art and architecture
The Fat House
The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, UK, presented some interesting works of Erwin Wurm. The most terrifying is “The Fat House”, a life-sized house that’s very fat. Everything is weird about it, from the roof which expands to cover it all, to the video playing inside, asking questions like “Am I a house?”. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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). […]
Beirut bullet lights
Beirut is trying to recover after a cruel war and there are some urban project aimed to reborn the city and its social life. And maybe the best way of responding to the war signs is art. All across Beirut you can find walls covered with bullets holes. This brings memories of violence, conflict and […]
