The Stealth Pavillion is based on the concept of heterotopia, which describes spaces of “otherness” that are neither here nor there, simultaneously physical & mental, such as the space of a phone call or the moment when you see yourself in the mirror. To express this complexity, the exterior of the design takes inspiration from the radar-reflective form of the F-117 Stealth fighter. The simple, warm wooden interior with fire-pit contrasts this to create a feeling of isolation despite the pavilion being open-aired.
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L’artiste allemand Gerhard Mayer nous propose de superbes créations géantes réalisées à l’encre de Chine sur des murs. Des créations basées sur des règles mathématiques que l’artiste se donne pour obtenir des lignes et points qui, assemblées, subliment leur environnement. A découvrir dans la suite.
Why waste your time trying to angle a put into the gaping maw of a clown–or past a revolving windmill–when you can use a round of mini golf to reflect on the importance of green roofs, ponder the evolution of the office, or consider the utopian lineage of the sphere? These opportunities and more await you in Washington, D.C. at the National Building Museum, which has just opened an indoor Mini Golf exhibition in the form of eighteen holes designed and built by Washington-area architects, landscape architects, and contractors. The two nine-hole courses (each par 26), open through Labor Day, explore the participating designers’ visions of “Building the Future” alongside displays of items from the museum’s collections and against a backdrop of colorful murals studded with famous buildings and monuments.
“Players have a chance not only to practice their swing, but also to be inspired by the creative process behind 18 unique architectural marvels,” says Chase W. Rynd, the museum’s president and executive director. These range from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s glowing green “Holograph Hole,” inspired by state-of-the-art 3D applications, to “Capitol City Crops,” in which Rippeteau Architects envisions a future where urban farms dot the National Mall: golfers can choose to maneuver through the farm fields full of carrots and rutabagas or soar through the garden apartments at a bird’s eye view of the Washington Monument. Design Foundry’s “The 19th Crater” celebrates the idea of global expansion to the Moon while KUBE Architecture plays with other dimensions in “Urban Pinball,” a network of LED-lit “time tunnels” that explores uncertainty.
At the National Building Museum, mini golf holes designed by Wiencek + Associates Architects + Planners (left) and Inscape Publico (right).
Voici un des derniers projets en date du réputé studio coréen Moon Hoon. Appelée « Visang House », cette structure à la façade surprenante propose de jolis espaces en son sein. Découvrez davantage d’images et de détails de l’extérieur et de l’intérieur de cette maison dans la suite de l’article.
News: the fictional bridges depicted on Euro banknotes have been been transformed into reality at a new housing development near Rotterdam.
Bridge from the €200 note (also top)
Dutch designer Robin Stam was inspired by the seven images of archetypal bridges originally created by Austrian designer Robert Kalina to represent key phases in Europe’s cultural history.
Bridge from the €50 note
The illustrations on the banknotes show generic examples of architectural styles such as renaissance and baroque rather than real bridges from a particular member state, which could have aroused envy among other countries. “The European Bank didn’t want to use real bridges so I thought it would be funny to claim the bridges and make them real,” Stam told Dezeen.
Bridge from the €20 note
The local council responsible for constructing a new housing development in Spijkenisse, a suburb of Rotterdam, heard about the idea and approached Stam about using his designs.
“My bridges were slightly more expensive but [the council] saw it as a good promotional opportunity so they allocated some extra budget to produce them,” says Stam.
Bridge from the €5 note
The bridges are exact copies of those shown on the banknotes, down to the shape, crop and colour.
Bridge from €500 note
“I wanted to give the bridges an exaggerated theatrical appearance – like a stage set,” adds Stam, who poured dyed concrete into custom-made wooden moulds to make them.
All seven bridges surrounding the development have been completed and are being used by cyclists and pedestrians. Stam says they have divided opinion among residents: “Some people’s initial impression is that the bridges are ugly but when they find out the story behind them they find it really funny.”
On the first of January 2002 new banknotes were introduced in Europe. In addition to windows and gateways, these seven banknotes also depict several bridges. Each bridge has an individual appearance, all of which can be recognised as having originated throughout certain periods in European cultural history: Classical Antiquity, the Roman period, the Gothic period, the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo, Iron- and glass architecture and lastly contemporary, twentieth century architecture.
Designed by Robert Kalina, the bridges are meant to illustrate the tight collaboration and communication between Europe and the rest of the world in general, but more importantly, amongst the European countries in particular. However, the bridges portrayed in the banknotes are fictional.
They have been designed to prevent one single member state from having a bridge on their banknote opposed to other states not having any depicted in theirs. In other words, “member state neutral” banknotes.
Now wouldn’t it be amazing if these fictional bridges suddenly turn out to actually exist in real life? And wouldn’t it be even more amazing if these bridges were to be built in a new housing project in the former centre of urban development and suburb, Spijkenisse.
L’Aqua Tower est un gratte-ciel de 266 mètres de hauteur pensé et réalisé par le studio Gang Architects. Situé au 200 North Columbus Drive à Chicago aux USA, ce bâtiment de 86 étages propose une façade impressionnante. Découvrez plus d’images de ce projet dans la suite.
In this movie filmed by Dezeen at the unveiling of this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London today, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto explains how he used a rigid geometric grid to create a soft and natural atmosphere.
Photograph by Iwan Baan
“The inspiration started from the beautiful surroundings,” Fujimoto says. “I was so impressed by the beautiful green surroundings, so I tried to create in this green environment something between nature and architecture, tried to create a transparent sturcture that melts into the background.”
Photograph by Iwan Baan
To achieve this, Fujimoto created his pavilion from a white lattice of steel poles, with variations in density creating a structure that appears more or less transparent depending on where you stand.
“The grid itself is quite straight, rigid and quite artificial,” he says. “But when you have such a huge amount, it becomes more like an organic cloud-like or forest-like [structure].
Photograph by Iwan Baan
“I was fascinated by such a beautiful contrast [beween] the really sharp, artificial white grids and the organic, formless experience.”
Image copyright Dezeen
Fujimoto goes on to reveal that it took him a while to work out how protect visitors to the pavilion from the rain. “We couldn’t put a roof on [it] because it would spoil this beautiful structure,” he says. “Finally we had the idea to use polycarbonate transparent discs,” which slot in between the gaps in the lattice.
Image copyright Dezeen
The polycarbonate tiles are not just to provide shelter, Fujimoto says. “Sometimes, if the wind is coming, [the roof] starts to swing and [creates] a more soft atmosphere, and a beautiful contrast with the grid.”
Here’s a full set of images from this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (+ slideshow).
Unveiled this morning, Sou Fujimoto‘s design features a cloud-shaped grid of steel poles with varying density.
The sticks part to form two doorways and visitors can climb up onto transparent ledges within the structure.
They can also sit at cafe tables and chairs underneath, sheltered from above by a layer of transparent plastic discs.
The pavilion will open to the public from Saturday and remain in front of the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens until 20 October 2013.
Dezeen published the first photos of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 from the press preview this morning, where Fujimoto explained how he wanted to “create a nice mixture of nature and architecture,” adding “that has been the great interest for me these last ten years.”
The annual unpaid Serpentine Gallery Pavilion commission is one of the highlights in world architecture and goes to a high-profile architect who has not yet built in the UK. At 41, Fujimoto is the youngest to have accepted the invitation.
News: developers have released images of a 57-storey residential tower designed by Herzog & de Meuron for Miami.
The 198-metre Jade Signature tower by Herzog & de Meuron on an estate in Miami’s Sunny Isles district will accommodate 192 residences, ranging from one-bedroom apartments to a 975-square-metre penthouse.
The building’s parallelogram-shaped plan will help to angle the apartments towards the southern sun and floor-to-ceiling windows will provide views of the ocean. Hourglass-shaped columns will feature at the extremities of the balconies encircling the tower.
Interiors will be designed by Pierre Yves Rochon’s Parisian firm PYR and Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles will create a tropical garden surrounding the building.
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our second movie from New York, designer Stephen Burks takes us to the High Line and explains how the elevated park is helping to transform the surrounding areas of the city.
“For decades [the High Line] was an overgrown railroad track, left over from an era when elevated trains roared through Manhattan,” says Burks. “Today it’s a multi-million dollar park that’s welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors a day.”
The park was completed in 2009 and Burks believes the project has been the catalyst for the regeneration of the Chelsea area and the Meatpacking District next to it.
100 11th Avenue by Jean Nouvel
“The High Line is really connecting the dots of the city’s best upcoming architecture,” he says, pointing out Jean Nouvel‘s 2010 apartment block 100 11th Avenue and Shigeru Ban‘s Metal Shutter House, completed in 2011, both of which cluster around an earlier Frank Gehry office building.
Shigeru Ban’s Metal Shutter House pressed up alongside Frank Gehry’s IAC Building
A little further along the park is HL23, a new apartment building by Niel Denari, which Burks explains is the American architect’s “first multi-story building in America”.
At the southern end of the park, construction is underway on Renzo Piano‘s new building for The Whitney Museum of American Art, which is moving across town to the Meatpacking District from it’s current location on Madison Avenue on the upper east side of Manhattan.
“All of these new contemporary projects probably wouldn’t have been placed here had it not been for the High Line,” says Burks.
Burks is also a big fan of the High Line itself. “Some of the things that I love about the High Line in terms of design is the way that they’ve seamlessly integrated the design elements with nature and with elements that look like it just kind of happened,” he goes on to say.
“[It’s] almost as if this very beautiful paved surface with finger-like projections into the lawns just landed here amongst the wild grasses, amongst the trees. It’s a great work of landscape architecture.”
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