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..
Architects: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss / NAO Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project team: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, E Thaddeus Pawlowski, Kevin Keller, Julia Murphey, Deborah Katz, Ding Liu, Margaux Schindler, Kristen Smith Renderings: Benjamin Muller & NAO Construction Consulting: Miodrag Jovanovic, Ruzica Jovanovic, Snezana Litvinovic Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Wei..
Architects: RSVP Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox While the search for paradigms in architecture is not a recent one, the conscious pursuit of utopia seems to be another species in danger of extinction at a moment whe..
Villa in the Dunes is a house designed by architects Zandbelt&vandenBerg, located at the edge of the dunes in the Hook of Holland, the Netherlands. The ground floor of the three-storey residence is partly covered by the dunes and includes a guest house. Photographs by Christian Richters. The following text is from Zandbelt&vandenBerg – Villa in the dunes Hoek van Holland A villa for an art-lovin..
