Spanish architects Joaquín Torres and Rafael Llamazares of the A-cero Studio, have designed the REST collection for the manufacturer VONDOM. Inspiring from the ORIGAMI, Japanese art based in the folding paper in order to get different forms and in the thinking line “Less is more”. The composition is formed by an armchair, sofa, and table, of which modular structure allows you to adapt them freel..
3GATTI Architecture Studio of Rome and Shanghai have won a competition to design an automobile museum in Nanjing, China. An external concentric ramp allows visitors to drive around the exterior of the museum in their own car, past the exhibits to a roof-top car park. Visitors then descend through the museum on foot via an internal ramp. Here are more details from 3GATTI: Automobile museum in Nan..
A temporary retaurant by London firm Carmody Groarke has opened on the roof of a construction site overlooking the 2012 Olympic Park. The structure is made of scaffolding and boards borrowed from the construction site, covered in recyclable plastic sheeting. Located on top of the 35 metre-high Westfield Stratford City development, the pavilion is called Studio East and houses Studio East Dining ..
Architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales added this steeply-pitched roof to an old dry stone construction in the Spanish Pyrenees to form two homes. Nestled into the mountainside on a former farm the building has windows along one side overlooking the valley and a tall window in the gabled end affording views up the mountain. The building houses a father and son in two connected residences. More about ..
Young Danish practices WE ARCHITECTURE and Sophus Søbye Architects have won the first prize in the invited competition Kulturcenter Mariehøj. The proposal for the culture center in Denmark’s Rudersdahl municipality seeks to create open spaces for various activities where interactivity and connections between people have room to grow creatively. Other project collaborators are MASU Planning, Øllg..
DMY Berlin 2010: designers For Use/Numen of Vienna and Zagreb wove a web of adhesive tape around scaffolding at the DMY Berlin venue in the Tempelhof former airport last week. The project involved wrapping 45 km of tape about the posts over four days. It was one of three projects awarded in the DMY Awards (see Tafelstukken by Daphna Isaacs and Laurens Manders, also awarded, in our earlier story)..
Davide Macullo Architects have completed a house in the hills of Canobbio, Switzerland. Nestled on the Alpine slopes north of Lugano, this house is characterised by a volumetric architecture that emerges from the terrain and follows the natural contour of the land. Its constructed volumes embrace the land in an organic and fluent sequence of spaces, each relating to each other and to the surroun..
XVSTUDIO (Xavier Vilalta Studio) shared with us their Alpha Project, which won an international competition for a mixed-used development in Doha, Qatar. The ALPHA PROJECT´s is a completely self-reliant, innovative development. The project aims to sensitively capture the essence and culture of the city of Doha, with ancient design traditions forming the fundamental basis of the plan and modern bu..
FAZ is a collection of modular outdoor furniture and flowerpots, designed by Ramón Esteve for the Spanish manufacturer VONDOM. Ramón Esteve, architect of the harmony, serenity, timelessness and the universality has created mineral and expressive shape that makes FAZ a design that contextualizes with the homes and installations. Atmosphere, encircling as a result of the happy combination of the m..
Israeli lighting and furniture designers Aqua Creations have opened a new flagship store in Tel Aviv. from contemporist
