Archive for July, 2010
Award-winning architect Amanda Levete, together with directors Alvin Huang, Kwamina Monney and Ho-Yin Ng formed Amanda Levete Architects on a strong foundation of established and new projects with a reputation for work of originality and integrity. The ethos of the office is rooted in design research and a commitment to exploring the transformative potential of space. Developments in digital fabrication have allowed the office to challenge conventional notions of form and space alongside the continued value placed on hand-drawings and hand-crafted models. The team’s collaborative approach to the design process extends clients’ ambitions for their projects and produces groundbreaking work. As an extension of its design research agenda, the office uses the design of furniture and objects to explore architectural ideas and test material possibilities at a smaller, more intimate scale and collaborates with materials manufacturers to push the boundaries of their fabrication techniques.
Designer : Amanda Levete Architects
Fabricator : DuPont : Corian Super Surfaces
Milan Design Week April 2009
Designer : Amanda Levete Architects
Fabricator : DuPont : Corian Super Surfaces
Milan Design Week April 2009
Designer : Amanda Levete Architects
Fabricator : DuPont : Corian Super Surfaces
Milan Design Week April 2009
Designer : Amanda Levete Architects
Fabricator : DuPont : Corian Super Surfaces
Milan Design Week April 2009
Designer : Amanda Levete Architects
Fabricator : DuPont : Corian Super Surfaces
Milan Design Week April 2009
Designer : Amanda Levete Architects
Fabricator : DuPont : Corian Super Surfaces
Milan Design Week April 2009
More than just an expression of the material, the surface transformations push the technical possibilities of DuPont™ Corian® by exploiting its pliability and using the twisted geometry of the sheets to bring structural integrity. Advanced digital technology was used as part of the process for generating the design as well as for the fabrication of the installation. The lighting is designed to emphasise both the voids and the visual movement of the piece.
The lounge is a loosely defined architectural concept about a space that is animated by the movement of people in transit. A drop of water creating a series of ripples became our metaphor for transforming space through movement. Just as the ripple causes intricate moiré patterns in water, the Corian lounge installation is about revealing the moment of change through visual complexity. With the repetition of identical elements that have been physically transformed, a frozen moment is captured through a sequence of dynamic surfaces creating kinetic visual effects.
When Jan Kaplický gave a lecture in Prague several years ago, he enumerated ten guiding principles of his work. They are as follows: freedom, creativity, people, beauty, elegance, plasticity, sensuality, color, innovation, and inspiration.
Design for a proposed Antonín Dvořák Congress and Concert Hall Centre
in České Budějovice
Design for a proposed Antonín Dvořák Congress and Concert Hall Centre
in České Budějovice
Design for a proposed Antonín Dvořák Congress and Concert Hall Centre
in České Budějovice
Design for a proposed Antonín Dvořák Congress and Concert Hall Centre
in České Budějovice
Design for a proposed Antonín Dvořák Congress and Concert Hall Centre
(Main Hall)
in České Budějovice
Design for a proposed Antonín Dvořák Congress and Concert Hall Centre
(Isometric View)
in České Budějovice
‘Just out side of Prague in the town of Ceske Budejovice a new Concert and Congress Centre has been designed by the Future Systems team headed by Jan Kaplicky. The new centre is named after one of the Czech Republic’s most famous composers Antonin Dvorak, and is to be built on an old military site, showing the Czech commitment to a cultural agenda.
The unique design will be the centrepiece for a new development and will encompass both cultural and commercial spaces. The cultural space and grand entrance is a wonderfully light and open space constituted from restaurant areas, café lounges, dancing floors and the music halls. The two concert halls, seating a 1000 people in the philharmonic music hall and 400 in the chamber music hall, are of a completely new breed in musical design. They display large and elegant rear windows behind the musicians that are carved out to allow for spectacular views in to the park behind the building. Each hall is formed of sensual free form curves that manage to combine aesthetic beauty with outstanding acoustic quality that is only enhanced by the ‘eye’ window concept.
As the home of the Ceske Budejovice philharmonic orchestra the design will achieve an exquisite blend between culture and music with the utmost sensitivity and understanding of every user and does so while maintaining a thrilling narrative, as is true of all one of Future Systems projects. ‘ [Extract : Future Systems]
Tokujin Yoshioka
Sensing Nature
(Installation View)
Tokujin Yoshioka
Sensing Nature
(Installation View)
Tokujin Yoshioka
Sensing Nature
(Installation View)
Tokujin Yoshioka
Sensing Nature
(Installation View)
“Sensing Nature” exhibition will be held at the Mori Art Museum from July 24, Saturday. At the exhibition, Tokujin will present a 15-meter-wide dynamic installation, “Snow” 2010. The scenery of the hundreds kilograms of light feather blown all over and falling down slowly will call for the memory of the snowscape within people’s heart
Sensing Nature / Snow / Exhibition
Mori Art Museum / Japan 2010
Kees Goudzwaard : paintings
Gil Scott-Heron : Trio
Gil Scott-Heron
Me And The Devil
Gil Scott-Heron
Where Did The Night Go
Gil Scott-Heron
Definition of a Poet
