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MUMUTH by UNStudio
February 19th, 2009
MUMUTH, the Haus für Musik und Musiktheater in Graz, Austria, designed by UNStudio, opens on 1 March.
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Swiss Air’s New First Class Suit
February 19th, 2009
We’ve seen a fair few flight deck interiors over the years, and to be frank, most are rarely above par. However, when we were asked to take a peek at Swiss Air’
s newly designed first class suite, we had high hopes for the Alpine air maestros.
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Julie Sohn Boutique by CCT Architects
February 19th, 2009CCT Arquitectos projected the Julie Sohn Boutique located in Barcelona combining elegance with edginess.
The store flows around a central multifamily entry. While one arm of this U-shaped space terminates in a shop window, the other serves as the store entrance. The architects rehabilitated the brick walls, barrel-vaulted ceiling, and concrete floors, and pulled their interventions away from the historic frame.
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Bermondsey Bike Store by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
February 18th, 2009
London firm Sarah Wigglesworth Architects have completed a bike store in Bermondsey, London.
The building is constructed from 13 Douglas Fir portal frames, clad externally with triangular, stainless-steel panels and internally with translucent, glass-reinforced plastic sheeting.
The enclosure can store 76 bikes using a double-decker system designed by bicycle rack producers Josta.
Photos are © Mark Hadden Photography.
Here is some more information from the architects:
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The scheme proposes a new enclosure to securely store and shelter 76 bikes for the future residents and workers in the Bermondsey Square regeneration area. The square is the site of the historic Bermondsey Antiques Market.
The landscape proposal by East, was inspired by the Antiques Market and was conceived as a carpet upon which are scattered an array of jewels – benches, bollards, cycle hoops, petanque pitch and cycle store. The landscape forms the new setting for a mixed-use development by Munkenbeck and Marshall on an ancient archaeological site.
The bike store enclosure is formed by thirteen Douglas Fir portal frames clad on the internal face with translucent glass reinforced plastic (GRP) sheeting to provide natural diffused light. Light that enters is diffracted and flares colourfully on the nodal points of the external cladding panels. The interior houses a clever double-stacked bike rack system by ‘Josta’
The external skin is formed by a series of scattered triangular stainless steel cladding panels, based on the geometry of several unravelled gem-like bollards from the external landscaping. Robust materials and sensor integrated lighting raise awareness of the bicycle store and acts as a deterrent to criminal activity.
http://www.dezeen.com/2009/02/16/bermondsey-bike-store-by-sarah-wigglesworth/
Inamo - Restaurant of the Future
February 18th, 2009
You know what’s annoying about restaurants: waiters. They bring you the wrong orders, you can’t find them when you need them, and conversely they constantly check up when you don’t (no offense to any of our reader/waiters, we’re sure you’re terrific). New London restaurant Inamo is taking a technological approach turning everyone’s table into a computer. At Inamo, order food, change the color or design of the table, play battleship (which is amazing), check out what’s happening in the kitchen via webcam, request the waiter, pay the bill — everything can be done from your table that doubles as a computer screen. This isn’t Microsoft Surface, it’s a projection from above that doubles as lighting and visual effect.
http://joshspear.com/item/inamo-restaurant-of-the-future/
Furniture by Imaginary Office
February 18th, 2009
Stockholm Design Week 09: designer Daniel Hedner of Imaginary Office presented three prototypes at the Greenhouse young designers’
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Projekt Pilot Poster Display System
February 18th, 2009PROJEKTPILOT GmbH wanted to represent themselves with the intelligent implementation of an unusual design idea and to prove their realisation skills. A simple idea became a highly complicated task. In the end, 8,140 cardboard tubes with a total length of 10 kilometres and a weight of over 18 tons were stacked to form a single wall. A special idea also requires special implementation.
Gorman Ship-Shop
February 18th, 2009
Nest Architects are a Melbourne based architecture and design practice and the minds behind this bright and resourceful shipping container conversion.
So, what is it?
“The Gorman Ship-Shop is exactly what it’s called. A shop that can be shipped, moved or planted anywhere there’s space…”
Designed for client Lisa Gorman of Gorman Industries this amazingly portable design uses basic design principles of functionality to create a unique space. By adopting the simple structure of the container and staying true to its original purpose (shipping..) the appropriately named shipshop acts as a constantly moving exhibit -
“Sometimes the simple little projects are the most involved … and the most rewarding.”
“Lisa Gorman asked me if we could convert a shipping container into a shop. Being in love with these simple steel modular boxes (like most architects) we said “sure … why not.” The resulting shipping shop took the combined efforts of two architects, a carpenter and his apprentices, a steel fabricator, two transport companies, a sustainability consultant, the entire Gorman office and many others.”
Wine Bar Interior Space
February 12th, 2009
