Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled this design for a performing arts centre in The Hague, the Netherlands. The new centre would house four music and dance institutions in one building clad with horizontal louvres. The design is one of three shortlisted proposals for the site, along with Amsterdam architects RAU and Rotterdam studio Neutelings Riedijk Architecten. The winning project will be ann..
Architects: BFLS Location: Cardiff, Wales Design Team: Jason Flanagan, Paul Bavister, Anne Heucke, Jason Sandy, Armando Elias, Kibwe Tavares Client: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Years (Start-Finish): 2007-2011 Area: 4,400 m2 Photo Credits: Vyonyx Products in this project Facades: Western Red Cedar BFLS won an international design competition in 2007 to design a new building for the Roy..
Former European skateboarding champion and architect Matthias Bauer of MBA/S Associates has designed a skatepark and youth club in Stuttgart, Germany. The park has a 1000 square-metre concrete plaza and bowl area, and will also feature a soon-to-be-added vert-ramp. The vert-ramp will form part of an open-air structure housing the youth club. Here’s more info from Bauer: The skatepark is conceive..
10m³ di Pausa is an urban installation which helps us acknowledge the value of space in the city and the growing necessity for green cars. A field of green 'grass leaves' takes hold of the urban space, offering 10 cubic meters of relax for the people passing by. Interaction with this grass field and the possibility of immersion within it allows us to escape from the traffic and confusion. The si..
Starting with a digital body scan, the dress is digitally drawn. This animation serves to compare the drawing process with the final product and the variability in reality. from vimeo
Project Title: Phoenix Flowers, Garscube Landscape Link Location: Garscube Road/ M8 Flyover, Glasgow, Scotland Cost: £1.2million Construction start date: 21st September 2009 Completion date: 28th June 2010 Summary The first phase of the regeneration of the Speirs Locks area in Glasgow has been completed with the opening of the Garscube Link, a new public realm intervention which re-connects Nort..
For the Young Architects Forum Atlanta’s 10UP! National Architectue Competition, participants were challenged to create a temporary installation for Atlanta. The winning 45 ft tower, Periscope, designed by Brandon Clifford and Wes Mcgee of Matter Design Studio, is an “inhabitable installation with iconic implications to advocate bold architecture for the Atlanta community and young designers acr..
The “18 septemberplein” is one of the major squares in the city of Eindhoven. The square is the connection between the central station area and the main shopping district of the city. The demand for 2000 parking places for bicycles together with the important logistical function of the square led to a design of an underground bicycle parking, leaving room for the movement of people on the square..
Paris-based designer Robert Stadler has created the Royèroid sofa and armchair. The collection was recently exhibited at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery booth during the Design Miami/Basel show in Basel, Switzerland. Why, as a designer, focus on the decorator Jean Royère? ?His anachronistic levity and his anticipation of freer forms in our habitat make his merits beyond question. The ‘Ours Polai..
Italian designer Giancarlo Zema has created the Bright Woods collection for the Avanzini Group. The limited edition of 120 stools and 60 coffee tables are made from wood and resin with an integrated LED light. from contemporist