Opera House Design for Izmir Nüvist
This competition entry for an Opera building, designed by Nüvist, is set in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir. The embodied energy of the Gulf, which fronts the ...
The Network series by Irene Anton is an investigation of materiality, ductility, movement, direction and poise. Set in a myriad of disparate locations, the network seems to trace unseen connections ...
Metropol Parasol, When I went to Seville, I got food poisoning. If only I had been out sitting under this magnificent homage to simple beauty, and not eating that pasta with the blue cheese sauce, I ...
Look out! Here comes wave/ particle duality at 'ya! This installation piece by the architect/artist/record producing duo from Finland, Tommi Grönlund + Petteri Nisunen blurs the line between wave ...
International MUS School/Museum of Flamenco MUS Architects
Dim the lights, let us set the mood...
Movements and gestures of dancers are full of expression and tension. Dancers bring the ...
Task Architects' submission for Busan Opera House is a construct of many, striving towards one. This 'one' as put forth by the Egypt based firm, is the Korean concept of Chun (天) which means ...
Brussels Airport Connector UNStudio
Brussels. Home to those little leafy, green balls which are the dread of all American children's dinner vegetable serving. But in all seriousness, Brussels is ...
Fasten Your City Belts Haiko Cornelissen Architecten
I start with a quote from the architects. 'Fasten Your City Belt is an urban strategy that transforms lifeless office districts into lively areas ...
Your eyes aren't fooling you, that's not Photoshop and its not fake, that's an actual cloud hovering inside an actual room! Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde uses simple fog machine to make the actual ...
Two houses in five Parts; William O’Brien, Jr.
This design proposal for two vacation homes for two brothers and their families on a large plot of land in upstate New York represents an examination ...
In 2008, nearly 500,000,000 shipping containers traveled the world's oceans. We have all seen them. They are immediately recognizable. 'It is a shipping container... TVs live there, not me surely...' ...
Bird Island by Graft Architects
Buildings should be good. Ok, please keep reading, don't let me scare you away with the above profound statement. The drive to make a beautiful building is as old as ...