‘Static Bubbles,’ Exhibition by Nendo
This year, Tokyo-based design firm nendo has celebrated its tenth anniversary by doing what nendo does best : quietly but surely going about their work. This may not sound like a way to mark a successful decade, but the fruits of nendoís labour were anything but ordinary. It is this combination of thoughtfulness and caprice, hidden within minimalism of form and an unusual attention to process and detail, that make nendo what they are, and that characterizes the new work shownat Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
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Mobile ‘Bed Cube’ Bedroom
This Mobile Bed Cube bedroom is the perfect way to hang on to some privacy in a shared space. This unique “bedroom” is the perfect solution for people who live in shared bedrooms or dorms. You can move it around in any direction according to the space in your apartment. It is compact, and can easily fit into any room.The cube evolved out of wanting cozy with the option of keeping a big, open space at the same time.
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‘Contortion Table’ by Suzy Lelièvre
French designer Suzy Lelièvre made this work of contortion table, a great metamorphosis an everyday furniture.
D House, Chile by Panorama & WMR Arquitectos
The building is situated on a cliff in Matanzas, Chile was designed by Panorama and WMRArquitectos. Build for a couple and their son the house is structured in a square volume of 9 by 9mts. Inside the architects intersect another volume at a higher level, which is rotated 45 degrees in relation to the plan, allowing double heights and the organization of space in the first floor.
The program is ordered in a simple way, a single space for the living room, dinning room and kitchen and on the back a sleeping area and the stairs to the second floor. Then, to the side and facing north the terrace, partly enclosed, allowing the users to be outside the days of extreme wind. Read More…
“Fonte Da Luz,” House in Portugal by Barbosa & Guimarães
Fonte Da Luz which means Source of light in Portuguese is a house build by Barbosa & Guimarãe architects located in an historical area. The architects Barbosa & Guimarães have explored all the resources of natural light that could offer the house. The housing is developed on three floors around the volume of the ladder, whose transparency guarantees the fluidity between the various functional areas.Inside of the building the architects mixed material as wood and marble. The other major objective where focused on the relationship between the pre-existing granite masonry and the new volume developing within it. The new object reveals some of the building’s history, from its remote origins in the 19th century until our intervention in the 21st century. Read More…
John Curtin School of Medical Research Stage by lyons Architecture
Australian architecture firm, lyons Architecture has completed John Curtin School of Medical Researc’, a research laboratory designed to enhance interactivity and collaborative research.
The body of the JCSMR-ANU building is formed of layered, linear bars of offices, support spaces, corridors, small controlled laboratory spaces and large PC2 Containment Level laboratories. These bars are graded across the section of the building in terms of their intensity of use, with the shared laboratory spaces and open-plan academic offices claiming the privileged perimeters.
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