Hotel Missoni, Edinburgh
Hotel Missoni Edinburgh is the city’s most exciting new hotel development designed by famous Italian fashion house Missoni.With their characteristic Missoni décor, boasting ’70s inspired furniture, vivid contrasts of black and white, geometrical patterns and multicoloured stripes, the luxury guestrooms at the Hotel Missoni Edinburgh offer an elegant yet welcoming setting for your stay in the Old Town.
4 0 WiNKS London Boutique Hotel by David Carter
Situated in vibrant and trendy East London, David Carter’s home is a historic and elegant four storey Queen Anne townhouse built in 1717. With two used guest bedrooms, 4 0 W i N K S is being launched to help give photographers, stylists, art directors, designers, buyers, models and anyone in the creative and fashion industries somewhere fun and different to stay when they are in London for work or pleasure.
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Casa no Geres, Portugal by Correia & Ragazzi Architectos
Graça Correia and Roberto Ragazzi architects have created a stunning minimalist box house with sustainable material. The house called “Casa no Geres,” is based in the middle of a National Park in Portugal.
Correia and Ragazzi were given a qualified carte blanche: they were allowed to do anything, providing they didn’t cut down any of the trees on site and managed the tricky balancing act of building the house in concrete while not isolating its inhabitants from their surroundings. The structure also had to house the couple and their grown-up child, although the planning permission allowed for a maximum size of just 60 sq m.
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March 9, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Latest, Pavillion - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Stilt House by NAF Architects
Here is an amazing example of unconventional yet traditional contemporary house architecture. Japanese NAF Architects brilliantly succeeded into merging sensational design moves and traditional patterns in unexpected ways.
March 5, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Latest, Residence - Posted by: Delphine - Comments: 0
Maison NW by Nathalie Wolberg
Maison NW located in Saint-Ouen, near Paris is a work studio but also a private colorful home. The huge workshop spreads over an area of 1,937 square feet and has three levels.
Architect Nathalie Wolberg is the owner of this place which is said to carry “her own personality, own desires, passions. The project is based on three scales designed to match needs for intimacy, autonomy and/or sharing. Through similar actions, it will be possible to adopt behaviors, attitudes, various postures and to initiate numerous relationships.
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March 4, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Interior, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Vertically Moving Floor by Hydrfloors
Do not loose the area devoted to your swimming pool. With a brilliant use of design and technology, Hydrofloors vertically movable floors can be raised to different levels or completely, to turn the surface of the pool into a usable floor. More social events can now take place onto your swimming pool!
Moebius House by Tony Owen Partners
Integrating the natural landscape, Tony Owens Partners’ Moebius House is a exemplary piece of micro-design, which aims at minimizing the impact of a building onto the micro-climate of its environment. A modeling software is used to respond to every change in the design and optimize steel efficiency.
Pontoporia House by Ezequiel Rivarola & Clorindo Testa
This house designed by Ezequiel Rivarola in collaboration with Clorindo Testa is located in Mar del Sur, next to a cliff in a very peculiar spot in the Argentinian coast. The project starts from the relationship between a clear geometrical shape –like an artificial rock on the ground- and the irregular landscape on which it is built. The cube resembles the geological formations of the area.
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March 2, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Beach House, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 1
Contemplating the Void, Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, New York
The void… a scientific concept brought into fiction through art. “Contemplating the Void” is an amazing exhibition gathering 200 creative projects from both emerging and world-renowned artists, in celebration of 50 years of the NY Guggenheim museum. Ways how the central void of the building was filled without restrictions to realism and practicality are explored with the original works of Anish Kapoor, designers Fernando and Humberto Campana, and architects such as Álvaro Siza Vieira Arquitecto and BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group).
Fibrous Tower, by Kokkugia
This fibrous concrete shell was erected as an exoskeleton construction with a load-bearing shell and thin floor plate and column free. The shell is based on structural and tectonic hierarchies and a contemporary design, its articulation as a single self-organized structure responds to common conflicting design criteria. Pretty funky I think.
“Rainbow Church” by Tokujin Yoshioka
At the exhibition of Tokujin Yoshioka, which opens from May 1st, he will present his dream project “Rainbow Church”, a large scale straw installation for the first time in Aisa, and many more.
The idea of this architecture project “Rainbow Church” dates back to when Tokujin wan in early 20s.
Tokujin visited the Chapelle du Rosaire located in Venice. He was impressed to see the world of Matisse being expressed by the sunlight of the Provence.
Since then, he had been dreaming of designing an architecture were people can feel the light with all senses.
Approximately 8-meter-high stained glass made with 500 crystal prisms will be filling the space with rainbow colours as the light shines on it.
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Vitrahaus, by Herzog and de Meuron
The newly completed Vitrahaus by Herzog & de Meuron on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany – just outside of Basel, Switzerland.The concept of the VitraHaus connects two themes that appear repeatedly in the oeuvre of Herzog & de Meuron: the theme of the archetypal house and the theme of stacked volumes.
Due to the proportions and dimensions of the interior spaces – the architects use the term “domestic scale” – the showrooms are reminiscent of familiar residential settings. The individual “houses”, which have the general characteristics of a display space, are conceived as abstract elements. With just a few exceptions, only the gable ends are glazed, and the structural volumes seem to have been shaped with an extrusion press.
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February 22, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 1
LoftFloat Houseboats on Barcelona’s River by Toni Clariana, Magma Design & Enoc Armengol
Toni Clariana, Magma Design & Enoc Armengol have unveiled LoftFloat houseboats for the fluvial surroundings of Barcelona.The focus of this project is to have happy homes across the fluvial surroundings of Barcelona. Self-efficient loft units measuring 45m2 that are solar-powered and completely energy self-efficient, look pleasant enough to dot the landscape. The basic premise is to use one single multi-purpose open space which gets partitioned into the kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom and a deck. It has a studio apartment vibe, albeit on the river. Proposed to be sold at 80.000 € / unit, it’s a playground for the rich and famous!
February 19, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 1
360º Kiosks by Studio SKLIM
Designers Studio SKLIM lead by Beijing architect Kevin Lim had to fill up a narrow strip of land measuring approximately 35 m long and ranging in width from 7 to 13 metres. Six tensile membrane canopy structures at varying heights were already present. The challenge was to provide kiosks and to optimise the use of space without obstructing pedestrian circulation.The 360° kiosks provide a minimum footprint and maximum flexibility. Each unit consists of four cantilevered units for seating, display, storage and lighting, which can be individually adapted by the actual vendors.
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February 17, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Latest - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 1
Archipod, Energy efficient, Eco-Friendly Garden Office
The Archipod can be just a complement about any home landscape, and the modern interior office design is a great place to get some work done in peace. With a diameter of 3m, the Garden Pod is specifically targeted at the garden office market.
The Garden Pod features a pleasing roof dome that lets in natural light to conserve the energy required for artificial lighting. The pod cedar shingle exterior blends into any natural environment and its interior plastered walls ensure that the pod remains bright and comfortable.
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Nafi, Hair Salon in Basel by ZMIK Studio
ZMIK Design Studio has refurbished a hair salon in Basel by wallpapering the entrance with photocopies from Vogue magazine.The space is subdivided into two zones, which are being separated by a sharp border.
The ceiling and the walls of the entry zone are seamlessly covered with photocopies on packaging paper made from Vogue magazines from the 1920ies until today.
February 15, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Interior, Latest - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 2
Conch Shell House, Isla Mujeres, Mexico
This conch shell house sits on the southern point of Isla Mujeres, an Island 20 minute boat ride from Cancun in the Caribbean Sea.
When you enter the house you would be surrounded by a wonderful shell themed interior. The main room has no corners – it is round. The upstairs bathroom sink is made out of the base of a conch shell, the faucets are made out of coral, the towel racks are made from conch shells and other seashells and items found on the local beach.
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February 12, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Latest, Travel - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 1
Bierings House by Rocha Tombal Architecten
Bierings House was designed by Rocha Tombal Architecten, Located in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
The form and orientation of the building avoid visual contact with the adjacent houses: at the ground floor the angled ceiling of the kitchen accentuates the intensive contact with the garden. On the first floor, the different shaped openings in the roof and façade offer, like “fingers of light”, varied daylight experiences.
The routing through the house starts in the hall, a section of the ground floor volume. After experiencing the entrance area and passing the gigantic pivoted door, the visitor arrives at the “heart of the house”, the kitchen. Here he looks through the big glass wall straight into the garden, which suggests being outside again. Behind him, the stair cuts a wooden wall inviting to follow the route towards the first floor.
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February 11, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Facade, Latest - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 1