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University Project Space
Designer: Junya Ishigami
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Image Credits: Iwan Baan
A white forest in a grey field, Junya Ishigami’s university project space in the foothills west of Tokyo is a building designed to almost disappear. The young Japanese conjurer, who since 2004 has performed a series of astonishing acts of levitation upon furniture and building-sized volumes in galleries, has completed his first construction in the open air.
→ www.yatzer.com
Posted: 01/03/2009
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The Porsche Museum
Designer: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Image Credits: andrewmalick
There’s no doubt about it, even now: the new edifice by Vienna’s Delugan Meissl is an eye-catcher. Although the building isn’t quite finished yet, the fascinating impact of the monolithic, virtually floating exhibition hall can already be felt. This bold and dynamic architecture reflects the company’s philosophy and provides a foretaste of the experience that awaits visitors to the future museum. It is designed to convey a sense of arrival and approachability, and to guide the visitors smoothly from the basement level into the superstructure.
In their design, the architects at Delugan Meissl set out to create a place of sensuous experience that reflects the authenticity of Porsche products and services as well as the company’s character, while also reshaping Porscheplatz with an unmistakable appearance.
→ flickr.com
Posted: 01/03/2009
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63.02° house
Designer: Schemata Architecture Office
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Image Credits: Takumi Oota
63.02°is built on a built up area in Tokyo. This small building is used as SOHO and an apartment for rent. This building is cut on the axis line inclined to a front road by 63.02°. The window in this building concentrates there. You can see the intersection by seeing the outside through the windows.
→ www.dezeen.com
Posted: 01/03/2009
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House Tower
Designer: Atelier Bow-Wow
Location: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
The stair is used to separate the 9 rooms in this wall-less house that is 3 x 6 x 11.5m high.
→ flickr.com
Posted: 01/02/2009
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Rolex Learning Cente
Designer: SANAA
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Image Credits: Cyrille Thomas
In the Rolex Learning Center the advantages of the large floor – free movement and transparency – are put to extreme. The building is one, large, curly floor that is left completely open. Perfectly round courtyards provide light and focus the continuous space, which is further only minimally differentiated.
→ www.eikongraphia.com
Posted: 01/02/2009
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