Architects: Fernando Forte, Lourenço Gimenes, Rodrigo Marcondes Ferraz Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Project Team: Renata Davi, Monica Harumi Coordinator: Dante Furlan Structural Project: OPPEA Electrical and Hydraulics Projects: Ramoska & Castellani Construction: Marcelo Szprynger Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Fran Parente The program asked by the client was a commercial space, which would be t..
Architect Ben Naqoka of Point has completed an installation featuring plywood archways at the Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama in Tokyo, Japan. Called Labyrinth of Woods, the wooden profiles branch out lower down to form extra display stands and include arms forming chandeliers where several sections meet. The installation opened last week and will remain in place until 10 July 2010. More Dezeen stor..
El sistema de plataformas es lo que subyace a la idea del proyecto, el punto de partida. La presencia de éstas es perceptible desde el nivel superior de la terraza y desde el inferior del jardín. Las vistas, los cortes, los voladizos y los recorridos acentúan la horizontalidad. La composición geométrica y espacial, los materiales y la relación con el sitio evocan inevitablemente al Pabellón de B..
Architects: Dennis Gibbens Architects Location: Venice, CA, USA Senior Project Architect: Oren Dothan Project Architect: Ryan Turner Lighting Consultant: Lux Populi Audiovisual Consultant: Audio Video Experience Structural Engineer: Taylor & Syfan Consulting Engineers Concrete Contractor: Creative Masonry Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Benny Chan, Nazy Alvarez, Ryan Turner Abbot Kinney Boulevar..
KINZO applied their crystalline signature style, inspired by stealth bombers and 80’s science-fiction movies, to fashion retail: Instead of hiding the cables of the light installation behind a drywall ceiling, KINZO displays them openly to create a “computer chip” pattern that lures the visitor into the centre of the store. The ceiling-mounted lamps were also designed by KINZO and specially manu..
One Shelley Street in Sydney, Australia is an effort to reframe the requirements and performance of the 21st Century office. On behalf of the Macquarie Group, Clive Wilkinson Architects implemented a radical, large-scale workplace design that leverages mobility, transparency, multiple tailor-made work settings, destination work plazas, follow-me technology, and carbon neutral systems. The result..
Architects: Murtinho y Asociados Arquitectos Location: Calle Holanda Nº64, Providencia, Santiago, Chile Client: Los Héroes Caja Compensación Architect in Charge: Santiago Raby Pinto Collaborators: Miguel Angel Contreras Ch. y Alejandra López Contractor: ALTIUS Refurbishment Area: 3.350 sqm Photographs: Pedro Mutis Johnson CONTEXT The challenge was the rehabilitation of a ‘70s building for a new ..
Steven Holl Architects have won a competition to masterplan the Futian business district in Shenzhen, China. Steven Holl Architects’ design for the competition included four towers connected by a horizontal linking structure. The firm was awarded the design of the overall master plan, while the tower designs (not pictured here) were won by Morphosis, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Atelier FCJZ, Hans Hollein..
Architects: Suppose design office Location: Hiroshima city, Hiroshima, Japan Project Team: Makoto Tanijiri, Masafumi Shimatani Client: Yusuke Yamamoto Total Floor Area: 83.99 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano When I design, I think about space without any stereotypes. To delete the all common sense in my mind is a key for me to bring up new or beyond ideas of spaces. The hair sa..
Architects: Lior Vaknin & Sabi Aroch Location: Rehovot, Israel Project year: 2007-2008 The hair strand project started its way by considering the idea of what a hair strand is and what kind of insights it can provide for designing the interior space of the barber shop. Hair has a particular geometry and dynamics derived from natural law. The strand geometry is curved, in accordance with natural ..