Colombian architect Manuel Villa designed the “Polyhedron Habitable” as a relaxing space in the back yard of a suburban family house in Bogota, Colombia..Description from the architect:The project, meant for a family house back yard in the suburbs, aimed at designing a small park or opened area where the young parents and their newborn child [...]
Architect and designer Il Hoon Roh will be exhibiting his Table R collection at the 100% Design show in London this September..Fabric Table R (Fabric Table Radiolaria)Coffee table with toughened glass top (Glass thickness 8mm)Material: GRP (Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic)Colour: Available in any colour (Black, Ivory, dark Blue, dark Red, etc) with either satin or [...]
Seattle-based architect Erich Remash has sent us the Helix Spire he designed to be built at two different festivals this summer..Description from the architect:Helix Spire is a sculptural play toy, a climbing tower, a lookout 25 feet above the playa floor at Burning Man.Mundane materials used in a clever way to build a modest recognizable [...]
There’s many ways to be green. One of the more overlooked is simple space reduction. Jakarta-based Chrystalline Architect designs a miniscule footprint with no windows into an elegant spacious apartment for mr Chou, who adores entertaining. to make his guests feel like part of a bigger gathering, the dining room table is set into the [...]
A new condominium house in Brazil, Mirante do Horto House by Architect Flavio Castro accomplishes the impossible. it makes a house that is largely lit from a skylight on the roof not seem claustrophobic. Even odder, the front of the house, where you drive down underneath to park, and with the bedroom upstairs, seems more [...]
Groves-Raines Architects has built a simple gardening shed in the architect’s garden, constructed entirely out of rebar; the bars normally used to reinforce concrete in foundations and freeways. The bars are bent (and allowed to rust) to seem almost organic, and the shed has a green roof. interestingly, the normally rigid industrial rebar is treated [...]
The Safe House, set in a vast grassy parkland, is almost Kafkaesque. It is by the innovative Warsaw architect Robert Konieczny of KWKPromes, who designed the much more accessible White Cube House with Grass Roof. Perhaps he really has locked into the zeitgeist of his client, and this menacing quality is just what the customer [...]
A house with the tiniest footprint imaginable has 360 degree views from this; its living room. Hardly there at all. Based on the idea of Thoreau’s Walden House, architect Nils Holger Moorman furnishes the bare minimum of civilized amenities – arranged in such a way that you are barely sheltered from nature. A place to store [...]