UXUS Design amazes us with this second stunning post within a week for your eyes only on Yatzer! Merus Winery was just the beginning and Amsterdam Loft is the peak of this architectural journey. Amsterdam Loft could be the house of the mad scientist instead it is the house of a very eclectic owner with a refined taste in design! The skulls, the dead animals, the deer horns, the scissors, and the..
Point b recently served as consultants on an architectural project with LAAB - Laboratorio de Arquitectura Alejandro Biguria. Point b was asked to develop a branching algorithm in RhinoScript that allowed LAABto study various site strategies for the plan of an eco-resort inPuerto Rico. The branching algorithm then translates to a series ofelevated footbridges that connect various parts of the re..
Architects: Drost + van Veen architecten Location: Alemere, The Netherlands Project Architects: Evelien van Veen, Simone Drost Collaborators: Onno Groen, Kees de Wit, Jos Lafeber, Bernhard Jaarsma, Perry Klootwijk Client: Gemeente Almere Contractor: Reimert Bouw Structural Engineer: ABT Delft Project year: 2009 Photographs: John Lewis Marshall Nature-education-centre “The Oostvaarders” is situat..
The Vienna based bkm Design Working Group have created a collection of furniture pieces to show-off new veneer materials from RoHol, an Austrian manufacturer of wood products. The pieces are currently on display at the Artmark Galerie as part of Vienna Design Week. from contemporist
“Smell the newness, smell the wood, smell the aliveness of this place… To begin, I just want to invite you to open your imaginations today… When we built this, we were not absolutely certain how it would be used because we are a church and we don’t determine the use of our lives and the use of our materials and the use of our abilities. We leave that to God. I just heard this little one here ste..
Anders Johnsson and Petter Thörne are a couple of young designers based in Stockholm, who are graduating from Sweden’s Konstfack University this spring. The two designers have created the Mold chairs as part of their final project for the Interior Architecture and Furniture Design program. While visiting various Swedish furniture manufacturers, they noticed the large quantities of waste material..
Architects: Consortium Daoust Lestage + Williams Asselin Ackaoui + Option aménagement Location: Quebec, Canada Project Team: Réal Lestage, urban planner, principal in the project team, Renée Daoust, architect, urban planner, principal / Caroline Beaulieu, architect / Lucie Bibeau, landscape architect / Martin Adam, b. arch. / Maria Benech, b. arch. / André Nadeau, landscape architect / Simon Mag..
Designed and built by second year students of the Alice Studio at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, the Evolver is a wooden alpine structure that “provides a more interactive way to take in the views of the glorious mountains ? especially the Matterhorn.” Located near a clear alpine lake near Zermatt, Switzerland, the spiraling wooden structure is made of 24 round wooden frames that twis..
Another house that will be part of the Fall Home Tour put on by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects is the Tree House by KAA Design Group. Located in the desirable “tree section” of Manhattan Beach, this home reinforces the viability of indoor/outdoor living along the Southern California coast. Locally sourced sustainable materials are, whenever possible and relevant ..
Prajakta Bamanikar an Industrial Design student at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, has designed a bamboo chair for use by restaurants in the popular tourist region of Goa. The project aims at designing a trendy dining chair in bamboo for Goan restaurants. With the continued rapid development of the global economy and constant increase in population, the overall demand for wo..
