Sam Fiszman Park 2007 Sydney Landscape Architecture 360°, Sydney McGregor Westlake Architecture, Sydney Project Team Liam Noble (360°) Peter McGregor (McGregor Westlake Architecture) Daniel Baffsky (360°) Art Consultant Peter McGregor Engineer Partridge Partners Builder Synergy Resource Management Landscape Contractor Coordinated Landscapes Excavation revealed a mosaic of different rock platform..
Pipe Light is an installation on an abandoned house in São Paulo, Brazil by French-Brazilian architects Triptyque. The project, part of a design show held at the property earlier this year, comprises metal tubing and lamps wrapped around the inside and outside of the building. The installation was commissioned Houssein Jarouche, owner of the adjacent furniture and homeware store Micasa. More Dez..
An exhibition of new work by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is on display at the Albion Gallery in London. The show includes an installation created in collaboration with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron (above). The work is a variation of the installation created in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in September - see our earlier story. The exhibition continues until 14 Nove..
Architects Oyler Wu have created an aluminium staircase called Live Wire at the SCI-Arc gallery in Los Angeles, USA. The installation consists of a staircase linking the ground floor of the gallery to a catwalk above. The staircase is made from approximately 2,400 feet of aluminum tubing and rods. According to the architects the treads can support more than 100 pound per square foot. Photos by O..
An exhibition directed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka called Second Nature has opened at 21_21 Design Singht in Tokyo. The exhibition includes Venus chair, created from crystals that form on polyester mesh left in a mineral solution for over a month. Yoshioka also created an installation called Clouds for the exhibition, which consists of overlapping transparent fibres. “I have tried to c..
Our friends at Inhabitat tipped us on this amazing project, the Folded Bamboo Houses + Paper House by Ming Tang. This structures were conceived as a response to the 7.9 earthquake that strucked China last May. In order to relocate the people that lost their houses, the Chinese goverment decided to build 1.5 million temporary homes. For this, Ming Tang proposed a shelter that was easily produced,..
Instalación para la muestra colectiva "MyHome" en Vitra Design Museum Installation in the collective exhibition "MyHome" at Vitra Design Museum
Private Client. Richardson, Texas. 2002-2003 Fabrication Products Residential Projects Plug-On is the first in a series of product prototypes, intended for residential structures. It was fabricated and assembled in Houston, then delivered and installed onto an existing modest one-story ranch style house in Richardson, Texas. The client was interested in an addition that would complement the exis..
목재는 매우 다재다능합니다. 일반적인 목조 건축에서 목재는 매우 다재다능하기 때문에 여러 지역에서 기능에 따라 효과적으로 차별화됩니다. 기둥, 보, 기초, 외벽, 내벽, 천장, 바닥재, 단열재, 가구, 계단, 창틀, 즉 모든 것을 의미합니다. 하지만 목재가 정말 다재다능하다면 이 모든 기능을 충족하는 하나의 규칙으로 건축을 만들면 어떨까 생각했습니다. 다양한 기능과 역할이 분화되기 전 원초적인 상태의 조화로운 개체를 보존하는 새로운 공간성의 창조를 상상했습니다. 여기에는 바닥, 벽, 천장의 구분이 없습니다. 바닥이라고 생각했던 장소가 다양한 위치에서 의자가 되고, 천장이 되고, 벽이 되기도 합니다. 바닥은 상대적이며 위치에 따라 공간성이 다르게 인식됩니다. 이곳에서는 사람들이 공간에 입체적으로 분포되어 ..
Innsbruck-based architects Astearchitecture have completed a mountain-top viewing platform above a glacier in Tyrol, Austria. The steel structure, completed last month, cantilevers nine metres over a ridge on Mount Isidor. The following text is from Astearchitecture: – Top of Tyrol by astearchitecture The viewpoint platform on Mountain Isidor in Tyrol, Austria is a drawing in the snow, it forms ..
