Supermarket Concept Store in Belgrade by studio reMiks
Serbian design studio reMiks has completed Supermarket, a concept store inspired by the “golden years of communism”. Hosting a bar, restaurant, salon and fashion boutique, the store is located in a former discount supermarket in Belgrade. Found objects including a fridge, hospital screens and a camper van are used as display devices.
1504 Roosevelt Avenue / RSVP
Our friends from RSVP shared with ous a project in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where a successful advertising agency wants to expand its current facilities on their present site in San Juan’s Roosevelt Avenue, where surrounding buildings have also undergone a process of urban densification.
Via & more: ArchDaily
Slow White series by Bo Reudler Studio
We tend to present nature in a controlled way: branches simplified into repetitive patterns, majestic trees trimmed into squared beams, flowers flattened into graphic motifs. Nature’s complexity, randomness and rawness is tamed. We lost our connection with nature and our surroundings. This century will be about renewing this connection.
Via & more: Yatzer
Icon Lamp by V12 Design for I TRE
Valerio Cometti, the founder of the Milan, Italy based firm V12 Design, has sent us the Icon Lamp, their latest creation for the Italian lighting manufacturer I TRE, which comes in a suspension and ceiling version.
Via & more: Contemporist
Girasole by konyk
Our friends over at konyk (Brooklyn based practice) shared with us their entry for the Andes Sprouts Society residency studio competition, a project named Girasole. Gathering all of its energy from the sun, GIRASOLE is a single room studio that is autonomous, movable and flexible. Its independence allows it to function completely off the local utility grid. By manipulating the surface area for maximum solar exposure and utilizing thin battery packs embedded in its chassis, GIRASOLE converts the sun into AC current to heat and electrify the studio. Like Thomas Alva Edison’s 1893 Black Maria, GIRASOLE is formed by the function of sunlight, and follows it across the landscape.
Via & more: ArchDaily
ORDOS 100 #30: LTL Architects
This project for a villa in Inner Mongolia responds to the unique pressures of a highly unusual site and context. Commissioned by a private client and part of a larger urban expansion of the burgeoning regional capital, it constitutes one of one hundred houses commissioned for the residential district of a planned developed galvanized around the arts. Each of the houses is designed by an architect according to a relatively uniform set of parameters: a defined spatial volume and relationship to site.
Via & more: ArchDaily
Stakit by Thomas Bentzen and Peter Johansen
Togetherness, the outdoor life and mobility form the essence behind Stakit – part of Normann Copenhagen’s New Danish Modern collection. Stakit has been designed by Thomas Bentzen and Peter Johansen, and is a mobile chair for outdoor use – created for design lovers. (more…)
Architecture news: Letter from Norway
Although diverse in physical form, Norwegian architecture seems to have one dominant theme – nature and man’s place in it. Good Norwegian architects excel at building harmonic structures in difficult terrain – and the end result is often poetic. Cottages grow out of rocky surfaces, as do roadside rest areas or public buildings, scattered across the landscape as if placed by an act of God. ‘Recently, we have noticed that Norwegian architecture is the subject of an enormous increase in attention from the international public,’ says Nina Berre, director at Norsk Form.
Via & more: Wallpaper*
Mercedes’ Design Centre, Stuttgart
With an all-new E-Class recently let out of the bag, W* editor Henrietta Thompson secured an exclusive tour of Mercedes’ Design Centre in Stuttgart, to see how the company is continuing to evolve its design language.
Via & more: Wallpaper*
Beyond Architecture – book from Gestalten
Beyond Architecture is the first publication of its kind to document the creative exploration of architecture and urban propositions in the contemporary arts. The projects collected in this book demonstrate how not only architects and designers but also artists are taking architecture as a starting point for experimentation. (more…)
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