Beijing studio Sunlay Design have designed this building to house the headquarters for a technology park in Huainan City, Anhui Province, China. The building will consist of two structures – a tower block and a two-pronged cantilevered building – which will be connected by a glazed walkway on the second floor. The building will comprise a five-storey office building, an exhibition centre, an und..
We just received stunning photographs of the "Exhale Pavilion" (previously on Bustler), winner of the prestigious Art Basel Miami Beach/Creative Time 'Oceanfront' competition. This temporary outdoor public art pavilion during the contemporary art fair was a joint design effort of Phu Hoang Office (New York) and Rachely Rotem Studio (New York/Tel Aviv). Related news: Art Basel Miami Beach 2010: S..
plexus no. 3 + site specific installation at guerillaarts + gütermann thread, wood and nails + 12' x 6' x 16' + 2010 from gabrieldawe
We recieved this Urban Action 2010 by Dror Bill from the Bat-Yam Biennale in Israel. It focuses on the tension between the temporary and the permanent, between the planned and the experienced. The Biennale examines the occasionally tense relationships between the city’s attempt to create order through long-term plans, and the everyday chaos that is the product of that process. Our goal is to enc..
Spanish designer Javier Alejandre has created the Oddbod Chair. The chair plays at the boundary between an inert object such as a chair and to give life to this object. The formal inspiration are the weird sci-fi movies of the mid-twentieth century design and retrofuturistic organic design tendences. It´s made in rotomoulded PET and pine legs. from contemporist
Amsterdam designer Camille Cortet created these snake-like leggings by cutting triangular apertures into the fabric. Called Snake&Molting, the pattern changes as the wearer moves and the holes expand and contract. Above photograph is by Vincent van Gurp. The information below is from Camille Cortet: This project is part of the Transformations project. By observing animal transformations we under..
Icelandic fashion designer Una Hlin Kristjansdottir presented her first collection at the inaugural Reykjavík Fashion Festival as part of Icelandic design festival DesignMarch at the weekend. Called Royal Extreme, the label boasts silk fringing, wool pom-poms, lamb’s leather bags and stockings with plaits down the front. DesignMarch took place in Reykjavík 18-21 March. The following information ..
Vancouver, Canada-based sculptor Marie Khouri exhibited her L5 Spine Bench at the 2010 IDS West show in October. The sculptural seating pieces are all handcrafted from laminated wood. from contemporist
This mountainside house by G2 Estudio in Argentine Patagonia is wrapped in a stone and wood facade. Called Ribbon House, the single-family home is criss-crossed internally by diagonal columns and windows. Here’s a bit of text from the architects: The juxtaposition of the different volumes between the public and private spaces of the house, the social and family life, gives place to a dynamic wal..
London-based design studio Tonkin Liu have completed a re-design of the Dover Esplanade in Kent, England. Dover’s Esplanade has been given a radical overhaul by Tonkin Liu. The project has been conceived as three artworks that have grown out of their social and environmental context and the way they are constructed. The new Esplanade officially opens today, 4 November 2010. Lifting Wave, Resting..
