Bird Island | Graft Architects
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 ...
Heavy Has Debt | Phoebe Washburn
Heavy Has Debt, If it were possible to distill an artist's work in a sentence, I would say that Phoebe Washburn creates sculptural instillations from found materials. This is completely inadequate ...
Siemens Headquarters in Munich | Henning Larsen Architects
What is the roof for? 'Well it keeps us dry.' Yes, yes indeed. But what goes up there? Is it like the top of a shelf or dresser, where we stick all the stuff that won't fit below? Is this all it can ...
Masdar Development | Foster and Partners
I once had a homeless person walk up to me and express incredulity that the car had been 'invented' in 1908 (Model T) and since then, it had only been made prettier. I was somewhat taken aback by ...
The National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) | UNStudio
Large and small, day and night, inside and out. Tranquility and dynamism, past, future and the unquantifiable that is the present- Our lives are dominated by opposites, dualities and the places the ...
ZA11 Pavilion | Dimitrie Stefanescu, Patrick Bedarf, Bogdan Hambasan
ZA11 Pavilion by Dimitrie Stefanescu, Patrick Bedarf, Bogdan Hambasan How should one consider the scale of 'slightly extra-human'? Is it art or is it architecture? Has anyone ever wondered why we ...
Made in Berin | KIX
Made in Berin, I just want to store some data! What can't we make out of concrete? This stuff is amazing- every time I see something wonderfully simple made out of concrete, I think to myself 'Self, ...
E-Vine | SU11
E-Vine SU11 The other day, I tuned in to the BBC in the middle of a show. It was late afternoon and I was folding clothes. The show seemed to be about cars and the direction they were headed. ...
Lexus Tower | Daniel Widrig
Lexus Tower | Daniel Widrig I was once told that there are two ways to make a skyscraper. Both incorporate the same two elements: base and tower. First, one can have a base and set the tower on top. ...
Origami Coffee Set I MUS Architects
Origami Coffee Set MUS Architects Highly reminiscent of origami, this ceramic coffee set, designed by MUS Architects is in fact titled Origami Coffee Set. Made from beautifully formed ceramic, ...
Anemone | Taipei by Oyler Wu
Look, but don't touch. The prevalence of visuality is one of the things that defines us as human. Nearly 70 percent of sensory cells in our bodies relate to vision. We size someone or something up in ...
Interchangeable Habitation | Jonas Ersson
Interchangeable Habitation by Jonas Ersson It is becoming apparent in today's world that existing and living are two disparate yet related concepts. To exist is to be satisfied in the here and now. ...