From Design-milk
Posted on May 21st 2013, 02:00 PM
Swiss design firm BERNHARD | BURKARD recently launched a super fun floor lamp that was inspired by the tallest living animal there is – the giraffe. The GIRAFFE | floor lamp adapts to whatever lighting situation you might have by extending its neck out to create a reading lamp or a spot light.
The light sits on four wooden legs and contains a system of metal scissors that expand out in a curved arc or contract back, depending on your preference. The hand crank lets you adjust the lamp.
From Archdaily
Posted on May 21st 2013, 02:00 PM
New York City’s Midtown East will be facing a rezoning in the near future, bringing a dozen office towers into the already crowded neighborhood. To help the Bloomberg Administration address the issues that may arise with this move, the city has hired sustainable real estate development firm, Jonathan Rose Co.; Dutch Urban Planning firm, Gehl Architects; and the global civil engineering firm, Skanska. The different firms will be working to develop the streetscape to be known as the East Midtown Public Realm Vision Plan, which is scheduled for release later this year.
The rezoning of Midtown East will be a vast makeover of the neighborhood, covering 63 blocks stretching from East 39th Street to East 57th Street between Fifth and Third Avenues. The Vision Plan comes as a response to...
From Core77
Posted on May 21st 2013, 02:00 PM
You've heard the expression that [American] football is a game of inches. So, increasingly, is living in Manhattan.
This video of Luke Clark Tyler's apartment (captured by Kirsten Dirksen's Fair Companies) has racked up nearly two million hits, and for good reason: Tyler downsized from his previous 96-square-foot palace to shoehorn his life into a 78-square-foot studio. But what really makes this video distinct from other "tiny living" vids we've seen, and what should be of interest to the Core77 reader, is that Tyler is a trained architect who can design, build and install his own things, like his sideways Murphy Bed.
Also observe the little details, like how he's using eyehooks as toothbrush- and razor-holders and how the bottle-stays on his shelves are just wooden dowels held in place by two carefully-placed sheetrock screws on either side.
This is giving us a potentially cruel idea for design education—but before we get to that, watch the vid:
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From Archinect
Posted on May 21st 2013, 01:54 PM
This morning, city officials in Nashville cut the ribbon on the largest public building project in its history -- a new convention hall called the Music City Center.But Nashville isn't just the latest city to open a convention center. These mammoth buildings are opening or getting facelifts coast-to-coast. And standing out now takes more than a huge exhibition space and easy access.
From Otto-otto
Posted on May 21st 2013, 01:43 PM
The new Station Center Family development by David Baker + Partners Architects is located in Union City, east and south of San Francisco. The workforce housing contains 157 affordable rental units in two buildings that frame a public playground and overlook a new plaza and eventual direct connection to the BART station.
The community room opens onto a fitness center and pool deck, and opens entirely to a grand courtyard, creating a large indoor-outdoor gathering space.
The courtyard—designed along with all the building landscaping by Fletcher Studio—features allotment gardens for residents, formal and informal seating areas, and a play yard populated by playful concrete gorillas.
The low-energy building used a range of complementary sustainable strategies—including solar domestic hot water, high-efficiency boilers, and rooftop photo-voltaic arrays—to achieve LEED for Homes Mid-Rise Platinum certification.
San Francisco artist Mona Caron creating a towering mural on the 5-story entry tower, visible from the neighborhood and neighboring train tracks.
From Complex
Posted on May 21st 2013, 01:28 PM
Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, even soon Manhattan.
From Dezeen
Posted on May 21st 2013, 01:22 PM
Dutch graphics studio Experimental Jetset has redesigned the logo for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York as a slender W that changes shape...
From Otto-otto
Posted on May 21st 2013, 01:02 PM
Frank Lloyd Wright’s imaginative Taliesin Spring will receive an update from green lighting designer and founder of Studio Lux, Christopher Thompson who will introduce energy-efficient technology to the historic site. Thompson’s lighting design looks to create a Net-Zero energy use campus by merging the architectural wonders of Taliesin Spring with the best of 21st century lighting technology.
This marks Studio Lux’s continued working relationship with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation who first sought out Thompson’s firm to update Taliesin West, the main campus of The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Scottsdale, Arizona.
From Design-milk
Posted on May 21st 2013, 01:00 PM
What was already a house with rich history in Winchester, UK, became even more so when AR Design Studio came in to renovate the old servants’ quarters of a larger home they’re a part of. When excavation began, bodies (yes, bodies) were discovered buried underground. Police brought in archeologists who determined that the site had been used for Roman burials. The artifacts and bodies were cleared and taken to a museum for research and The Glass House project was once again back on track.
The servants’ quarters had fallen apart over the years and when the occupants of the larger house decided to downsize, they chose to tackle the project and realize their love of glass. The designers took it from there and created a glass staircase and glass extension sandwiched into an alcove in the rear of the building that opened up into the garden.
They managed to seamlessly add the frameless modern extension on to what appears to be a traditional brick house and did it well. The glass-covered structure allows light to flood the first floor communal spaces, while the original, cave-like spaces remain private for the family.
I’m wondering how much sunscreen they have to wear…
They installed a staircase to connect the ground floor with the cellar.
The light carries through to the double-height entrance space which features that unbelievable glass staircase.
The floors are covered in a ceramic tile that looks like wood instead of a more traditional wood floor because it won’t discolor...
From Dornob
Posted on May 21st 2013, 01:00 PM
Plywood, long considered a material best hidden in any finished space, has been slowly making its way into the mainstream material handbooks of architects and interior designs – and for good reason.
Aside from being inexpensive, it is rich in texture and can be purchased in higher grades than what people typically think of (though, for some, knots are part of the fun, too).
With fewer knots and potential splinters, quality plywood provides a particularly potent way to juxtapose more variegated...
From Archdaily
Posted on May 21st 2013, 01:00 PM
Architects: Martin Hurtado Covarrubias & Sergio Quintana Felice Arquitectos Asociados
Location: Puerto Montt, Chile
Area: 27,030 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti
Collaborators: Iván Salas, Andrés Suarez, Sebastián Erazo, Raimundo Arteaga, Benjamín Covarrubias, Jose Manuel Casas, Álvaro Romero
Coordination: POCH & asociados
Structural Engineer: Jorge González (Hormigón), Mario Wagner (Madera) Vialidad: David Zapata
Climate: Ampi Ingeniería Térmica
Electricity: Alexis Soto
Health Installations: Tefra S.A.
Garbage Extraction: Tonini & Westervelt
Floor Engineering: Ricardo Carnevalli
Topography: Héctor Vargas
Pool: ABA piscinas
Site Area: 90,000 sqm
San Francisco School is an institution linked to the jesuits, which founded the school towards 1,850, in...
From A Daily Dose of Architecture
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