Month: August 2024

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R & Company highlights seven “archetypes” of American collectible design

August 26, 2024 Adrian Madlener 0

New York gallery R & Company has curated collectible design work by 55 contemporary artists and designers based throughout the United States. The exhibition Object USA 2024 is the second instalment in a series of triannual exhibits by the gallery surveying the current state of collectible design practices in the country. The show touches on

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Solar House / Pablo Senmartin

August 26, 2024 Andreas Luco 0

What happens if, instead of focusing on the form as a solid, as a construction and physicality, attention is placed on the gap, on the form of the void that matter itself leaves free? Absence gives meaning to presence …By working on the sensation of being there, the aim is to directly give the viewer the option to continue and partially complete the void left by the apparent absence with their own human presence. 

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University of Stuttgart uses self-shaping timber and woven flax for tower and pavilion

August 26, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Warped timber and robotically-woven flax were used to create this pair of experimental structures in Germany, which were designed by students and researchers at the University of Stuttgart. The university’s Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) completed the Hybrid Flax Pavilion and Wangen Tower for a garden

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A House in Žverynas / Inblum Architects

August 26, 2024 Hadir Al Koshta 0

This project in Žvėrynas, Vilnius, is a thoughtful integration of architecture, family history, and environmental sensitivity. Located behind a 1935 wooden modernist villa, the house has undergone several transformations, with the latest reconstruction designed to adapt to modern needs while preserving its historical significance. The client’s childhood home, this space holds deep personal meaning, and the renovation aimed to create a structure with lasting value within the urban fabric and an environmentally friendly approach.

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Intervention Architecture hides fold-out furniture behind walls of Florin Court flat

August 26, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

British studio Intervention Architecture designed bespoke plywood joinery to conceal furniture including a pull-down bed and a collapsible dining table inside this micro apartment in north London. The flat is located within Florin Court, a nine-storey art deco building overlooking Charterhouse Square that was designed by Guy Morgan and Partners and built in 1938. The

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Chaki Wasi, Artisanal Center of the Shalalá Community / La Cabina de la Curiosidad

August 26, 2024 Paula Pintos 0

We are at the summit of the Quilotoa Lagoon, a volcanic crater with turquoise water at 3,915 meters above sea level. The indigenous community of Shalalá promotes sustainable tourism in symbiosis with nature, valuing and magnifying it. They have a wooden viewpoint (built-in 2013) that enhances the experience with the lagoon, along with tourist infrastructure, and now a crafts center that, through its circular form, seeks to offer the same opportunity for each stall. With its cobblestone central plaza, it becomes a space that fosters gatherings and celebrations.