Hidden Barriers to Construction Innovation
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Form Us With Love recently created the Nest Collection for +Halle. The series provides an unpronounced divider to the traditional lounge area, by simply creating layers of both high and low seating. The heights offers a sense of privacy, whilst maintaining the comfort of a relaxed armchair.
“With Nest, you can create a perfect room-in-a-room feeling without having to add traditional tall room dividers or high back sofas,” commented Martin Halle, Brand and communication director at +Halle. “When first installed it was evident that people were sitting next to each other-at different levels-without being affected by their neighbors. With a minimal expression, the Nest Collection, keeps the room open in a new way.”
Fascinated by the typologies of pedestals, such as the Umpire’s chair on a tennis court, Form Us With Love has experimented with a lofty landscape, adding the element of dignity and softness to a seat with a view. “Our ideas of different height layers led, as they often do, into deeper research,” explained John Löfgren, Creative Director at Form Us With Love. “We analysed the activities and behaviours of a public spaces, and the upholstered furniture vs. bar stool seating scenario. Instead of putting the two characteristics next to one another, we merged them-creating a tall vertical Nest.”
- Published in Art, Design Competition, New York, Videos
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Smart Construction Sites with Connected Sensors
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
L A M P (Lighting Architecture Movement Project) is calling for entries for its fourth annual international lighting design competition.
The competition challenges designers to approach their light fixtures with the guidance of a singular word.
This year’s theme is Cosmic. There are three categories for submission: student, emerging, and established designers.
Submissions will open on June 1st and close on August 15th, 2016.
- Published in Art, Design Competition
Measuring Construction Project Success
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
We have created full CG visuals for Nautilus – manufacturer of glass tables.
We focused on the visual authenticity and overall believability of catalogue pictures.
Some of sitting furniture were scanned.
We have created full CG visuals for Nautilus – manufacturer of glass tables.
We focused on the visual authenticity and overall believability of catalogue pictures.
Some of sitting furniture were scanned.
- Published in Design Competition, New York
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
New Elevation and Volume Tools for Mining and Construction
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
The winners have been announced for the Bee Breeders Tokyo Pop Lab architecture competition. The competition brief called for the design of a new program for the study and production of pop culture media. The unique and original nature of the brief resulted in submissions varying considerably, from fairly pragmatic to completely ideological.
The winning submissions were chosen for their well considered definition of popular culture, the clarity of their representation, and their clear concept of the structure of the laboratory’s program.
The first place winners are a team from Italy whose project consisted of two large cubes placed in opposing corners of the site, lifted above the ground plane, and rejoined with an elevated walkway.
read more: tokyopoplab.beebreeders.com
- Published in Design Competition, New York
Evolo Skyscrapers: Limited Edition Book
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Established in 2006, the eVolo Skyscraper Competition has become the world’s most prestigious award for high-rise architecture. The contest recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations.
Studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution are some of the multi-layered elements of the competition. It is an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of dynamic and adaptive vertical communities.
Over the last six years, an international panel of renowned architects, engineers, and city planners have reviewed more than 4,000 projects submitted from 168 countries around the world. Participants include professional architects and designers, as well as students and artists. This book is the compilation of 300 outstanding projects selected for their innovative concepts that challenge the way we understand architecture and their relationship with the natural and built environments.
- Published in Art, Design Competition
Wanna Hear a Good Construction Joke?
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of its 2015 VMODERN Furniture Design Competition. The award recognizes innovative design and creates a forum for the discussion and development of the discipline.
The first place was awarded to I-Ting Tsai, Xixi Zheng, Yiru Yun, and Somdatta Majumdar from the United Kingdom for the design of Fabric Chair.
This project is an investigation on the use of fabric as a structural material in furniture design. A special resin was developed to harden fabric placed on a rigid mold. The resin hardens the fabric to become structural while retaining its softness in specific locations.
- Published in Design Competition
