ArchiDE wishes you all a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! I’m taking off for a couple of days to spend some time with friends and family but I’m back in 2010!
Picture is from a contest held by worth1000, which requires artists building architectures with food. Check out the website for more interesting creations.
Interesting installation by Sagan Piechota Architecture in San Francisco. The installation is part of the Slow Food Nation 2008.
Slow Food Nation 2008–the country’s first major sustainable foods celebration took place over Labor Day weekend at Fort Mason San Francisco. Individual “Taste Pavilions” fabricated from repurposed materials were designed by the Bay Area’s most celebrated design firms. Sagan Piechota’s design for the pickle-and-chutney booth—assembled just days before the event—featured walls made of pickle jars and a ceiling composed of 3,000 mason jar lids suspended from wires.
A total of 3,024 metal canning lids became an undulating and dynamic “ceiling” suspended with filament, Velcro and earring backs. The “walls” created with multiple rows of jars simply attached to wood studs and arranged to encourage visitor participation by taking and leaving recipes showcased within the jars themselves.
Over the course of a month and ten “build sessions” that resembled old-fashioned knitting circles, over 100 volunteers contributed their help, ideas and stories to the completion of the Pickle Pavilion. The community that formed throughout this journey would become the most valuable aspect of our involvement and distinctly reflective of the Slow Food movement.
Photographs are made by: Matthew Millman
Via Archdaily!
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec has just finished the interior for Dos Palillos, the new restaurant of the Casa Camper Hotel that is located in Berlin. The restaurant is located on the ground floor. Large glass windows seperates the space from the street in order to invite the people passing by to participate to the show that is happening in the kitchen.
Some information by the architects:
Camper invited us to design Dos Palillos, the restaurant of the Casa Camper Hotel in Berlin Mitte that will open in January 2010. What immediately interested us was that Dos Palillos was a one of a kind culinary experience offered by Albert Raurich, elBulli’s former chef. In order to celebrate his cuisine, the concept of the restaurant gives full means of expression to his culinary art.
Naturally, the kitchen had to be the centre of the space and thus, it had to be wide open so that guests could see the preparation of the dishes from the beginning to the end. We have decided to articulate the environment around one long wooden table and the stainless steel kitchen, one module facing the other. Consequently, the guests find themselves at the centre of the kitchen, while the chef acts in front of them.
It was important for us as well to set a dialogue between the 10 cooks and their nearly 30 guests, invited in the chef’s kitchen. In order to emphasize such an interaction and encourage eye contact, we worked on different ground levels so that the guests are able to have a global experience once seated at the table, as if they were attending an artistic performance. Throughout the project, our intention was to reduce our level of intervention to the utmost to let the scenery express itself. Indeed, the space is voluntarily raw with very few elements and materials to sustain the idea that the legitimate sense of the space comes from the relation between the guests and the cuisine.
Via DavidReport
Kubota Architect Atelier designed this house that is located in the Japanese city of Oita.
Photographs are made by Ken’ichi-Suzuki Photo Office
Via What We Do Is Secret
Kazuyo Sejima from Sanaa Architects, designed this store in Minami Aoyama in Tokyo. The store called ‘carina‘ is children’s clothing store.
Berlin architects nOffice designed Performa Hub, a venue for the Performa 09 biennial that was held in november this year. The space was located on the ground floor off the new Cooper Union building, designed by Morphosis and consists of a giant plywood wall that wraps around three sides of the space.
nOffice team consists of partners Markus Miessen, Magnus Nilsson and Ralf Pflugfelder.
Here’s some text from nOffice:
Performa Hub, designed by the Berlin-based architectural practice nOffice (partners Markus Miessen, Magnus Nilsson, Ralf Pflugfelder), unites the necessity of a central meeting point for Performa Biennial New York as well as nOffice’s ongoing interest in archives and how to record and store content and programme spatially.
The specially designed Performa Hub introduces a space in which a vast single wall becomes a container and shelving unit for a variety of Performa associated programmes, such as a screening space, a lecture hall, an office space, a bookshop, an interview booth and a lounge.
All content is archived within the wall and can be activated by opening up specific deep sections of the wall. Further working on the wall’s inhabitable potential, the architects went on a day’s walk along the entire territory that the Berlin wall used to span.
The evidence of this walk is on show in the Hub’s screening space.
Check out nOffice’s website for more information
British practice Dow Jones Architects converted an old factory with a beautfiull mixture of brick, wood and concrete. The apartment is located in a former Victorian warehouse in Borough.
Lant Street has recently shortlisted in the New London Architecture Awards and will feature in the exhibition at The Building Centre from 8th December until 30th January.
The project involved the conversion of the top two floors of a Victorian former clog-making factory into a home for a filmmaker. It makes somewhere in the city from which to withdraw from a busy working life, and a place of reflection which takes advantage of the wonderful city views around it.
The existing roof structure is removed and replaced with two steel and timber box girders, big enough to be habitable, which span the brick walls and create a new horizon at roof level. As well as supporting the new roof, the girders provide an organisational structure, creating a territory of enclosure and screening.
The space formed inside one girder is a rooftop ʻthinking roomʼ, with views across the terrace and the city beyond. The other girder is glazed to create a room-like window bringing light and volume down to the floor below. Different terraces occupy the spaces between these two enclosures.
These spaces are seen as being analogous to sweetmeat rooms on the roofs of English renaissance palaces.
On the lower floors interventions into the existing building are minimal. A bathroom and kitchen are formed from in-situ concrete, conceived as large pieces of furniture built within the existing brick fabric of the building. These items of furniture are used to delineate space and create thresholds in lieu of physical walls.
The Japanese architects Sou Fujimoto designed this residential project in Tokyo. Some off you maybe already know Sou Fujimoto Architects or projects like HOUSE H in Oita or the Next Generation House.
House H is a new experiment to find a balance between volumes, spaces and light. Fujimoto seized the opportunity to extend his research into the potential of primitive forms to create complex responses to contemporary needs. Dealing innovatively with Japan’s strict plot ratio regulations, Fujimoto has avoided the conventions of creating a courtyard or of setting a house as an isolated object within the site boundary.
Instead it is a hybrid; a series of boxes in boxes that define domestic realm, enclosure and interior.
Air Multiplier fan by Dyson
It’s time again for Wallpaper* Annual Design Awards. As usual the judge’s list is stellar. “To judge the Awards, Wallpaper* has once again brought together a highly esteemed international panel. The judges are Paris-based fashion designer John Galliano, Belgian-born installation artist Carsten Höller, American interior designer Kelly Wearstler, British media executive James Murdoch, American architect Steven Holl and Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar.”
Wallpaper*, the international design, fashion and lifestyle bible, has announced HTC, a global smartphone designer, as its new headline sponsor of the Wallpaper* Design Awards. The six-figure partnership will span global activity in the magazine, on wallpaper.com and at the Awards event.
HTC’s sponsorship of the Wallpaper* Design Awards reflects HTC’s commitment to design. As an established and respected brand in the mobile industry, HTC is focused on delivering beautifully designed devices, both inside and out, in a Quietly Brilliant way. This aligns perfectly with Wallpaper*.
As part of the partnership, HTC will have a strong presence in Wallpaper’s dedicated Design Awards issue, one of the most popular editions of the year. Online promotion on wallpaper.com kicks off with the launch of the HTC-supported Reader’s Choice Award, which in keeping with HTC’s quietly brilliant ethos will celebrate products that subtly demonstrate the essentials of good design. The brand’s presence on the website will then increase throughout January to the homepage and every channel.
To judge the Awards, Wallpaper* has once again brought together a highly esteemed international panel. The judges are Paris-based fashion designer John Galliano, Belgian-born installation artist Carsten Höller, American interior designer Kelly Wearstler, British media executive James Murdoch, American architect Steven Holl and Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar.
John Wang, chief marketing officer, HTC Corporation comments: “Quietly brilliant is doing great things in a humble way, with the belief that the best things in life can only be experienced, not explained. The Wallpaper* Design Awards represent the ideal way for us to reach people who have a real passion for design and to commend quiet brilliance.”
Gord Ray, Wallpaper* publishing director, adds: “Wallpaper’s Design Awards get bigger and better every year and the celebratory issue of the magazine is always eagerly anticipated. Having HTC on board, with its commitment to design and innovation, is a great synergy and testament to the influence our Design Awards have on the world design stage.”
The Wallpaper* Design Awards in association with HTC are now entering their sixth year. They celebrate and congratulate the year’s highest design achievers in a broad range of categories from extraordinary architecture and brilliant product design to the most life enhancing item.
The Wallpaper* Design Awards issue goes on sale on 14 January 2010. Details of the Awards event will be announced in due course.
Up street furniture by Ewo and Norway Says
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has created an very interesting installation in Tokyo for fashion brand Hermès. The installations shows a movie of a woman appears to blow on a scarf hanging in the window.
Called Maison Hermès Window Display, the project is a reinterpretation of a similar installation that was designed by Yoshioka for Hermès in 2004. The installation will run until january 19th 2010.
Some information for Yoshioka himself:
This is a design to introduce a world of fantasy, Hermes’ lively scarves, which now represent one of the significant brand images.
On designing a window-display at the 1F Maison Hermes, I intended to express people’s daily “movements” with a suspicion of humor. There are moments when I perceive a hidden presence of a person in the movements born naturally in daily life. In this installation, I created a space where one can perceive someone behind the scarves as if life were breathed into them.
The window is designed with an image of woman projected on to the monitor. The scarf softly sways in the air in response to the woman’s blow.
Via Cubeme
Check out an interview with Yokujin Yoshioka on Designboom!
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