Archive for January, 2010
Architecture in shadows
The Kimbell Art Museum unveiled Renzo Piano’s design for its new building opposite Louis I. Kahn’s 1972 landmark. While the site plan and section don’t reveal a heck of a lot about the design, it made me wonder why Piano is chosen not only for every other museum design (it seems) but for additions to […]
Bianna House / Hidalgo Hartmann
Located in an agricultural valley surrounded by mountains, the house submits to the protagonism of the landscape with respect. It is perfectly integrated in the ground and views are oriented through precise openings that frame the nature.The house is composed by two concrete volumes that are inserted in the territory getting used to it. Both […]
Frank Lloyd Wright´s house, renovation
In 1988, Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino bought a run-down house in the Millstone borough of New Jersey. A house that was designed by none other than Frank Lloyd Wright. Turns out, that Wright had been thinking of the environment back then. The home, along with about 100 others, was designed in his “Usonian” style– a […]
Sawdust of today
Light, recarried structure with dimension of 60 x 90 metres, space for 3500 spectators of new multi-medial show, that should cross the world in 2009. Norwegian architects and designers from Various Architects created inflatable envelope compound to the final form from little parts in a shape of „bicycle wheel“. Sustainability and compaction is then […]
The water city
London-based media and film studio Squint/Opera prepared for London Festival of Architecture LFA shocking exhibition of theirs visualisations. There are pictures of flooded London also with its architectural icons, in year 2090, when rising sea and ocean levels will provide of new style of life.
120th anniversary of Eiffels
Because of the celebration of 120th birthday of the Eiffel tower, and mainly for the crowds of people that will ascended, SERERO architects proposed the extend of the third floor. Dense structure will temporarily bolted to curent construction, and it will be without requiring any modification of the existing structure.
Space for film or bussines?
The space made from film coulisses, or utopic drawing, those are the feelings that this space produce, created by Will Alsop and his SMC Alsop Asia team in chinese Beijing for a reality sales office. Showrooms however are not in common with offered flats that a company presents, they are empty, impersonal so the whole […]
Present Spain
Spanish pavilion on Expo 2010 in Shangai will be produced by project of architects EBMT. With its materiality it could join Chine and Spain, the world of east and west, by using steel beams and wicker, that is naturally find in both worlds. The pavilion is airy, transit space that presents spanish culture.
Winner of a competition for Benetton boutique
Italian POLI.design arrange competition for young architects and designers to build big shopping space for Benetton in Omsk, Russia. This competition won portugesse architect Luis Pereira Miguel, with very fresh work. Inside of the old building, architect create fluent and modern space whit functional accent.
Sophie Calle Exquisite Pain
The installation is a mix of architecture, design and visual art, introspective and intimate, designed by Frank Gehry and Edwin Chan for Rotonde1. The paints show the lost love and famous trips from Paris to Tokio. Whole exibition is divided into three parts-photography, 3D hotel room and paintings. Everything is put in form of […]