art and architecture
Glass bubbles house
It’s a small apartment building and it’s almost all covered in glass bubbles. It consists of 13 apartments divided in two blocks, connected on each floor by an atrium. In front of the reinforced concrete structural core, 7,900 blown glass spheres form the playful design of this building. The green glass bubbles are all handmade […]
Bridging Teahouse
It’s one of the 16 pavilions, in the Jinhua Architecture Park. Created by the young, Mexican architect, Fernando Romero, The Bridging Teahouse, situated next to a water pond, uses its natural site to show an interesting concept. The pavilion tries to unify two of the most common features of a traditional Chinese garden: the […]
Jinhua Architecture park
It’s a park, in China, where you can find some interesting and imagination challenging structures that you can admire or walk in. The project was initiated by the artist, designer and curator Ai Weiwei in colaboration with Jinhua City Municipality and Herzog & de Meuron, who invited 16 architects from all over the world to […]
Rucksack house
The Rucksack house started as an art object, created by the sculptor Stefan Eberstadt, but investors saw the commercial opportunity of the 9 sq m box and transformed it into a house extension, as a cheaper and faster alternative to usual extensions. The author says it all began with the need of escaping the walls, […]
The Waste Man
A 25m high man, all made of wastes, that the people from Margate were very happy to provide. In fact a “modern man”, nothing else than consumption goods: planks of wood, tables, chairs, keyboards, paintings, dartboards, a front door, old rope, sofa padding, toilet seats etc. Conceived by the controversial British artist and sculptor, Antony […]
