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[Image: The Waiting Room, Rome, by Jeffrey Inaba/Inaba Projects]. Jeffrey Inaba of Inaba Projects has a new pavilion on display now in Rome, sponsored by Enel, Italy's largest utilities provider. Because of that sponsorship, Inaba "wanted to use numerous forms of alternative energy applications," but decided, in the end, to apply "just one that was highly productive and cost effective." The pavi..
Another winner from our Dezeen x Design Association container design competition - KT: the listening room by designers MAT Studio and Elastik. The 20 foot shipping container was filled with CNC-cut layers of corrugated fiberboard and compressed-polyester foam panels, which cut out noise and vibration from the outside while the occupant listened to classical music. Fifteen speakers were oriented ..
Architects: ACXT Location: Bakio, Spain Client: Bakio City Council Constructed Area: 5,200 sqm Budget: 3,9 M EURO (US $4,93 M) Project year: 2006 Photographer: Cesar San Millán The building is situated in a small and floodable valley open to the sea in the coastal town of Bakio. It takes up the Northwest side of the site, leaving two free areas, one in the West, through which access is carried o..
Tokyo architect Shinichiro Himematsu has designed a cafe adjacent to a vinegar factory in Fukuoka, Japan. The cafe, in a converted 130-year-old house, serves dishes using the vinegar from the factory. The following is from Himematsu Architecture: – Vinegar Cafe SU This project is to renovate a 130-year old private house into a café and factory in Fukuoka Japan. The café sells the vinegar produce..
London-based artist Gayle Chong Kwan has created a fantasy landscape out of used plastic food packaging for an exhibition in London. The exhibition, called Atlantis, is commissioned by Arts Co. Atlantis is at 29 Thurloe Place, SW7 until 6 December. The exhibition also features photographs of previous incarnations of Atlantis completed by the artist. The following text is from Gayle Chong Kwan: –..
Italian designer Riccardo Giovanetti has designed a pavilion to host the premier of new Walt Disney movie Trilli. The 130 square meter structure is made from shiny, white, plastic disks and houses an exhibition for children about plastics and recycling. It was commissioned by the Italian Institute of Plastic Recycled and will travel to several cities over the coming months. The following is from..
Mind the Gap is an interactive installation that involves the spectator and affects our perception of space. When visitor move across the room, the wall changes and forms new patterns. The optical play challenges our expectation and appeals to our senses.
mOCEAN 2004mOcean investigated the phenomenological and constructional possibilities of movement and thick space. It was designed for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Contemporary Extension (SFMOMA CX) summer event, entitled Diamond Dust. The event theme was based on the work and production of Andy Warhol's Factory. Drawing from Warhol's Silver Clouds, the installation attempts to capture ..
En busca de una asimilación del entorno y desde un lenguaje arquitectónico actual, el proyecto incorpora la madera y la estructura metálica, hunde el volumen del frontón aprovechando las dos paredes ciegas para lograr un menor impacto visual y dialoga con las cubiertas tradicionales de los caseríos del valle. El edificio del concejo se resuelve en un pequeño volumen que respeta la altura de corn..