Gerard Veciana, from ARTEKS Arquitectura shared with us his latest project in Tarragona, Spain. Architect: ARTEKS Arquitectura Location: Tarragona, Spain Architects in charge: Gerard Veciana Membrado & Elisabet Faura Pavia Collaborators: Miquel Mercé, Manuel Gonzalez, Rubén Alonso, Flavio Rezende Project Year: 2008 Structural Engineering: Ing.Joan Rovira, Ing. José María Velasco / www.amatria.co..
Architect: Königsberger Vannucchi - Jorge Königsberger and Gianfranco Vannucchi Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Collaborators: Sandra Dellarole, Huang Kuo Che, Liliane Caparelli, Carla Estrella, Luiz Boscardin and Luiz Paulo Eigenheer Project Year: 2005-2006 Construction Year: 2007-2008 Site Area: 3,800 sqm Constructed Area: 25,930 sqm Photographs: Leonardo Finotti This project in São Paulo, Brazil,..
Austrian firm Architects Collective have completed Origami, a Corian-clad penthouse on top of an existing building in Mexico City. The new extension includes two terraces and is positioned on top of an existing three-storey building. Its steel structure is covered in Corian panels. The following is from Architects Collective: – OZULUAMA RESIDENCE Origami in Mexico City In the heart of Mexico Cit..
Swedish designers TAF Arkitektkontor have designed a collection of adjustable furniture called Trestle, which was shown at the Cibone gallery as part of Design Tide Tokyo earlier this month. The trestles have cast supports at the joints and can be combined with timber elements to create different furniture forms. “It is about sustainability, timelessness and a dynamic function,” says Mattias Stå..
Nan16 is a lamp with a power socket in the shade, designed by Sebastian Herkner. The lamps and other electrical appliances can be connected in series; Herkner describes the product as “a lamp for the dining table to plug a toaster or raclette, as well as for your personal workplace to charge the notebook.” Nan16 is produced by Swiss manufacturers Nanoo. Herkner exhibited the design last month as..
Austria-based designer David Pompa has designed a collection of office furniture called Surreal Minimalism. The collection comprises eight chairs constructed from different combinations of metal bases and upholstered seats. “These chairs are a response to mental and physical needs of people in their office environment,” says Pompa. A recent graduate from Kingston University in London, Pompa deve..
Architect: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Project Year: 2005 Client: City of Copenhagen - Department of Labour & Family Affairs Engineer: Jørn Tækker A/S Contractor: NCC Brøndby Photographs: Jens Markus Lindhe Site: The neighborhood of Skanderborggade/Krausesvej is characterized by a mix of buildings made up of dense urban blocks from the turn of the 19th century, int..
For a brief period in the mid-1870s, artistic woodblock prints known as “newspaper nishiki-e” were a popular form of mass entertainment in Japan. These colorful prints fed the public’s enormous appetite for sensationalism by retelling shocking stories culled from the major newspapers of the day. The Meiji government swiftly cracked down on the publishers of these “unofficial” sources of informat..
Architects: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor Location: Stockholm, Sweden Architects in charge: Gert Wingårdh, Cecilia Ström, Per Söderberg Collaborators: Gustav Appell, Ewa Bialecka-Colin, David Christoffersson, Daniel Frickeus, Bengt Hellsten, Robert Hendberg, Rickard Karlsson, Stefan Nilsson, Hanna Samuelsson Design Year: 2003 Construction Year: 2007-2008 Client: AB Svenska Bostäder Construction: Tyrén..
“A Dream To Have In Heaven” (Tengoku De Miru Yume - 天国でみる夢) by Maki Sasaki is a surreal non-narrative one-shot manga published in the November 1967 issue of the now-defunct Garo, an alternative manga monthly magazine that peaked in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [+]
