SpaceInvading
Manhattan Tree House Pavilion
Designer: Build LLC
Location: New York, NY
Constructed in the Armory Building of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the project is one of the main fixtures for the Microsoft Open House and launch of Windows Mobile 6.5. The 12-foot tall by 32-foot long tube enclosure sits ten feet in the air and rests between (4) 24-foot tall logs.
→ blog.buildllc.com
Posted: 10/07/2009
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Stitch
Designer: Chiba Manabu Architects
Location: Tachikawa-city, Tokyo, Japan
Image Credits: Masao Nishikawa Photography Studio
Cooperative housing in Tokyo built with reinforced concrete.
→ chibamanabu.jp
Posted: 10/07/2009
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SEA: Seeing Eye Architecture
Designer: Eric Ellingsen (Species of Space)
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Like seeing eye dogs, miniature service horses, assisting chimps and parrots, Architecture Service Animals are not merely to be looked at; they are to be looked with. They are structural organizations bred for the apperception of space and matter.
Chicago’s Architecture Service Animal is named Sid. Sid is a mongrel.
Sid has a sister that lived in Casablanca, Morocco for 2 weeks. Sid’s sister had no name, but enjoyed her time in North Africa.
→ archinect.com
Posted: 10/07/2009
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Hotel V
Designer: studio OFF
Location: Hong Kong
This project is a full-scale conversion and façade modification of Hotel V from a 30+ years old office block located in Wanchai, Hong Kong. It was designed with an idea of roughness as a metaphor.
→ www.dailyicon.net
Posted: 10/06/2009
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Volume B Store
Designer: Marcio Kogan
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
This project was developed for the Vitra furniture store located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The materials used in its most extreme condition, the concrete work is in plain sight and without consideration to the finish, and rebar is left exposed in the back of the volume.
→ www.dailyicon.net
Posted: 10/06/2009
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