London-based designer Sebastian Bergne will exhibit his new designs for wine consumption at The Aram Gallery in a show called CRU, which opens next week. The exhibition proposes concepts for transporting, storing, serving and consuming wine. Objects on show include glasses and decanters that incorporate corks, pins for joining used corks together and T-shirts dip-dyed in wine. Above: Corked 8 – ..
La sede del Parlamento Escocés es una obra póstuma del catalán Enric Miralles supervisada y concluida por Benedetta Tagliabue, esposa de Enric, a cargo del estudio. En 1998 el estudio de Miralles, EMBT Arquitectes Associats, asociado con el estudio local RMJM, había ganado este concurso compitiendo en la final con Rafael Viñoly Architects (New York), Michael Wilford and Partners (London), Richar..
Architects: SO Architecture Location: Ramat Ishay, Israel Project Team: Shachar Lulav, Oded Rozenkier, Eran Mebel Project year: 2007 Constructed Area: 60 sqm Photographs: Asaf Oren The Rosso restaurant is situated in Ramat Yishay, a town in the valley of Yezre-el in the Northern part if Israel. The beautiful scenery of the Northern part of Israel, with its landscapes of green and red fields, cov..
Swedish designers TAF Arkitektkontor have designed a collection of adjustable furniture called Trestle, which was shown at the Cibone gallery as part of Design Tide Tokyo earlier this month. The trestles have cast supports at the joints and can be combined with timber elements to create different furniture forms. “It is about sustainability, timelessness and a dynamic function,” says Mattias Stå..
Architects: Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor Location: Gudbrandsjuvet, Norway Design Period: 2004-2007 Construction period: 2007-2008 Client: Knut Slinning Project Architects: Jan Olav Jensen (pl), Børre Skodvin, Torunn Golberg Helge Lunder, Torstein Koch; Thomas Knigge Budget: 1.000.000 EURO (US $1.28 millions) Constructed Area: 800 sqm Photographs: JSA One of the local residents at Gudbrandsjuv..
Trinity River Audubon Center Dallas, TX 2008 The site for the new Great Trinity Forest Audubon Center is located at the meeting point between the Blackland Prairie and Cross Timbers regions in southwestern Dallas. The restored 100 acre Deepwoods site was once one of the largest illegal dumps in Texas and now serves as a gateway to the Great Trinity Forest, the largest urban forest in the United ..
La Casa Ramos se emplaza en territorio austero y seco, en un terreno colonizado por el raspeig. Son dos cuerpos posados en el suelo, la casa en sí y la piscina. Los grandes tableros de resina rojo carmín sustentados por una estructura de acero cubren parte de la terraza, arquetipo del habitar frente al mediterráneo. La terraza tenía que ser el espacio más amplio de la casa, capaz de acoger hasta..
An exhibition of new work by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is on display at the Albion Gallery in London. The show includes an installation created in collaboration with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron (above). The work is a variation of the installation created in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in September - see our earlier story. The exhibition continues until 14 Nove..
Esker Haus (esker significa formación geológica estratificada) es una vivienda individual ubicada en la parte superior de una casa de los años 60. El anexo fue concebido como un parásito de la casa original, y parte de la estructura de ésta diferenciándose gradualmente hasta adoptar un lenguaje propio. Está formado por una serie de estructuras de madera y acero que se deforman para evocar las s..
Tokyo Bench by Gehry Partners Gehry Partners, the architecture office of Frank Gehry, presented a snaking bench as part of Design Tide in Tokyo over the weekend. Called Tokyo Bench, the maple bench was installed in the lobby of World Co Aoyama Building. Design Tide is a series of exhibitions that took place in Tokyo form 30 October to 3 November, concurrently with Tokyo Designers Week. The bench..
