Architects: Peter Zumthor, with Marc Loeliger, Thomas Durisch and Rainer Weitschies Location: Graubunden Canton, Switzerland Project completed: 1996 THE THERME VALS BUILDING Built over the only thermal springs in the Graubunden Canton in Switzerland, The Therme Vals is a hotel and spa in one which combines a complete sensory experience designed by Peter Zumthor. ONE OF THE INDOOR POOLS Peter Zum..
When architect Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen's Entenza House, aka Case Study No 9, went on the market a month ago, the listing photos were a bit confusing. The house, it seems, had been converted to a guest house or maid's quarters, while owner Barry Berkus built his main residence adjacent to the Entenza House. While Curbed commenters exercised their usual restraint ("The Berkus house is an A..
Designer: MoMA Location: New York, New York Image Credits: MoMA In a gift to the city’s subway riders, MoMA takes over Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street subway station, filling the station with reproductions of over 50 works of art in the MoMA collection. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, walk through the station to see images of works by Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Charles Eames, Cind..
Designer: Spacebox Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands Spacebox® is a new and innovative building system. Spacebox® is a registered trademark for a light weight prefab building system for semi-permanent and permanent solutions. What is Spacebox® ? Spacebox® is a new and innovative building system. Spacebox® is a registered trademark for a light weight prefab building system for semi-permanent and p..
The Wyly Theatre in Dallas is almost finished. This project is very interesting, and REX shows once again how designing a building goes way beyond that working on the volumes and the skin, but to rethink the program itself. Anyone familiar with a theatre knows the program order hasn´t changed much, as it´s pretty much the same you find on Neufert. But REX takes this a step further, by re-studyin..
For the design of a webnet mesh system, we developed a RhinoScript that applies a webnet of any dimension to a surface of any geometry. The script outputs cable count and dimensions to excel for quantity and costing, as well as drawing and labeling each cable flat for fabrication. We are currently in the process of building our own .5 x .5 axis CNC machine to measure, mark, and cut the cables fo..
At the 1970 World Expo in Osaka, consumer electronics maker Sanyo demonstrated their vision for the future by showcasing a series of appliances they thought would populate the home of tomorrow. Included was the Ultrasonic Bath, a pod-like human washing machine that cleans, massages and dries the user in a fully automated 15-minute process. Using a ladder, the bather climbs in through an opening ..
Stockholm Design Week 09: Swedish designers Gabriella Gustafson & Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF Arkitektkontor created an installation of wooden office furniture at Nordic light Hotel in Stockholm last week. The concept was developed for furniture producer RH Chairs, and is used in their showrooms and trade fair stands (also designed by TAF). “The wooden furniture works as a low tech contrast to the h..
New Country House - Fernden Lane, Haslemere, West Sussex Since its conception the project has been driven by the idea that a design of exceptional value can become an important heritage for the area in which it is located. Moreover if the landscape surrounding the site is of outstanding natural beauty then there is potential for a strategic synergy where the two components, natural and manmade, ..
Elliot White, a 3rd year architecture student at Pratt Institute in New York has sent us these images of his conceptual design for a redevelopment of Queens Museum of Art at the World’s Fair site in Queens, New York. The design is raised off the ground, creating a public space underneath that can be used for events when the museum is closed. The building would be constructed using a lattice stru..
