NOVAE Architecture has been recently selected as one of the 10 Young Italian Architects under 35 at the “Architects Meet at Fuori Biennale”, for the Venice Biennale. For the event, they presented their project “Teritorial Dissonances”. More images and architect’s description after the break. The theme of the urban border (social, cultural and physical )apparent inherent identity with the attitud..
Architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space have sent us this video of a pavilion situated in Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, designed by US architects Studio Gang. The movie shows the construction of the bent-wood lattice structure, the installation of fibreglass shells to the top of the pavilion providing shelter and its various uses throughout day and night. Studio Gang Architects also designed the ..
Chris Bosse has sliced up the Panton chair as part of the Re-loved: designer stories at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney until 10 October. re-LAVA ed: Geometries beyond the blob Bosse, director of innovative architectural firm LAVA, is one of several designers commissioned by the Powerhouse to use a pre-loved chair to tell a story about a piece of furniture they love. He chose a design classic that ..
Fashion designer Iris van Herpen collaborated with New York company .MGX by Materialise and artist Daniel Widrig to create 3D printed clothes. Created as part of her Spring/Summer 2010 collection called Crystallization, the designs were inspired by the transformation of liquid into crystals. The piece was unveiled as a preview at Amsterdam International Fashion Week last month and is the first o..
Starting with a digital body scan, the dress is digitally drawn. This animation serves to compare the drawing process with the final product and the variability in reality. from vimeo
For the Young Architects Forum Atlanta’s 10UP! National Architectue Competition, participants were challenged to create a temporary installation for Atlanta. The winning 45 ft tower, Periscope, designed by Brandon Clifford and Wes Mcgee of Matter Design Studio, is an “inhabitable installation with iconic implications to advocate bold architecture for the Atlanta community and young designers acr..
London studio Orproject installed an undulating tree-like structure in the doorway of the Italian Cutural Institute in Belgrave Square for last month’s London Festival of Architecture. Called OR², the structure is a shading device and comprises a series of polygonal segments with integrated photovoltaic cells that are connected by bolts to form a single surface structure. The photosenstive segme..
New York architects Axis Mundi have designed a retrofit façade for an office building in Barcelona that replicates rippled water. Designed for a bottled water brand, the facade will be made of a polymer composite and suspended on a steel truss attached to the existing building. Here’s some more information from the architects: h2o Barcelona, Spain (New York, NY) 2010 – Our firm has been retained..
Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio have collaborated with UCLA Architecture and Urban Design students to create a courtyard stage set made of coffee tables. Called Table Cloth, the installation features furniture components joined together to form an platform and backdrop hanging from one wall of the courtyard. It will be used throughout the summer as a backdrop for performances by the UCL..
