Designed for a belgian couple, the three-storey house incorporates a glazed study for the husband and an artist’s studio for his wife.

The architect has parcelled the house, which threatens to take off, into four different sections. One box contains the reception, kitchen, master bedroom and Pierre’s “mediation room,” while the one parallel to it contains four guest bedrooms, each one complete with a sea view and an en-suite. Another box, containing the elongated living room almost 20 meters long, dynamically slices through these two parcels of concrete at an angle. The window at the end of this box can be made to roll down and dematerialise into the ocean below.

Furniture throughout the house is monochrome, including a teak and cardboard table designed by Shigeru Ban.

Spanish designers Normal have completed a Barcelona cocktail bar with tables made of drawers, a bar made of doors and a door made of cupboards. The long wooden bar runs along the length of the Bobby Gin Cocktail Bar and is clad in recycled doors of different sizes and colours. The reused chests of drawers have had their legs removed and are mounted on the opposite wall as tables. Above, the ceiling is decorated with empty picture frames.

Landscape architects Vertical Garden Design created this green wall and a second facing a rear courtyard. Plants on this second wall infill the spaces between weathered metal tiles, which were installed in 2009 when Italian architects Studio 10 remodelled the shop. Plants that usually grow beside waterfalls were chosen for both walls.

Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh have completed a see-through church in Limburg, Belgium. The ten metre-high church is constructed from 100 stacked layers of weathered steel plates. Gaps between these plates allow visitors to through through the walls. With its pointed spire, the building imitates the form of traditional churches in the region. Entitled Reading between the Lines, the project forms part of the Z-OUT programme coordinated by the Z33 gallery, which aims to bring art into public space.

This thursday at 7pm is the vernissage of the installation by Berlin based office Jürgen Mayer H. in the Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jakobstraße 124-128, Berlin.

For the museum’s 10-metre high entrance area  J. MAYER H. has developed a walk-in installation. Walls and floor are clad in carpeting, on which data security patterns are printed in black and grey. The work’s space-consuming concept negates the strict geometry of the entrance hall. The considerably enlarged, repeating patterns produce a flickering impression and transform the white cube into a playful scenario of interpermeating forms and structures. Supplementary three-dimensional models translate the two-dimensional patterns into concrete forms.

A catalogue will be appearing for the exhibition including various illustrations, explanatory texts and a commented biography.

The official exhibition starts friday, September 16th, 2011 until April 9th, 2012.

 

The Skincare products at Aesop‘s latest store in Paris are displayed on 427 steel caps that would normally be used in the city’s plumbing network. Designed by Parisian studio Ciguë, the shop is located in the historically aristocratic Le Marais district.

The wall-mounted dishes are filled with clear resin to form a flat surface and finished in varying degrees of blackened, rusted and stripped steel. Larger plumbing caps create basins in the polished concrete counters. The cast iron spotlights, steel window frames and plant pots in the courtyard beyond were all custom-designed by Ciguë.

It’s Friday and finally time for some rest! Though a bit far away from Europe just for a short weekend trip, you may add this new house of the W Hotel Chain in Taipei to your list with desired places to visit very, very soon… Located in the very heart of the business district , the hotel offers spectacular views on the skyline…and a rich variety of mind-blowing cocktails in the rooftop lounge.

New images were released of the Apple campus by architects Foster + Partners, to be built in Cupertino, California.

The hoop-shaped office building will be located a few blocks away from Apple’s existing headquarters and will accommodate up to 13,000 employees. The campus will provide office, research and development facilities, as well as a company fitness centre, a cafe and a 1000-seat auditorium. A circular park for staff is proposed for the centre of the building.

Monday morning inspiration: In his series named “Fictions”, Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin accordingly presents fictious architecture one really can image!

German artist EVOL uses stencils to create the illusion of tiny buildings on walls and street furniture. For his latest installation, he excavated an intersection in a field and created a delightful subterranean city. The work debuted at the 2011 MS Dockville Art Camp in Hamburg, Germany.