In October 2007, Dow Jones Architects won an architectural competition to redesign the museum. The competition brief asked for a new gallery space where temporary exhibitions could be housed in secure and environmentally-controlled conditions. Text description and more photographs and drawings after the break. It appeared to us that creating a dedicated place for the museum’s permanent collectio..
The October Series is a collection of light based artworks that bring the excitement of some of our larger projects to a series of immediately available wall hanging mini-installations. These artworks were unveiled on June 3rd 2008 at the Prima Design Show where Cinimod Studio was exhibited by International Art Consultants. The artworks display a seemingly impossible depth of three-dimensional l..
Architects: NL Architects - Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Kamiel Klaasse Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project leader: Michael Schoner Project team: Jung-Hwa Cho, Gen Yamamoto, Florent Le Corre, Wei-Nien Chen, Amadeo Linke Structural Engineer: ABT Delft, Walter Spangenberg Climate Consultant: DGMR, Paul van Bergen Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beiji..
London architects dRMM have designed a house with mobile walls and roof that can be moved to cover and uncover parts of the dwelling. The house, in Suffolk, England, features a sliding structure that fits over the static main house, guest annexe and greenhouse. The mobile element, which is 28 metres long and weighs 50 tons, move along rails set into the ground. As it moves, the sliding element c..
Vinyl and Fan Blown Air13’-9” x 15’-0” x 10’-0”, 2008 Sited in an extant aperture of a roll up door, two forms of the same size pass air back and forth all day long. As one arch inflates the other collapses and air to fill the engorging arch is sucked from the other. The two arches are in mirrored orientation, participants can pass through the bottom arch until it becomes volatile and the upper ..
Tenerife architects Menis Arquitectos have designed a music hall in Torún, Poland. Two separate music halls, of 3000 and 1000 seats respectively, can be joined together to create one space for large performances. The site is located on a plot of land between the medieval old town and a modern development. The architects used white concrete for the exterior and red brick for the interior, which t..
Cinimod Studio is pleased to announce the successful opening of their first ‘SNOG’ store in London. ‘SNOG’ is a specialist food outlet that exclusively sells pure frozen yogurt, and is the first one of its kind in the UK. The design brief was to create a new high-end interior that was uniquely British and wholly original. Working closely with the client, StudioUribe, and the branding agency ICO ..
(photo: Peter Turo) The UFO flew in along the coast from the nearby town of Sopot, and then circled the centre of Gdansk. The UFO made its startling and surprising appearance soon after sunset. It appeared to be covered in lights displaying a series of geometric colour patterns. “ (photo: Peter Turo) “Untitled (UFO)” is an art project conceived by established New York artist Peter Coffin. Cinimo..
Los Angeles architects Stefan Rutzinger and Kristina Schinegger have designed Synaesthetic Filter, a proposed mobile pavilion for experimental music that can change shape to alter acoustic qualities during a performance. The demountable pavilion can be dismantled for transport and assembled in public interior spaces. Rotating acoustic elements open and close the pavilion and produce changing pat..
Architects: Vallo & Sadovsky Architects Location: Pekná Cesta, Bratislava-Rača, Slovakia Construction Year: 2006 End section house constructed area: 162 sqm Terraced house constructed area: 138 sqm Photographs: Pato Safko, Vallo Sadovsky Architects Our client’s requirement was to create a hybrid between a larger more comfortable dwelling with 4 parking places and a family house with a small gard..
