Prada's Tokyo “epicenter”, in the fashionable Aoyama district, is the company's second radical approach to fashion-store architecture, following Rem Koolhaas’ flagship store in New York. The intent is "to reshape both the concept and function of shopping, pleasure and communication, to encourage the meshing of consumption and culture." The Tokyo store is a strikingly unconventional 6-story glass crystal that is soft despite its sharp angles – as a result of its five-sided shape, the smooth curves throughout its interior, and its signature diamond-shaped glass panes, which vary between flat, concave and convex “bubbles”. Jacques Herzog describes these glass panes as “an interactive optical device. Because some of the glass is curved, it seems to move as you walk around it. That creates awareness of both the merchandise and the city—there's an intense dialogue between actors. Also, the grid brings a human scale to the architecture, like display windows. It's almost old-fashioned.”
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The life and art of the famous Japanese painter and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai is celebrated in a new Tokyo museum, design by SANAA’s Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kazuyo Sejima. The Sumida ...
with the olympics just four days away, designboom takes a look at some of the art, architecture and graphics that will help form 'the look' of the 2012 games.
Image 23 of 27 from gallery of UK Pavilion for Shanghai World Expo 2010 / Heatherwick Studio. © Daniele Mattioli
A 40-foot steel structure depicting two intertwined human outlines.
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Ai WeiWei just finished working on his latest installation entitled "Reframe", a street piece built using 22 rubber boats presented on the façade of Palazzo Strozzi, a palace in Florence, Italy.The large orange life rafts are anchored to the the famous palace’s windows, in an effort to draw atte
the korean alphabet is the prime element of 'signs' within the pavilion. the overall volume, lifted 7.2m above ground level, is created by converging these han-geul letters, allowing signs to create the exhibition space.
Garden Terrace Nagasaki Hotel & Resortガーデンテラス長崎 2-3 Akizukimachi, Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan 2009.07 Hotel 7104.18 m2 One of the biggest tasks for this project was to integrate three entirely different volumes in the program– big box, small box and something linear – into common identities. One of the identities is the box, which is also a roof, and the other is an architecture ‘made’ of, but not ‘covered with’ natural material, which in this case is wood. In the main hall which h
The pavilion is a big loop on which visitors ride around on one of the 1,500 bikes available at the entrance, a chance to experience the Danish urban way. A ...
British Olympics and Paralympics kits for London 2012 Games.
Sir Richard Branson has made it abundantly clear that Virgin Galactic will be getting people into space as soon as humanly possible. After opening Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico and then showing off the Virgin Galactic Spacesuit they made with Under Armour, they finally revealed the interior of SpaceShipTwo in this recent livestream. |
The pavilion is a big loop on which visitors ride around on one of the 1,500 bikes available at the entrance, a chance to experience the Danish urban way. A ...
Design: Nendo Oki Sato (2009). Surface representation of movement A round ottoman as a drop of wate
Photograph by Kenzo Hsieh (HSUEH-HSIEN HSIEH), 2012. Architect: Herzog & de Meuron Beijing National Stadium, officially the National Stadium,[5] also known as the Bird's Nest (鸟巢 Niǎocháo), is a stadium in Beijing, China. The stadium was designed for use throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_National_Stadium
German design agency Anzinger Wüschner Rasp selected my architectural texture photographs from Dubrovnik, Shanghai, Seoul and Kyoto to illustrate the international nature of the business of Hannove…
