3Tree House Restaurant in New Zealand

 

 

Tzaneen house:

 

Monumental and Subdued

 

The Tzaneen house sit harmoniously horizontally being an element in its natural landscape of forest fields responding strongly to the natural context, touching the earth lightly by standing on timber stilts that create vertical extrusion off the landscape allow the building to stand up but within its landscape, picking up on the large vertical tree line on the horizon. The roof plane on house Tzaneen house humanizes the building and references it triangular shape to the historical understanding of house. The use of natural soft material allows the house to sit and belong.

Open & Closed:

The simplicity of the characterise of the house as given there have a very soft and sensitive approach to the landscape ;open up to a vast scale of the landscape completely allowing uninterrupted visual and physical connectivity to the landscape and its surrounding. The spaces being able to close down at curtain intervals allow uses protection against weather.

 

Marika-alderton house: 

Monumental and Subdued

The Marika-alderton house is an object in the natural landscape context that is set apart from the landscape, the buildings threshold feathers capturing its nature.

Open & Closed:

The Marika-Alderton House is open to fresh air, yet insulated from intense heat and protected from strong cyclone winds. Along the long central hall at the Marika-Alderton House, tilting plywood panels can be raised and lowered like awnings. Slatted shutters allow users to adjust the flow of sunlight into the interior space.

Opening and closing like a plant, the house embodies Murcutt's concept of a flexible shelter that exists in harmony with nature's rhythms.

ECO Design - Reuse_Recycle_Sustainable

 

 

Origami by Sipho Mabona 

 

 

 Sipho Mabona was five years old when he folded his first paper airplane. In 2000 after having folded planes for fifteen years Mabona ran out of paper airplane designs to fold and turned to origami hoping it would enable him to come up with original designs.Sipho Mabona’s origami covers a great range of different styles from very intricate representational designs to abstract geometrical shapes. The impeccable folding and his great sense for lines and shapes distinguishes Mabona’s work of art. Mabona currently resides in Luzern, Switzerland.(Design Dautore)

....Book Face Sculptures by Nicholas Galanin....

 

 

Underside of the Eiffel Tower, Paris

Nykredit Headquarters, in Copenhagen by Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Architects

KAUST Beacon by UAP Principal in Jeddah,

 Saudi Arabia

Tiger & Turtle Magic Mountain

 This sculpture in Germany Offering Extensive Rhine Views.German artists Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth envisioned “Tiger & Turtle – Magic Mountain”, a giant sculpture in Duisburg, Germany. The structure in entirely walkable and raises more than 45m above the ground, meaning that the visitors can enjoy extensive views of the Rhine.

Floating Bridge

French artist Olivier Grossetête used three enormous helium balloons to float a rope bridge over a lake in Tatton Park, a historic estate in north-west England. Though visitors weren’t allowed to use the bridge, it would theoretically be strong enough to hold the weight of a person, according to Grossetête.”My artistic work tries to make alive the poetry and dreams within our everyday life” .

Giant Clothespin Sculpture

Sculpture designed by Turkish artist and professor Mehmet Ali Uysal.Built for the Festival of the Five Seasons in Chaudfontaine Park, which lies on the outskirts of Liege, Belgium, a giant clothespin sculpture appears to be holding on to a mound of dirt and grass.

....Permian Gate.....

The latest work by Russian sculptor Nikolay Polissky, erected in Perm, Russia earlier this year to much fanfare. The entire object is built from hundreds of spruce logs measuring roughly 12 meters square and is shaped like the Russian letter for “P” (as in Perm) which is “П” (Пермь)

The-Cloud-House-by-Yuan-Yuan

The Barca bench by Jacob Joergensen, was a Gold Leaf winner for innovation at the IFDA (International Furniture Design Competition Asahikawa).

Bird Nest Bed

Created by OGE CreativeGroup, for Creating New.

Ideas was developed as a fun space to encourage socializing and playtime.

Milan Design Week 2013, Japanese architects Toyo Ito and Akihisa Hirata showed their amazing installation at Lexus Design Amazing 2013
“Our desire here was to create a design that allows visitors to experience the image of nature and humans joining to create the flow of life in the future”

 

Recycled wine-bottle chandelier. This chandelier can be found at the SLO Down Pub, in Arroyo Grande, California.

 

Telephone-Book-Hive-Kristiina-Lahde

 

 

 

 

Tokyo-based artist Koshi Kawachi recently demonstrated his "Manga Farming" technique -- which uses old comic books as a growing medium for vegetables -- by cultivating a crop of radish sprouts in an installation at the Matsuzakaya department store in Nagoya.

. . Anamorphic Art . . 

Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. 

There are two main types of anamorphosis: perspective (oblique) and mirror (catoptric).

Javier Pena Ibanez and Cristina Sanchez Algarra of "Tri-Oh!". created a series of boxes named Cité Surprise, Cité Surprenante which introduce visitors to all of Montpelier’s secret and forgotten places. Viewers become the protagonists as they are able to hide inside the cubes, which are transformed into kaleidoscopes that whisk them away  to all the secret city spots.

This forms part of a growing yet popular form of art known as Anamorphic designs, where ones perception isn't always the true image. Anamorphic art can also be classified as installation art. 

This is a must read book for any person studying an architectural course, will run your mind through all the small things you had learnt over the years. You might pick up on something that you always wondered about, or change your opinion about something you see when looking at drawings etc.

Sometimes all we as students need, is to feel sane again. 

       Matthew Frederick is an architect and urban designer who lives in Cambridge,Massachusetts. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, includingBoston Architectural College and Wentworth Institute of Technology.

----The Feather Market Hall----

This hall, of which the original plan by Sir Wolfe-Barry of London was incorporated in the later plans of architect W. H. Miles, was erected during 1883-1885. It was opened on 10 December 1885 by the Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson. 

This was originally built as a market for the sale of ostrich feathers and is now used for hosting events such as the UFC 2013, Christmas market etc. 

North Fascade 

The interior of the feather market hall set up for the UFC 2013 Championships.