AIRSPACE TOKYO

Airspace Tokyo

l' Arbre de Flonville

This steel tree designed by Samuel Wilkinson & Oloom as part of a grouping of outdoor furniture for public space in Lausanne, provides shade and its “roots” take the form of benches beneath the wooden canopy

Xile - Mats Karlsson

Xile, a flexible tunnel designed by Swedish designer Mats Karlsson, is one of three winners of the Forum AID Award 2008,The plastic product, which won the awards’ interior design category, can be used indoors or outdoors and is expandible.

Jean Nouvel in Abu Dhabi

Architecture in the Gulf, here is a full set of images of Louvre Abu Dhabi by architect Jean Nouvel. The project is part of the proposed new cultural district on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi.

polish pavillion

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR THE POLISH EXPO 2010 EXPOSITION PAVILION.

kokkugia in warszaw

iSaw is an algorithmic strategy that marries disparate programs in the redevelopment and hyper densification of Warsaw's urban center. This project plays with normative notions of figure ground and posits a programmatic topology which enables two divorced programs - such as a brothel and a monastery - to intertwine, and canoodle unaware of each others presence. Each is offered the opposite extreme of the same topology – two schizophrenically different characters in one topology. This can be thought of as a thickening of the walls, the willful penetration and subversion of one program, deep inside another.

Kokkugia’s ongoing research into wetFoam geometries, originally developed for the Parachute Pavilion project, is extended here to create a non-linear gradient where the lattice thickens beyond a threshold enabling the solid to become inhabitable – the emergence of a new space. The two spaces share a common membrane and are consequently mutually dependant; however they exhibit vastly different spatial qualities and characteristics.

compact living in the alps

Moormannberge Hotel in Aschau im Chiemgau. A well designed ski resort with minimalistic and pure colors adjusted for the visitors to get the real alp feeling.
all of the furniture is built on location in pine or black or white painted mdf, and the details are either industrial or mid century modern. Very beutiful!

SANAA

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Today I visited a temporary exhibition of the Japanese architecture duo, SANAA at The Museum of Architecture in Stockholm. SANAA represents a new generation of architects looking for new methods for site-specific architecture by questioning established concepts such as transparency and open plans. They frequently use large glazed openings that dissolve the boundaries between interior and exterior.

The exhibition presents work from the beginning of their career until now. It consists of study models, three-dimensional objects, photographs, and video films that are found in-between art and architecture.

They are absolutly one of favourites among the young architects. If you are in Stockholm you have to have a look. Exhibition period until 19 August 2007