Eco-friendly pavilion from 2000 recycled beer crates
Eco-friendly architecture is in vogue around the world with innovative building materials cropping up. The latest is 2000 beer crates used to make Boxel, a temporary experimental pavilion created by digital design students from the University of Applied Sciences in Detmold, Germany within a week. Turning beer crate into building is sure an eye-popper!!
The temporary construction was designed using parametric software to control the position of the boxes in relation to the overall geometry and to analyse the structural performance. Several static load tests were made to understand the structural behaviour of the unusual building material. In parallel to a series of shearing and bending tests in the university’s laboratory of material research, the structural concept was simulated and optimised using FEM-Software. Continue reading »
Water-Inspired Chandeliers
New York-based design firm Dwellings Ltd has added a range of water-inspired modern chandeliers to its Water Pressure lighting collection designed to be the centrepiece of any space.
Water Pressure Lighting is a collection of modern water-inspired artistic crystal chandeliers using the finest 100% Strass Swarovski Crystals. Designed by Evelyn Hutter, these contemporary centrepieces are distinct for luminous crystals that sparkle in the light. The new chandeliers include: Rogue Wave, Crashing Wave, Lawn Sprinkler and Lather Up. Continue reading »
Beautiful Pinecone-Inspired Lamps Made from Paper Pulp by Jonathon Coles
UK-based Jonathon Coles Lighting & Design has created a lighting fixture named ‘the Strobilus Lamp’ for architectural lighting company Paviom, which resembles a bunch of pine cones.
The Strobilus lamp is designed to be a highly recyclable and efficient light source. The lamp is made of up to 95% recyclable materials such as paper pulp. The design is inspired by the shape of an open pine cone and utilises 100 leaves made from 100% recycled paper pulp mounted on a recyclable body. The lamp with a soft and organic shape creates a warm and pleasing ambience.
The Strobilus pendant light eliminates glare from all angles with its positioned leaves and the pendant appears to glow warmly with a diffused light.
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Murano Glass Wall Lighting, Perfect Light Style for your Home
Murano glass wall light chrome steel structure with application. Murano glass wall lighting, modern contemporary lighting is made of Murano glass and Swarovski crystals, wrought iron lamps, chandeliers Custom. Murano glass flowers in white with transparent veins. Application has 55 Murano glass flowers and 6 hidden bulbs. Also available as a ceiling light with 186 flowers and 10 balls on request.
‘Constellation 2913’ pendant light fixtures by Fire Farm
Iowa-based Fire Farm, Inc. has introduced ‘Constellation 2913’, a new pendant light series designed by Adam Jackson Pollock and the Fire Farm Staff with Jim Walch.
The Constellation fixtures are available in four different sizes with multiple finishing options. They are composed of metal points made from perforated sheet metal with internal light diffusing panels, providing moiré shimmering effects as one moves around them. The fixture also features a dichroic diffuser option that creates transitioning colours in an opalescent effect.
Mood Chair: Interactive furniture with embedded lighting
UK-based interdisciplinary design collaboration Aether and Hemera has designed interactive furniture called the ‘Mood Chair’ that changes colour depending on the response its sensors receive from the environment and users.
Mood Chair technically consists of partially translucent units, LEDs, embedded micro-chips and sensors. These devices react to the colours that its sensors perceive from the environment and translate them with custom software into lighting effects for the furniture.
Such responsive installations are seen as complementing the architectural space based on the idea that digital interactive fixtures will contribute to create an innovative and high-quality environment responding to the behaviour of its users. This is achieved by visually expressing the activities surrounding them.
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Jean Nouvel designs Horizons Tower in France inspired by Hanging Gardens
Horizons Tower or Tour Horizon, a 19-storey office building designed by the Pritzker Prize winning French architect Jean Nouvel, is currently underway in Paris, France.
Nouvel has crafted the building in such a way that it can be articulated in a number of ways. This has been achieved by the incorporation of different visual elements by stacking three looks on top of each other with each stepping back from the previous footprint. This structure helps in offering levels of terraces, resembling a kind of modern hanging gardens of Babylon.
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9/11 Museum: Commemoration to the Twin Tower tragedy
Not too many people would like to be reminded of the tragic tales of 9/11. At the same time not too many would like to forget what happened on that fateful day. The 9/11 Museum, being built 70 feet below ground zero, is unfolding as a chilling reminder of the gap created in the Manhattan skyline after the collapse of the twin towers.
Designed by New York-based Davis Brody Bond Aedas, the 120,000 square feet museum will be built below the eight acre memorial plaza. The entrance of the museum will feature a ground level glass pavilion that will lead visitors to a 665-feet long ribbon or a gently sloped ramp that will wind down 45 feet to the Memorial Hall or lobby of the museum. The ribbon is a model of the ramp that was used during the construction of the towers and later for the rescue efforts. Prior to the lobby is a three-pronged trident column recovered from the trade center rubble. Continue reading »
The David Tang Project
After Sir David Tang spotted Dominic Crinson’s tile work in the Boundary Hotel in London he decided he had to approach him to create a mural for three penthouse suites he was designing in Beijing.
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The penthouse suites, which overlook the new Olympic stadium, feature murals generated from Dominic’s own photography. The photos are composed digitally to create a montage of Beijing’s cityscape (the title image of this piece). Past Dominic Crinson murals were designed the same way and include Londonscape and Newyorkscape.
idfx’s Stone and Ceramics
The Chelsea Tile Company has created a chic showroom that incorporates its products into a home setting. Everything in the showroom is tiled, from the walls to the floors and even the worktops and tables, which feature glass tiles in beautiful mosaics.
Every ceramic and stone feature you have ever wanted and ones you have never thought to dream of are all at home in The Chelsea Tile Company showroom.
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Khan Shatyr, the 150m-tall Royal Marquee, Kazakhstan
Crowning the lavish 70th birthday of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev on 6 July in his capital, Astana, was the grand opening of Khan Shatyr: a giant, peaked, transparent tent. In this bizarre structure, 10,000 citizens at a time will be able to stretch their legs in the city’s bleak winter, when temperatures drop to minus 40oC and punishing winds rush in off the frozen steppes. Richard Orange visited the project during its construction, and explores the impact of Foster & Partners’ work on this new city.
‘Flying yacht’ design concept from French designer
French designer Yelken Octuri recently exhibited the design concept of a ‘flying yacht’, featuring four masts that will become wings once lowered and transforms the boat into a plane.
The high-tech ‘flying yacht’ is the brainchild of Yelken Octuri, who also designs cabins for Airbus. He has combined his knowledge of aircraft design with love of the sea to create this unique concept. The ‘superyacht with wings’ was recently on display at Paris’ Air and Space Museum.
This 46-feet long yacht can be converted from super yacht to jet plane with the help of four mobile masts. When on the water, each of the four mobile masts reaches a height of 40m and can be individually oriented through a double-jack system. This ensures optimal positioning regardless of wind direction. At the time of take off, these sails can be stored in compartments, which are located inside each mast that is further lowered down to work as horizontal wings.
The flying yacht features two main decks. The lower deck houses the main room, kitchen and toilet, and upper one accommodates three spacious bedrooms and a luxurious bathroom.
Source : world construction network
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