A seaside house to broaden one´s horizon
Here’s a house that practically sings of the pure blue joy of the endless ocean horizon.
Created by Sydney architects Durbach Block Jaggers, the house clutches 70 meter cliffs overlooking Australia’s lonely Pacific.
(via Home Design Find)
Drift by Snarkitecture
An entrance pavilion for Design Miami/ 2012, Drift creates an unexpected moment within the context of the familiar white vinyl tent, reformulating the material to create a floating environment. Inflated tubes are bundled together to create a topographical landscape in suspension: an ascending mountain above and an excavated cavern below. These long cylinders are arranged vertically to infill the area of the entrance courtyard, and then lifted to create areas of circulation and rest for the visitors entering and exiting the structure.
“What people want when they travel is a concrete experience for every single destination. The idea that every hotel has a standard of its own was my aim when I created the company.”
The Original behind Grand Hotel Central in Barcelona shares his vision.
Guests can lounge amongst orange trees and a water basin in the secluded courtyard of this dreamy Portuguese guesthouse by Jordi Fornells and Rolf Heinemann of Vora Arquitectura.
The communal living rooms of Villa Extramuros open out onto the central courtyard and the dining room has a terrace that faces the surrounding fields and olive trees.
The five guest suites are located on the first floor and each have their own private terrace, two of which overlook the nearby Arraiolos Castle.
(via Dezeen)
Oglo is a French Architecture and Landscape office who won the 1st price of the 2011 Allariz Garden Festival with La Muñeca.
After going across a thin plant screen, we slowly walk down through the flowers and the soil. An internal world is revealed; its soft curves cocoon and guide us. The plants offer as many smells as they do colors. Our senses are excited. We wrap ourselves into space towards the image of our condition, towards the structuring signal. Further below, sheltered from any hazard, we are taken in the center of the symbol and, unscathed, we contemplate. (from the Project description)
(more at Projets Oglo)
via (via La Muñeca | CoolBoom)
A-cero shedding light
The new lamp design by A-cero is a conceptual abstraction of Murano´s classic lamp. The lamp consists of several rectangular pieces of different size in vertical arrangement, made of different types of glass and mirrors duplexer.
This set of volumes, transparency, brightness and colors creates a magical atmosphere, the projected reflections become an abstract and changing image.
(more at New design A-cero In, recycled glass lamp! - trends)
Golden Moon is an enormous temporary architectural structure that mimics a giant lantern. The geodesic dome was designed by architects Kristof Crolla and Adam Fingrut as part of this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival at Lee Kum Kee Lantern Wonderland in Hong Kong.
via rcruzniemiec
(Source: mymodernmet.com)
unknown location, a promotional shot for floating candles, but looks like a place to be.
(via trends)
Sala de Degustación Via Wines
The Sala de Degustación Via Wines, the vine tasting room by Claro Arquitectos, a dreamlike, floating terrace located at Fundo Las Chilcas, San Rafael, Talca, Chile
(via Plataforma Arquitectura, photos: Cortesía Claro Arquitectos)
![Subsix
The world’s first underwater club. International DJs. Global music. Splashes of colour – indigo, blue. Glass walls overlook a spotlit sea. Modern moods with a flair for the marine. Take the party below the sea for all-night dancing beneath the waves.
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Subsix belongs to Niyama, Per Aquum’s newest resort in the Maldives. A staircase leads guests 20 ft (6 m) below the surface of the Indian Ocean. The underwater structure of Subsix was constructed on land and then submerged after thorough environmental surveys and impact assessments. Niyama also has a program to establish a long-term aim of promoting coral growth and re-colonization.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbdaorgELK1qclxiso1_500.jpg)
The world’s first underwater club. International DJs. Global music. Splashes of colour – indigo, blue. Glass walls overlook a spotlit sea. Modern moods with a flair for the marine. Take the party below the sea for all-night dancing beneath the waves.
(Source: artresort.net)
NY NY
On October 1st in Paris, Regine club hosted the NY NY Party aka THIS IS NEW YORK. Nocturnal rendezvous for fashion, the event had invited Olivier Rousteing creators, Anthony Vaccarello, Christopher Kane, and the top Arizona Muse and Kanye West. Pictorial review of the evening by Saskia Lawaks via French Vogue. Click HERE to see more.
via grandlifehotels
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh - Reading between the Lines
01.09.2011 to 31.12.2012
The Belgian architects duo Gijs Van Vaerenbergh (BE) built a see-through church for Borgloon. Reading between the Lines is 10 metres high and consists of 100 stacked layers of steel plate in the shape of a church of Loon. The construction weighs a whopping 30 tons. The special way of construction makes the landscape always visible throughout the church, from far away and up-close. The church is therefore present but also absent in the landscape.
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![Plane Text in Miami
Miami’s Art Basel Week is pretty much the only thing keeping Florida from plunging into the seventh circle of conservative hell. Celebrating its 11th edition December 6-9, Art Basil will host works by over 2000 contemporary artists in Miami’s coveted Design District.
Appropriately set during the least humid month in Florida, Art Basel is an ultimate combination of Will Smith-esque fun and high brow visual content. Since festival goers can’t possibly intake all the creative awesomeness while recovering from post gallery hangovers, the executive folks over at Morgans Hotel Group, Van Wagner Communications and Art Basel have figured out an alternative way to pump their audiences with even more creative awesomeness. It’s called “Plane Text,” and if you guessed that it will have something to do with planes you are right.
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There will be three planes flying original texts by some of our favorite contemporary artists from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for span of the fest. The text will come from Richard Prince, John Baldessari, Lawrence Weiner, the Estate of Sol LeWitt, Jack Pierson, Kay Rosen, Hank Willis Thomas, Alan Ruppersberg, Gary Simmons, Mel Bochner, Alexis Smith and Martin Creed, to name drop a few.
(via It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Richard Prince! - ANIMAL)
PHOTO (via Artist Bruce Nauman skywrites over Pasadena - latimes.com)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_marc0eTOFr1qclxiso1_500.jpg)
Plane Text in Miami
Miami’s Art Basel Week is pretty much the only thing keeping Florida from plunging into the seventh circle of conservative hell. Celebrating its 11th edition December 6-9, Art Basil will host works by over 2000 contemporary artists in Miami’s coveted Design District.
Appropriately set during the least humid month in Florida, Art Basel is an ultimate combination of Will Smith-esque fun and high brow visual content. Since festival goers can’t possibly intake all the creative awesomeness while recovering from post gallery hangovers, the executive folks over at Morgans Hotel Group, Van Wagner Communications and Art Basel have figured out an alternative way to pump their audiences with even more creative awesomeness. It’s called “Plane Text,” and if you guessed that it will have something to do with planes you are right.
Chapter 1 | The Passage | The X2 | The Muang Kulaypan
During August 2010 we accompanied Ms. Julia Murakami to some of the finest resorts on Koh Samui. This is the first chapter of Murakami Samui, a special edition of the art resort, bringing together fine art and fine places. The hosting venues offered Ms. Murakami the chance to work on her ongoing project, The Japanese Guerilla Paparazzi and we tried to cover both, the participating resorts and the artistic work in progress. More pictures will be added over time before we go back for chapter 2.
We hope you enjoy this travelogue in progress as much as we did making it.
We like to thank with all our heart the staff members of The Passage , The X2 and The Muang Kulaypan. Without your help there would be no Murakami Samui.
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