Archinect

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A new architectural installation from MIT ’s Norman B.

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Aric Gitomer Architect

JULY 12, 2022

Let’s look at the sustainable alternative to roofing materials. By installing a solar power roof, you will not only be playing your part towards saving the planet but also increasing the value of your property. Corrugated roofing is one of the most used materials for average homes. Solar Power Roof. Corrugated Roof.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

From a canyon-like podium for the man effigy to a solar-powered battery library for artists, here are 10 large-scale installations from this year's Burning Man festival in Nevada captured by photographer Gurpreet Chawla. The work ranges from the sculptural to the functional, and the materials used vary widely.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Promotion : footwear brand Birkenstock is launching a multisensory installation at its London creative residency space, Birkenstock Studio, where visitors are encouraged to reconnect with nature. The nature theme also runs through the choice of materials and colours in the Highwood collection, which features leather and cork.

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Archinect

APRIL 12, 2024

The Barbican has debuted a new large-scale public art installation from Ghanaian-born artist Ibrahim Mahama. His site-specific piece Purple Hibiscus, named in reference to the 2003 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is installed on the facade of the Barbican’s central Lakeside Terrace.

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Archinect

JUNE 12, 2023

The firm operates along an ethos of “not art, not architecture,” with a methodology that challenges conventional approaches to materials and structures. In 2015, Snarkitecture captured headlines with their BEACH installation in Washington D.C.’s BEACH , National Building Museum, Washington D.C.

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Archinect

JULY 24, 2023

Image courtesy Anna Dave The installation is part of the Mellon Foundation’s Culture, Creativity, & Care Initiative focused on Marcus Garvey Park and the cultural traditions of the community that it serves. Image courtesy Anna Dave Image courtesy Anna Dave The design of the circular 32-foot canopied struc.

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The Architect's Newsletter

OCTOBER 11, 2023

On Manhattan’s East River the intersection between art and the battle against climate change is alive with a new temporary installation.

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Archinect

JULY 24, 2023

Image courtesy Anna Dave The installation is part of the Mellon Foundation’s Culture, Creativity, & Care Initiative focused on Marcus Garvey Park and the cultural traditions of the community that it serves. Image courtesy Anna Dave Image courtesy Anna Dave The design of the circular 32-foot canopied struc.

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Deezen

JUNE 20, 2024

As part of 3 Days of Design , Danish practice Natural Material Studio has created a futuristic fossil-free home interior where all the elements, from the curtains to the sofa, are made from the same bioplastic. You can really start to see how we can live with these new materials." It's used in many different places," she added.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The Match House was commissioned by arts centre Art Omi to be installed in its Sculpture and Architecture Park, which sees a rotation of architecture pavilions and art installations. The studio's work spans buildings to furniture and material research. Young Projects has created a pavilion with a "fraying" top.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Una/Unless has installed a pavilion at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. The installation features a glossy blue exterior. The installation was fabricated entirely from the metal profiles used to support plasterboard in construction projects and assembled in a way that will allow it to be dismantled and reused after the event.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Dezeen has teamed up with Habitare to capture this year's edition of the Finnish design fair, showcasing Nordic design and material innovations including a vibrant lime-green structure wrapped in translucent fabric. The post Dezeen video showcases colourful timber installation by Yatofu at Habitare design fair appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

JUNE 22, 2024

Danish firm Natural Material Studio has created four biomaterials out of sawdust salvaged from the sawmill of flooring manufacturer Dinesen to explore the potential of using wood waste to make building materials. To make the second material, the team plastered fine sawdust and cellulose onto wood fibre boards to form insulation.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The brief for the four-bedroom, five-bathroom property in Studio City "was to design a home using all natural materials", according to Diaz, who has developed several single-family homes across the city. The post Rob Diaz uses all natural materials to build house in Los Angeles appeared first on Dezeen. The final result was worth it."

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designboom

OCTOBER 30, 2024

dome next door by toms kampars forms an adaptable timber grid crafted from locally sourced, sustainable materials. The post colorful arches, hammocks and mirrors shape up modular installation in riga’s dome square appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In the run-up to this year's London Design Festival , we have selected ten installations, exhibitions and other standout projects taking place across the city from 14 to 22 September. Participants including Natural Material Studio and Giles Miller will showcase works examining materiality, craftsmanship and AI.

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Deezen

JUNE 27, 2024

As summer begins, we have rounded up 10 unique pavilions installed at outdoor music festivals. Read on for 10 installations with the most innovative designs and constructions. Named Playground, the installation had tower that ranged in height from 12 to 17 metres. This week sees the start of Glastonbury festival.

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Deezen

MAY 15, 2024

Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati and architect Italo Rota used a kind of artificial stone made with waste rice husks to create this modular installation in the Brera botanical garden for Milan design week. On 6 April, shortly before the installation opened, Rota passed away at the age of 70.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Visitors to the Replay event at the Design Museum during London Design Festival were able to participate in a game designed to make use of waste materials gathered from the city's workshops. Replay's simple rules invite participants to take turns placing a block of salvaged material within the sculpture.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This pavilion , designed by architecture firm Semester Studio for a furniture exhibition in Shanghai , was built entirely using materials that were separated and returned to their source after the show. The borrowed materials are carefully arranged to avoid damage, allowing them to be returned to their original use when dismantled."

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Archinect

APRIL 9, 2024

Artist Mary Miss has filed a lawsuit in an ongoing dispute over the planned demolition of her outdoor installation Greenwood Pond: Double Site (1996) at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa. Greenwood Pond-Double Site, Des Moines, IA, Dec.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Australian artist CJ Hendry was forced to move her Flower Market installation of 100,000 "plush flowers" overnight from a New York City island to a Brooklyn warehouse due to overcrowding. Hendry's use of plush material is in line with her overarching work, which often features a "childhood aesthetic".

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Deezen

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Brussels-based architecture duo Brasebin-Terrisse have erected a bus shelter made using waste materials as part of this year's Tallinn Architecture Biennale. In the end, the pavilion turned out to be very close to the image we projected in the competition, which showcased one of many possible scenarios."

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Deezen

AUGUST 2, 2024

American furniture design group MillerKnoll has showcased its material and testing processes through a pair of installations at its showroom in Chicago. MillerKnoll is already using the plant material for the acoustic wall panelling under its Spinneybeck brand.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Designers including Fernando Laposse , Studio Furthermore and Future Facility will present work exploring materiality and artificial intelligence at a major exhibition curated by Dezeen for ASUS Zenbook during this year's London Design Festival.

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Deezen

JULY 11, 2024

Interior design studio Linehouse has renovated an office in Shanghai using numerous materials and art from a local gallery. Combined with numerous materials and abstract furniture pieces, the studio forms what the studio called an "unexpected collection". The photography is by Dirk Weiblen.

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Bustler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

NYCxDESIGN has unveiled details of Design Pavilion 2023, which will see three public installations constructed across the city. Described as “New York’s premier public design exhibition,” the installations will be on display from October 12-22 during Archtober , the city’s month-long celebration of architecture.

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

A series of finely crafted artworks, ranging from colourful abstract sculptures to wooden installations and swings, were on show at this year's Southern Sweden Design Days. I want to manipulate the material to make it look like something else," Appelfeldt explained. Swings were made from various types of wood Climb, Swing, Balance!

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The Architect's Newsletter

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The architecture festival is activating pockets of Tallinn with installations, lectures, film The post Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024, curated by Anhelina L. Starkova, centers material culture, social power, and more appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Deezen

JUNE 4, 2024

Photo is by Tim Carrafa 100 Circles, by Revival Projects Material consultancy Revival Projects created 100 timber urns from five large Cypress Macrocarpa trees. The renewable material features sound absorption properties and can also be used as a humidity indicator. Melbourne Design Week 2024 took place from 23 May to 2 June 2024.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The latest edition of Dubai Design Week has launched with a series of biomaterial installations, including a teahouse made from food waste and a light installation made from loofahs. These ranged from common ones, including wood and paper, to more experimental materials.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A green space was enacted in a void created by removing the existing central median strip, and safety lighting has been installed to prevent tunnel sensation. The project succeeded in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 44 tons, while using over 88,000 pounds of locally sourced recycled glass (the equivalent of 70,000 wine bottles).

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Archinect

JUNE 2, 2023

The new (permanent) addition to the Griot Museum of Black History is Adjaye’s second foray into rammed earth sculpture, following a 2021 installation at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. museum designs.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In collaboration with Colorado-based Prometheus Materials, architecture studio SOM has created a spiral installation made of bio-bricks for the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Prometheus Materials was established in 2021 by professors at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Artist and designer Carl Emil Jacobsen has created a large-scale sculpture made from pigmented found materials, which is highlighted as part of our Dezeen x The Mindcraft project 2022 collaboration. Titled Poly Powder (Lip Tub), the sculptural installation is one of 10 Danish designs presented in The Mindcraft Project exhibition.

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2024

French fashion house Hermès has designed an installation that uses reclaimed bricks, slate, marble and terracotta to draw attention to the brand's artisan roots at Milan design week. It's a question of how to create a graphism, a pattern, using lots of different materials," Perelman told Dezeen.

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