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Sunday 1st August 2010
Martín Fernández de Lema and Nicolás F. Moreno Deutsch have built this amazing house in Mar Azul, Buenos Aires. They weren’t allowed by law to remove any trees on the site, so instead of relocating, they built the house around the trees. The result is a beautiful combination of wood, concrete, space, and nature.
We came across while researching a new project we are working on for a bar in Miami. Bar Guru Bar, a project by KLab in Athens included the renovation of the facade and the creation of a jazz club on the third floor. The building was totally transformed by being covered with a rusted metallic panel which looks striking against the concrete and blue sky that surround it.
Link: http://www.klab.gr/
London based art & design practice Troika were commissioned to create a signature piece of sculpture for Terminal 5 at Heathrow.
In response, they created ‘Cloud’, a five meter long digital sculpture whose surface is covered with 4638 flip-dots that can be individually addressed by a computer to animate the entire skin of the sculpture.
Although worth checking if you’re a Mac user is their ‘Newton Virus’...
Link: http://troika.uk.com
When the Dutch architect Rem Koolhas met Galahad Clark, the seventh generation of the Clark’s shoe-making dynasty, a strange new shoe brand was born. United Nude. This shoe, the Eamz is conceptually inspired by a furniture design classic; the Charles and Ray Eames chair. The United Nude Eamz shoe is an ode to their vision. It’s great to see an unusual crossover of disciplines at the intersection between design and fashion; architecture, furniture design and shoe making all creating something familiar but totally unique.
This house called simply Oy, was built in 2002 by Japanese architect Katsuyuki Fujimoto. It is in Kyoto and built from reinforced concrete and timber. It acts like a blank canvas changing with the light throughout the day. Contemporary minimal Japanese design at it’s best, we love it.
Link: http://www.fk-ao.com/
This is the office of the Selgas Cano architects in Madrid. Those lucky lucky clever people.
Another favourite of ours from Junichi Sampei／Ａ.Ｌ.Ｘ. in Japan. Makes us want to go back to Tokyo even more!