ahead of its public opening, designboom visited japanese designer tokujin yoshioka's solo exhibition 'spectrum' at museum. beyondmuseum in seoul, korea. one of the newest and much anticipated works of the exhibition is yoshioka's 'rainbow church', consisting of hundreds of crystal prisms, arranged in a 9-meter-high stained glass installation which flood the museum space with spectrums of color. ..
Shanghai Expo 2010: Here’s a movie of British designer Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, which opens next month. The movie explores the interior and exterior surface of the Seed Cathedral, which features seeds encased at the tips of 60,000 fibre-optic rods. from dezeen
PROJECT: Danish Pavilion at the EXPO 2010 SIZE: 3.000m2 CLIENT: EBST COLLABORATORS: 2+1, Arup AGU, Arup Shanghai, Tongji Design Institute, Ai Wei Wei, Jeppe Hein, Martin De Thurah, Peter Funch LOCATION : Shanghai, China Architect: BIG Creative Director: Bjarke Ingels Partner-in-Charge: Finn Norkjaer Team: Tobias Hjortdahl, Jan Magasanik, Claus Tversted, Henrick Poulsen, Niels Lund Petersen, Kami..
At Salone del Mobile 2010 in Milan, we visited the booth of Italian manufacturer Infiniti Design, where they provided us with creative images of their 2010 Collection. from contemporist
Design Against the Elements is a global architectural design competition meant to find a solution to the problems presented by climate change. Spurred by the devastation wreaked in the Philippines by tropical storm Ondoy (Ketsana) and driven by a powerhouse multidisciplinary group of organizations from the private, institutional, and government sectors, the project aims to draw together the most..
hyunil oh and keunbo yang of new york city have one the TOGS (temporary outdoor gallery space) competition organized in collaboration with art alliance austin and the austin foundation for architecture. 'art tent' is designed to sympathize with neighboring surroundings. as an object, the exterior surface communicates with nature and urban context while the interior surface is intended to communi..
Design: Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering Location: Shanghai, China Client: Shanghai World EXPO Land Holding Co. Ltd., Shanghai Managing Partners: Prof. Dr. Jan Knippers, Dipl.-Ing. Thorsten Helbig Contributors: Florian Scheible, Florian Kamp, Dirk Richter, Roman Schieber, Johannes Beran Cooperation: ECADI, Shanghai, China Gross Floor Area: 280,000 sqm Membrane Roof Area: 65,000 sqm Project Y..
Busnelli has introduced the new Bohémien sofa for 2010. Designed by Italian architect Castello Lagravinese, Bohémien is a modern interpretation of traditional styles. from contemporist
Programmatically the home is split into two zones, one a 4300 sf. residence for the owners, a couple requiring a very low maintenance lifestyle, and another zone for their extensive family and friends who visit the Arizona sunshine often. While much of the surrounding homes echo themes from distant European cultures of centuries past this home speaks to its specific place in the Sonoran Desert. ..
american firm archi(te)nsions developed a thematic pavilion for the yeosu 2012 world expo - which intends to raise interests and awareness of the oceans and to explore educational and scientific aspects of the state of the art research on the marine environment. to celebrate the ocean and its unifying element they developed their design concept around the shape of a waterfall. waterfalls are typ..
