Spectacular pixelated, computer game aesthetic on this design by Dutch daredevils MVRDV for two connected luxury residential towers in Seoul, Korea. It looks like Patrick Jean’s short film Pixels has come to life. Brilliant!
(via: Dezeen)
Furniture designers Lazerian made this meeting room at the Bloomberg London office almost entirely out of their cardboard waste. I can’t decide if this is a genuine attempt at sustainability or just a smart gimmick.
Great use of Berlin’s decommissioned Tempelhof Airport for the Qubique design fair (as seen on: Dezeen).
Walls assembled from folded cloths, minimalist lighting and a stage out of recycled building materials. By Doepel Strijkers Architects.
(via: de Volkskrant)
Sir Richard Branson and New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez dedicate the ‘Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space’
(via: Virgin Galactic)
So this is really happening…
More about the building’s design by Foster + Partners on Dezeen.
Design practice 00:/ has published a proposal for the redevelopment of the Old Street roundabout in East London. The facade of the building is envisioned to be a vast, programmable advertising board.
The result is a kind of neighbourhood-based ‘million-dollar homepage’, reflecting outwardly the energetic entrepreneurialism which is driving the change in this part of London.
(via: Dezeen)
In the second instalment of this video interview with Rem Koolhaas, the OMA co-founder discusses two of his current preoccupations: the countryside, which he is addressing for the first time; and generic architecture, which could result in neutral, copyright-free building forms. Both topics are discussed in the OMA/Progress exhibition which opened at Barbican Art Gallery in London last week.
Via: Dezeen.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement address 2005
by Dutch daredevils MVRDV, commissioned by Alain de Botton‘s Living Architecture (where you can also book a stay).
Many excellent pieces on Postmodernism are coming out thanks to the big exhibition on the movement that opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London this weekend (I highly recommend Justin McGuirk’s article in the Guardian). Once again we’re trying to make sense of a movement that is too multi-faceted to define. Better to focus on one aspect. I would single out the idea of bricolage: creating something new out of elements that are already there.
