Architects: LAVA - Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck Location: Sydney, Australia Project year: 2008 Project Team: Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck Collaborators: Jarrod Lamshed, Esan Rahmani, Kim Ngoc Nguyen, Anh Dao Trinh, Erik Escalante Mendoza, Pascal Tures, Mi Jin Chun, Andrea Dorici Materials: Specially treated high-tech Nylon and light Area: 300 sqm Volume: 3,..
STYRENE_PAUL COCKSEDGE STUDIO : lampshade 70cm - 150cm diameter / sculptures height vary from 10cm to 60cm – polystyrene These pieces were inspired by the concept of growth as a process. By applying heat to polystyrene, the form changes and with it the properties of the material. The result is organic and unique sculptural forms with much greater strength. Year: 2003 Photos: Richard Brine
For this year’s DesCours, an annual AIA event held in New Orleans, Louisiana, Francis Bitonti and Brian Osborn collaborated to construct the 500 sqft robotic canopy ‘openHouse’. The illuminated canopy fills the upper portion of a small courtyard in the French Quarter. As participants fill the courtyard the space is transformed by a field of kinetic devices. DesCours 2009 (blog) from Francis Anth..
Architects: BGP Arquitectura / AT 103 Location: Colonia Juarez, Mexico City, Mexico Architects: Bernardo Gomez-Pimienta, Julio Amezcua, Francisco Pardo y Hugo Sanchez Coordinator: Hermenegildo Acoltzin Collaborators: Jessica Barba, Margarita Flores, Daniel Ramirez, Jorge Vazquez, Tiberino Wallentin Design Year: 2005 Construction Year: 2006 Services: GLM Ingenieria S.A. de C.V. Contractor: SARE S..
Last weekend saw the spectacular launch of the UK’s first Restaurant and Bar Awards dedicated exclusively to design. To celebrate the occasion, Dominic Harris of Cinimod Studio was commissioned to create an outdoor interactive lighting installation. Conceived as an exploded blank canvas, the huge "exploded globe of light" was suspended from the trees over London’s famed Hoxton Square and was int..
Last weekend, the installation “Lighttube” by German architect Marco Hemmerling was introduced at the 9th annual festival Arbres et Lumières in Geneva, Switzerland. The concept for the illumination at Square Pierre Fatio in the city center is based on two major aspects of spatial perception. In first place the installation amplifies the relation between the central column and the surrounding tre..
Designer: Jun Igarashi Location: Osaka, Japan Image Credits: Jun Igarashi Architects inc. from spaceinvading
Netherlands-based designer Han Koning has designed a series of lighting made of randomly-formed plastic. Called Static Plastic, each lamp is stretched to a different height, stamped and numbered. The two halves are joined by a rubber strip. The range includes a pendent lamp that houses two bulbs and a smaller table lamp with one bulb. More Dezeen stories about lighting in our special category. P..
When asked by art gallery owner Patrick Brillet to design a piece out of Carbon Fiber, we decided to celebrate and utilize the best of the materials true physical properties, its strength and lightness. The complexity of curves and required thinness could not be duplicated in any other material while still maintaining its ability to support itself completely… from contemporist
An incredible facade lighting installation in collaboration between Milan based architecture practice Piuarch and .PSLAB Beirut, the objective of this project is to explore the possibilities of an object or a building from a different perspective giving new life to existing objects. The new facade has created a contrast effect between contemporary glowing white plastic and the old solid architec..
