SpaceInvading
Drawings
Designer: Peter Crawley
Location: n/a
Pretty neat, but average, you say? The drawings suddenly seem a lot cooler when you zoom in and realize that Crawley hand-stitched these using a needle and thread!
→ www.core77.com
Posted: 03/25/2011
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Stockholmsporten Master Plan
Designer: BIG
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
The site has a great potential in serving as a new entryway into Stockholm. This point is turned into a reflective, self-sustaining hovering sphere mirroring Stockholm as it is, new and old, creating a 180 degree view of the area for the drivers on their way in or out of the city. 30% of the sphere’s surface is covered with Photovoltaic film that faces the sun and produces enough energy to keep it floating while supplying 235 houses in the neighborhood with electricity. The Stockholm Sphere is an ever changing icon that marks an entry point to the city and reflects the passing seasons and the evolving urban life beneath it.
→ bustler.net
Posted: 03/23/2011
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Luminant Point Arrays
Designer: Stephan Tillmans
Location: n/a
Image Credits: Stephan Tillmans
The Luminant Point Arrays show tube televisions in the moment they are swithed off. The television picture breaks down and creates a structure of light. The pictures refuse external reference and broach the issue of the difference between abstraction and concretion in photography. The breakdown of the television picture discribes the breakdown of the reference. The product is self-referential photography.
→ stephantillmans.com
Posted: 03/22/2011
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Loft industrial en el centro de Barcelona
Designer: MINIM
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Image Credits: Núria Vila
Se trataba de una antigua imprenta, en la planta de calle de un edificio del centro de Barcleona, con unos 800 m2 repartidos en dos grandes plantas. El encargo fue convertirlo en un estudio-vivienda, reciclando el máximo de elementos, tanto de la estructura como del mobiliario original del propietario. El look tenía que ser industrial, típico de los primeros lofts americanos.
→ www.minim.es
Posted: 03/16/2011
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Quadratura
Designer: Pablo Valbuena
Location: Madrid, Spain
Quadratura was the technique used in the baroque to extended architecture through trompe l’oeil and perspective constructions generated with paint or sculpture.
→ www.todayandtomorrow.net
Posted: 03/15/2011
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