Here is an extraordinary project by Barcelona-based photographer Víctor Enrich that challenged himself to digitally reconfigure the same building in Munich, Germany in 88 different configurations. Enjoy the photogallery and the video below.
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This surprisingly lovely dance performance was filmed vertically on the side of Oakland’s 18-story City Hall building earlier this month at the Art + Soul Festival. The dancers are Amelia Rudolph and Roel Seeber from Bandaloop.
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Skilful designer Zaha Hadid unveiled her architectural project for Sleuk Rith Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This building with a stunning design is a prestigious place of culture and the completion of a creative research to illustrate the cultural richness of the country and commemorate the victims of the genocide.
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This is the playhouse that your cats and kitties are dreaming of!
Amsterdam based brand Poopy Cat has recently closed with success its Kickstarter campaign for BLOCKS, a fun and healthy modular toy for cats, that everyone can build by clicking various cardboard elements together. These eco-friendly cabins feature tunnels, beams, bridges, ramps and cubes that you can easily customize. Let your creativity be your guide and your cat the judge in this epic building adventure!
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As you know by now, we’re always proud to share our favourite examples of Italian creativity, and today we’re showing you some amazing architecture here in our home city of Turin, Italy.
25 Verde was designed by architect Luciano Pia, and was created as an attempt to protect residents from the city pollution. The structure is almost treehouse-like in its form and holds 63 units, surrounded by 150 trees, naturally absorbing carbon dioxide and providing residents with clean air to breathe, even in the city centre. The trees create a great microclimate inside the building too, making sure it stays cool enough during the hot Italian summer, and letting warm light reach homes during the cold winter months. Steel beams recreate the form of tree branches, and the unusual wavy shapes make the building really stand out against the traditional constructions around it, and naturally the trees’ colours provide a variety of colours and foliage. If you’ve ever dreamed of living in a treehouse, now you know where to go!
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This architectural concept of a luxury hotel in Vals, Switzerland has been created by American studio Morphosis Architects for 7132. The architects want to create a sculpturally and aesthetically impressive experience for visitors with their 3-part proposal. The three main structures would be a podium, cantilever, and 381-metre high tower, where 107 rooms would be, each boasting amazing panoramic views. The mirrored surface of the tower allows the tall tower to blend seamlessly into the sky and mountains surrounding it, and the modern, minimalist structure does not look out of place in the stunning setting, and connects guests to nature. In addition, the hotel will offer spas, restaurants, cafe, bar, ballroom, library, pool, fitness and business centres, and more. Visit the architects’ site to find out more about the project.
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In this year’s eVolo Skyscraper competition, these limestone skyscrapers got an honourable mention, and we couldn’t help but admire the concept. Proposed by Jethro Koi Lik Wai, a designer from Malaysia, these skyscrapers would be constructed into hillsides. The designer thought about the human destruction of the Karst topography found in countries in the far East, and considered how it would be possible to intervene with the destruction of these features. He came up with the idea of constructing into the hills, initially destroying the rock, but then reconstructing it as something new, allowing nature and construction to live harmoniously together, even thinking about water treatment, activities making the most of the landscape such as rock climbing and the conservation of birds. The proposal looks like an impressive movie set, but could one day be a reality.
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This summer, many of us are heading to the beach, and what better way to while away an afternoon than by making a nice sand castle? Here’s one sand sculptor who puts more effort into that than most; New Yorker Calvin Seibert is a true expert in sand castle building, although we’d actually have to call it sand architecture. His impossible-looking creations will undoubtedly amaze you, as he’s able to construct unbelievably detailed miniature buildings which look as if they’ve been made from concrete, not just any old beach sand. Seibert barely ever starts with a plan, and loves the challenge that sandcastles pose – you have to think fast and work faster before nature (or an excited child) comes to ruin your creation.
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Would you ever live in a 1950s grain storage facility? Well the architect Christoph Kaiser was able to transform it into a cozy home for two. The architect was able to locate the facility in the Garfield Historic District in Phoenix, Arizona, the 340-square-foot two-story building was originally purchased online from a farmer in Kansas and transported in a pick-up truck. The interior of the storage feature walnut plank flooring, and nearly all the furnishings such as the doors and windows are custom-made. The corrugated steel walls are painted white to reflect the sun’s heat, while subterranean air ducts help to reduce noise from the air conditioning system. Also a beautiful spiral staircase is positioned in the center and it lead to a loft bedroom which receives natural light through a skylight at the top of the silo. What do you think, do you like it?
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Snøhetta designs Europe’s first underwater restaurant in Norway: Under. This namesake holds a double meaning: in Norwegian, “under” can just as well be translated into “wonder”. Half-sunken into the sea, the building’s monolithic form breaks the water surface to lie against the craggy shoreline.
More than an aquarium, Snøhetta‘s structure will become a part of its marine environment, coming to rest directly on the sea bed five meters below the water’s surface. With meter-thick concrete walls, the structure is built to withstand pressure and shock from the rugged sea conditions.
Having designed some of the world’s most notable public and cultural projects, Snøhetta adds yet another landmark to its extensive repertoire. At the southernmost point of the Norwegian coastline by the village of Båly, the architecture firm has designed europe’s very first underwater restaurant. With its immediate proximity with the forces of nature, the restaurant, which will also function as a research center for marine life, is a tribute to the Norwegian coast, to the wild fauna of the sea and to the rocky coastline of Norway’s southern tip.
Photography by Snøhetta
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“Les Yeux des Tours” is a porthole windows photography series created by Laurent Kronental; he reframes the mundane as magnificent in his latest series.
Confined by the walls of the Tours Aillaud, the viewer is invited to gaze through the porthole windows which frame snippets in time of the Parisian suburbs. For this project the focus shifts from the inhabitants to the interiors and the wondrous views from the porthole windows of Les Tours Aillaud. Laurent explains that photographing from such heights is a method for satisfying a series of questions: Why such shapes? What can be seen from up there? Answers could only be found by indulging his curiosity.
From his initial visit in 2011, Laurent recalls being impressed by the immense scale of the estate, explaining; “The facades immediately enthralled me…their exceptional aesthetics calling to mind an enigmatic military camouflage. I was extremely attracted by this singular area which clashes with the surrounding landscape.”
Les Tours Aillaud is a group of 18 residential towers located in Nanterre, Paris. Conceived by Émile Aillaud and built from 1973-1981, they were commissioned in response to the post-war housing shortage. Aillaud intended to stray from straight lines and regularities while the artist Fabio Rieti adorned the towers in an extensive colored mosaic. This approach intended to evoke modernity and innovation and has resulted in a nostalgic timelessness with otherworldly elements.
Upon his first visit to each apartment, Laurent recalls being sucked in by the inhabitant’s universe, intrigued by their unique spaces. Laurent sheds light on this dual focus, explaining that he is fascinated “both by the architectural venture as much as by its underlying utopian paradigm, I wish to invite the spectator to discover the intimacy of the housing and to find clues of human presence within this exceptional Grand Ensemble.”
Photography by Laurent Kronental
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Yayoi Kusama’s art has been travelling the world in a series of exhibits recently, but fans of the Japanese artist’s distinctly colourful style can now head to Yayoi Kusama Museum dedicated to her works
The Yayoi Kusama Museum in Tokyo opened late last year, opened by the 88-year-old artists. Inside, visitors can get a glimpse of her wildly colourful paintings, polka-dotted pumpkins and mirror-lined infinity rooms.
“Until now, I was the one who went overseas,” Ms. Kusama, 88, said, sitting in a wheelchair in front of her painting “I Who Have Arrived In The Universe” at a media preview of the Yayoi Kusama Museum on Tuesday. “But I now recognize that there are more people coming to Japan to come to see my work,” she said, reading from a statement in a binder covered in — what else? — red polka dots. “And that is why I decided to establish a place for them to see my work.”
Last spring, when Ms. Kusama’s work was exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, the show attracted record numbers of visitors who stood in long lines for the chance to spend 20 or 30 seconds in each mirrored room.
In an effort to limit crowds in the new Tokyo museum, only 50 visitors will be admitted at a time for one of four 90-minute slots per day.
The building, designed by the architectural firm Kume Sekkei, stands five stories high in Shinjuku, a residential neighborhood close to Ms. Kusama’s studio and the psychiatric hospital where she has lived voluntarily since 1977.
The inaugural exhibition at the Yayoi Kusama Museum centres on her newest painting series “My Eternal Soul”. Other new works by Yayoi Kusama will also be on display. In addition to the sixteen works from “My Eternal Soul”, the series entitled “Love Forever” will be presented, a collection of black and white drawings that formed the precursor to Kusama’s latest series. Furthermore, an installation piece Kusama has created especially for the museum’s opening will be showcased, along with a new pumpkin.
“Infinity Mirrored Room — Let’s Survive Forever,” 2017. Credit Vincent Tullo for The New York Times
Photo by Tomoaki Makino. Courtesy of the artist © Yayoi Kusama
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Fjordenhus is a fortress-like office in the Vejle Fjord in Denmark built by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.
Fjordenhus is the headquarters of Kirk Kapital, which is the holding and investment company for three brothers who are direct descendent of the founder of Lego. But it also features a publicly accessible ground floor.
It is the first building entirely designed by Studio Olafur Eliasson, which has previously collaborated on architectural projects including the Harpa concert hall in Reykjavík.
The building rises from the water in the harbour of the city of Vejle. It is accessed across a footbridge, with a subterranean passage also connecting the building’s basement to the dockside.
The footbridge leads into the building’s public ground floor, which offers views out across the harbour and is decorated with site-specific artworks created by Eliasson. Above this double-height space, there are three storeys of offices for Kirk Kapital.
“We actually asked the client whether we could build in the water and take on an ephemeral language, an organic language, that might be a starting point for the design.”
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At first sight, it may look like a big hive and as a matter of fact, if you look better at the Farmhouse, this interesting project by Studio Precht, you will find a lot of similarity with it.
The Farmhouse is a vertical farm in a city centre that runs on an organic life-cycle of byproducts inside the building, where one processes output is another processes input.
A water-treatment system filters rain and greywater, enriches it with nutrients and cycles it back to the greenhouses. The food waste can be locally collected in the buildings basement, turned into compost and reused to grow more food.
“Our motivation for ‘the Farmhouse’ is personal, says Fei Precht. 2 years ago we relocated our office from the centre of Beijing to the mountains of Austria. We live and work now off the grid and try to be as self-sufficient as somehow possible. Nowadays we miss this physical and mental connection with nature and this project could be a catalyst to reconnect ourselves with the life-cycle of our environment.”
If food is grown within the region, the supply chain and the use of packaging gets shortened. Stacked gardens reduce the need to convert forests and allows used farmland to naturally restore itself. Moreover, vertical farms can produce a higher ratio of crop per planted area because the indoor climate of greenhouses protect the food against bad weather conditions and can offer different eco-systems for different plants.
The Farmhouse by Precht’s it’s a fully modular building system based on structural clarity of traditional A-Frame houses. Prefabricated offsite and flat-packed delivered by trucks, it shortens the time for construction and its affect on the surrounding.
For single-family structures, this systems gives a tool to home-owners to design their own place, based on the needs and the demands to living and farming.
Taller structures are assembled as duplex-sized A-frames, which provide a large open space on the first floor for a living-room and kitchen and a tent-like space on the second floor for bedrooms and bathrooms. The angled walls give space for gardening on their outside and create a V-shaped buffer zone between the apartments. This also lets natural ventilation and natural light come into the building.
In the next 50 years topics like organic agriculture, clean meat, social sourcing and ‘farm to table’ will be key elements. That means that our urban areas need to become part of an organic loop with the countryside to feed our population and provide food security for cities.
“If we stay disconnected with our eco-system, we cannot tackle the issues of our time. Reversing climate change, less pollution and a healthy food system, is now part of architecture. Those problems won’t be solved by new technology or new products alone. They will be solved by empathy. And this can become a task for us architects. If we want to encourage people to care about the environment, we need to bring the environment back into our cites.”
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As a response to Notre-Dame’s tragic fire, Shepherd Studio developed a possible temporary reconstruction: the proposal is entitled ‘divine intervention’.
The ‘divine intervention’ by Shepherd Studio includes a huge inflatable balloon-like protective layer that would sit on top of the gothic monument. The solution is temporary; the giant inflatable would take to the sky at night and only come down during the day. See pictures below!
The balloon takes the original shape of the structure and becomes a fantastic inflatable, sitting on top of the prestigious cathedral.
As Notre-Dame sits within its conservative context, any permanent addition would require sensitive evaluation, a process which may require years. As such, the balloon intends to allow architects and designers to reflect, imagine, and explore within the ‘volume’ of the bubble sitting on top of the prestigious cathedral.
Shepherd Studio always tries to provide creative solutions that range from architectural, spatial, digital, and product based designs. They use a trans-disciplinary way of thinking, in a pursuit to actualise the possibilities of human imagination through analytical, rational, and logical inquiry.
Other alternatives for the Notre-Dame Cathedral have been presented. To name but a few, the Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas imagined a contemporary roof and spire made from Baccarat crystal to the cathedral, which would be lit up at night.
Cyprus collaborative architectural studio Kiss The Architect has proposed rebuilding the spire with an eclectic mix of arches and balls wrapped around a central staircase.
What do you think? Which option is your favorite one?
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LeapHome is a new architectural solution that will revolutionize the construction industry: a house that is entirely realized through an industrial process, that is simple and innovative and adapts to your specific needs and desires, which is rethinking the dwelling paradigms.
80% less construction waste, 98% less water consumption, 100% recyclable, 100% reversible.
LeapHome was born from the experience of LEAPfactory, the Italy-based company known for building gorgeous prefabricated structures in extreme locations. Their mission is to develop a new process of home building that meets new market demand for environmental sustainability, energy self-sufficiency and residents’ well-being at the right price.
The very first LeapHome is FRAME, a two-story, 1,400 square foot house built with minimal impact on the environment. The home’s design is super energy efficient, so it can easily go off-grid.
The second model is LANDSCAPE: with an extremely flexible program, this prefabricated is designed for the enjoyment of the surrounding nature and to maximise the benefits of bio-climatic dynamics.
“We like to think that we can combine the comforts of a modern home with the profound freedom and the pioneering spirit of a life in perfect harmony with the environment that surrounds us”, said the founder Stefano Testa and Luca Gentilcore.
LEAPfactory was inspired by the idea of living in harmony with nature. Each detail lives in an integrated manner with the totality, to maintain absolute quality and aesthetic consistency. People can fully customize, both external and internal finishes, as well as the technological equipment of the house. The added value is flexibility: changes can be made without any difficulties. Every building is unique!
This is another great revolution brought by LEAPfactory. The operations include the assembly of small components and therefore with very limited weights – the execution of which may be entrusted to non-specialised workers.
LEAPfactory was born in Turin, Italy in 2012 upon the initiative of two architects, Stefano Testa and Luca Gentilcore. Read more here.
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Cristiano Bianchi and Kristina Drapic release Model City Pyongyang, a book that features 200 color illustrations of buildings rarely seen by non-north koreans, as well as diagrams and architectural drawings that reveal the planning behind the city’s elaborate symbolism. Discover more about “Socialist Architecture”!
Through Pyongyang buildings, the two Italian architects based in Beijing reveal a city with a strange atmosphere and beauty, between its concrete, its pastel tones, its axes and its symmetry.
‘we wanted to capture this feeling of ‘fictional reality’ by following the techniques used by korean artists when depicting the supreme leaders or sacred spaces,’ say the authors in the book’s introduction.
In the book, Pyongyang is described as a “modern city”. The architects immortalized the original character of the city – which had been completely rebuilt after the Korean War – before a “massive renovation program” started in 2012 changed its atmosphere.
