The NOHO Loft, located in New York, was designed by Slade Architecture for an active, young couple with a strong professional interest in photography. In addition to the typical needs, they also wanted a fixed workspace, complete with light table and flat files. The public parts of the project provide a series of specific functional zones while maintaining the […]
David Chipperfield Architects has recently completed the Liangzhu Culture Museum in Liangzhu Cultural Village, China. The museum, which will house a collection of archaeological findings from the Liangzhu culture, forms the northern point of a park characterised by water. The museum is composed of four bar-formed volumes. These volumes all have the same width of 18 meters but differ in […]
The Brasserie is an incredible restaurant designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in the year 2000. The restaurant is located in the stone base of the Seagram Building, New York, entirely without glass or view. The design emphasizes the social aspects of dining. Entrance from the street is transformed into the ritual of “making an entrance”. Initially, […]
Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos proyected Bibliometro, a public library stands in the metro stations of Madrid in which passengers may take books to lend and leave them back in any station. Bibliometro intends not only the traffic of culture across the subway of Madrid but also to make readable the journeys of millions of passengers every day. These small […]
Ayers, designed by Marco Piva for Leucos, is a collection of table, floor, pendant, ceiling and wall lamps made of hand blown gloss glass in black, white and red. Originally Posted On Coolboom
The new Tama Art University library designed by Toyo Ito will provide a range of facilities designed to develop the intellect and enhance life in a contemporary information society. The first floor features a gallery space where students will be able to assimilate the latest information from every angle. The gallery will act as a space for various exciting events and exhibitions. On […]
Eduardo Larmaraud‘s Festive Kitchen consists of a kind of “rent a kitchen” with an object that can be rapidly build and functions simultaneously as a kitchen, a table, a bench, a working surface and a garden market display. Originally Posted On Coolboom
Cristóbal Vila presents a short computer graphic movie featuring the Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpiece, the Fallingwater House. In the animation you can see how the house was built, showing its internal structure and offering points of view not so well known that really helps to understand the volume of the house. Originally Posted On Coolboom
The Buttergly House by Lippmann Associates is a 420 square meters house with a voluptuous sculptural form that has been widely and critically acclaimed The house was designed for a Chinese property developer who insisted that the house have “no straight lines” to attract good “chi” in accordance with Feng Shui principles. The building has two wings like a […]
Litracon, invented by Hungarian architect Áron Losonczi, presents the phenomenon of light transmitting concrete in the form of a widely applicable new building material. Litracon is a combination of optical fibers and fine concrete. It can be produced as prefabricated building blocks and panels. Due to the small size of the fibers, they blend into concrete becoming a component of the material like […]
