Megalith Table Series by Duffy London

loving these minimalist sculptural table designs by the east london studio. m.











east london design studio duffy london creates a series of tables that mislead eyes into not believing in gravity. the ‘megalith’ series comes in both coffee and dining table sizes. the monolithic design takes its shape from ‘the sentinel’, a book by arthur c. clarke that went to be made into a cult classic film 2001: a space odyssey, directed by stanley kubrick. the glass table top balances on top of toppling monoliths, which appear frozen in a permanent state of imminent collapse. the powder coated mild steel is available in black, white, polished stainless steel and solid walnut. the deceiving feat is simply rooted to basic foundations of physics and distributions of weight.

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Video — Aluminum Cloudscape by The Berlin and Zurich-Based Studio FAKT

fantastic installation — love the historic context. m.









during the 2015 edition of the lively architecture festival, FAKT has realized an aluminium cloudscape that seems to weightlessly hover within a provincial courtyard in montpellier. the berlin and zurich-based studio have conceived ‘#034′ as a spatial and structural experiment — two sheets of 2mm thick aluminum undulates inside the semi-outdoor space, spanning a distance of 6.4 meters long by 4.5 meters wide. the two paper-like layers subtly bend, crinkle and wrinkle in juxtaposition with each other, creating apertures that allow visitors to peer through the installation to the other side of the courtyard.

‘our proposal searches for an installation that overcomes the object but instead transcends into phenomenon — the cloudscape,’ the studio says. ‘it is an attempt to enrich the structural nature of architecture with a strong sense of physical excitement and ever-changing visual properties. the topics of lightness, weightlessness and soft borders all translate into a floating world.’

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Maison L by Christian Pottgiesser

nice detailing and light control in this creative complex. m.





“the project works with a pre-existing 18th century orangery, a conservatory-like building with a seven-meter high ceiling line on the northern part of the site. to disturb the ground as little as possible, ‘maison L’ extends 50 m to the north-west to line the boundary, resulting in a general ‘L’-shaped plan.

considering the natural topography of the site, the house is buried up to two meters below grade with a garden roof covering the ground storey. this main level remains largely open and connected, with varying degrees of privacy depending on the depth of the zone’s placement. five three-storied tower-like volumes puncture through the green roof to stand almost autonomously with the main level. positioned to frame a specific perspective of the site, each tower houses a dressing room, storage space, a mezzanine, bathroom and a bedroom.”

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Video — The Bryant, New York by David Chipperfield

splendid simplicity. m.









The three-minute film shows footage of Chipperfield’s studio and renderings of the new tower, which is rising on a site across from Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan. Images of the 33-storey building were revealed by Dezeen last year.

The rectilinear tower will have a grid-like facade clad in precast concrete terrazzo panels, speckled with marble and sandstone chips. The building’s structural frame will also be made of concrete.

“In all of our work we try to find a way by which buildings have a strong physical presence,” said Chipperfield in the video. “In the case of The Bryant, we’ve used facade elements of terrazzo.”

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Alphabet of Light by BIG and Artemide at Milan Design Week

crisp typo-graphics and lighting design. m.








italian lighting company artemide has worked with architect bjarke ingels of BIG to create the ‘alphabet of light’ lamps. exploring the language of light — quite literally — the alphabet series evolved from BIG’s creation of a new typeface that was translated and manifested as lighting modules that can be utilized either in straight or curved formats. presented during milan design week, the series use precise geometric proportions with elements that can be combined to build countless light structures, both essential and complex.

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Video — LOGIFACES: Analogue Game for Digital Minds by Logideez from Hungary

hand-poured concrete game — love it! m.


















LOGIFACES is a set of prisms, each with different top angles, hand-poured from concrete.

LOGIFACES can be arranged in millions of variations, allowing you to find endless patterns in its computer-generated forms.

Boost your creativity with this unique game using the set of concrete prisms!

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