Interior Decoration
"The most important is to create an image of Finland. The Embassy must represent Finland in the right way."
Rainer Mahlamäki
Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Ltd
Embassy Of Finland In Tokyo
Tokyo
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Interior Decorating
Further to the previous post of 1st prize winner Denmark Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010 by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group). This is the 3rd prize winner Italian Pavillion, designed by BiCuadro Architects.The architectural design inspired all “true expression of Italian city: the historic city layered.” with a reinterpretation of a split casing in a series of plates “stratigraphy” that back to a time sequence, a metaphor for urban training Italian.
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Competition, 3rd prize
Italian Pavillion for Expo Shanghai 2010
BiCuadro Architects
Shanghai, China
Images © BiCuadro Architects
Interior Decorating
"Perched atop a ridgeline in the Hollywood Hills, the presence of the Skyline Residence represents an honest approach to creating an environmentally sensitive building without sacrificing beauty nor budget. The pre-existing site presented a challenge in terms of constructability, the client presented the challenge of limited allowable expenses."+ more photos
Belzberg Architects
Project: Skyline Residence
Design Architect: Belzberg Architects
Location: Los Angeles
Year: 2007interior designers
Interior Decorating
A white forest in a grey field, Junya Ishigami’s university project space in the foothills west of Tokyo is a building designed to almost disappear.
The structure presents another round in the architect’s ongoing contest with gravity. The forest comprises 305 slender steel 5m-high columns, irregularly orientated and distributed throughout the space, while the field from which they rise is a distorted square bed of concrete, 47m by 46m, slightly raised above the surrounding bitumen. A flat roof caps the space with linear roof lights, and a frameless glass perimeter seals it. The architecture ends there; its animation then takes over with furniture, pot plants and people.
Ishigami explains the evolution of the design as a painstaking investigation of the relationships between the columns – a task for which he developed custom-made software.
"I wanted to make a space with very ambiguous borderlines, which has a fluctuation between local spaces and the overall space, rather than a universal space like that of Mies" says Ishigami. "This allows a new flexibility to emerge, revealing reality rather than shaping it."
White Forest KAIT kobo
Junya Ishigami interior designersHouse Construction
House Construction
A vision to create a national centre devoted to celebrating, understanding and better experiencing the mountains.
The National Mountain Centre will promote responsible and sustainable tourism, serving a crucial role in interpreting the nature, history, culture, science and sport of Canada's mountains.
Inspired by geological strata, the centre will consist of juxtaposed layers with different activities taking place within, on and under the delaminated layers. Visitors will have a spatial experience analogous to that of a mountain hike with a continuous promenade with mountain views and exhibited artefacts. The mountains themselves will become a permanent exhibit with distinct views framed by the spaces between the centre's strata.
Saucier + Perrotte
Marc Boutin Architects
The National Mountain Centre
Canmore Alberta, Canada
House Construction
"like the sea creature, it coexists with its environment as a set of distributed, networked senses and responses. Jellyfish have no brain, no central nervous system, no eyes, and consist largely of the water around them. Yet, they sense light and odor, are self-propulsive, bioluminescent and highly adaptive to changing aquaculture...the house attempts to incorporate emerging material and digital technologies in a reflexive, environmentally contingent manner. The house is designed as a mutable layered skin, or 'deep surface', that mediates internal and external environments."
Iwamotoscott
Jellyfish House
Photo: © Iwamotoscott
interior designerdesign interior
House Construction
"The metaphor has once again become a central tool of communication in the visual arts, with new possibilities of expression."Hubert Klocker
Curator of exhibition and symposiuminterior designerdesign interior
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