Our friends from Sponge Architects sent us their design of a temporary art pavillion for which they received an Honourable Mention recognition by the Art Alliance Austin. The project was designed for a competition called TOGS (Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space) in March of this year, where 200 entries from all over the world were received by the organizers. The temporary architecture installation ..
image courtesy designboom.com image courtesy designboom.com 완 벽한 하나의 방이다. 욕실, 화장실, 책상, 침대, 심지어 해먹까지, 그 모든 것이 작은 정육면체 속에고스란히 들어 있다. 조 나가사카+스키마타 건축사무소(Jo Nagasaka & Schemata Architecture Office)가 선보인 ‘파코(Paco)’다. image courtesy designboom.com image courtesy designboom.com 가 로, 세로, 높이 3m의 입방체 형태로, 채 1평이 되지 않는 공간이지만, 생활에 필요한 최소한의 요소들이 모두 이 백색 상자 안에 들어 있다. 창문이 없어 갑갑해 보이지만, 개폐식 지붕을 열어 창을 대신할 수 있다. 방 안..
“Syn Chron” is an installation designed by Carsten Nikolai back in 2004. He wanted to create an integral sculpture of light, sound and architecture. The crystal-shaped object has a translucent skin on which lasers beam animations insync to the sounds. You can also go inside the object to get the whole light, sound and space experience. Indeed it’s that big. Gestalten.TV has a video where Carsten..
Architects: Pushak Location: Nordkynnhalvøya, Finnmark, Norway Project Year: 2007 Program: Roadstop, benches Photographs: Pushak The site is in a steep slope with views to the Torskfjord valley and the fjord in the west. The siting area is on a lower level than the road and parking. The back of the bench is shielding from the winds blowing from the mountain in east. from archdaily
This Thursday, the chilean government presented the design for the Chilean Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. The 2000sqm pavilion, named “Sprout of a New City” was designed by Sabbagh Arquitectos. This was the first Latin American country to sign their participation on the Expo with their own pavilion. The government emphasized that this pavilion will strength the relation between both countri..
In a forest in the east of the Netherlands one of the best architecture offices in the Netherlands has just completed a new lookout tower. The structure is part of a small park in the vicinity of the village Putten. The concept that the architect, SeARCH, has put forward works like this: take a circular piece of the forest and put it 36 meters up in the sky. From this elevated ground there is a ..
Dutch architects UNStudio last week unveiled designs for a temporary pavilion for Millennium Park in Chicago. The structure, along with a second designed by Zaha Hadid, will be erected in the park from 19 June to 31 October. Update 16/04/09: see our story on Zaha’s pavilion here. The pavilions will celebrate the centenary of 1909 Plan of Chicago, also known as the Burnham Plan, which set out way..
Here (at last!) are a couple of images of Zaha Hadid’s design for a temporary pavilion in Millennium Park, Chicago. The pavilion, along with another designed by UNStudio, will celebrate the centenary of 1909 Plan of Chicago (also known as the Burnham Plan) and will be open to the public from 19 June to 31 October. For more info on the Plan of Chicago centenary and the Burnham Pavilions, see our ..
Architects: Zwarts & Jansma Architecten Location: The Hague, The Netherlands Client: City of The Hague, project organisation RandstadRail Project year: 1999-2006 Contractor: combination Ballast-Nedam / De Boer Technical Design: Ingenieursbureau Gemeentewerken Rotterdam and IbDH Den Haag Photographs: 3D Pro, DigiDaan Randstadrail is a project for a new light urban rail network for the area betwee..
Architect Dietmar Koering of Arphenotype has designed these electricity pylons for a competition to envisage a new power transmission network in Iceland. Each pylon would be between 17 and 32 metres tall, with the shape of each one varying according to its longitude and latitude. “A parametric code drives the heights in an continuous gradient, which will be manufactured physically through help o..
