Unlike standard mobile loos, with their clunky and cumbersome structures, the elemental Minimlet is, well, good to go.
#Venture forthe indeed portable#
The devastating impact of natural disasters on power grids, water supplies, and basic hygiene spurred Nendo principal Oki Sato to rethink a relief-effort essential: the portable toilet. Nendo’s Oki Sato Gives the Portable Toilet a Sleek Redesign Current-day directors and choreographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet envisioned the Opera Vlaanderen and Royal Ballet Flanders production as a window into the human soul. Star-Studded Design Team Reimagines Claude Debussy’s Only Opera, Pelléas et MélisandeĪ new incarnation of Pelléas et Mélisande, the only opera ever completed by Claude Debussy, in 1902, is a feast for the eyes-literally. Monade Capsule, a prototype that debuted during Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, is Alice Bleton’s response to “office workers needing a private spot away from the office where they can re-engage with the outdoors,” she notes. Alice Bleton’s Capsule Prototype Reconnects Office Workers With the Outdoors Charles, Illinois, that dates to the 19th century. Decidedly different in scale is Seven Oaks, a landmarked 30-acre American Saddlebred horse farm in St.
Helmut Jahn’s métier is grand-scale urban architecture: Merck Serono headquarters in Geneva, an airport in Bangkok, towers from Warsaw to Tokyo, and luxury condominiums in New York and Chicago, which is home base for him and his firm, Jahn. Helmut Jahn Updates Landmark Seven Oaks Horse Farm in St. The unique shapes and textures of their lamps are developed by exploring the reaction between Styrofoam and acetone, which acts as a solvent on the foam. “We set out to create products that visually question how they’re made,” Kevin Watts explains.
Kevin and John Watts left behind architecture school and an advertising career, respectively, to form Susan for Susan. Susan for Susan Explores Chemical Processes to Create Unique Lamps Such is the case with the Atacama Desert, approximately 700 miles north of Santiago, Chile, where the Teatro al Aire Libre Ruinas de Huanchaca has opened. There’s no better place for an outdoor performance venue than somewhere it never rains. Atacama Desert Inspires Outdoor Performance Venue by Coz y Ortiz Arquitectos For his current show at the Städtische Galerie Kornhaus in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany, he “knotted” one of the museum’s 450-year-old pillars. Recent works include building facades that appear to be sliding down to the ground or torn in half. Installation artist Alex Chinneck likes to trick the eye. Alex Chinneck’s Logic-Bending Chimney Sculptures to Transform U.K. But the indoor-outdoor aerie by V Studio founder Hu Quanchun takes up just 3,500 square feet. No one would ever guess that this oasis exists on the roof of Beijing’s enormous Golden Resources Mall-at 6 million square feet, it’s nearly twice the size of the Mall of America. Rooftop Oasis by V Studio Enlightens Beijing’s Golden Resources Mall Now an independent designer and creative director, the textile trendsetter managed to wring even more possibility out of the cloth when she was invited to create a site-specific installation during WantedDesign 2017 in New York. Kelly Harris Smith’s WantedDesign Installation Recasts Felt as Space-MakerĪs co-founder of FilzFelt, Kelly Harris Smith is well schooled in the eco-friendly properties of the material. In the case of the tidy Votive Chapel, reverence takes on double meaning: religiously as well in regard to the 18th-century masonry structure it replaced. Reverence is the theme in any house of worship. Mario Filippetto Architetto Gives Modern Refresh to 18th-Century Milanese Chapel “It’s only used for a short time, but lasts forever.” Read more.ģ. “Plastic has a major design flaw,” Sakkas states.
Print Your City! Designs Chair From 100 Pounds of Plastic WasteĪrchitects Panos Sakkas and Foteini Setaki, founders of 2-year-old Dutch studio the New Raw, set out to tackle a mounting problem: the proliferation of plastic detritus, of which only 9 percent is currently recycled. Enter Easton Helsinki, a 710,000-square-foot shopping center with community spirit. The freeway-riddled neighborhood of Itäkeskus in Helsinki, Finland, was in need of a little social glue: something that sparks joy in its residents as well as entices commuters to venture off the exit ramp. Easton Helsinki by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects Empowers Car-Heavy Locale 25 Innovative Ideas Shaping the Future of Designġ.
0 kommentar(er)
