Addidas office interior by Kinzo Architects

Description from the designers:

Round about 1,700 adidas’ staff members have moved into a new working environment at the corporation’s headquarters in Herzogenaurach, a building distinguished by an exterior and an interior which strike new paths – literally: Glass walkways cross the inner courtyard, intertwining like the laces of a sport shoe. The Berlin-based design team KINZO translated kadawittfeldarchitektur’s communicative architectural concept into a custom-made furniture and interior design which is “pure adidas” both in form and function. WORKOUT opens up new realms of creativity and possibilities for team play – and displays folders, textiles, balls and shoes with the visual quality and continuity of a film set.

The “Teamplayer” serves as the arrangement’s centerpiece – the multi-functional room module does not only serve as a support for desktops and storage. It also enables to zone and structure different kinds of team areas within the open office. The distinct rhomboid side panels of the Teamplayer create the impression of a honeycombed “space within a space”, transparent and airy but also clearly staked off as the workspace of a particular team. Whether Teamspace, Slotty or Wheels – as characteristic for every team effort, no WORKOUT element works entirely on its own. All parts are functionally and esthetically designed to work together: furniture as a team!
In workshops with adidas’ staff members the WORKOUT system was directly “tailored” to meet the users’ needs. WORKOUT is manufactured by renowned German office furniture specialist Planmöbel. In cooperation with KINZO, they have also been able to venture into new directions in regard to materials and surface structures: The entire furniture system is being refined with an environmentally friendly powder-coated finish. The result: Every WORKOUT furniture has been coated and sealed with a monolithic surface.

 

Floating House by MOS Architects

MOS Architects designed the Floating House on Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada.

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Description from the architects:

The Floating House is the intersection of a vernacular house typology with the shifting site-specific conditions of this unique place: an island on Lake Huron. The location on the Great Lakes imposed complexities to the house’s fabrication and construction, as well as its relationship to site. Annual cyclical change related to the change of seasons, compounded with escalating global environmental trends , cause Lake Huron’s water levels to vary drastically from month-to-month, year-to-year. To adapt to this constant, dynamic change, the house floats atop a structure of steel pontoons, allowing it to fluctuate along with the lake. Locating the house on a remote island posed another set of constraints. Using traditional construction processes would have been prohibitively expensive; the majority of costs would have been applied toward transporting building materials to the remote island. Instead, we worked with the contractor to devise a prefabrication and construction process that maximized the use of the unique character of the site: Lake Huron as a waterway. Construction materials were instead delivered to the contractor’s fabrication shop, located on the lake shore. The steel platform structure with incorporated pontoons was built first and towed to the lake outside the workshop. On the frozen lake, near the shore, the fabricators constructed the house. The structure was then towed to the site and anchored. In total, between the various construction stages, the house traveled a total distance of approximately 80 km on the lake. The formal envelope of the house experiments with the cedar siding of the vernacular home. This familiar form not only encloses the interior living space, but also enclosed exterior space as well as open voids for direct engagement with the lake. A “rainscreen” envelope of cedar strips condense to shelter interior space and expand to either filter light entering interior spaces or screen and enclose exterior spaces giving a modulated yet singular character to the house, while performing pragmatically in reducing wind load and heat gain.

 

 

 

 
 

Cubed Bench and T4 Shelves by Rock Paper Tree

Rahim Tejani of Rock Paper Tree has combined wood and concrete in his design of the Cubed bench and T4 shelves.In both pieces, the concrete and wood are capable of being repositioned for different uses.

 

 

 

Crazy reproduction of skateboards

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Skateboard Table

After Matisse Rug by Sonya Winner

Description from Sonya Winner herself:
This irregular shaped rug has a sculptural quality with pile height variations and hand carving. The design is created from a playful collage of 26 hand dyed wools, replicating the effect of colour mixing. This piece works beautifully in both modern and traditional interiors adding colour, vibrancy and interest. Hand tufted in pure New Zealand Wool.

 

The reOrder Exhibit by Situ Studio- Brooklyn Museum, New York

The Brooklyn Museum is a lasting landmark in the New York area that brings more than 450,000 visitors annually to see its acclaimed artistic temporary exhibitions and permanent collections. The Great Hall of the museum, located on the first floor, is a 10,000 square foot room filled with 16 giant columns.  The hall which is positioned between the café, museum book store and other creative exhibits, acts as a common area for museum visitors and personnel. It is also currently hosting an exhibit called, “reOrder,” until January 15 of 2012.

“reOrder” is a site-specific installation created by Situ Studio, an architectural design studio founded in 2005 in Brooklyn, New York. The installation alters the current classical architecture to help visitors understand the impressive scale of the main entrance, as well as explore the architectural ornamentation that allows the Grand Hall to not only be artfully decorated, but also functional.
In order to create the entire installment, LG Hausys donated its solid surfacing material for the project. Slabs of acrylic HI-MACS® Solid Surfaces were used to construct the Great Hall’s furniture.  Wrapped benches and tables were positioned at the bottom of the columns, which currently are covered in elaborate fabric designs (pictured above).
“LG Hausys’ solid surfacing was used to construct furniture around the base of the 16 large classical columns in the Great Hall,” said Wes Rozen, one of Situ Studio’s five founding partners.
“A specialized computer was used to precisely cut pieces of HI-MACS®, which were then thermoformed into a range of curved shapes and brought together in wedges to encircle the base of the columns.  The finished furniture elements appear as extensions to the existing Doric architectural order, or as entirely new type of architectural ornamentation which is also functional.”
Because HI-MACS® Solid Surfaces can be precisely thermoformed, or designed in virtually any size or three-dimensional shape, Situ Studio approached LG Hausys in order to use their materials. LG Hausys donated the material, and a sub-contractor finalized the thermoforming and seating installation. The designers from Situ Studio chose the White Quartz color variation from LG Hausys’ HI-MACS® Solid Surfaces Classic collection.

 
 
 

Sea spire sculptures

Sea Spires, by celebrated artist Cliff Garten, has been installed across from the Long Beach Harbor at the corner of East 2nd Street and East Marina Drive. Commissioned by Long Beach Transit, in collaboration with the Arts Council for Long Beach, the iconic transit marker encourages pedestrians, drivers, and transit riders alike to reflect upon the power of art to enhance urban communities.

With an elegant profile measuring sixteen feet tall, Sea Spires is totemic and guardian-like, yet composed of distinctive curves intentionally reminiscent of sea life. The sculpture inspires a sense of movement along the East 2nd Street corridor and activates the transit stop’s existing bus shelter. The sculpture’s stainless steel surfaces play with reflection and refraction of natural light during the day; while from a distance and at night, the elements glow in harmonious uniformity.

According to Leslie Markle, Director of Public Art and Design for Arts Council for Long Beach, “The relationship between art and transit, redevelopment and cultural planning is an important one in Long Beach. Sea Spires appealed to that need and direction for the City.” Sea Spires provides a distinctive entrance marker along the city’s eastern edge while simultaneously providing art in the streets as a means of encouraging local transit ridership.