Archive for March, 2007
Double Ascension fountain
This fountain is one of Herbert Bayer’s famous sculptures and it stands in the plaza between the two ARCO Towers in Los Angeles. It brings not only color to this urban space but in the same time merges perfectly with the surrounding gray landscape generated by the building facades (designed by A.C. Martin & Associates). […]
New photos of ROM
New photos of Libeskind’s Royal Ontario Museum. It looks as interesting as expected, or maybe even more. The building will be inaugurated in June 2007. The initial article here.
A new building from Zaha Hadid
Always a distinctive presence, Zaha Hadid created a new interesting building, this time in Montpellier, France. Herault Culture Sport is a multifunctional construction resembling with the trunk of a tree, laid horizontally. Unified within a single envelope, the three institutions are still clearly defined as distinct functions. The archive is located at the base of […]
Zero gravity?
Ok, the idea of that zero gravity chair is obvious, but this I don’t get. Apparently an “old bunker for the overload of mineral fertilizers”, this strange building can be found somewhere near Odessa. I wonder….
Gravity chair
“After resting a while, we want to be active, and after being active a while, we want to rest.” The Stokke Gravity balance chair is the first chair of its kind to simulate zero gravity in multiple seating positions. Using your own weight, as a counter balance, it makes you feel like floating, whether upright […]
Freedom of Creation
Would you imagine yourself making such beautiful and unique designs while riding the bus? Well this is how it goes for Janne Kyttanen, designer at FOC studio. While looking at the lamps he created you have the impression of a huge magnifier being held in front of your eyes. They all look like microscopic structures […]
