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Concept Waterscraper Brings Monumental Architecture Into The Open Sea | Popular Science
For the last five years, eVolo Magazine has hosted a futuristic skyscraper design competition. Usually, the entrants imagine giant buildings taller than anything under construction today. However, the most impressive entry in this year's competition goes the opposite route, by dropping the building straight into the sea. This floating building would generate its own electricity and food, house thousands, and plunge deep beneath the waves.
Steven Holl Architects
The last time I was in Kansas City I had the pleasure of stopping by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to check out the new Bloch Building designed by Steven Holl. His ability to play with light and textures is unparalleled by any other architect that I've come across. His portfolio is huge so have fun spending some time on his site dreaming about living in one of the many spaces he's created.
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.
The 5th Ecology: Los Angeles Beyond Desire
Another amazing find from this months' downtown los angeles art walk was an installation done by the post-graduate course in architecture at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm.
More of an urban development project than anything else, this installation attempts to help you understand the reasons for Los Angeles' current urban development and how it can be changed in the future to create a post-material sustainable city.
Everland | Hotel & Art Project
The Project has come to an end this summer. If you missed it, its still worth having a look.
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TOKYO HOTEL
The artists Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann (L/B) are not new to the Palais de Tokyo, having contributed a piece to the CINQ MILLIARDS D’ANNEES (Five Billion Years) exhibition. They created a novel installation on the Palais’s roof. A work of art AND a hotel, the Ever- land project offers each visitor a unique opportunity to experience a piece of art from within, in the same way one spends a night in a hotel.
ROOM WITH A VIEW
Installed right on the Palais de Tokyo’s roof, more than 30 meters above the Seine, the Everland Hotel features an exceptional point of view on Paris and the Eiffel Tower. Peering through the hotel’s large curtainless round window overlooking the “salon-lounge” area, settled on one of the comfortable sofas, visitors will find themselves seemingly suspended on the edge of the sky. Double bed, minibar, embroidered bath linens, wifi connection and breakfast served in the room—the Everland offers of course all the comfort of a luxury hotel thanks to a partnership with the Sezz Hotel (www.hotelsezz.com). The care taken and the many choices made by the artists can be seen everywhere, from the retro-futurist design of the site to the little “surprises” like the collection of LPs and their turntable or the playful way reservations are made, along with lots of other details waiting to be discovered on site.Website of the hotel Everland. a project by L/B, Switzerland
Natureza em Risco
Natureza em Risco
The challenge is to evoke art in the garden summoning the idea of transformation through the (in)voluntary action of visitors.
We have cultivated a path around a white canvas arranged in an arc (determining the interior/exterior of the area), an area to support the action of various markers (different coloured pencils), that will record experiences within the space.
How? The canvas, as we walk past it, will grow a “diary” of the garden, superimposing spontaneous and arbitrary records, productively artistic through the action of the wind on the rods with markers attached to their ends which will operate like a wind printer of the intervention of viewers ready to interact with them, thus creating a drawing of their journey.
To contemplate the creative process, with each new moment, we considered when the viewer would rest, planting an oval bench in the grass, from which a tree sprouts. This moment in the journey offers aromas, sound and shade which are intended to fertilise senses and help unfold a sense of well-being. The tree chosen was a cherry, due to the colour of its fruit spilt onto the bench.
Why an amorphous material for the specific area where the rods are set, when the main objective of this intervention is to create a garden? Why the stone for the place where the steel rods “are born”?
For the sake of irony
After all, artistic creation comes from all the elements grouped in this area, in other words, from the “non living” elements existing in the intervention, which gain life because they display change, the most elementary way of living in the space.
Design conception: Lara Plácido – Architect; Sara Bento Botelho – Sculptor
Location- Portugal
Link: http://jardim-naturezaemrisco.blogspot.com/
Italian Villa circa 1964
Check out this amazing photo gallery of Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti's Italian Villa.
The actress and her film producer husband began renovating the villa in 1960 and were photographed for Life magazine a few years later.
Google Sketchup 3D Tiny House Designs | Tiny House Blog
Challenge: Design the smallest livable space.
Surfstation