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Arons & Gelauff Architects - Dormitory, Enschede (Copyright Jeroen Musch) Arons & Gelauff Architects send me photographs of their recently finished dormitory building in Enschede, a city in the east of the Netherlands. One of the sides of the nine story building features a climbing wall. According to the architect it is the second highest one in the Netherlands. The addition of the climbing wall..
Erick van Egeraat - Entry Forum Competition, Groningen, Model (Copyright EEA) The ‘instant criticism’ this blog aims for, is often a bit relayed. About a month ago the inhabitants of Groningen, a city in the north of the Netherlands, could vote about seven proposals for a mixed-use cultural building that is projected in the middle of the old city. Among the entrants were Zaha Hadid, Neutelings R..
Vinyl & Fan Blown Air, 21'-0" x 9'-0" x 28'-0", 2007 A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day stuffs the four rooms of an 800 square foot house into a building envelope of a 500 square foot bungalow. Through this misfit, an architectural space results with deformations, writhings, and contortions as the rooms inflate and readjust to their volatile adjacencies. Although the timed "score" of fans turning ..
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Architect Zaha Hadid has designed a tap for British manufacturer Triflow. Filtered water is channeled through a separate waterway, controlled with a touch-sensitive button. “Our starting point was a series of formal studies on the conceptual terms of ‘fluidity’ and ‘seamlessness’ as we wanted to generate the fluid geometries of water in motion,” says Hadid. “By applying advanced 3D software to o..
'bubbletecture M' is a kindergarten designed by japanese studio shuhei endo architect institute. located in shiga, japan the maihara kindergarten is surrounded by a newly developed residential area. the structure consists of concrete boxes between each of the rooms and a wooden roof that ties them together. the shell-form roof is made of triangular continuous surfaces; its structural strength an..
After a two-phase international competition (with offices such as Morphosis, Abalos+Sentkiewicz, MVRDV and Zaha Hadid), OMA has been awarded the first prize in the design competition to build the new Taipei Performing Arts Centre. The project, led by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, is based on 3 theaters (1 x 1,500 seats - the round one, 2 x 800 seats - cubes) which are plugged into a central cub..
Amsterdam architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio has designed a pavilion for The Battery park in New York City, USA. The pavilion will provide seating and shade and can be used for organised public events. At night, an electronic LED system will display a continuously-changing light show. Below is the press release from UNStudio: – About the Plein & Pavilion UNStudio’s initial conceptual design fo..
Designer Jaime Hayon has created a collection called Crystal Candy for French crystal brand Baccarat. The range was presented in Paris at trade fair Maison et Objet, which ended yesterday, and at the Baccarat Salle de Bal on 22 January. Pieces are produced in a limited edition of 25. Here’s some text from Hayon: – Crystal Candy Set for Baccarat The opportunity to research and exercise creative p..