Architects: Wingardh Arkitektkontor Location: Waren (Muritz), Germany Architects team: Gert Wingardh, Gunilla Murnieks, Therese Ahlstrom, Joakim Lyth, Ulrika Davidsson, Peter Ohman, Bjorn Nilsson, Liselott Jademyr, Maria Olausson, Anna Palm, Mats Bengtsson, Sara Helder Construction Year: 2005-2007 Partner in Germany: DGI Bauwerk, Berlin Germany Contractor: Landlord/owner - Landkreis Muritz Lands..
Contemporary Japanese visual artists tweaked the genes of Osamu Tezuka’s manga characters in dozens of works featured at the recent “Tezuka Gene - Light in the Darkness” exhibit at Parco Factory in Shibuya. Here is a small selection. Astro Boy (Enlightenment) The Three-Eyed One (Enlightenment) Phoenix (Hiroki Tsukuda) Ambassador Magma (Yutanpo Shirane) Buddha (Teppei Maki) Unico (Tsuyoshi Kusano..
Oppenheim Architecture + Design have unveiled plans to build an art storage facility in Miami, USA. The facade of the 11-story, 140,000 square foot building will display artwork by emerging and established artists. Designed for art services company Artemundi & Company and referred to as The Vault, the development will include a conservation laboratory, showrooms and exhibition spaces. Constructi..
Duality + Co. Reel 2008 from Christopher Holewski on Vimeo In the past, we have featured several architecture photographers, such as Cristobal Palma, Joao Morgado and Iwan Baan. But the web allows for much more than just images. This time, the guys over Duality Co -readers of our blog- shared with us their reel on architecture videos, a new service they are offering to architectural firms. They ..
In reaction to US President-elect Barack Obama’s Sunday’s declaration on CBS ‘60 minutes’ on 16.11.2008 (his first sit-down interview since winning the November 4 presidential election) where he has confirmed his intention to close Guantanamo’s Detention Center, zerOgroup made this proposal, called ‘I LOVE GITMO’ to upgrade the American enclave in Cuba into a mass tourism destination. The ‘I LOV..
This time the students' investigation of the limit of plywood was positioned between the aesthetic and the structural, a redefination of the constituent material properties of plywood. The observation began from the premise that plywood possess strength only in 2 axial directions, of which its corresponding grains would not be completely revealed. As such, the project sought to develop increased..
On the subject of ply, here's some recent work with plywood which was done with the 2nd year design studio that I teach at the University of Singapore's architecture school. The module was about experimenting with plywood as a constructional material. In 6 weeks, students had to build a 1:1 scale construct that resulted from studio investigations into plywood's material, structural and aesthetic..
Architecture and design practice Plystudio have completed an apartment interior called J-Loft in Singapore. The project involved removing all interior walls from the apartment and installing box-shaped divisions and furniture along one side of the 1,200 square foot space. The installed elements comprise storage, fixed seating, worktop surfaces, a bay window and stairs to the attic. The interior ..
Le site ouvrira au public en mars 2009, de ce fait la contrainte temporelle est primordiale, le coût des aménagements est également limité, ainsi nous avons souhaité proposer des orientations simples, nécessitant peu de moyens matériels ou humains. Toutefois le geste doit être fort à l'échelle du site et de l'évènement Lille 3000. client : Lille 3000 architecte : Franklin Azzi Architecture assoc..
American designers Formvision have created a pop-up store for sportswear brand Reebok in New York, USA. Located in a 3,000 square-foot gallery space, the shop sells limited edition shoes and clothing designed in collaboration with visual artists Rolland Berry, John Maeda and the estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, alongside Reebok shoes designed in the 1980’s. “The design of the space plays with sen..
