Pipe Light is an installation on an abandoned house in São Paulo, Brazil by French-Brazilian architects Triptyque. The project, part of a design show held at the property earlier this year, comprises metal tubing and lamps wrapped around the inside and outside of the building. The installation was commissioned Houssein Jarouche, owner of the adjacent furniture and homeware store Micasa. More Dez..
An exhibition of new work by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is on display at the Albion Gallery in London. The show includes an installation created in collaboration with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron (above). The work is a variation of the installation created in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in September - see our earlier story. The exhibition continues until 14 Nove..
An exhibition directed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka called Second Nature has opened at 21_21 Design Singht in Tokyo. The exhibition includes Venus chair, 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 fibres. “I have tried to c..
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,..
Instalación para la muestra colectiva "MyHome" en Vitra Design Museum Installation in the collective exhibition "MyHome" at Vitra Design Museum
Private Client. Richardson, Texas. 2002-2003 Fabrication Products Residential Projects Plug-On is the first in a series of product prototypes, intended for residential structures. It was fabricated and assembled in Houston, then delivered and installed onto an existing modest one-story ranch style house in Richardson, Texas. The client was interested in an addition that would complement the exis..
Innsbruck-based architects Astearchitecture have completed a mountain-top viewing platform above a glacier in Tyrol, Austria. The steel structure, completed last month, cantilevers nine metres over a ridge on Mount Isidor. The following text is from Astearchitecture: – Top of Tyrol by astearchitecture The viewpoint platform on Mountain Isidor in Tyrol, Austria is a drawing in the snow, it forms ..
June 15th, 2006 This competition entry was submitted with Hannah Tribe and myself and was awarded first place. Let’s hope they go ahead with the suckah. This proposal aims to serve the dual purpose of consolidating North Sydney’s major public transport interchange and providing North Sydney with a tangible and defining marker. The scheme comprises a thin steel roof that links the three sites and..
Architects: oficina de arquitectura - Emilio Marín + Nicolás Norero Location: Santiago, Chile Project year: 2007 Photography: Cristobal Palma Within the imaginary of the relatives of disappeared prisoners, not only of Chile, there are a series of recurrent images that are constituted as a sensitive alphabet. Candles put on the ground like an act spontaneous reminder, the posters of the disappear..
Off the Grid:Sustainable Habitat 2020 Today, our habitat is very dependent on the international grid of energy &water. Energy crisis, clean water shortage, global warming and environmental pollution are worldwide problems. Understanding cities as dynamic and ever-evolving eco-systems can help us to formulate strategies for a sustainable urban future. The whole project is based on the the brief t..
