SpaceInvading
Nonchan’s House
Designer: Masatoshi Shikada and Kaoru Kuzukawa
Location: Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Image Credits: Yuko Tada
At a glance, it looks like a building with some offices, but look closer… this actually is a house with only 1000-square foot floor area. Deceptive, isn’t it?
→ whatwedoissecret.org
Posted: 02/20/2010
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VitraHaus
Designer: Herzog & de Meuron
Location: Weil am Rhein, Germany
Image Credits: Iwan Baan
Herzog & de Meuron: VitraHaus, Weil am Rhein
In January 2004, Vitra launched its Home Collection, which includes design classics as well as re-editions and products by contemporary designers. As a company whose previous activity was primarily focused on office furnishings and business clients, Vitra created the Home Collection with a new target group in mind: individual customers with an interest in design.
→ www.dezeen.com
Posted: 02/19/2010
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Lux Nova
Designer: EASTON+COMBS
Location: New York, NY
In addressing the question of an environmental structure for the MoMA PS1 courtyard we were inspired by the story of an old material and its reinvention that profoundly affected the connection between social narrative and the environment. In 12th century Paris, the Abbey Saint Denis experienced a substantial reconstruction that included, for the first time, the use of polychromatic dyed glass to extend the narrative possibilities of painting into the surface of the apse window. Upon completion, Abbot Suger was so moved by the multicolored cast of light and its narrative power that he declared it the ‘Lux Nova’ or the ‘new light’. This was to become a primary architectural practice incorporated in the collective experience of the gothic period and beyond.
→ bustler.net
Posted: 02/17/2010
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Nafi, Hair Salon
Designer: ZMIK Studio
Location: Basel, Switzerland
ZMIK Design Studio has refurbished a hair salon in Basel by wallpapering the entrance with photocopies from Vogue magazine.The space is subdivided into two zones, which are being separated by a sharp border.
→ cubeme.com
Posted: 02/17/2010
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Rolex Learning Center
Designer: SANAA Architects
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Situated on a single campus overlooking the shores of Lake Geneva at Lausanne, Switzerland, with extraordinary views of the Alps, EPFL accommodates 11,000 people. These include 7,000 students as well as professors, over 4,000 researchers and other faculty members, plus administrative staff and a number of entrepreneurs running small start-up science and technology businesses located on the campus.
→ rolexlearningcenter.ch
Posted: 02/17/2010
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