Dutch designer Maren Hartveld presented a soft bathtub at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show in the Netherlands earlier this month. “Bringing a new meaning to sinking into one’s tub,” says Hartveld. “A free-standing soft bathtub made from polyurethene coated foam rubber; not cold and hard like the average bathtub, but soft and warm, and comfortable like a sofa”. Above image by Marjan Hol..
Architects: Kristin Jarmund Architects Location: Oslo, Norway Project year: 2005-2008 Project Team: Kristin Jarmund, Leif D. Houck, Børge N. Anfinsen, Gunn Andresen, Nora Müller, Arild Eriksen, Aud Randi Astad Client: Bertel O.Steen Constructed Area: 23,500 sqm Photographs: Leif D. Houck Functionally the building is a combined office building, car salesroom and workshop. Formally we worked with ..
Warsaw-based architects Are have designed a new terminal building for Lublin International Airport in Poland. The airport extension and renovation was designed in collaboration with Sener Ingenieria y Sistemas in Poland and Spain, and Polconsult. The project is due for construction in 2012. The following is from Are: – Competition for the renovation of the Lublin International Airport in Poland ..
An exhibition directed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka called Second Nature has opened at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo. The exhibition includes Venus chair (see our previous story), created from crystals that form on polyester mesh left in a mineral solution for over a month. Yoshioka also created an installation called Clouds for the exhibition, which consists of overlapping transparent fi..
At the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show earlier this month, designer Hung-Pin Hsueh presented a system for using Taiwan Cypress driftwood as an architectural building material. Hsueh proposes that small pieces of timber - usually discarded as unsuitable for architectural purposes - could be used in construction to reduce the need for intensive logging. “The forests are logged in search for..
Architect Zaha Hadid has created a series of installations for a two-venue show in New York, curated by Kenny Schachter. According to Schachter, each installation is derived from architectural projects Hadid has been working on. Masterplan (top image and above) was originally part of her citywide plan for the Asian side of Istanbul, while the Opera House desk (below) uses a relief from a wall of..
Our friends at Inhabitat tipped us on this amazing project, the Folded Bamboo Houses + Paper House by Ming Tang. This structures were conceived as a response to the 7.9 earthquake that strucked China last May. In order to relocate the people that lost their houses, the Chinese goverment decided to build 1.5 million temporary homes. For this, Ming Tang proposed a shelter that was easily produced,..
Architects: GBGV Arquitectos - Federico García Barba y Cristina González Vázquez de Parga Program: Edificio Deportivo cubierto con canchas, gimnasio y piscinas Location: La Higuerita, La Laguna, Tenerife, España Project: 2003 Completion: Junio de 2008 Client: Excmo. Ayuntamiento de La Laguna, Programa Urban de La Cuesta y Taco Contractor: Dragados S.A. Collaborators: Jorge Mosquera Paniagua (Arq..
Home.Haus by J. Mayer H. Architects and Sebastian Finckh Home.Haus - Home for Children and Adolescent Located near the edge of the forest in Hamburg, a new residential building is now finished as a home for children and adolescents. The characteristics of the building are based on a two colour relief facade embracing a compact house volume. A central staircase penetrates the division between flo..
A university faculty building in Milan by Irish practice Grafton Architects has been named World Building of the Year at the inaugural World Architecture Festival, held in Barcelona last week. Luigi Bocconi University was praised as a “magical subterranean realm” by judges including Robert Stern, Richard Burdett and Cecil Balmond. Here’s a statement from the World Architecture Festival, followed..
