just toilet

Glowacka Rennie Architects for V&A Muzeum

texture

Lawyers’ office by PSA

tree hotel

Stockholm-based architects Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter have designed a hotel hidden in the trees, to be located in Harads, Sweden. Aluminium structures will be hung around tree trunks and clad in mirrored glass. The units will be accessible by rope ladder or rope bridge, each providing accommodation for two people including a living room, double bed, small kitchen, bathroom and roof terrace

light walk

This modern intervention in an old Geneva square (or actually... a trapezoid) by Swiss firm 2b Architectes is quite beautiful. The design manages to be completely modern, yet still evoke images of the past. Using traditional sandstone, as well as glass blocks or cobblestones in a random pattern, the architects are letting you in on a secret - a lake used to occupy this land. The closer you get to the location of the medieval lake, the closer the glass blocks are spaced/2barchitectes

bauhaus Dessau

leaving front elevations

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Ogilvy office - Guangzhou

Surrealism is going mainstream. Carnival office for Ogilvy & Mather in Guangzhou - China. Brillant/http://thecoolhunter

Pool Table

via Fubiz

mesa

Zaha Hadid created another of her extreme digital shapes for the Mesa Table, and Ron Arad produced a sleekly engineered version of the Rover Chair, an early 1980s piece made from an abandoned car seat and scaffolding. (Mesa, Vitra Edition 2007, Design Zaha Hadid)
project: Zara Hadid, producent: Vitra Limited Edition

WOZOCO

The Western Garden Cities of Amsterdam built in the 1950s and 1960s, are now confronted with big increases in density that continue to threaten their open green spaces, the most important quality of these areas. As part of this operation, a block of 100 apartments for people over 55 years was proposed to mark the end of a facility strip for the elderly.

To still provide adequate sunlight into the surrounding only 87 of the 100 units could be realised within the block. Where could the remaining 13 dwellings be positioned? If they were put elsewhere on the site, the open space would be further reduced.

By 'cantilevering' the remaining 13 units from the north façade, they are literally suspended in the air. The hanging East-West orientated types complete the North-South dwellings in the block with a view over the adjacent polder. By hanging the extra units on the north façade, the ground plane is kept as open and green as possible. A prototypic increase in density for the garden cities is achieved. MVRDV

SCRATCHES - CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DU GRAPHISME

AUTOLITH

MOCAPE, Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition Shenzhen International Competition – Finalist 2007

INNOVIA TECHNOLOGY CENTER

Competition First Prize Winner, 2008 .

green pix

GreenPix is a groundbreaking project applying sustainable and digital media technology to the curtain wall of Xicui entertainment complex in Beijing, near the site of the 2008 Olympic Games. Featuring the largest color LED display worldwide and the first photovoltaic system integrated into a glass curtain wall in China, the building performs as a self-sufficient organic system, harvesting solar energy by day and using it to illuminate the screen after dark, mirroring a day’s climatic cycle