A ski jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, designed by Munich-based architects Terrain: loenhart&mayr has been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009. The cantilevered, 100 meter long inrun track is accessed via 332 steps or a diagonal elevator, which lead to three competition decks. The jump will be officially opened during the International Four Hills Tournament 2009, at the end of..
Paris-based Explorations Architecture have sent us these images of a temporary entrance-pavilion they have designed for the Chateau de Versailles in France. The 350 square metre structure provides crowd regulation, a visitors’ centre, security checks and cloakroom. Building was completed this summer; the pavilion will remain in place until 2011. Photographs by Michel Denancé. The following text ..
Architects: R&Sie(n) Location: Évolène, Switzerland Creative Team: François Roche, Stéphanie Lavaux, Jean Navarro Engineer: Guscetti & Tournier, Geneva Interior Design: R&Sie(n) + Mathieu Lehanneur (furnitures) Museum design concept and apparatus: Mathieu Lehanneur Key dimensions: 1,000 sqm Client: Maison des Alpes, Public Foundation Photographs: ©François Roche/R&Sie(n) “Mais voilà qu’en traver..
Architects Tobias Wallisser and Chris Bosse designed a lounge for Architonic at the IMM Cologne furnishing fair held earlier this month in Germany. The lounge was inspired by arctic slabs of ice and provided the setting for a party to celebrate architectural materials database Architonic’s fifth birthday. Wallisser is formerly a partner at Dutch architects UNStudio while Bosse designed the Aquat..
La empresa Corporativo Falcón, dedicada a instrumentos y equipos médicos, requería de un nuevo centro de oficinas. La premisa era un radical cambio de imagen de la empresa, vinculada a la alta tecnología.
Swiss architects group8 with Guscetti & Tournier structural engineering have completed an aviary in the Bois de la Bâtie public park in Geneva, Switzerland. The aviary is situated on a separate island which limits the access of visitors, who follow a path around the aviary to view birds from all directions. The structure consists of 16 unique, tree-like, steel pillars supporting a concrete roof...
Belgian artist Arne Quinze has created an installation called The Sequence outside the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. Quinze designed The Sequence for the Festival of Politics at the Flemish Parliament last month; it will remain in place for at least five years. The following information is from Studio Arne Quinze: – ARNE QUINZE FOR THE FLEMISH PARLIAMENT The immediate environment of t..
The giant Mutagenesis installation by Belgian designer Arne Quinze opened at the Abitate Il Tempo design show in Verona, Italy this weekend. The show closes tomorrow (Monday 24 September). For more info on the exhibition, see our earlier story. More Dezeen stories about Arne Quinze. Below: Arne Quinze
[Image: The Waiting Room, Rome, by Jeffrey Inaba/Inaba Projects]. Jeffrey Inaba of Inaba Projects has a new pavilion on display now in Rome, sponsored by Enel, Italy's largest utilities provider. Because of that sponsorship, Inaba "wanted to use numerous forms of alternative energy applications," but decided, in the end, to apply "just one that was highly productive and cost effective." The pavi..
Belgian designer and artist Arne Quinze created a temporary installation at five-star Parisian hotel Le Royal Monceau last month, before the hotel’s closure for a year-long refurbishment. The installation, called Rebirth, lasted just one night as part of Demolition Party, a VIP event on 26 June at which guests were invited to help destroy fixtures at the hotel. Le Royal Monceau will reopen next ..
