on display at the michael hoppen gallery, london is 'house' by rachel whiteread, documented by john davies. rachel whiteread is known for creating sculptures taking the form of casts. in 1993 whiteread created the 'house' series by spraying liquid concrete into the building’s empty shell before its walls were removed. the work became a temporary monument to lost communities and a focus for publi..
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Architects: Saucier + Perrotte architectes Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Principal in Charge: Gilles Saucier Project Architect: André Perrotte Project team: Trevor Davies, Andrew Butler, Dominique Dumais, Eric Majer, Pierre-Alexandre Rhéaume, Anna Bendix, Sudhir Suri, Christian Hébert, Laurence LeBeux, Quinlan Osborne, Jean-Louis Léger, Samantha Schneider, Nathalie Cloutier, Christine Levi..
Architects: RSVP Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox While the search for paradigms in architecture is not a recent one, the conscious pursuit of utopia seems to be another species in danger of extinction at a moment whe..
Designer Karim Rashid has created a chair for Belgian furniture brand Feek featuring a two-colour seat of two parts that snap together. The chair consists of a metal frame, which supports two expanded-polypropylene pieces that form the seat and backrest. It was launched at Interieur 08 in Kortrijk, Belgium, in October. Here’s some text from Karim Rashid: – Snap Chair The chair is 99% recyclable ..
Location : Tokyo, Japan Program : show stage Structual system : steel frame Stories : 1 stories Building area : 174.80 m2 Total area : 174.80 m2 form shinichiogawa
Architects: Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects Location: London, England Client: The Peabody Trust Design team: Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects; Ellis & Moore (Structural Engineering); Max Fordham LLP (Building Services) Contractor: Sandwood Construction Design year: 2001-2005 Construction year: 2006-2007 Photographs: James Morris Antony House on the Pembury Estate in Hackney provides 30 units of..
Villa in the Dunes is a house designed by architects Zandbelt&vandenBerg, located at the edge of the dunes in the Hook of Holland, the Netherlands. The ground floor of the three-storey residence is partly covered by the dunes and includes a guest house. Photographs by Christian Richters. The following text is from Zandbelt&vandenBerg – Villa in the dunes Hoek van Holland A villa for an art-lovin..
The site faces the sea and has deep depth. And it inclines toward the sea by the vertical interval like 2M. We arranged the house in the center of the site. The plane shape of the house is wedge to spread towards the sea. We planned the first floor as a place to enjoy a garden. The part facing the garden of the half underground is a glass window. By it, a slope of the ground just appears as form..
Villanueva’s public library is the result of a national contest summoned by the Colombian Architect’s Society where the winners Miguel Torres, German Ramirez, Alejandro Piñol and Carlos Meza, architects from the Javeriana University Bogota-Colombia, all below 27 years of age, won first prize in this contest, and designed 3000 square meters for reading rooms, an auditorium, a kid’s library, staff..