Shop_World Business Center Busan SHoP’s design proposal for the World Business Center Busan (WBCB) complex begins by combining the traditional Korean courtyard type (Madang) with contemporary high-rise living to create a new urban ecology: the “vertical garden”. The parkscape surrounding the base for the WBCB is drawn up into the towers to produce vertical gardens of planted bamboo. These bamboo..
Bühnenbäume 2003 - 2006 Küchwaldpark 24, 09113 Chemnitz Bauherr Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz Projektleitung Susanne Hofmann Baupiloten Hendrik Bohle, Kai Grüne, Stefan Haas Entwurf Eine Baumlichtung Die Chemnitzer Parkeisenbahn feiert Ihr fünfzigstes Jubiläum ganz besonders: Im romantischen Küchwaldpark der Stadt wird eine neue, überdachte Kleinkunstbühne mit 120 Zuschauerplätzen eingeweiht. Das Bahn..
Polishpavilion by The design team: Wojciech Kakowski, Natalia Paszkowska, Marcin Mostafa CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR THE POLISH EXPO 2010 EXPOSITION PAVILION THE PROJECT CONCEPT In the contemporary world with its abundance of visual experience, with the pictorial language of communication reigning supreme, with the almost unconstrained and instant accessibility of iconographic material, an exposition ..
Thailand-based designers Ango showed a range of lights at 100% Design London last month. The lights are made from a range of materials including silk worm cocoons, rattan and mulberry tree bark. Above: Ebony Sky. Top Image: Chrysalis Wall Ango was founded in 2003 by Architectural Association graduate Angus Hutcheson. Above: Seventh Stone. The following captions are from Ango: – Product: Snow Cir..
Albuquerque, New Mexico 2008 The Town Center responds to the conditions of site while addressing the deep time of New Mexico. The dramatic University Blvd. approach to the building sets the Town Center as a distant abstract foreground to Guadalupe peak. The glass facade with multiple missions of iconography, sustainability, and public theater backdrop for video projection at night, is a spatial ..
VTOL - Vertical Take Off and Landing, an installation by designers Kram/Weisshaar, went on show outside the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna this month. The 1.3cm thick concrete installation is part of Vienna Design Week, which runs until 12th October. Photography courtesy of Ditz Fejer. The following is from Kram/Weisshaar: – At the invitation of the Vienna Design Week, Clemens Weisshaar and Reed..
Architects Chris Bosse and Tobias Wallisser of Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Asia Pacific (LAVA) have unveiled Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower at the Cityscape property fair in Dubai. The 59-storey tower, one of seven to be built around the world, has been built in collaboration with former Formula 1 champion Schumacher, and is described as “branded architecture’s next step”. The..
Architect: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps Location: Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark Project Year: 2006 Landscape Architect: Marianne Levinsen Landscape architects Client: Gentofte Municipality and Domea Engineer: Hansen, Carlsen & Frølund A/S Site Area: 5,370 sqm Constructed Area: 2,880 sqm Photographs: Jens Markus Lindhe, Torben Eskerod & DMA Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter ApS won in 2004 the competition..
Limited Edition Design Dolls by Olivia Lee June 25th, 2008 Limited Edition Design Dolls is a series of three figurines of famous designers, featuring Zaha Hadid (above), Jaime Hayon (below) and Karim Rashid. They are created by Olivia Lee, who graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London this month. The series comes from the observation that “today, designer personali..
House Place Jordan / Heri & Salli The “House Place Jordan “contains structural interferences in an existing garden plant of a single family house in Klagenfurt - Viktring (Kärnten/Austria). Geometrical existing ways leading through the garden and extended in their function of ways - understood as linear surfaces of spatial possibilities - detaching, consolidating themselves, forming spatial comp..
