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myampgoesto11:

Ross Lovegrove for Lasvit: Nodules

Using glass as an optical reservoir, the Nodules are handmade spherical lenses fused together in the making process to harness the natural physics of the material. A fiber optic light source delivers an intense white light from a remote point so that the relationship between the stem and Nodule is minimized and mysterious. The unique installations rise from the floor in clusters.

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la-main-gauche:

Korkeasaari Zoo observatory - Helsinki, Finland in 2000-2002

Winning design by Ville Hara in a competition held for architectural students of Helsinki University of Technology. 

The load bearing structure consists of 72 long battens, with a section of 60mmx60mm, that are bent and twisted on the site from seven pre-bent types.  Over 600 bolted joints hold the shell structure together.

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publicdesignfestival:

Ephemeral bamboo pavilion designed by the studio nARCHITECTS for the Masadi Green Wonder Festival in Hua Lien (Taiwan). Opened in May 2011, the project is located in the Da Nong Da Fu Forest Park and has been commissioned by the local government in order to rise awareness among the citizens towards enviromental issues.

Photos by Iwan Baan

publicdesignfestival:

Carton 5000 is a project by Laurent Boijeot, Sébastien Renauld and Nicolas Turon, presented within the frame of La Ville à l’état gazeux last September. It’s the visual metaphor of the mobile city: for 72 hours 5000 paper boxes continuously shaped the streets of Tours (France) in an architectural transhumance, with a participatory process that involved all the population in changing the ordinary urban landscape. 

Photos by: Martin Clément.

ilgirodialice:

Crater Lake, an installation project by 24° Studio will be exhibited at Kobe Biennale 2011 from October 1 through November 23. The project was one of the winners for Shitsurai Art International Competition organized by the city of Kobe, Japan. This multi-use environmental installation serves as a meeting place where every area can be used as seating for visitors to contemplate the surroundings, thus invoking a social interaction within and around.

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publicdesignfestival:

Deep in the Californian desert, Ball-Nogues Studio created Yucca Crater, both a land art project and a recreational spot. It was carried out for the High Desert Test Sites of October, an event to explore the intersections between art and life at large.