Design
Lighting design
Former entertainment lawyer-turned-lighting designer Michael McHale creates chandeliers that are as much about structure as they are shimmering crystal.Born from the seeds of a DIY project, Michael McHale Designs is drafting a new vision for the chandelier, utilizing such rough and ready materials as patinated brass pipes and fittings, refrigerator bulbs, and appliance tubing in […]
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 […]
Glassy Elbphilharmonie by Herzog & de Meuron
Hamburg in Germany is plannig a project HafenCity,which counts with reusing of the industrial and underused waterfront on the River Elbe. Cultural impact will have the Elbe Philharmonic Hall (Elbphilharmonie) designed. H&M plann to rebuilt a pre-existing brick warehouse topped by a new crystalline tent-like structure where they […]
Ricardo Bofill
After accomplishing a series of world-class buildings such as Shiseido, in Ginza, Tokyo, the Christian Dior Headquarters, Cartier Headquarters, Rochas Headquarters, Axa […]
The Cardboard House - modern architecture flor plan
Design concept
The Cardboard House represents the reduction of technology and the simplification […]
Modular Homes from the UK
Pad is an interesting and elegant prefab idea with precast foundations, a service core and rooms that can be plugged in and added as needed. Two rules about modern prefab: 1) many designs are vapourware and the more wheels reinvented the less likely it is to happen; Pad does some serious reinventing but they have […]
The balloon goes up in Hyde Park
Architect Rem Koolhaas and designer Cecil Balmond tell Dominic Bradbury why they have created an ‘anti-building’ at the Serpentine Gallery
It seems extraordinary that Rem Koolhaas, one of the most radical and innovative architects of our age, has never built in Britain. Then again, that sort of thing usually gets said about one superstar architect or […]
Learning how to speak architecture
Tim Reinders turned to “Peanuts” to explain part of his goal at Tuesday’s Main Street meeting. The cartoon showed Lucy hit in the head by a brick after insulting a building’s ability to listen. “We’re all a little crazy, kid,” the building explained.
The point? Iowa’s Main Street program aims to help people learn the language […]
