[+] GIRL: Not yet? - - - - - [+] GIRL: Are they really going to do it? BOY: I’m telling you, they’ll do it. Watch. - - - - - [+] DOCTOR: So… what seems to be the problem? - - - - - [+] PATIENT: Uh, it’s just some pain in one of my back teeth. Uh… DOCTOR: Mmm hmm. - - - - - [+] DOCTOR: I see. The root of your pain does not exist in our dimension. Kishikawa-kun, go get the usual stuff. NURSE: OK. ..
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 ..
wooden corner _1:1 model wooden corner _rhino model metal plate corner _detail drawing metal plate corner assembly _rhino model +Brian Brush from softrigid
Architects: Saucier + Perrotte architectes Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Principal in Charge: Gilles Saucier Project Architect: Anik Shooner Executive Architect: MENKÈS SHOONER DAGENAIS Project team: Gilles Saucier, Anik Shooner, Caroline Elias, Maxime-Alexis Frappier, Anna Bendix, Anne Sophie Allard, Audrey Archambault, Eda Ascioglu, Patrice Bégin, Catherine Bélanger, Alain Boudrias, Natha..
Architects: Encore Hereux + G Studio 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 French architects Encore Heureux & G Studio didn’t send a text for their Ordos villa, but the renderings are quite expressive. Judge for yourself. ..
Architects: Pushak Location: Nordkynnhalvøya, Finnmark, Norway Project Year: 2007 Program: Roadstop, benches, open fireplaces, toilet Client: Norwegian Road Authority Finnmark Photographs: Pushak The site is in a flat landscape with a lot of wind comming from all directions. The roadstop has nieches to sit in in three different directions so that one can choose where to sit according to the wind..
Architect Zaha Hadid has designed a tap for British manufacturer Triflow. Filtered water is channeled through a separate waterway, controlled with a touch-sensitive button. “Our starting point was a series of formal studies on the conceptual terms of ‘fluidity’ and ‘seamlessness’ as we wanted to generate the fluid geometries of water in motion,” says Hadid. “By applying advanced 3D software to o..
'bubbletecture M' is a kindergarten designed by japanese studio shuhei endo architect institute. located in shiga, japan the maihara kindergarten is surrounded by a newly developed residential area. the structure consists of concrete boxes between each of the rooms and a wooden roof that ties them together. the shell-form roof is made of triangular continuous surfaces; its structural strength an..
Manchester architects Arca have completed a beach café on the promenade in Morecambe, UK. A band of stainless-steel cladding wraps around the sides and roof of the cafe, and overhangs the two glazed facades that face the promenade and the bay. In front of the cafe there is a south-facing outdoor seating area on two levels. Photography by Timothy Soar. Below is some more information from Arca: – ..
