From the designers: Anima was bud from observation, from the special link created between a man and a chair, between a soul-body and a furniture-body. Following a line of contact points between the body and the chair, the sensation is of an infinite and fluid line. Anima is made of 3 mm of stainless steel plate in self production. from contemporist
Radical Craft was awarded third for their proposal Soms Atoll for the World Sustainability Center (one of the winning proposals by KOW was previously featured on AD). For the project, the architects questioned the possibility of the World Sustainability Centre in Friesland creating a new interpretation of the relationship between the man-made and the natural. The Soms Atoll operates at the scale..
The YAS Hotel in Abu Dhabi was recently completed, and its curvilinear grid-shell which is covered with over 5,300 diamond-shaped steel panels, containing nearly 5000 LED fixtures is being announced as the world’s largest LED project controlled through RDM (Remote Device Management). New York based lighting designers Arup Lighting worked with Germany based e:cue lighting control to create lighti..
Canadian Museum for Human Rights Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2010 The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is rooted in humanity, making visible in the architecture the fundamental commonality of humankind-a symbolic apparition of ice, clouds and stone set in a field of sweet grass. Carved into the earth and dissolving into the sky on the Winnipeg horizon, the abstract ephemeral wings of a white dove..
CSET/Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies by mc-architects in Ningbo, China text by Pascal Panagiotidis for Yatzer Architectural projects with minimum environmental impact are quite a necessity nowadays and we are glad to welcome every such effort. The Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET) designed by Mario Cucinella Architects meets all the requirements using all nature’s reso..
Architects: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes Location: Linz, Austria Project Leader: Gerhard Pfeiler Competition Team: Claire Bodénez, Benni Eder, Simone Breitkopf, Barbara Feichtinger-Felber, Vicentiu Sopterean, Silviu Aldea, Markus Himmel, Ruth Pofahl, Rupert Siller Project Team: Philipp Hugo Urabl, Dorit Böhme, Roland Basista, Albert Moosbrugger, Ulli Gabriel, Andreas Trampe-Kieslich, Ralitsa ..
Architect: McBride Charles Ryan - Rob McBride & Debbie-Lyn Ryan Location: Mornington Peninsula, Australia Project Team: Drew Williamson, Fang Cheah Clients / Builders: Donna & Mark Constructed Area: 258 sqm Photographs: McBride Charles Ryan The Klein bottle is a descriptive model of a surface developed by topological mathematicians. Klein bottle, mobius strips, boy surfaces, unique surfaces that..
Architects: BIG + JDS = PLOT Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Collaborators: Plot, JDS, MOE & Brodsgaard Client: Hopfner A/S, Dansk Olie Kompagni A/S Contractor: Hopfner A/S Program: 230 Apartments Construction period: 2004 - 2005 Total Area: 25000 sqm Photography: BIG & JDS The VM Houses are two residential blocks formed as the letters V and M. The blocks are formed as such to allow for daylight, ..
Nya Nordiska, a leading international textile company based in Dannenberg, North Germany, whose early stages were strongly influenced by Scandinavian design, recently received a highly unusual enquiry from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. The legendary interior landscape “Fantasy Landscape“ by the designer Verner Panton was to be returned to its original condition for the museum's exhibition “Interieu..
Möhn + Bouman Architects have sent us photos of the Daycare Centre Felsoord. The building, located in Delft, The Netherlands, is a rare example of a modern design that uses thatch, a material more commonly associated with 19th century cottages. The project concerns the extension and renovation of an existing daycare centre for mentally disabled, situated in a natural wetland area near Delft, the..
