UNCONVENTIONAL architect Jean mic Perrine has come up with an audacious new idea – ready made, stackable, expandable pod homes.
The sign in the lobby says Perrine Architecture, Level 1. Step out of the lift and it’s not clear where to go next. Directly opposite is a trendy office furniture showroom and to the left, down the corridor is a simple, frosted glass door devoid of any clue as to what is behind it. Try the door and you find a typically stylish, minimalistic architects’ studio. The lack of signage is not a yet to be done job. (more…)
Hans Wegner, whose Danish Modern furniture — most famously his chairs — helped change the course of design history in the 1950s and ’60s by sanding modernism’s sharp edges and giving aesthetes a comfortable seat, died on Jan. 26 in Copenhagen. He was 92.
His death was confirmed by his daughter Marianne Wegner, who worked alongside her father for more than 20 years.
Mr. Wegner (pronounced VEG-ner in English and VAY-ner in Danish) was one of a small group of Danish furniture designers whose elegant but comfortable creations made Danish Modern all the rage among cosmopolitan Americans of the ’50s and ’60s. (more…)
Construction will continue, despite the completion of restorations this past summer to Franklin Lloyd Wright’s Darwin Martin House. A new Visitors and Research Center will be erected alongside the newly restored buildings. Toshiko Mori was selected to build the center in 2003 in a design competition amongst four other architecture firms.
The Visitors and Research Center will be a historical landmark in tandem with contemporary architecture. Much like Wright in 1905, the competition was a catalyst for thought and an opportunity for young architects to design a significant building. Mori, the architect designing the gateway to the Martin House, will be speaking on Wednesday, October 4 at the University at Buffalo. (more…)
Zaha Hadid’s fantastical building designs, both on paper and in concrete, have made her the world’s most famous woman architect.
ONCE upon a time, Zaha Hadid was called the “paper architect”. In the 1970s and 1980s, her designs, soaring fantastically and bristling with energy, won critical acclaim and architectural prizes. But they rarely got built.
Spooked by their radical aesthetics and challenging engineering requirements, developers often turned tail and ran. But all that has changed. (more…)
A major revolution is occurring in design products for post modern outdoor landscaping applications and indoor use. Serralunga, Studio4LA, and the Trivi Collection are in the vanguard for many of these new exciting shapes and forms that are sweeping the world of art, architecture, and exterior design.
These products showcase spectacular artisan fabrication, unique geometry, and post modern design features that are wowing crowds in Milan, Pairs, and New York. The result is a new school of art that is a world apart from their predecessors. (more…)
