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.
Paul Loebach 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. 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.
Fernando and Humberto Campana 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 Home Doors of Perception Collection Catalogs: Literature Request The Indoor & Outdoor Collections Volume 4 Arbiters of style, John and Elinor McGuire personify grace, elegance and panache. They took pride in creating furniture that was as compatible with traditional furniture pieces and fine antiques as with the best-designed contemporary furniture. Why McGuire? Brand & Collection Overview This book introduces you to what makes McGuire furniture and accessories appealing to people who, like you, appreciate fine design, craftsmanship and natural materials. PDF 10.5MB Sentirse bien en casa 12.2MB 设计爱好者 的知音 11.5MB The Laura Kirar Collection The new introductions to the Laura Kirar Collection are inspired by travel. The Barbara Barry Outdoor Collection Introducing the new outdoor collection by Barbara Barry: streamlined, contemporary and exceedingly comfortable. Free Antalya™ Indoor Collection McGuire Designs We are excited to introduce new McGuire designs to our full assortment. Outdoor Collections Bill Sofield Collection Robert Kuo Collection
DANIELSIMON ™ Rob Ryan Two new colour-ways of 'I Can't Forget' and 'You Are My Universe' have just been printed and are available on etsy now and will be in Ryantown this weekend!!!