i like this!
(Source: archdaily.com)
wow!!
CHEMNITZ BUNDESBANK BY José Luis Mateo
I’ve had the most difficult time tracking down information on this building. The most I got was from a discussion in Archinect. The text is taken directly from that thread:
“The building is pretty restrained compared to the architect’s other work. The firm is fairly prolific and has a lot of built work.
The facade is made of thin layers of alabaster slab sandwiched between three plates of glass; some interior goodness and details:
also, there’s no intermediate supports for that facade wall; it extends 18.5 m at it’s furthest point on a system of spring loaded tension cables that are regulated by a computer to account for expansion/contraction. Pretty intense. “
Poetry Foundation / John Ronan Architects
graphite/carbon black/steel nails
(via workman:)
interesting facade on the addition.
Zecc Archicten’s renovation and addition to a historic home, Driebergen 2010. Completed in conjunction with OPAi, the conversion is the first energy-neutral historic monument in the Netherlands. Through the use of a secondary skin which surrounds portions of the interior and exterior of the house, the design would allow all elements of the renovation to be removed without any damage to the existing structure
A cylinder of mirrors dismantle the Parisian sky. “Ring” by Arnaud Lapierre
I’ve always loved the quality of light after it passes through water.
An art installation simulating the inside of a swimming pool in Kanazawa Japan
If it makes you laugh,
if it makes you cry,
if it rips out your heart,
that’s a good picture.-Eddie Adams
— (via jaytimesthree)
By “A Beautiful Design”, a Studio from Singapore
pretty, pretty
“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”
-Steve Jobs
Thank you, Steve. Rest in Peace.
