larger-than-life size murals featuring Brazil's Os Gemeos’ signature characters to social commentary in

Centre for Dentistry by Jürgen Mayer H.
The sculptural elements and the sophisticated colour scheme have the typical handwriting of the Berlin-based architect...

In summer,the fresh water of the Badeschiff enables the city’s inhabitants to figuratively swim in their river. And in winter, the Badeschiff became the coolest place in Berlin to escape the harsh winter - by AMP Arquitectos

Interiors for Santa Pizza restaurant in Santiago, Chile. Designed by 01Arq, it has a good mix of cold stone with warm lighting.

House inside a shipping container by Adam Kalkin - Just press the button and out comes your new home!

Currently on display, a digitally generated and fabricated wall consisting of wooden bricks - the outcome of a synthesis of computer generated design and computer aided construction research at the GSD.

The Project is the outcome of a synthesis of computer generated design and computer aided construction research at the GSD

"Walk around the place du Molard in Geneva, Switzerland, and you’ll be walking on stars. Two thousand LED light sources equipped with 10 000 white Power TOPLEDs have been set into the paving stones." Sounds stunning...

From Tjep ~ work for a new furniture brand called VilaSofa. The interior design is like a modern warehouse fantasy playspace.

Cahill Center for Astrophysics by Morphosis, force lines track the movement of form and light through the building’s faceted façade, the central vertical volume, and the stitches.

Cool interiors on these contemporary house in Ijburg designed by dutch architects Gabriels Webb. I like the transparency achieved through the big openings, and how they bring light to the interior.

Armon Choros Architects designed the multi million dollar Olympic House & Park in Cyprus. The building has a lot of steel, but due to its perforations it looks lighter, specially during night.

Chen House in North of Taiwan was designed and built by architects Marco Casagrande and Frank Chen in 2008.

OFFECCT headquarters, factory & showroom- The building facade is transformed by placing 16,647 plastic insert feet presenting the company logotype onto the building's perforated steel wall.

Up - Urban Furniture designed by Norway Says

‘Reef Benches’ by Remy & Veenhuizen
The stylized dunes are placed on the gray tiled roof top and form a contrast to the rather confined atmosphere of the building.

A contemporary house in Silver Lake, CA. Designed by Standard, a simple space with a great view is wrapped by warm materials. I like the existing tree on the site and how it shades the terrace.

Tocha Project was charged with the media integration for the Glen Rising house, which includes special features such as iPod integration in every room and a great outdoor screening area for movies.

It was very interesting to listen to Mitchell Joachim explain the concept of Terreform's Soft Cars to Stephen Colbert...

francois blanciak architects' proposal for the thyssenkrupp elevator award to develop an iconic tall emblem structure for zaabeel park in dubai

Images of the much anticipated Zaha Hadid Architects x Lacoste footwear collaboration are out. The concept is certainly interesting!

French architect Manuelle Gautrand has designed a facade of folded glass to link the old & new Copenhagen city.

The new Sanctum Soho hotel in London features clever "Crash Pads" designed by Lesley Purcell.

Hotel Distrito Capital, Mexico City

Rem Koolhaas latest project, The Prada Transformer, opened with the Waist Down - Skirts exhibition by Miuccia Prada in Seoul, Korea. Amazing photoset by architecture photographer Iwan Baan.

The first project to be built by Norwegian architects Snohetta in the US: the Wolfe Center for the Arts in Bowling Green, OH. Love how the green roof integrates with the street level, similar to the Oslo Opera they just finished.

Italian architects Studiometrico turned an old cinema into the new flagship store for Bastard skateboards, including also their offices and a bowl. Amazing how they re used the former cinema seats to accommodate the bowl.

ROBOTA from France with their creative artistic images and architecture designs takes us to the world of tale and future. Of course the famous names as Rem Koolhaas, Portzamparc and others are involved, too.

In Gantenbein Winery project, The architects had created designs and patterns of a precision that simply could not be achieved by hand. A wall of an oversized basket filled with grapes when seen from afar.

Ferrari + London = Hot Destination!
Check out the awesome store!

Designed by Katsuyuki Fujimoto Architect & Associates, Oy House in Kyoto, Japan has this courtyard in the interior with an open street view allowing nature and its present to paint the house, as though it's a blank piece of canvas.

After his wife left him, Tony Alleyne set out to create the ultimate bachelor pad, painstakingly turning his flat in Hinckley, Leicestershire into a Star Trek set.

This bright orange tea towel featuring the Barbican theatre is the latest offering from People Will Always Need Plates: Available from designer tea towel outfit todryfor.com

Senseware installation by Tokyo Fiber is a superlative showcase of technology and creativity for a brief look into the near future.

We went to see the recovery of the Arpel's Villa, present in the film "Mon Oncle" by Jacques Tati...

The Markthal is the first covered , permanent food market in the Netherlands and a new icon for Rotterdam, a public building emerging from housing.

BIG + Topotek1 just won a competition for 80 residential units in Germany. The project aims to re populate a former industrial area of Hamburg, with an interesting design.

A visually stunning concept for a climbing gym to renovate two abandoned sewage treatment silos in Amsterdam.

The relation between a still and a mobile volume represents "the passage between two worlds, between the known and the unknown, the light and the darkness..."

The Outrial House in Ksiazenice, Poland. Designed by architectural firm KWK Promes

Here are some pictures of the Established & Sons' space in Milan from a bird’s eye view.

Appropriately dubbed 'the brain' this Berlin University library uses a clever fibreglass membrane to provide a natural warm and well lit place to study.

I just love how brazilian architects integrate the interior spaces of their projects into the nature. The Guarujá House by Bernardes Jacobsen does that, and also has a nice pool hanging over the landscape.

office transformer suburban saloon cross-breeding machine prototype called MACHOBOT

so fresh. the jewellery award by Pierre Lang
presented live on June 3, 2008
with Husam El Odeh and Noémie Doge
as part of the 8 festival for fashion & photography

An inverted periscope is part of the wonderful square renewal of the Célestins Square in Lyon, that includes also vivid greenery, a pool fountain, wood flooring, and an underground parking.

The view through the periscope is puzzling…

…and we could not help but go seven floors downstairs to see a moving sculpture in action.
Place designed by: Michel Desvignes
Parking designed by: Jean-Michel Wilemotte with Michel Targe, architects - Daniel Buren, artist
Year: 1995
Visited: April 2009
[edit this entry]
Uncategorized

Sherman Residence is a really cool mountain home by Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects. Located in Mill Valley, California, this modern design blends nature and innovation in a truly contemporary house on a hill.

An intricately crafted paper house inspired by the architecture of Amsterdam by English creative Mandy Smith

XPIRAL Architects designed a stylish drugstore in San Gines, Spain. I love the faceted roof, contrasting with a minimal floor design.

The Singapore Entertainment Hub's facade actively merges a media screen with an ornamental architectural screen and as it blends abstract futuristic shapes with a 1970’s Vegas style.

A very stylish house on a small plot at Venice Beach, CA. Designed by LOHA, the house experiments on how to develop a vertical program, dealing with views and privacy.

Light of the sun and moonlight play in the LOVE HOUSE, and rain and wind visit LOVE HOUSE, and birds and insects visit a tree and a fruit tree of LOVE HOUSE. The situations differ every day...

Iwamoto Scott vila for the ORDOS 100 project. A mix between the traditional concept of chinese and italian vilas, this project offers an inner patio with strategic openings.

Italian architect Studio Tamassociati has designed a pavilion which is floating on a large water pool that used to create a spiritual separation between inside and outside.

The S-2 house is a minimalist family home with an all black exterior. All black is a great contrast with green grass surrounding it.

Interview with CG artist Alex Roman.

Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen and Kasper Rønn of Norm Architects have completed a new interior design for a penthouse apartment in the Frederiksberg area of Copenhagen, Denmark.

House D is located in a prestigious neighborhood near the center of Ljubljana. Each floor of the house offers a different level of privacy in relation to the outside space. By Slovenian Bevk Perović arhitekti.

On 8 June 2002, ANNEX Monma Gallery opened in Sapporo. Designed by Shinichiro Akasaka from Akasaka Shinichiro Atelier the art gallery is open between May to October.

The House of Vision by FORM | Kouichi Kimura closes to the outside to gain privacy from the neighborhood, while opening to the landscape on the opposite side.

The first flagship store for Barbie. The store, located in Shanghai, China, was designed by NY based Slade Architecture, and has a rooftop cafe.

What started as a student project more than four decades ago has now been designated a heritage site by the Quebec government. Habitat 67 by Moshe Safdie.

House HB, on top of a low hill, appears to rise from the ground. The roof and side facades are clad in aluminum plates, merging the surfaces, leaving the house with clean lines. By Slovenian Bevk Perović arhitekti.

Multifunctional Glühweinstand including a DJ cabin and a small stage with a chill out area - Köln

YachtPlus launches its first Foster + Partners designed super-yacht called The Ocean Emerald

There's something incredibly beautiful and romantic about black and white photographs of bridges from around the world.

Pattern based logo, signage, screens and environmental graphics, an integrated approach to branding for Architecture by the design studio Buro North for a boutique residential development in Melbourne.

Spanish architects Vaillo + Irigaray designed the Lounge MS in Navarra. The skin uses recycled plastic tubes that resemble reeds, giving a dynamic looks on the outside, while filtering the light on the inside.

One of the most impressive office design -and location- i have ever seen: the offices for Selgas Cano Architecture. Photographs by Iwan Baan.

Magnus Larsson's beautiful plan to re-landscape the Sahara with a bacterial "Green Wall."

Spanish based Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office designed a chapel that looks like a perfect object in the middle of the landscape.

Innovation consultancy Continuum launched their Venice studio and generated buzz in the local design community last week. their new studio is where the historic Charles and Ray Eames office used to be on 901 Abbot Kinney Venice!

Francois Blanciak's proposal for the Taipei Performing Arts Center competition is as simple as stacked pebbles.

NL architects proposal to reuse two former sewage treatment silos in Amsterdam, turning them into spaces for culture and sports... and using the facade for climbing.

Mobideep makes great floating swimming pools and water features. A new way of occupying space...or water...

Brazilian architects Bernardes Jacobsen used old containers to create a temporary art gallery, ContainerArt.

Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas's Prada Transformer opened on April 25th, 2009 in Seoul to host Miuccia Prada's nomadic "Waist Down" exhibition, an inaugural exhibition featuring the skirts of Miuccia Prada, running through May 24.

Visiondivision's Secret Sauna - a nondescript building facade opens up to reveal the sauna inside...

Saxo Bank headquarters, Copenhagen

The coolest hotel in the hippest city, Stockholm, Sweden! Story Hotel offers carefully designed rooms (blend of bohemian chic and rugged cement walls), a fabulous restaurant and the hottest hotel bar in town.

The Gild Hall Thompson hotel in the financial district and home to Todd English's new spot, The Libertine

San Francisco's Transbay Transit Center will host California's high-speed rail line, topped with 5.4-acre urban park on its roof, accessed by sky bridges and a funicular. Fountains in the park will activate when a bus passes underneath.

Nemo House, by Polish practice Mobius Architekci. The house was designed to integrate with the sloping site, from the higher side, it seems to emerge from the water.

New Tamayo Museum by Rojkind Arquitectos
+ BIG

By Japanese designer Akasaka Shinichiro Atelier, the pyramid-shaped tents have successfully created an interesting skyline to its surroundings, making the “Snow Scape” more attractive.

A look inside the new Bape Pirate Store. As usual impeccable interior design with some nice gimmicks.

Singapore Civic & Culture Centre by Aedas is about to change the island civic and cultural signature as soon as 2011.

Organic architecture in Nashville neighborhood - you have to see this house!

Capilla Vallejos Arquitectos designed this simple -yet detailed- visitors center in Cantabria. I like the use of wood on the main volume, almost transparent when viewed from the right angle.

Incredible set of photos of the new Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China by Iwan Baan. The building, designed by Wang Shu from Amateur Architecture Studio, uses traditional chinese architecture in a contemporary way.

This pavilion by french architects Beckmann-N’Thépé brings a new space for social encounters on a housing project in Rouen, France. The plain steel structure contrasts with colorful interiors.

Wimbledon's Centre Court recently received a new retractable roof constructed out of translucent fabric. It stands to eliminate rain delays, ensure greater security for the grass courts, more comfortable viewing for fans.

Toyo Ito´s new tower in Barcelona. A sinuous tubular skin wraps this irregular building for the FIRA exhibition center. The 114m tall tower is expected to be completed during 2009.

According to the architect, this lofted forest house is a physical manifestation of the “fluidity and complexity of music.”

Seward Street Slides (& Corwin Community Garden) - San Francisco, CA. First opened May 21, 1973. Fun for big kids too!

Long Table Bangkok is claimed to be the longest dining table in the world. With an impressive 24 meters teak dining surface, long table seats around 70 peoples at one time.

The Georgica House by Bates Masi architects is a monochromatic cube shaped home with great white blank interior spaces. The walls were left blank at the request of the homeowners to make it seem like a gallery for their artwork collection.

Get a better look at all the 2009 Wallpaper Design Award Winners here. Lots of extra photos of each winner from each category.

The Mill House designed by Gert Wingardh from Wingardh Arkitektkontor is not only a family vacation house but it is a manifestation of the Swedish ritual of sauna and bathing.

Type Nesting. Do birds have a favorite font?

Svanen (The Svan) is a a new conference center, hotel, apartment and office building, dynamic 150 meter tall, to be built in the Swedish city of Gävle. Designed by Petrén Merom Arkitekter and Scheiwiller Svensson. Arkitektkontor.

"It’s not a pretty building, but it is heroic and dramatic." Andrew Melville Hall, design by James Sterling which has aged and weathered well with overgrown moss and lichen, had survived 40 years of age after it was completed in 1968.

The windows of Kartell's Milan flagship store have been transformed for design week into six room settings, each animated by a life size Barbie.

MOS architects and Tobias Putrih have created a precarious and beautiful installation at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art - with the help of some advanced scripting

Therme Vals Spa in Switzerland-one of the finest building by 2009 Pritzker Prize winner, Peter Zumthor back in 1996 while he was still unknown to the architectural public.

French architects ECDM designed this astonishing sports center in Sarcelles. I love both the structure and the fold on the skin to create the entrance.

A sexy stair for the Ayres store by argentinian architects Dieguez Fridman.

An industrial complex in the middle of the vast Argentinean landscape. The shape of the roof resembles the hills on the background, with subtle contrast.

Allard Architects shared with us Matchbox, their latest building in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, that just got approved by the Amsterdam Aesthetics Committee.

Brilliant radiator from Ad Hoc, like a water hose, it can be left hung on the hook, or spread around the house to heat specific areas.

toyo ito recently transformed this facade in barcelona spain, inspired in la pedrera from gaudi that lies across the street

Wonderful new ladies’ toilets at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London feature this geometric pattern by Swiss artist Felice Varini that can only be fully seen in the basin mirror.

Raumlabor´s inflatable structure, the Spacebuster, is currently moving around New York hosting community events.

Canadian architects Studio NminusOne designed a house for a professional snowboarder, achieving an interesting house, integrated with the landscape and framing the amazing views over the woods.

The Silberfisch Houseboat is a thoroughly modern floating home that also allows the flexibility of relocation on a whim and sports a ‘green’ roof planted with vegetation, producing zero emissions and utilising reclaimed wood where possible.

Guillermo Hevia Architects designed this eco friendly olive oil factory in the chilean countryside. The building blends with the local landscape, and has several passive energy strategies to reduce consumption.

Bamboo branches and steel are hand-tied with rattan to form a cocoon-like structure that morphs into the furniture in the bar, where you may sit and sip your champagnes. Z Bar by master Kenneth Cobonpue.

A beautiful concrete house, sunken into the chilean coast landscape. A stone interior garden is enclosed by the transparent house, creating an interior protected from the wind, but open to the views. By Izquierdo Lehmann.

san paolo church by massimiliano fuksas with a concrete cube suspended inside the structure giving natural light

kris ruhs: 'the sculptural terrace' at carla sozzani gallery, milan

L.E.FT + Studio hp AS designed an interesting vertical landscape project in Holmestrand, Norway, an elevator articulating several programatic pieces to connect the old part of the city with the new one.

Recent LOHA residential projects are bringing people back from the L.A. suburbs, into urban areas with great design and rich common spaces. Habitat 825 in West Hollywood is a colorful example.

‘A House‘ has been designed to achieve an ‘A’-Building Energy Rating, with a particular emphasis on the use of passive systems. By FKL architects.

French architects Polaris proposal for the ORDOS 100 project. A complex house, with beautifully illustrated concept renderings.

Architect Tadao Ando created an unusual guesthouse and gallery space in Tokyo for Takeo Obayashi. Unbelievable.

Cabel Industry, Empoli - Italy / Studio Massimo Mariani

impressive interactive wall by festo

It took Stephane Dupoux seven hours, sitting in the dark underground to visualise the transformation of this incredible Sultan lounge in Kuala Lumpur.

Dezeen has a great look inside the interior of fashion store Villa Moda in Bahrain as designed by Marcel Wanders

Despite being on a small urban plot, the House of Depth in Shiga, Japan, manages to create open spaces at the interior, spaces for silence and light. By FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects

A beautiful stone house, acting as an ancient wall. The monolithic volume is open on strategic points to enjoy the great views over the lake. By Wespi de Meuron.

Australian architect Andrew Maynard designed the Barrow House, a timber construction that uses a large amount of recycled materials, with a sleek result.

The Vatican is going solar in a big way. It recently announced that it intends to spend 660 million dollars to create what will effectively be Europe’s largest solar power plant.

Step in outside the door and your feet on hot sand to hit, make you feel as if you were out on your own private beach.

They say that money doesn't grow on trees. Well, in Kaunas it grows on buildings. Designed by Lithuania architect RA studija.

Alcoholic Architecture is a bar offering timed tickets for a “breathable cocktail” of gin and tonic mist. Realized by Bompas & Parr, of Scratch'n Sniff Cinema and Flavor Tripping Party. [Ed. Note: #8113 did this in 2004]

Cloud Lamp Milan, inspired by the Duomo windows, the mystery of da Vinci’s masterpiece, the glitter parties and the fascinating shopping experiences in Milan. Come and see it at Pavillion 22/24 - Stand C16
Salone Satellite, Milan Fairgrounds Rho, 22-27 April.

On 4 April 2009, the Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Chelsea location an exhibition curated by Javier Peres of works by MIKE KELLEY, TERENCE KOH, and JEFF KOONS.

The Hedgehog building appearance change dramatically as viewer move around. Design by Moxon architects, the building features an array of aluminium fins oriented in the same direction.

Niklas Madsen & Per Eriksson have designed one chair-component that can create new chairs out of junk. Can be seen at Salone di Mobile from 22-27 april. Superstudio Piu (HIDDEN HEROES) Via Tortona 27 Milan Italy

Inform Interiors is a premier furniture store and interior design consultation service in Vancouver, British Columbia. Experience the space, products and services all online!

Amazing furniture by MRCW Design. No screws. No Nails. No Bolts. Wonderful raw edges mixed with precision workmanship.

A New Infrastructure, Los Angeles, is often portrayed as the example of the car-friendly city.

As a regular commuter on the Victoria Line for many years, I have become familiar with the different tiled motifs behind the seating on each platform.

Maia in The Seychelles is a slice of heaven. Just looking at the photos makes you rethink the concept of vacation.