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Somewhere in the grey area between architecture and gadgets lies the room-in-a box — an unholy chimera of comfortable seating and multi-tool functionality. Our friends at Oobject have assembled twelve of the best-designed examples of these portable domiciles.
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, an architecture firm that is arguably one of the world’s leading designers of skyscrapers, has just unveiled plans for a pair of towers that will grace the skyline in Seoul, South Korea with an absolutely stunning dragon-like facade.
Imagine spending a summer floating down a river in this magnificent barge, stopping only for food and water in some random backwater town, then returning to the top deck cargo net hammock to resume the lazy float to nowhere. That’s all that comes to mind when looking at this magnificent wood creation. That, and the inevitable moment when this thing runs into a pile of rocks and capsizes.
With a last name like Liszewski, I’ve heard every single Polish joke and stereotype there is. But I’m going to assume that Polish architects Irek Glowacki and Marek Rozanski have just spawned at least one more with this unique tourist attraction they built in Austria.
When the Red Design Group was hired by Sweet Enough to design the interior of its first retail store, it ran with the idea of a “kid in a candy store”. In fact, it actually looks like they hired a group of pre-schoolers to sketch the blueprints with crayons.
Imagine waking up in a hotel room, and instead of getting a view of a bustling city, or beach, or maybe a parking lot, you are greeted by underwater wildlife 61m below the surface. And while it sounds like something out of a early 20th-century sci-fi novel, one group is trying to make this a reality in Dubai.
The Express Rail Link West Kowloon Terminus, when completed (sometime in 2015), will be the world’s largest underground high-speed rail station, occupying a whopping 4,628,481sq/ft! Its surreal modern design is the work of international architectural studio Aedes, who with it demonstrate the interconnectedness of architecture and technology.
The city of Dallas in Texas has a burning question. What does it do when a newly constructed high rise reflects so much heat that it’s frying the works of art in the galleries and the lawn of a museum it overlooks?
Inspired by children who use furniture as objects of play, Atelier Takagi’s Range Life table was designed not only with architects’ favourite materials — blackened steel, concrete, glass, etc — but also with the design principles of much larger structures as well, incorporating I-beams, columns and trusses into the visual design of the piece.
