Archive for April, 2007
Corner building
Interesting way of designing a corner building. The corner itself isn’t here a downfall for the project but actually becomes the central point of this strange design: a steel bar that seems to hold the two facades in there place. All looks like a sail blown by the wind because the narrow space […]
Copan Building
This is considered to be the largest condominium in the world. 40 floors of apartments that vary from 26 to 300 square meters make a total of 1160 living units. They are completed by a series of commercial spaces accessible to any inhabitant. This 140m high building was built in Sao Paolo by Oscar Niemeyer […]
White Chapel
This is a wedding chapel, designed by the Japanese architect Aoki Jun for The Hyatt Regency Osaka. Besides the commercial purpose, this building reflects its own special architectural value. The 4 circles inscribed in regular octagonal planes create units of rings connected at points, thus forming part of the structural skeleton. This design creates the […]
New Angel of Islington
Art and commercial spaces can actually go along very well? Wolfgang and Heron designed in Islington, London a sculpture which guards the main entrance of the N1 retail plaza. Delicate steel wings spread above a flat cylinder which seems to close in its own shell, leaving only a faint crack for light to come in. […]
Wave, wood you?
Things are not always as straight as you’d think. Designer Matthias Pliessnig tries to use the wood’s „free will”. He wants to show that wood is not the rectilinear material that we know and use. „The processes I am using combines boat building techniques with furniture building techniques”, while showing the true elastic possibilities of […]
Newspaper bench
Newspapers and glue were about enough for Charles Kaisin to create an extendable, accordion bench. Because of layering and compressing it has the strength of wood and can actually be used as a piece of furniture. So have a sit! Its designer thinks that this honeycomb like structure can be easily replicated by almost everyone, […]
