unique spatial experiences right in the middle of a city. These giant plastic bubble installations which take on different shapes in different cities, immediately snatch people’s attention and create a temporary focal point in the city centers. he bubble not only modifies the subject’s appearance, but al..
Cultural Stage The Port of Amsterdam commissioned Roos Burger & Yvon Yzermans, two collaborating art historians, to develop a cultural facility in Houthavens West. The Port wants to improve the attractiveness of the area to the public by realizing a cultural meeting place in the transforming area between city and port. The idea of NL Architects is to construct a flexible ‘base’ that can facilita..
Dutch architect Frank Havermans has built a sunken concrete pavilion by a stream in St. Oedenrode, the Netherlands. The KAPKAR/TO-RXD landscape observatory is built into a bank and made of concrete cast in bark. The pavilion is entered by a ramp that takes you into a space containing two benches. A second ramp takes you further down into an small enclosed space with slit that looks out onto the ..
Brookline, MA-based Jin Choi & Thomas Shine of Choi+Shine recently received the 2010 Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture Award for their "Land of Giants" project. The project was originally submitted for an Icelandic pylon competition, where it received an honorable mention. The competition was to find a new typology for Iceland's high voltage power lines and pylons. This design tr..
Architects: feld72 Location: Mistelbach, Austria Client: Community of Paasdorf, Public Art Lower Austria Floor Area: 1,590 sqm Project Year: 2005-2007 Photographs: Courtesy of feld72 Would you choose between parking and public space? Paasdorf is a small “street village” in Lower Austria. The task of feld72 was to position “Kulturlandschaft Paasdorf”– an art project that is known far beyond the b..
Feathers fly around this 15 metre-long tank installed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Called The Snow, the installation is part of an exhibition called Sensing Nature that continues until 7 November. See all our stories about Tokujin Yoshioka » Here’s some more information from Yoshioka: In recent years, I have been studying the essence that human beings wo..
Former European skateboarding champion and architect Matthias Bauer of MBA/S Associates has designed a skatepark and youth club in Stuttgart, Germany. The park has a 1000 square-metre concrete plaza and bowl area, and will also feature a soon-to-be-added vert-ramp. The vert-ramp will form part of an open-air structure housing the youth club. Here’s more info from Bauer: The skatepark is conceive..
