Playing the Building | An Installation by David Byrne Creative Time presents Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation by renowned artist David Byrne. The artist transforms the interior of the landmark Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.” The project consists of a retrofitted antique organ, placed in the center of the building's cavernous second-floor gallery, that controls a series of devices attached to its structural features—metal beams, plumbing, electrical conduits, and heating and water pipes. These machines vibrate, strike, and blow across the building’s elements, triggering unique harmonics and producing finely tuned sounds. Click here to read an interview between David Byrne and Anne Pasternak Playing the Building was originally comissioned in 2005 by Färgfabriken, Stockholm.
architecture online - arcspace is an architecture and design magazine that features today's most creative projects as well as the most influential of the past. FEED in Valencia Disseny Week 2010_黄小婷_美国室内设计中文网博客 photo by Ricardo Hernandez for Yatzer.com It now seems colloquial, perhaps too natural to visit blogs daily for the latest projects, inspiration and community discourse on what is happening around the globe. Not too long ago, we used to wait for publishing companies to compile work done in previous years into a book format where we felt compelled to purchase in order to learn, educate and strengthen our creative spectrum of ideas. Today, we naturally type in an address or click on a favorite link that transports us into a global array of projects that allow us to further connect with our creative process but also converse with many other design, art, fashion and architecture lovers. It is time for all those eyes to meet and share a full week of design experience together. Image Courtesy of Asociación de Diseñadores de la Comunidad Valenciana (ADCV) // Valencia Disseny Week (VDW)Photographer: Xavi Calvo Image Courtesy of Odosdesign What happened in Valencia??? "Vig" table by estres Estudio
57 Unique Creative Table Lamp Designs Table lamps can be not just a lighting accessory but also a very original piece for any décor. These lamps below will prove that to you! For a luxury classical interior choose a black and gold lamp with an engraving or an exquisite Murano glass lamp. A lamp with tea cups is a perfect variant for a dining room. For nature lovers there are lamps with planters or lamps with pebbles in the base – they look so Zen! If you are looking for something unusual, then take a lamp imitating a cactus or a balloon lamp. creative lamps, decorative table lamps, modern table lamps, table lamp, table lamps, unique lamps, unusual table lamp, wooden table lamps
Dsignarium | All About Design Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Design A new Museum called MUDAM (Museum of Modern Art- Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg) opened in July 2006 in a building designed by Architect I.M Pei, an unfurling of mineral facades punctuated by slanted glass sides. Under one of these high glass roofs and in an adjacent room are located the restaurant and the shop of the Museum, which director Marie-Claude Beaud asked Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec to design. The main challenge under the glass roof was to counteract a strong light both direct and reverberated by the floor. The restaurant’s structure contains two long tables made of Douglas fir tree, which seem to be levitating between the two rows of Thonet chairs. The tiles covering the wooden structures are elements of a new system of modular textile walls developed in 2006 together with Kvadrat, a textile manufacturer.
Mix and Chic: Home tour- A chic and contemporary model apartment in New York! This beautiful and contemporary model apartment belongs to one of the prime address in New York, located at 41 Bond Street. With its striking artworks, rich textures and vibrant colors, the 2,600-square-foot-three bedroom model unit is far from bland. Let's take a tour of this fabulous home! Are you swooning about this home too? 25 Of The Most Creative Lamp And Chandelier Designs Light is a practical concern in most homes, but it’s also so much more than that. The right lamp or lampshade can cast the entire room in a different light or serve as a work of art on its own. Each of the creative lamps on this list we collected is exactly that – a light source that doubles as a work of art. Although we posted a list of DIY lamp designs a while back, not all of us have the artist’s eye, talent or know-how required to create awesome lamps or chandeliers like these. And there are a million different things that artists like these can do with light. We know that there are tons more cool lamp designs out there, so if you know one that we need to see, submit it at the bottom of this list! 1. Designed by Richard Clarkson 2. Designed by Kristyna Pojerova 3. Image credits: yoy-idea.jp 4. Image credits: masonscreations.com 5. Designed by Kevin Champeny 6. Designed by Max Gunawan 7. Designed by Alex Garnett 8. Designed by Estiluz 9. Designed by Igor Solovyov 10. Designed by Chris Weylandt
The Senescent Desk by Love Hultén Gothenburg, Sweden-based designer Love Hultén sent me a project called The Senescent Desk, a project about natural change without maintenance and a story about interaction. The Senescent Desk is basically a self-sufficient gardening system based on a water-tank, mist makers, two fans, a growth substrate material made from recycled plastic and a digital time. The idea is that over time, the vegetation will flourish and (hopefully) eventually “attack” the artifact without the need of human interaction. In this design, untreated wood is also used so that the wood itself will change over time as a reaction to its environment.
YaelMer&ShayAlkalay 2D Lamps Appears to Be 3D Posted on April 26, 2014 by catcat Three-dimensional wire frame images are painted onto a thin transparent acrylic glass, with some laser machining process, our eyes are fooled to believing they are actually real 3D lamps. Apart from it’s tricky and changeable appearance, it also owns warm LED light that lasts for 50,000 hours. [Kickstarter] Cool Lamps: 40 of The Most Creative Lamp Designs Ever We all know that one of the easiest ways you have to light a dark corner in any room or add some atmospheric lighting to your living-room area, is to place your choice of lamp. With numerous designs, shapes, colors, dimensions or lighting abilities, lamps constitute one of the most convenient methods one has to alter the lighting tone of a room. In fact, the lighting selected and used can complete the statement of a house or improve a room’s decoration and give the feeling one is looking for. In today article you can see 40 of the most creative lamp designs that you can find on the internet these days. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
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