Korean architect Yong ho Shin shared with us his second prize design for the “Landsnet High-Voltage Transmission Line Tower Design Competition” in Iceland. More images and architect’s description after the break. The design of the conventional high-voltage transmission line towers (aka Electric Pylons) has been with us since the dawn of the modern electric age. Whether it’s urban or rural area, ..
Authors: United Visual Artists Location: Toronto, Canada Commissioners: Cadillac Fairview, Lanterra Developments, Maple Leaf Sports Public Art Consultants: Public Art Management – Karen Mills and Justin Ridgeway Dimensions: 90 metres x 3 metres Project Year: 2010 Photographs: James Medcraft, United Visual Artists, 2010 Inspired by the experience of walking through the dappled light of a forest, ..
Architects: Studio Daniel Libeskind Location: Denver, Colorado, USA Joint Venture Partner: Davis Partnership Contractor: M.A Mortensen Co. (Colorado) Structural Engineer: Arup (Los Angeles) Structural Connection Design: Structural Consultants, Inc. Civil Engineers: JF Sato and Associates Mechanical Air: Arup-Los Angeles Mechanical/Electrical: MKK Engineers and Arup (Los Angeles) Structural Engin..
The inspiration for the ‘Twisted Lights’ comes from the material used, namely bend plywood. This type of plywood is perfect to bend, when it’s properly processed, so the forming capabilities are endless. The flexibility of the material invites to make organic forms. The lamp is built from an initial shape, which is the top of the lamp. Against this top bend plywood is wrapped, so that during the..
German designer Constantin Wortmann has created the NLC Lamp for the manufacturer NEXT. At a first glance, NLC perplexes with its positively striking and yet strangely puzzling appearance. Its special appeal lies in the seeming conflict between the chaotic and the organic. NLC draws its inspiration as much from the head of Medusa as from the finely trellised branches of a treetop. One of the rea..
Israeli firm Chyutin Architects have won a competition to build this museum that will bridge over a sunken garden in Jerusalem. The Museum of Tolerance will sit on the border between the built-up city and Independence Park. The museum, which houses a theatre, hall, restaurant and exhibition spaces, is clad in stone with a curtain wall of glazing facing onto the park. The sunken garden will be ac..
Santa Monica-based partnership Predock_Frane Architects have shared with us their built work for the 2010 GLOW festival. Hadrian Predock + John Frane’s project for the 2010 GLOW festival in Santa Monica titled “Luminous Passage” links the City to the Ocean as a porous and luminous land bridge. Connecting the existing Bay Street boardwalk to the ocean’s edge, the passage makes visible the connect..
Chicago-based architects WEATHERS shared with us their proposal for the Museum of World War II in Gdańsk Competition, which they designed with OOS. See more images and architect’s description after the break. The proposal for the Polish city’s WWII museum addresses the issues of the site as it pertains to local adjacencies (vehicular and pedestrian access, programmatic access, and views) as well..
These wooden spectacle frames have been created by Milan designer Matteo Ragni. Called W-eye, the reading glasses are made from layers of wood laminated with aluminium. Intended for use at home when reading or watching television, the design is without hinges. Ragni developed the product range with Doriano Mattellone of wood research laboratory MAWOOD. The spectacles are produced in ebony, zebra..
Image Courtesy of lzf We continue to see a push to making products and projects feel and look natural. The white wash absence of color and metal was dominating the lighting market for quite a while and still continues to thrive in certain sectors like healthcare and education but lately, there has been a shift to the warm extension of nature. Perhaps the environments were feeling too cold and ou..
