Architecture News
Archive for January, 2012
Dezeen Screen: Nina Levett
Jan 31st
Austrian designer Nina Levett mixes imagery from punk and pop culture into her designs for textiles, wallpaper and ceramics.
FuelBand by Nike+
Jan 31st
This wristband by sports brand Nike tracks your movement throughout the day and gives you points for being more active. (more…)
Lego PMD by Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord
Jan 31st
The best escape route from a meeting at the Denmark office of toy brand Lego is down a metal slide. (more…)
AD Interviews: Brad Cloepfil / Allied Works Architecture
Jan 31st
Click here to view the embedded video. Recently we had the chance to visit Allied Works office in NY to interview the firm’s founder Brad Cloepfil. It was a great interview, and I really liked the atmosphere of the office: A young team, many abstract study models, beautiful drawings on the boards, and a subtle music playing in the background, it was like seeing the inside of a creative machine at work.
Competition: five books by Candy & Candy to be won
Jan 31st
Competition: Dezeen and interior designers Candy & Candy have teamed up to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of their new book The Art of Design, which documents their luxury projects over the last ten years. (more…)
Clyfford Still Museum / Allied Works Architecture
Jan 31st
Courtesy of Allied Works Architecture Architects: Allied Works Architecture Location: Denver, Colorado , USA Project Team: Brad Cloepfil, Design Principal Chris Bixby, Project Lead Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 28,500 sqf Photographs: Courtesy of Allied Works Architecture One first encounters the museum through a grove of trees and landscaped forecourt, which provides a place of contemplation, decompression, and transition from the museum’s surrounding urban context. Through the trees, the structure of the building is visible, consisting of cast-in-place architectural concrete walls with a variety of surface relief and texture
The Grid of Santen by 403architecture
Jan 31st
A neat row of wooden louvers conceals a small sleeping chamber inside the attic staffroom of a hair salon in Hamamatsu, Japan. (more…)
Flashback: AZL Pension Fund Headquarters / Wiel Arets Architects
Jan 31st
© Jan Bitter Architect: Wiel Arets Architects Location: Heerlen, the Netherlands Project Year: 1995 Photographs: Wiel Arets Architects, Jan Bitter © Jan Bitter The AZL Pension Fund Headquarters is an extension to an existing office building dating from the 1940s, in the center of Heerlen, the Netherlands. The existing structure was retained–against original desires–for its historic and cultural significance, largely owed to the region’s flourishing late 19th century coal mining industry. The restoration and addition makes use of a stark and restrained material palette, relying on concrete , black steel and black Birchwood
AD Classics: Esherick House / Louis Kahn
Jan 31st
© Todd Eberle An architect celebrated for his breathtaking studies of light and materiality in the creation of memorable architecture, Louis Kahn did not fail to maintain his rigor in the Esherick House of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .
