Our latest Pinterest board features products and architecture designed with brass, including Tom Dixon’s Plane light collection and David Chipperfield’s competition-winning Nobel Center design. See our new Pinterest board»
The post New Pinterest board: brass appeared first on Dezeen.
News: “An architecture challenge doesn’t come much better than this,” says David Chipperfield, who has been named winner in the competition to design a new home for the Nobel Prize in Stockholm (+ slideshow).
David Chipperfield Architects saw off competition from Swedish studios Wingårdh and Johan Celsing Arkitektkontor to land the prestigious commission to create the Nobel Center – an exhibition centre and events venue for the award that recognises advances in science and culture.
“I think all projects are important but this project has enormous meaning, not just for the city of Stockholm but internationally. An architecture challenge doesn’t come much better than this,” said Chipperfield.
The architect’s vision is for a shimmering brass-clad building on the waterfront. It will be fully glazed on the ground floor, opening out to a new city park on the sunny south-eastern side of the site.
“The jury finds the lightness and openness of the building very appealing and consistent with the Nobel Foundation’s explicit ambition to create an open and welcoming centre for the general public,” said Nobel Foundation executive director Lars Heikensten, who was a member of the judging panel.
“We view the winning proposal as a concrete interpretation of the Nobel Prize as Sweden’s most important symbol in the world. Stockholm will gain a building – magnificent but without pomp, powerful yet graceful – with qualities like those the City Hall gave the capital a century ago.”
Fellow jury member Per Wästberg added: “We view the winning proposal as a concrete interpretation of the Nobel Prize as Sweden’s most important symbol in the world. Stockholm will gain a building – magnificent but without pomp, powerful yet graceful – with qualities like those the City Hall gave the capital a century ago.”
As well as hosting the annual award ceremony each December, the building will provide a public centre for exhibitions, educational activities, events and meetings.
“It can be spectacular on its greatest night, but also it can be very useful and functional and working the rest of the year,” said Chipperfield.
The post David Chipperfield triumphs in
Nobel Center competition appeared first on Dezeen.
Stockholm 2014: Swedish studio Folkform has designed a lamp based on the Stockholm skyline.
The Skyline lamp series was designed by Folkform for Swedish lighting brand Örsjö Belysning, with blocky forms based on the concrete buildings of a Stockholm suburb.
“Many of our products are inspired by architecture and the graphic expression in buildings,” Folkholm cofounder Anna Holmquist told Dezeen. “The particular skyline lamp was inspired by the raw concrete suburb where I grew up, called Vällingby.”
The series comes in black and white, made from powder-coated aluminium, as well as brass. “When we chose the brass material we were inspired by the time spent in metal workshops in the south of Sweden,” said Holmquist.
Different models of the lamp can be suspended from the ceiling, attached to the wall or bought as a floor lamp with four legs in two sizes.
The Skyline lamp was launched during this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair, and was also presented to the Swedish consort Her Majesty Queen Silvia for her seventieth birthday.
Other designs by Folkform featured in Dezeen include brass bookends and a cabinet that is made from 80-year-old samples.
The post Folkform designs Skyline lamp
for Örsjö Belysning appeared first on Dezeen.
by Stefano Caggiano Design is all about making things more than they are initially—more efficient, more beautiful, more meaningful. In their work in improving reality, designers take care of all dimensions, from the functional, material ones to the aesthetic, conceptual ones. They are…
Continue Reading…
A brass table with a gently rippled surface provides the reading area of this Japanese library dedicated to the sea and designed by Swedish studio ETAT arkitekter (+ slideshow).
Architects Erik Törnkvist and Malin Belfrage of ETAT inserted the small library inside a 1920s schoolhouse on Awashima Island – one of the 12 islands within Japan’s Seto Inland Sea that is hosting the Setouchi Triennale 2013.
As one of a series of projects organised for the art exhibition, the Sea Library is a place where visitors are invited to donate any books containing history or stories of the ocean.
The rectangular brass table fills the centre of the space, allowing enough space for eight people to sit and read together. The architects have also added a rippled brass screen in front of one wall, creating wavy reflections of the interior that are reminiscent of water.
“[The] refurbishment is designed to highlight the material and spatial qualities of the existing wooden building and to enhance its relationship to the sea,” said Törnkvist and Belfrage.
Brass brackets support wooden shelves along the edges of the room, providing storage areas for books that have been collected in various languages.
The Setouchi Triennale takes place across three seasons and will continue until 4 November. Other architectural additions to this year’s show include a pair of galleries by Kazuyo Sejima and public toilets framed by a single curved wall.
Photography is c/o ETAT arkitekter.
Here’s a project description from ETAT Arkitekter:
Library in Awashima
ETAT arkitekter/ETAT Architects has been commissioned by Art Setouchi to design a library located on Awashima Island in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan.
The new library is housed in an existing heritage-classified building from the 1920’s located on the port’s sea front. ETAT’s refurbishment is designed to highlight the material and spatial qualities of the existing wooden building and to enhance it’s relationship to the sea. For new additions the predominant material is brass, which is used as wall surface, for fittings and for the 3.6 x 3.6 meters reading table.
The library is a regional development project in order to revitalise Awashima and the project is part of the art and architecture triennale Setouchi International Triennale 2013.
The library was opened in early October 2013 and has since attracted more than 1,000 visitors.
The post The Sea Library in Awashima
by ETAT arkitekter appeared first on Dezeen.
While scanning the stands in the Barker Hanger at Santa Monica’s West Edge Design Fair last week, the Apparatus booth gave off…
Continue Reading…
For fall, the beloved craftsman behind Postalco introduces a clever and sleek alternative to the keyring. “It’s the simple things that are the hardest to redesign,” says Mike Abelson, Postalco co-founder, pointing out his shiny new Totem Key Holders. Made entirely of…
Continue Reading…
While many designers during NYC Design Week staked their savings on exploring the limits of material and form, Los Angeles-based design studio Commune stuck to their guns for their…
Continue Reading…
While many brands looking for a new audience during NYC Design Week take the traditional route of exhibiting at one of the many group showcases, contemporary design store and manufacturer Matter chose to do both—showing…
Continue Reading…
From a bike-mounted bottle opener to corkscrew upcycled from skateboards, we always appreciate a well-designed beverage opener. The latest to land at our feet is the Langley Churchkey from Brooklyn’s General Manufacturing (Gen Mfg…
Continue Reading…
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
