London Design Festival 2016: Swiss company Küng has designed a series of saunas that can be installed in the living room to take advantage of limited living space. (more…)
Here’s one more summer sunset over the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. Soon, these green valleys and rolling mountains will explode in the bright colors of fall. Take advantage of this wonderful time of year to explore the many hiking trails and incredible views this special place has to offer. Sunset from the Flat Rock Trail (near Mile Post 308) courtesy of Jim Ruff.
From Yaba in Lagos to the suburb of Bandra in Mumbai, Metropolis Magazine provides a scenic tour around the world’s “most creative” neighborhoods. Spread across ten rapidly growing cities like Cape Town and Turin, the article provides a comprehensive glimpse into these lesser discussed hubs of creativity.
Metropolis acknowledges that so-called “creative” neighborhoods are often in tension with gentrification, but highlights how the spaces within these changing areas can also increase public accessibility to the arts. This is seen in Lisbon’s Avenidas Novas which hosts the documentary film festival DocLisboa, while downtown São Paulo is identified for cultural facilities like the non-profit arts center PIVÔ which regenerate previously crime-ridden areas.
Many of these neighborhoods are also home to notable architecture, playing host to both notable buildings and the studios of current firms. The Daimyo suburb of Fukuoka for example, is not just full of bookstores and concert halls, but also close to Aldo Rossi’s Hotel Il Palazzo and housing by OMA, while A-cero’s offices are located in Malasaña, Madrid, surrounded by other design firms and fabrication facilities.
To see Metropolis Magazine‘s full ranking of the ten most creative neighborhoods in the world–and to find out more about each one–read the full piece here.
Picture an Irish country house nestled in the gently rolling hills of the County Cork. The client, a neurologist and psychiatrist, wanted to extend the house to include new living quarters and a master bedroom. In addition to the spatial extension, the new master bedroom is designed both to rest elevated on the neighboring hillside to get the best view of the wild-romantic Irish landscape, as well as to embed the house even stronger into the surrounding area.
The new extension now connects directly to the existing building and stretches to the northerly hillside. At the foot of the small hill the house is bent vertically upwards. The new space uses the shape of the existing building as a springboard and develops it further into an expressive sculpture. This evolution results in intriguing spatial situations and relationships: The alternating legibility between classic house and expressive sculpture results in a harmonic yet iconographic building ensemble. The new relationships between the surrounding landscape and the generous flowing space enrich the living experience and contrast with the existing cottage.
In the interior the distinctive bend of the existing cottage roof is mirrored in a new undulating spatial layer. The curved stair elements connect the living area on the ground floor with the elevated master bedroom up on the hillside. Underneath partially sunken into the earth the bathroom is designed as a ‘color-space’ contrasting the green of the Irish landscape. A generous opening connects the existing house and the new extension.
Twelve years after designing the Galeria Millan exhibition space in São Paulo, architects Sérgio Kipnis and Fernando Millan have added an annex that reveals its contents to the street. (more…)
I have said fairly often that we don’t see ourselves how others see us. But how big is the difference between the two images? And which one is the closest to what we really are?
Let’s check how close is the image we have in our mind and the one that others have.
Take just now this quick and easy quiz and find out if you see yourself as others see you!
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A multi-layered facade creates extra privacy for the residents of this Tokyo house designed by local firm Satoru Hirota Architects (+ slideshow). (more…)
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