ParedesPino Architects have completed the Centro Abierto de Actividades Ciudadanas (CAAC) project in Cordoba, Spain. Its location close to the railway station of the AVE high speed train in Cordoba city can take advantage of this gap as a unique opportunity, giving the character and scale necessary to assume as a new focus of interest not only confined to the neighborhood, but as a magnet in con..
Desitecture, a British Architecture Collective, have recently been shortlisted by the World Architecture Festival in the future project-experimental category for their Vertical City in Venezuela. More images and architect’s description after the break. Originally 23 de Enero was designed to become a mass housing block for residents of the city to live and work in. On January 23rd, 1958, when the..
Architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space have sent us this video of a pavilion situated in Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, designed by US architects Studio Gang. The movie shows the construction of the bent-wood lattice structure, the installation of fibreglass shells to the top of the pavilion providing shelter and its various uses throughout day and night. Studio Gang Architects also designed the ..
This stepped cardboard installation was designed and built by Berlin University of Arts students to display their own work and meandered around a gallery at their summer show. The UdK Bookshop was made from six hundred corrugated-cardboard panels that were cut, folded and glued to create a lattice structure strong enough for sitting on. The installation was bent into sweeping curves and could be..
Denmark-based Henning Larsen Architects have won first prize in an invited competition to design the Batumi Aquarium in Georgia. See more images and architect’s description after the break. Architects: Henning Larsen Architects Location: Batumi, Georgia Project Team: Louis Becker (design director, partner) Anders Park (project manager), Viggo Haremst (design responsible), Michael Sørensen and Ja..
Architect: Miguel Arruda Location: Olives Garden, CCB, Lisbon, Portugal Collaborator: Pedro Pereira Structure: Afaconsult Lighting: Donker by LGT Project Year: 2010 Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra With «Habitable Sculpture» architect Miguel Arruda transports a formal memory of one of his early sculptures from the 60s to the present day and gives it the scale and spatial exper..
Sjölander da Cruz Architects of Birmingham have completed this shelter at a park on a former wasteland in Amington, UK. Designed as a meeting place for young people in the area, the structure was developed in a series of workshops with residents. Here are some more details from the architects: Sjölander da Cruz Architects have recently completed a dynamic shelter for the young people of Amington..
Based in Berlin, Plastique Fantastique experiments with public architectural works to create unique spatial experiences right in the middle of a city. These giant plastic bubble installations which take on different shapes in different cities, immediately snatch people’s attention and create a temporary focal point in the city centers. he bubble not only modifies the subject’s appearance, but al..
Chris Bosse has sliced up the Panton chair as part of the Re-loved: designer stories at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney until 10 October. re-LAVA ed: Geometries beyond the blob Bosse, director of innovative architectural firm LAVA, is one of several designers commissioned by the Powerhouse to use a pre-loved chair to tell a story about a piece of furniture they love. He chose a design classic that ..
Fashion designer Iris van Herpen collaborated with New York company .MGX by Materialise and artist Daniel Widrig to create 3D printed clothes. Created as part of her Spring/Summer 2010 collection called Crystallization, the designs were inspired by the transformation of liquid into crystals. The piece was unveiled as a preview at Amsterdam International Fashion Week last month and is the first o..