Architects: Jorge Hernandez de la Garza Location: Oaxtepec, Mexico Design team: Carlos Rubio Martinez Project Year: 2007 Furniture: Gandiablasco By Designet Art: Victor Reyes Sculptures: Alfonso Magana Photographs: Paul Czitrom This house is located in a residential area of Oaxtepec, a place of exceptional natural beauty. It is contiguous to the north with the hill of Tepozteco and to the south ..
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Arons & Gelauff Architects - Dormitory, Enschede (Copyright Jeroen Musch) Arons & Gelauff Architects send me photographs of their recently finished dormitory building in Enschede, a city in the east of the Netherlands. One of the sides of the nine story building features a climbing wall. According to the architect it is the second highest one in the Netherlands. The addition of the climbing wall..
Architecture: Pedro Gadanho Location: Porto Date: 2007/2008 Built area: 110 square meters General Contractor: Semedidas Photographer: Fernando Guerra Materials: Lacquered MDF, Polyurethane Resin, Stucco, Plasterboard. Plan Captions 1.Entrance 2.Dining 3.Living 4.Kitchen 5.Storage 6.Bathroom 7.Bedroom 8.Bedroom 9.Hall 10.Master bedroom 11.Walk-in closet 12.Bathroom Ghosts in the Shell Sometimes i..
Erick van Egeraat - Entry Forum Competition, Groningen, Model (Copyright EEA) The ‘instant criticism’ this blog aims for, is often a bit relayed. About a month ago the inhabitants of Groningen, a city in the north of the Netherlands, could vote about seven proposals for a mixed-use cultural building that is projected in the middle of the old city. Among the entrants were Zaha Hadid, Neutelings R..
Stockholm Design Week 09: Swedish designers Folkform have designed a collection of furniture called Hidden Layers, launched at their studio and showroom in Stockholm, Sweden, this week. The range comprises cabinets that have been decorated with black and white patterns, intended to look worn. Here’s some text from Folkform: – PREMIÈRE FOR WORN-OUT BEAUTIES Could wear and tear on furniture be dec..
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Cologne 09: designer Kilian Schindler, a student at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design exhibited a range of garden furniture at IMM Cologne in Germany last week. The range includes a wire chair, storage rack and lighting system, which Schindler says are inspired by objects found on German allotments. The project was awarded ‘best architectural concept’ in the d³ schools competition. Here’s ..
Vinyl & Fan Blown Air, 21'-0" x 9'-0" x 28'-0", 2007 A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day stuffs the four rooms of an 800 square foot house into a building envelope of a 500 square foot bungalow. Through this misfit, an architectural space results with deformations, writhings, and contortions as the rooms inflate and readjust to their volatile adjacencies. Although the timed "score" of fans turning ..