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Greenpoint Media Archive - 1/8″ scale model detail;  basswood / Bristol vellum paper.

Print media archive / community center - final version. read more

Popularity: 17% [?]

Greenpoint Media Archive - 1/8″ scale model detail;  basswood / Bristol vellum paper.

Print media archive / community center - final version. read more

Popularity: 16% [?]

Greenpoint Media Archive - 1/8″ scale model detail;  basswood / Bristol vellum paper.

Film archive / community center - final version. read more

Popularity: 16% [?]

 
After kurage1 and kurage2 here comes the kurage3

project description “Kurage3″ by schemata
“We made the third of Kurage. This kurage changed 1.0mm into 1.5mm, and enlarged the size. As a result, the illuminance went up, too. There are 4 types of forms. This time, I first changed the size of the optical fiber from 1mm to 1.5mm, the size of the main body has grown along with it, too. The size grew and the illuminance went up. Kurage is composed of optical fiber. By bending the optical fiber, the whole area is illuminated outside of the immediate area of the light, and together, they can make very soft light. The brightness can be adjusted by the size of the curve.” read more

Popularity: 13% [?]

We came across some great images of the Myto Chair by Konstantin Grcic and it will now be available @ the MOMA store. While I think that the price is a bit high, I am still blown away by the economy of material/structure of this chair. Brilliant!

Full brochure below

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Popularity: 19% [?]

A Problem of Bubbles Frames an Olympic Design

It is not often that a 19th-century scientist plays a central role in 21st-century architecture, but the new Beijing National Aquatics Center is no ordinary building.  With a steel framework of seemingly random polyhedrons covered in soft plastic pillows, the center, known as the Water Cube and home to the swimming and diving events at the Olympics beginning this week, “really looks like nothing else in the world,” said Tristram Carfrae, the structural engineer who designed it. “It’s a box made of bubbles.”  That’s an appropriate image, for the inspiration for Mr. Carfrae’s design originated with a problem about aggregations of bubbles — in other words, foams — posed by the great British physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. via>nytimes>science

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Popularity: 29% [?]

Flagship store Louis Vuitton, Japan

The design for the 10 storey (54 meter tall) flagship Louis Vuitton store in Japan aims to establish an architectural equivalent of the identity of Louis Vuitton in which classical and modern qualities are blended, reinforcing each other. The design inspires the visitor with a feeling of being in the House of Louis Vuitton by celebrating the qualities that make up the essence of the company, its products, its history and its future. read more

Popularity: 21% [?]

Script this, Computational that, Algorithmic this… bla bla bla!

Yutaka Igarashi’s work goes back to a Joseph Kosinski media course reference @ Columbia in the early 00’s. It may be that I am coming down from that “Oh So Sweet” sugar high that a nice script can give you or the frustration w/ the current crop of cad jockeys that can not model the simplest forms. Either way, Igarashi’s work is a much needed inspirational stopping point that will deliver you into a perverse world of hyper detailed vehicles and leave us questioning their true end use. read more

Popularity: 24% [?]

The Welcome Center, designed by Till Schweizer, is situated at a crucial point of the JinHua Architectur Park.

The pavilion overlooks at a significant bend of the river bank, therefore it marks the turning point in the overall direction and perception while entering or leaving the park. read more

Popularity: 17% [?]

Whales’ and dolphins’ speed and agility are wondrous to behold — finely tuned by evolution for efficiency and maneuverability in the water. Now researchers are working to translate these animals’ natural innovations into manmade technologies on land, air and sea.Frank Fish of West Chester University in Pennsylvania began to study the humpback whale fin while on vacation in Boston in the early 1980s, where he saw a statue of a humpback whale in a shop in Quincy Market. He assumed it was sculpted incorrectly, because the figure showed bumps along the front edge of the flipper. read more

Popularity: 16% [?]