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Category Archives: ARCHITECTURE
Twins: Houses in Five Parts by William O’Brien Jr.
I love the architectural design of these two houses. The ultra modern, black homes create a fantastic contrast to the snow while still blending with the surroundings. I’d love to design a home in the snow like this one day. Here’s a more detailed look at the design.
William O’Brien Jr., a Boston-based practice has completed “Twins: Houses in Five Parts,” a project located in upstate New York. These two single family residences, intended for two brothers, are arranged into a hexagonal floor plan and feature twin structures that share geometric qualities. The houses share a common functional agricultural field containing strips of berries, vegetables and wheat. Large windows provide ample light and allow for views of the surrounding forest and landscape. The floor and roof planes react to topographical shifts which in turn create different sections connected by ramps and stairs. This geometric wonder house also features porches, courtyards and an off-the-ground volume.
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China Eco-City
I’ve been doing a lot of research lately into cities of the future and how technology and creativity can go hand in hand to create a liveable environment. So this was a great watch.
Sorry for the dodgy video (just enlarge it to full screen)
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Wallpaper* + Reebok + A-Cero
A-Cero are by far one of the most talented international architectural firms around. So it’s not surprising that when Wallpaper* Magazine asked the firm to create a design that was inspired by the new Reebok ZigTech running shoe. Here’s a behind the scenes video of their creation.
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The Barcode House
This house was designed by David Jameson Architect and is inspired by barcodes. Great space and I love that they could incorporate a little rooftop terrace.
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Appuru Pai High Speed Rail Line
Photographer Appuru Pai presents a fantastic series of photographs taken on the Japanese high speed rail line, Yurikamome.
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Dri Dri at St Martins Lane by Elips Design
A pop-up Italian ice cream stall at St Martins Lane Hotel in London was inspired by the seaside serving gelato by UK company Dri Dri from a timber cart on wheels. Designed by architects Elips Design.
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Bedtime reading thanks to Tsutaya
Tokyo has one of the best book and magazine stores in the world called TSUTAYA in Roppongi Hills. I always do a few trips there when I’m in town and when I was living in Tokyo conveniently picked an apartment almost across the road from it. One of the best magazine selections I’ve ever seen. I popped down there this evening to grab a few magazines and ended up coming out with a pile of everything from fashion, japanese illustrators, interiors, a surf dvd, skateboarding, and hat&cap magazines. Can’t wait to find time to look through them all. The only problem is they weigh a tone, so I’m not sure how I’m going to get these all back Hong Kong yet.
TSUTAYA 6-11-1, Roppongi Hills Roppongi Keyakizaka as Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
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The Nolitan Hotel NYC
Nolita — “North of Little Italy” – is your neighborhood in New York and The Nolitan Hotel is your home when you’re here.
At the corner of Kenmare and Elizabeth Streets, The Nolitan Hotel is the first luxury boutique hotel in Manhattan to open in this authentic New York City neighborhood. Arriving August 1, 2011, The Nolitan Hotel combines luxurious downtown living with luxury boutique hotel services and amenities to create a distinct New York City experience. Our NYC boutique hotel offers accommodations, intuitive service and the comforts of home. And with only 55 rooms, we will take very good care of you.
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212.925.2555
reservations@nolitanhotel.com
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The art of design
A key to a good designer is the ability to multi-task. A lot of design work is charged out on ‘billable time’. Meaning each hour we are sitting in front of the computer is time we are working on a job and is allocated to a current project. This may seem straight forward but when you spend the majority of your time concepting and coming up with ideas. Some projects ie. a logo design can come to you in a day. And other times it can take weeks! So time is of the essence. What I try to do is take a brief or project idea and plant that seed in my mind and let it grow. A good example of this is when you start looking a buying a car and you like the colour red. You notice you start to see a lot of red cars on the road. This is the same with ‘brief seeds’. You plant the idea and you start to become aware of visuals that relate to the brief. This way you are always concepting. I have found it very effective for me. I am currently working on two interior design jobs at the moment. One retail the other residential. I decided to leave my computer at home over the weekend and pick up a new pile of interior design books to thumb through.
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Sheats Goldstein Residence
John Lautner’s iconic ‘Sheats Goldstein Residence’. The showing, held on what would have been the late american architect’s 100th birthday, was part of the months long John Lautner turns 100 series taking place in LA and Michigan.
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Holman House by Durbach Block Jaggers
A Picasso painting inspired this cliff-top house near Sydney by architects Durbach Block Jaggers. The curved forms of the kitchen and living room, which project over the sea supported by four angled stilts, are derived from the torso of Picasso’s The Bather. The two-storey Holman House was completed atop the 70 metre-high cliff at Dover Heights.
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Converse Rubber Tracks Recording Studio
Great time-laps video showing the creation of the Converse Rubber Tracks, a new state-of-the-art recording studio in Brooklyn, NY. The purpose is to provide artists of all genres the opportunity to record their original music in a high quality studio with a team of experienced engineers at no cost.
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Tree Hotel in Harads – Sweden
I love these designs and has inspired me to build my own one day or at least go to Sweden to experience the tree-top hotel room by Swedish architects Cyrén & Cyrén. You access the room via a bridge leading from the hilly forest to an entrance on the roof. The Cabin hangs from the trees and has a roof terrace overlooking the forest.This project is one of five rooms of the Tree Hotel in Harads, northern Sweden.
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PAS House: The Skateable House
This is true meaning of living and breathing skateboarding.
The PAS House, to be built in Malibu, CA, is the ultimate rebuke to the notion that play shouldn’t occur indoors, simply because every surface in the house is skateable. PAS stands for Pierre Andre Senizergues, founder and CEO of Sole Technology, parent company of etnies, Emerica and eS. He came up with the vision for the house and got together with artist Gil Le Bon Delapointe to creat the design — a modern single family home and skate ramp in one — and eventually passed the project on to architect Francois Perrin, who is now finalizing plans on the house. Together they’ve created a skateboarder’s paradise, where everything from the kitchen counter to even the bed can be skated. Currently a full-scale, 753.5-square foot prototype of the house’s living area is on display at La Gaite Lyriqe in Paris. The exhibition will run through August 7th.
La Gaite Lyriqe
3 bis rue Papin | Map
75003 Paris France
Exhibition Date: Now – August 7th, 2011
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Alila Villas Uluwatu – Bali
Bali has never been at the top of my list of destinations I want to visit. I’m not sure if it’s because I was lucky enough to spend most of my weekends surfing the east coast beaches of Australia or because I only knew of Kuta beach which seemed to be a dodgy hub for western tourists. Either way, over the past few years I’m seeing more and more amazing resorts and villas popping up that just make too hard to resist. Alila Villas Uluwatu is the lastest piece of paradise to lure you over to Indonesia. Looks like a great place to take a lady friend.
Overview:
Alila Villas Uluwatu is designed by award-winning Singapore architectural firm, WOHA, which has built a global reputation for innovative design for projects in tropical environments earning it the Royal Australian Institute of Architect’s (RAIA) International Award at the 2006 National Architecture Awards in Brisbane for their House on Rochalie Drive in Singapore, and Architectural Review MIPIM future projects award for The Met, a high-rise condominium in Bangkok, to name a few. Since 1989, directors Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell have been involved in the cutting edge of Asian hospitality design, having worked on many well-known hotel and villa developments.
Richard Hassell speaks of this eco-friendly project …”We are very pleased that Alila Hotels have embraced the Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) principles, and we are using many ESD measures including local materials, water conservation with soaks and rain gardens and recycling with grey water systems, using local plants from the special Bali Savannah ecosystem on the Bukit, which are being raised in a nursery on site to encourage local bird and animal life, heat pumps for water heating, salt water pools – among many others. The resort is registered for Green Globe certification, and will be the first hotel in Bali to get the highest level of certification for ESD. As it is built into the resort from the beginning, there will be a strong combination of the built fabric and on-going operations side working together to reduce the long-term ecological footprint of the resort.”
The design of the interiors is completely integrated with the architecture, as the design flows from inside to outside. All the materials are locally sourced. These beautiful local materials are environmentally sound and support the local communities.
For reservation or general inquiry :
Alila Villas Uluwatu
Jl Belimbing Sari
Banjar Tambiyak, Desa Pecatu 80364
Bali, Indonesia
P : +62 361 848 2166
F : +62 361 848 2188
E : uluwatu@alilahotels.com
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Maison Martin Margiela – Hotel La Masion Des Centraliens Paris, France
It seem’s all the big fashion brands are jumping on the hotel buzz. Now it’s Maison Martin Margiela’s turn. A former home to a Viennese princess, the converted townhouse is just brief stroll away from Champs Elysées.
Hotel La Maison – Champs Elysées
8, rue Jean Goujon | Map
75008 Paris France
TEL #: +33-1-40746465
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Loft 24-7 – Sao Paulo, Brazil
Where indoors and outdoors coincide and the lines are blurred. São Paulo based Fernanda Marques achieved this in her Loft 24-7 residence.
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Bape Store New York Closing
When I first heard while in New York early last year that the Bape store was closing on Greene St in Soho. I thought it can’t be serious. I know Bape has lost a lot of it’s original street credibility over the last few years, but I still thought there was a huge following with the continued support of some of the biggest international music artists around ie. Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Lil’ Wayne just to name a few.
But I was wrong.
It’s been announced that the store will be closing at the end of the month. This may not come as a surprise to some after hearing the majority of the company was sold to the owner of I.T. for only a few million. Bape is now going through some drastic changes. I’ve always been a fan of the brand and Nigo even though I don’t wear as much as I used to. I appreciate his business model and hope this isn’t the end. Good luck!
Check out Kid Cudi’s performance at the store.
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