Prada Transformer, a portable, shape-shifting cultural pavilion designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas, will make its first appearance in Seoul, Korea next month. (more…)
London architects Mackay+ Partners have designed a residence overlooking the sea at Byron Bay, Australia. (more…)
Here’s another bridge by Paris practice Explorations Architecture with UK engineers Buro Happold, who collaborated to design the Metro West bridge in our previous story. (more…)
Nothing is a new commercial creative agency formed by Michael Jansen and Bas Korsten that has just opened its doors in Amsterdam. While the city houses the KesselsKramer agency in a fairly unconventional building – a nineteenth-century church – the Nothing office is an unusual construction too, in that it is built almost entirely out of cardboard. They sent us some great pictures of the space, which was created by designers Joost van Bleiswijk and Alrik Koudenburg…
The Nothing team took the idea behind the company name (taking nothing and turning it into something) as the starting point for the physical design of the office; which included creating walls, signage, beams, tables, shelving and even a set of stairs out of cardboard.
But Nothing aren’t going to be prissy about the clean lines of designer cardboard that surrounds them. Apparently, the walls will double as a blank canvas with visitors encouraged to leave their mark on the surfaces. Indeed, illustrator Fiodor Sumkin was the first to liven up Nothing’s predominantly brown colour scheme with some well-crafted penmanship.
And when they get bored by the accumulated daubings, the studio can presumably replace individual sections of their workspace for, well, nothing much at all.
All photography by Joachim Baan.
More on Nothing at nothingamsterdam.com.
The cabin is situated on a rocky hill at the outermost coast of Fosen (Norway). The building is carefully placed and designed in relation to the local..
Following our last post about yet another big name firm laying people off, and with the regular news that architecture isn’t the safest spot to be in right now, Guardian critic Jonathan Glancey chimes in with a great piece entitled “The Architecture of Recession.” In it, he looks past what’s sure to be a period of great modesty, where few large projects are designed and seen through to completion, and when they are, they’re made to hold on for the long term, not simply appeal to a current aesthetic trend. Instead, by looking back at the hard times of yesteryear and the architectural movements thereafter, he speculates about what happens after, in this period of “New Modesty,” once everyone has a few bucks back in their wallets. Overall, a very optimistic piece for dire times such as these.
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Explorations Architecture of Paris with UK engineers Buro Happold have won a competition to design a new rail bridge over the Liffey Valley near Dublin, Ireland. (more…)
London architects drdharchitects have won a competition to design a new concert hall and library in Bodø, Norway. (more…)
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