German practice Kadawittfeldarchitektur have completed a kindergarten in Sighartstein near Salzburg, Austria, clad with metal elements designed to look like blades of grass. This green ornamentation shelters the upper floor of the two-storey building and is made of powder-coated aluminium. The building houses a kindergarten on the ground floor with access to the gardens and floor-to-ceiling wind..
Architects: Vaillo + Irigaray / Antonio Vaillo + Juan Luis Irigaray Location: Huarte, Navarra, Spain Project manager: David Eguinoa, architect Riggers: SIAT Structure: Tadeo Errea - DASEIN Contractor: OBENASA Project year: 2003 Finished year: 2004 Photographs: José Manuel Cutillas The genesis of the project starts from a basic minimum cell, which as the minimal optimal space can be multiplied, a..
Dutch design studio Bloomming have designed a modular system where diamond-shaped components can be individually rotated to vary the amount of light allowed to penetrate. Called Lightfacet, the product can be used as a room divider or window blind. It is produced in the Netherlands and made of an injection-moulded, polycarbonate-ABS blend and stainless steel. Its “smart click” modular constructi..
Architects: za bor architects / Arseniy Borisenko, Peter Zaitsev Location: Moscow, Russia Principal Use: Residence Engineer: za bor architects Structure material: Concrete Constructed Area: 270 sqm Project year: 2005-2006 Photographs: Peter Zaitsev The site is located not far from Moscow, on a steep hillside. The inclinated terrain has been minimally transformed - in fact, a building built-in to..
Architect: Luca Selva Architects Location: Lupsingen near Basel, Switzerland Client: Private Project year: 2004-2005 Project architect: Christoph Rothenhöfer Civil engineer: Bitterli + Partner Ingenieure AG, Gelterkinden, Switzerland Building physicist: reber.physics, Riehen, Switzerland Photographs: Ruedi Walti, Menga von Sprecher The village of Lupsingen consists of a small old center and a mu..
From sheer boredom of contemporary architecture, Francois Blanciak, compiles a book of 1001 illustrations of building forms disregarding site, program and scale. Even gravity. Instead of the conventional sequence of "program + site = form" he presents the direct opposite illustrating the infinite potential of the playful approach to architecture and design. For many the book will appear as a sha..
Architects: Bernardes Jacobsen Architecture Location: São Paulo, Brazil Partners in Charge: Thiago Bernardes and Paulo Jacobsen Project leaders: Fabiana Porto e Marina Nogaró Collaborators: Andrez Galvez e Gabriel Bocchile Interior Design: Bernardes Jacobsen Architecture (Eza Viegas e Veridiana Ruzzante) Lighting Design: Iluz Studio de Iluminação Structure: Leão e Associados Eng. Estruturas Cons..
lights on from thesystemis on Vimeo. lights on is an audio visual performance created for the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria, which has a facade that contains 1085 LED controllable windows. The windows' colors are changed in realtime with music that's broadcasted on speakers surrounding the building. from jajaarchitects
Shawn Knol was "just messing around one day" where he poured oil into a cup of water and filmed it. The result is this beautiful little video footage of Oil in Water. Oil in Water from Shawn Knol on Vimeo. from jajaarchitects
Italian architects Massimo Mariani have completed the Benozzo Gozzoli Museum in Castelfiorentino, Italy. The museum takes the place of a now-demolished 1960s building. Its island-shaped base closely follows the floor plan of the preceding building. This footing replaces the function of traditional street furniture, offering an area for the public to congregate and sit, and can also act as a stag..
