McBride Charles Ryan Architecture+Interior Design created a really special house called Klein Bottle House. It is a vacation home located just outside Melbourne, Australia. Its futuristic and asymmetrical shape reminds us of Zaha Hadid’s work a little. There is an interesting play between the “inside” and “outside” surfaces. [ via: link ]

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The 2008 Metropolis Magazine Next Generation design competition challenged young architects and designers to create a sustainable solution to make the world better, and safer, with ideas related to the theme of ‘water.’ We are thrilled to announce that this year’s $10,000 prize was awarded to San Francisco based architect and CCA professor Eric Olsen! […]

Chandelier in hand-blown black transparent glass and black anodized aluminium by Refer & Staer. No. of editions 40. Price: £990.00 [ link ] Black Fiber is inspired by the classical lamp shape with an exclusive futuristic touch. It is made from fiber optics and thus the light in the fibers are the sources of light. […]

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman (Pace) begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm (Untaru), a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur […]

An intergrated Landscape, Interior and Architectural practice, formed in 1989 in Norway and has operated continuously since that time. The architecture and landscape architecutre practice is based in Oslo, Norway and in New York City. 25% of the company is composed of landscape and interior architects sharing studio spaces directly with architects. [ link ]

“There was a time when a man was judged and respected by his seat, now it is by his car” Although in traditional African cultures, furniture is hardly present, it is the only continent that has produced such a variety of chairs, stools, head rests, with such amazing designs.Far from being simple usual objects, these […]

Designer and architect from California. [ link ]

James Law Cybertecture International says “New intangible materials of technology, multimedia, intelligence and interactivity. Only by recognizing this will we bring a new form of architecture to light, namely a cybertecture”.

Previously here Please tell us how this project has started. This is a large project implemented by Swarovski to renew boutiques and concessions in all major fashion capitals around the world. It was the year 2005 when I first worked with Swarovski for the project called Swarovski Crystal Palace. For this landmark project, in which […]

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created Local River, a concept for a domestic “refrigerator-aquarium” that breeds freshwater fish for eating and grows vegetables at the same time. [ via: Dezeen ] Vegetables growing in floating pots would help purify the water by removing nitrates and other minerals.

Hogarth Architects have remodelled the interior of a listed apartment on Queen’s Gate Terrace in South Kensington, London. Retaining the historic fire surround and cornice but removing later partitions and a false ceiling, the architects inserted a two-level timber structure containing the kitchen, bathroom, a mezzanine and storage.

I talked about the minor side of things in my Islands post. Office for Metropolitan Architecture have completed the master plan for Waterfront City, a new city proposed for Dubai. The 140,000,000 square metre development, set on an artificial square island, will be built by Dubai-based developer Nakheel.

via: [ Kyle Cherry ] Canvas is a computer for the 21-centuery designer. Incorporating both modern and traditional design techniques into a computer that will increase the quality and productivity of the designers work. Canvas well allow an artist or designer to use the PC with little to no training By making the PC experience […]

Terry Pawson Architects [ link ] Twin Houses, Kingston upon Thames wins approval The new development is sited on the plot of an existing private house dating from the 1950s. Two new interlocking houses, each with its own central courtyard, have been sited around a number of mature trees already on the site, creating a […]