This stool is the result of research for a project developed at an International Summer Workshop held at the Domaine de Boisbuchet in collaboration with the Vitra Design Museum. The workshop was conducted by Stephen Burks, one of the leading lights of American design. The brief? To provide support based on various frequently adopted natural postures and objectify the concept as a mechanical exte..
Shanghai Expo 2010: here are some photos of the United Arab Emirates Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010, designed by Foster + Partners. The design of the pavilion is inspired by sand dunes and the desert landscape of the emirate, and features undulating structures clad in a triangulated lattice of gold-coloured stainless steel panels. A series of louvres feature on certain parts of the façade, a..
Allied Works Architecture in association with Fichten Soiferman et Associés Architectes was selected as one of five finalists in an international competition (won by OMA) to design a new pavilion for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) in Québec City, Canada. Our design for the new building creates a threshold for art. The building acts as a bridge – between city and museum, betw..
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..
Our friends from CEBRA shared their recently awarded Sports Center design with us. The 3.5 m2 extension will incorporate handicap friendly solutions within a sports facility, as almost 50 % of the students attending Egmont High School experience some form of disability whether it be that they are blind, mentally challenged or an amputee. Entitled Kolden, the Danish world for ‘the globe’, the pro..
During Milan Design Week 2010, we met German designer Daniel Rohr, who was exhibiting the Colander Table that we featured last October from contemporist
A group of students of the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Aalborg University, Denmark, finished a Digital Design Miniproject. Originally Art615 is meant as an art pavilion for a crime-related park in Aalborg, Denmark. The concept mainly focused on drawing attention from the unsafe park, and ensuring the feeling of a safer environment for the visitors. Intense work of 43 students at the De..
Here’s another triangulated outcrop: Technische Universität Dresden students Philip Modest Schambelan and Anton Fromm have designed a hotel for mountain bikers for the edge of a cliff in Pregasina, Italy. Called Hiding in Triangles, the conceptual project would include continuous ramps from top to bottom so all parts could be accessed by riders on their bikes. Here’s some more information from t..
Architects: A-cero / Joaquin Torres Location: Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain Associate Architect: Rafael Llamazares de la Fuente Technical Architect: Sandra Moreno Contractor: Formas & Entornos S.L. Project Area: 1,021.57 sqm Project Year: 2006-2008 Photographs: Courtesy of A-cero The Architecture Studio A-cero, managed by Joaquín Torres and his associate architect Rafael Llamazares, presents..
San Francisco architects IwamotoScott have completed a design study for a tower (above, right) straddling a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The proposal was commissioned by New York’s Downtown Alliance as part of the Greenwich South project, a study into how to transform a 41 acre-site south of the World Trade Center site. “The Downtown Alliance commissioned the larger project that thi..
