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This is SO cool!!
Graters repurposed as lighting.
(via Jordenski on Etsy)
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I’d have really liked to have been in the room when all those architects got together mid-century and asked “So what is modern?” so that I could tackle the sad fellow before he raised his hand and answered “Big concrete boxes strike me as modern. Don’t you guys think?”.
(“Anyone else? …. OK, big boxes it is then…”)
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Redesigning the mall for public spaces, parks, gardens, even churches: The NYTimes surveys adaptive reuses of the dying American shopping mall
“Most cities, looking at shrinking budgets, cannot afford to subsidize or knock down ailing malls, and healthy retailers that are expanding — like H&M and Nordstrom Rack — generally will not open at depressed locations. So, as though they were upholstering polyester chairs from the 1960s with Martha Stewart fabric, urban planners and community activists are trying to spruce up and rethink the uses of many of the artifacts.
Schools, medical clinics, call centers, government offices and even churches are now standard tenants in malls. By hanging a curtain to hide the food court, the Galleria in Cleveland, which opened in 1987 with about 70 retailers and restaurants, rents space for weddings and other events. Other malls have added aquariums, casinos and car showrooms.
Designers in Buffalo have proposed stripping down a mall to its foundation and reinventing it as housing, while an aspiring architect in Detroit has proposed turning a mall’s parking lot there into a community farm. Columbus, Ohio, arguing that it was too expensive to maintain an empty mall on prime real estate, dismantled its City Center mall and replaced it with a park.”
(via humanscalecities)
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Green Stairway to the Sky
Scheduled to be up and running this summer, the Mercedes House by Ten Arquitectos will provide a fresh new look to the bustling streets of Midtown Manhattan. With spectacular views of De Witt Clinton Park and the Hudson River, the building zig zags vertically and diagonally to preserve city side streets.
The massive 1.3 million sq ft structure features 865 residential units, commercial and storage spaces, a neighborhood market, health club, horse stables for the NYPD, and of course, a state-of-the-art Mercedes-Benz dealership.
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Soooooooo, haven’t added anything for a while, so here’s the QM2 which was in Durban Harbour last weekend!
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Kiral Apartments, Mexico City, Mexico
(source: www.architizer.com)
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Bamboo Residence - Geneve, Switzerland
(source: www.architizer.com)
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Villa, Gardone Riviera, Italy
(source: www.architizer.com)
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Funtimes!
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This house in Israel uses such a simple canvas where details which may ordinarily clash, like the steel verandah roof with the punched holes in the concrete roof over the entrance, sit effortlessly side-by-side.
(source: www.architizer.com)
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18 Kowloon East, China
(source: www.architizer.com)
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Folded Corten House, Austria
(source: www.architizer.com)
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House in Portugal
(source: www.architizer.com)
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Containers of Hope.
I love this innovative use of shipping containers! Finally someone found a way to do something elegant with them!
(source: www.architizer.com)
