This faceted stone building by Hungarian architects Építész Stúdió contains a concert hall and conference centre in Pécs, Hungary.
The Kodály Centre houses the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra.
It was designed in accordance with the mathematical principles of the golden ratio and visitors can walk up a ramped part of the building to a stepped courtyard area.
Photographs are by Tamás Bujnovszky.
Architecture firm Scott Brownrigg have completed the London office of internet search engine Google, with a giant logo in the lobby forming doorways through the two Os.
Wallpaper in the meeting rooms and video conference booths is printed with seaside imagery.
The space also includes a gym, spa center and restaurant offering free meals for the 300 strong staff.
Pascal Grasso Architectures of France have installed a landscape of blocks across the ceiling in this monochrome apartment in Paris.
The plaster boxes conceal functions like lighting, air-conditioning, a sound system and ventilation.
Further volumes creep down the walls to form storage and furniture.
Storage units curve round the walls of the first floor bedrooms.
Photographs are by Nicolas Dorval-Bory.
A large volume, opened directly on the terrace, is created. It will become the main space of the floor, the reception room. The bedrooms are rearranged on the first level.
Device, consisting in visual accumulation of volumes, creates rhythm in the new space. They invade the floor, walls and ceiling. The ceiling is the strong element structuring the room.
Composed of suspended plaster boxes, it makes the space more dynamic. It integrates and hides functional and technical components such as air conditioning, lightning, sound, ventilation.
These elements gradually invest the place turning into storages, kitchen appliances, balustrade for stairs, bar, coffee table, etc… The lightning system, hidden behind the volumes, provides diffused, indirect and scalable light.
The bedrooms are designed with the same process: clarity of the space and functional “furniture-objects”. A large furniture includes common functions such as bathroom, bed, desk, closet, etc… The set is made of grey painted MDF. Colours and shapes customize the rooms.
Program: Designing an apartment
Location: Paris
Architect: Pascal Grasso Architectures
Completion: 2010
Assistants: Damien Descamps – Juliano Bottari
General Contractor: Bane-Déco
Carpenter: Art et confort
Melbourne practice March Studio have trapped 4500 cardboard boxes behind netting in this store for Australian skincare brand Aesop.
Located within Parisian concept store Merci, the installation uses the brand’s own packaging in an undulating installation that rises up one wall and spreads across the ceiling.
Photographs are by Louise Baquiast.
merci is housing the Australian cosmetics brand Aesop for a spectacular installation in the Orangerie from 18th of December.
For merci, Aesop founder Dennis Paphitis challenged Australian architect Rodney Eggleston to imagine an original installation for the space. The project is emblematic of Eggleston’s play on repetition and the elevation of everyday objects from commonplace to statement.
Rodney Eggleston, founder of March Studio, is an Australian architect of 29 years who lives and works in Melbourne. He began his career with Rem Koolhas and has worked in partnership with Aesop for 7 of the brand’s signature stores, most recently Aesop Saint-Honoré, which opened in September at 256, rue Saint-Honoré, Paris.
The installation consists of 4500 cardboard shippers and 40m2 of netting.
This mountainside house by G2 Estudio in Argentine Patagonia is wrapped in a stone and wood facade.
Called Ribbon House, the single-family home is criss-crossed internally by diagonal columns and windows.
Overlapping planes form canopies and terraces.
Ribbon House
The juxtaposition of the different volumes between the public and private spaces of the house, the social and family life, gives place to a dynamic walk-through while the users visit the different instances of the house.
This way we can appreciate an up-down experience, connecting all the corners in the house.
The morphology and materials used, were thought to achieve that the strong transform in fragil, the solid in ethereal, the supported in support, the dynamic in static, and vice versa.
So the house is a search between the balance, juxtaposition, ribbon, viewing-point, vital tour, and hug.
Country: Argentina
City: San Carlos de Bariloche, Arelauquen G&CC
Surface: 320 m2
Program: One-family housing
Architects: G2 ESTUDIO
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