Nouvel Limited: Collaboration with Héctor Esrawe, Emiliano Godoy and Brian Thoreen
























Es la primera ocasión en que los tres diseñadores colaboran para crear conjuntamente una colección. A lo largo de varios meses los diseñadores trabajaron de la mano del equipo de diseño y de los artesanos de Nouvel Limited para generar piezas arriesgadas, de grandes dimensiones, que llevan el vidrio de la marca a nuevas escalas. El trabajo empujó los límites de la fábrica más allá de los procesos que cotidianamente emplean en la fabricación de su colección de productos de autor.

El proyecto gira en torno a contrastar el vidrio soplado por manos expertas con materiales en un estado primigenio, como son placas de acero y latón, o piedras de mármol y ónix. La tensión visual entre los materiales se acrecenta con piezas que se mantienen erguidas por contrapesos y rugosas superficies de contacto. Los diseñadores enfrentaron así el vidrio, con toda su pureza y maleabilidad, a la rigidez y rudeza de la piedra, el acero y el latón.

English — It is the first time that the three designers collaborate to jointly create a collection. Over the course of several months, the designers worked hand in hand with the design team and artisans of Nouvel Limited to create risky, large pieces that take the glass of the brand to new scales. The work pushed the limits of the factory beyond the processes that are used every day in the manufacture of its collection of author’s products.

The project revolves around contrasting blown glass by expert hands with materials in a primitive state, such as steel and brass plates, or marble and onyx stones. The visual tension between the materials is increased by pieces that are kept upright by counterweights and rough contact surfaces. The designers thus confronted glass, with all its purity and malleability, to the rigidity and roughness of stone, steel and brass.

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Layering Yard,Beijing by ARCHSTUDIO


































“Layering Yard” is hidden in a traditional commercial block near the Qianmen of Beijing, with an area of about 500 square meters. The original architecture was a quadrangle courtyard commercial building with the characteristics of houses in the Republican period.Compared with residential houses, the houses here are bigger and higher. There is a row of arched doors and windows on the south along the street, and two-story houses on the north. Before the renovation, the housing structure was completely rebuilt; with the courtyard there were no doors, windows or walls, but exposed rough wooden structure beams.

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Kaven’s proposal for Portland development includes two connected Skyscrapers







william / kaven architecture has unveiled proposed plans for the ‘broadway corridor’ in portland, oregon — a project that includes two soaring skyscrapers and an underground high-speed transportation hub. the conceptual scheme, which would provide approximately 5 million square feet of new development, consists of multiple high-rise buildings with a mix of uses that includes retail, office, hospitality, and residential. the development’s centerpiece is a pair of towers, the tallest soaring to a height of 970 feet (296 meters), linked by a glass-enclosed botanical bridge 680 feet (207 meters) in the air.

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Venice Fog by Larry Bells























American artist Larry Bell has created a series of huge boxes using translucent and coloured glass, which are designed to evoke the morning fog that rolls in from the coast of California.

Venice Fog: Recent Investigations is an installation involving a series of cube-like sculptures made from semi-transparent and soft-hued glass. Each sculpture comprises a larger enclosure formed by four laminated panels, without a top or base, with a smaller box positioned inside.

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Video — Dissapearing Walls Extension, Italy’s Lake Garda by Bergmeisterwolf










Architecture studio Bergmeisterwolf has completed an extension to a house on the shores of Italy’s Lake Garda, featuring glazed walls that disappear into the ground to open the living area up to the garden.

The client for the project — an economist from Vienna — wanted an addition that would add value to and improve the functionality of a villa originally constructed in 1680.

Bergmeisterwolf, which is based in South Tyrol in the very north of Italy, was tasked with expanding the home’s floor area and optimising the connection between the internal spaces and the large garden.

“We needed to design an extension tuned with the existing building in a way that they both enhance each other,” said the studio.

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Oficina Elephant-Parade by CUN Design























Beijing es un complejo metropolitano diversificado, donde todos intentan tener un pequeño sentido de pertenencia e identidad. Incluso preocupados por el estrés de la vida, así como de los días nublados, ellos siguen hacia adelante. Mientras que la mayor parte del día las personas lo pasan en la oficina.

Beijing is a diversified metropolitan complex, where everyone tries to have a small sense of belonging and identity. Even worried about the stress of life, as well as the cloudy days, they keep moving forward. While most of the day people spend it in the office.

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Carl Andre & Enrico Castellani

16 Nov 2017–13 Jan 2018 at the Gallery Greta Meert in Brussels, Belgium






This exhibition shows one monumental work by Carl Andre: Thebes. Made out of Western red cedar wood in 2003, the work measures 120 x 90 x 1080 cm and exists out of 48 timbers, one row of 12 vertical timbers mounting one traverse horizontal tee timber each, flanked at base by two parallel rows of 12 horizontal timbers all based on the floor. The artist uses the pieces of wood in the form of modules with standardised dimensions. As with all his sculptures the elements are connected to the ground in three ways: stacked, spread flat either on a grid or contiguously. By ways of stacking the work demands a physical involvement of the viewer, walking past the work gives you a sense of its mass, length, volume and even the smell of the cedar wood.Carl Andre was one of the founders of the art movement known as Minimal Art.

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Start by Diogo Aguiar Studio

being a steel sculptor for over a decade i have a great fondness for like-minded works—kudos!














Start is an intervention that is both abstract and figurative, which favours the imagination of passers-by, in the context of the Christmas season. It is an ephemeral lighting installation that grows from references of Modern Art in public space and that is built on the scale of the city, provoking visual interaction with the surrounding historical buildings, providing new urban visual frames. At the same time, it assumes an ethereal and subtle presence on the square that, by evoking lightness and representativeness, intends to place the Largo dos Lóios in the traditional route of the Christmas illuminations in Porto.

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‘Darkest Building on Earth’ For Winter Olympics Pavilion by Asif Khan










Asif Khan’s Vantablack pavilion, the world’s first super-black building, will open at the PyeongChang2018 Opening Ceremony on 9 February 2018.

The Olympic pavilion is coated with Vantablack VBx2 carbon nanotubes and illuminated by thousands of tiny white light rods. These rods extend from the structure’s parabolic super-black facade and create the illusion of a field of stars suspended in space. Looking at the building will be the closest experience to looking into space from a point on Earth.

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