The Skyroom is a rooftop event space designed by David Kohn Architects above the Architecture Foundation’s London offices. Opened to coincide with the London Design Festival last month, the steel structure is enclosed by copper mesh walls and topped with transparent plastic. The mixture of enclosed and open-air spaces will be used for lectures, performances and parties. Photographs are by Will P..
Architects: Studio SKLIM Location: Jalan Besar, Singapore Client: Kido Technologies Design Team: Kevin Lim Project Area: 225 sqm Photographs: Jeremy San, courtesy of Studio SKLIM While tapping on a laptop in a cafe has become the ubiquitous platform to begin “work”, the need for a permanent work environment for any office is still necessary in the long run. Perhaps what has changed since the adv..
The inspiration for the ‘Twisted Lights’ comes from the material used, namely bend plywood. This type of plywood is perfect to bend, when it’s properly processed, so the forming capabilities are endless. The flexibility of the material invites to make organic forms. The lamp is built from an initial shape, which is the top of the lamp. Against this top bend plywood is wrapped, so that during the..
German designer Constantin Wortmann has created the NLC Lamp for the manufacturer NEXT. At a first glance, NLC perplexes with its positively striking and yet strangely puzzling appearance. Its special appeal lies in the seeming conflict between the chaotic and the organic. NLC draws its inspiration as much from the head of Medusa as from the finely trellised branches of a treetop. One of the rea..
Montréal-based Chevalier Morales Architectes shared with us their finalist proposal along with Busby Perkins + Will for the Nouveau Centre Culturel de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Competition. See more images and architect’s description after the break. The one dimensional quality which has traditionally characterized libraries, in which they were conceived as places for storing and reading books has evo..
Architects: Populous Location: Ravenscraig, Motherwell, UK Engineering: Buro Happold (structural, civil, mechanical, electrical and public health services) FEDRA (fire) Client: North Lanarkshire Council / Sportscotland / Ravenscraig Ltd / Motherwell College Total Cost: £31.3 million Completion Date: Autumn 2010 Photographs: Andrew Lee PROJECT OBJECTIVE: The clients commissioned the design team t..
Architects: Nomena Arquitectos + Ximena Alvarez Location: Bridge to Manchay, Cieneguilla, Lima, Peru Client: De la Piedra Family Contractor: Americo Chavez Structure: Luis Yeckle Site Area: 15,000 sqm Project Area: 85 sqm Project Year: 2009-2010 Photographs: Ronald Harrison The de la Piedra Chapel is located at the margin of the Lurín river and beside the Lomas de Castilla hill, in the district ..
Rome-based practice OFL architecture has shared with us their project Silk Road Map Evolution that just won them the First Prize in the international competition "New Silk Road Map". The competition was organized by New Italian Blood and was open to Italian and Chinese professionals and students. New Silk Road Map invited participants to develop innovative ideas-projects, material or immaterial,..
British car brand Aston Martin are to launch a luxury compact city car, called Cygnet, next year. The vehicle will be three metres long and offer personalised materials, colours and finishes to make each one unique. “Luxury is not constrained by scale,” claims Aston Martin’s director of design Marek Reichman. Aston Martin Cygnet to become a production reality in 2011 Designed and built at Aston ..
Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects designed a recreation building for the Orange Memorial Park in San Francisco, California. Orange Memorial Park is the most important public recreation venue for the citizens of South San Francisco, and is the context for the new 6,400 sq. ft. recreation building which is encircled by soccer, basketball, picnic and other outdoor amenities. The facility’s functio..
