Young architect William O’Brien Jr was one of the practices invited to this years P.S.1 competition (awarded to SO-IL). He shared with us this cabin project based on an extruded A-frame. Interesting wall configuration, take a look at the section. Allandale House is an A-frame(s) house for an idiosyncratic connoisseur and her family. Along with its occupants, the Allandale House also provides spa..
Villa Bussum is situated in a lush, leafy neighbourhood in Bussum; a small town near Amsterdam. The design for the villa by GROUP A appears both modern and sculptural, and interacts in a natural way with its surroundings. By using slanting walls and roofs the abstract building volume feels comfortably embedded in the landscape. A cut-out corner facing the street in front of the house, clearly in..
ahead of its public opening, designboom visited japanese designer tokujin yoshioka's solo exhibition 'spectrum' at museum. beyondmuseum in seoul, korea. one of the newest and much anticipated works of the exhibition is yoshioka's 'rainbow church', consisting of hundreds of crystal prisms, arranged in a 9-meter-high stained glass installation which flood the museum space with spectrums of color. ..
PROJECT: Danish Pavilion at the EXPO 2010 SIZE: 3.000m2 CLIENT: EBST COLLABORATORS: 2+1, Arup AGU, Arup Shanghai, Tongji Design Institute, Ai Wei Wei, Jeppe Hein, Martin De Thurah, Peter Funch LOCATION : Shanghai, China Architect: BIG Creative Director: Bjarke Ingels Partner-in-Charge: Finn Norkjaer Team: Tobias Hjortdahl, Jan Magasanik, Claus Tversted, Henrick Poulsen, Niels Lund Petersen, Kami..
At Salone del Mobile 2010 in Milan, we visited the booth of Italian manufacturer Infiniti Design, where they provided us with creative images of their 2010 Collection. from contemporist
hyunil oh and keunbo yang of new york city have one the TOGS (temporary outdoor gallery space) competition organized in collaboration with art alliance austin and the austin foundation for architecture. 'art tent' is designed to sympathize with neighboring surroundings. as an object, the exterior surface communicates with nature and urban context while the interior surface is intended to communi..
Design: Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering Location: Shanghai, China Client: Shanghai World EXPO Land Holding Co. Ltd., Shanghai Managing Partners: Prof. Dr. Jan Knippers, Dipl.-Ing. Thorsten Helbig Contributors: Florian Scheible, Florian Kamp, Dirk Richter, Roman Schieber, Johannes Beran Cooperation: ECADI, Shanghai, China Gross Floor Area: 280,000 sqm Membrane Roof Area: 65,000 sqm Project Y..
Programmatically the home is split into two zones, one a 4300 sf. residence for the owners, a couple requiring a very low maintenance lifestyle, and another zone for their extensive family and friends who visit the Arizona sunshine often. While much of the surrounding homes echo themes from distant European cultures of centuries past this home speaks to its specific place in the Sonoran Desert. ..
american firm archi(te)nsions developed a thematic pavilion for the yeosu 2012 world expo - which intends to raise interests and awareness of the oceans and to explore educational and scientific aspects of the state of the art research on the marine environment. to celebrate the ocean and its unifying element they developed their design concept around the shape of a waterfall. waterfalls are typ..
turkish GAD (global architectural development) firm in collaboration with turkish architect dara kirmizitoprak have designed a proposal for residential units on pina, a peninsula on the aegean sea, located near bodrum on the southern coast of turkey. surrounded by trees, the peninsula is an example of the local natural beauty. an active decision was made that settlement on the peninsula shouldn’..