It’s difficult balance, what you receive and use may be difficult but it’s a healthy balance. Álvaro Siza: That’s right, one amazing project that is a Bauhaus museum in Hangzhou. Álvaro Siza: Even before I have complete knowledge, or good knowledge of every single problem, I begin sketching possible solutions with the little information […]
Рубрика: Design
Zaha Hadid’s first Brazilian building designed for Copacabana Beach
Due to begin construction in the new year, the residential block will be sandwiched between two buildings on Avenida Atlântica, facing south-east towards the beach. «Casa Atlântica’s design continues the liberating formal composition and spatial flow inherent within Brazil’s rich Modernist tradition and engages with the unique tempo and vitality of Copacabana’s urban […]
Driverless cars in cities «20 to 30 years» away, says senior Audi engineer
These are use cases that we can take out from projects like this. «It’s an evolutionary approach,» said Müller. The US could be the first country where you could have the first piloted functionalities on the road. Where do we have to focus on if we’re building this technology soon? Like traffic jams as I […]
Animal bones adorn the walls of Hueso Restaurant in Mexico
Bare brick internal walls are washed in a patchy layer of white paint and covered from ceiling-to-floor with animal skulls, fragments of bone, anatomical drawings and white cooking utensils. «On the exterior, a clean artisanal, handmade ceramic tile covering with a graphic approach protects the inside skin layer, which becomes more organic and full of […]
«The project of education-via-marketisation has had ugly results»
The lower floor of this open, double-height space was devoted to the architectural conception of the university, the upper gallery to how it was used, appropriated and radicalised by generations of students. Opinion: the Brutalist architecture of 1960s British university campuses may not have been popular among students at the time, but recent styles of […]
Dezeen’s top 10 Aesop store designs
«By utilising the height of the vaulted ceiling, we hung squid fishing boat pendant lights like a mobile and filled the space with light,» said the Japanese architects. Aesop at I.T Hysan One by Cheungvogl A forest of steel rods supported 800 resin boxes in a temporary installation inside Aesop’s outlet at I.T […]
Campana brothers cover wooden furniture with doormats
Capacho Chest of DrawersThe surfaces, including those surrounding the voids, are again lined with the fibrous material and framed by the wood. Capacho NightstandAll of the square faces are covered in the bristly material, including the fronts of the drawers. Capacho CabinetTwo doors fronting the large cabinet conceal three levels of shelves, contained within a […]
Sigurd Larsen completes low-cost family house in Copenhagen
«The innovative and affordable single-family residence combines intelligent use of prefabricated materials to minimise costs, while utilising a simple spatial composition to maximise room,» he said. Its base is concrete, which offers passive heating and cooling, while a lightweight wooden framework was chosen so it could be prefabricated over the winter and […]
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Rover Chair by Ron Arad
It’s a very interesting exercise.» Dezeen is publishing an A to Z of iconic chairs to count down the days until Christmas. «I’ve noticed in auctions that a red one fetches twice as much as any other colour,» added Arad, who is one of the only collectible contemporary designers on the art market according […]
Naoya Matsumoto Design uses crumpled paper to create grotto-like bar in Osaka
The venue was created as an evening meeting space where visitors could share food and drinks, but also to host daytime workshops, including a series of paper aeroplane and origami classes. «I hope people get together and make new friends there and enjoy the space.» Photography is by Takeshi Asano and Shizuka Takahashi. «It is […]