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Sensory Impact likes objects, people who design objects and people
who like people who design objects.
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7/30/2007
Iconic Japanese architect, Shigeru Ban, renowned for his use of eco-friendly, lightweight materials recently unveiled an environmentally-friendly paper bridge over the Gardon River in southern France.
Constructed half a mile from the Pont du Gard, a section of ancient Roman bridge classed as a UN World Heritage site, Shigeru’s cardboard-tube structure is durable to carry 20 people simultaneously.
The paper bridge is open to the public for six weeks before it will be dismantled owing to the imminent rainy season.
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7/25/2007
Freshmen architecture and design team, Pompom Arkitekter have introduced two new prefab houses, Puzzle House and Yard House, that take their inspiration from the alphabet.
For example, Puzzle House is made of two L-formed piece of house put on top of the other and the Yard House is shaped like a ‘C’. Earlier prefab houses by the team included the letter Z and the number 4.
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5/31/2007
Monocle, which is a fresh new publication by the founder of Wallpaper, recently published an interesting article about the gaudy-tecture boom in Afghanistan fueled by drugs, guns and all things shady.
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8/24/2006
Russian design outfit, Open Concepts have come up with a concept of ‘virtual real architecture’ where the walls of a building are composed of high resolution video monitors thus allowing one to transmit video pictures and simulate the architecture of the building. The video can be changed periodically or for special events.
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5/30/2006
The renowned Andrew Geller’s The Pearlroth House is due for demolition this Spring and a programme has been launched to relocate and turn the house into a living museums of mid-century modern architecture. Constructed in 1959, the Pearlroth House is listed as one of the top 10 houses of the Hamptons by architectural historian Alastair Gordon for the New York Observer. The Pearlroth house has reached iconic status, inspiring designers and beach-goers for generations.
The Pearlroth house consists of two elongated box shapes rotated in tandem and perched on edge, forming a box kite or “double diamond” shape. The void between the two forms is filled with a glassed-in living area.
Recently it was decided that the final resting location would instead be Triton Beach (also known as Hotdog Beach) has been earmarked as part of a coastal revitalization zone. The Pearlroth House will sit on the ocean side of Dune Road overlooking 40 acres of preserved bay-front property.
For more information on how you can make a contribution and help save this important piece of cultural heritage.
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5/26/2006
Architect Ryue Nishizawa has completed a house in Tokyo where every room of the house is a seperate building thus creating an alternate pattern of habitation where the spaces between the boxes and street edge take on a public / private role as community garden and places of interaction between the client and their lodgers.
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5/20/2006
Put this on your must see list – Director Sydney Pollack has filmed his first feature length documentary on the architecture superstar, Frank O. Gehry. The film took nearly five years to finish and follows Gehry as he explains his architectural process.
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12/19/2005
Alison Brooks has described the concept of the Salt House as that of a hip-roofed atrium house. The house has walls that fold and unfold throughout the interior – a perfect invitation for light to flow all over. Despite the open plan layout for the ground floor, there are sliding timber louvers to preserve privacy.
Additionally, given that south-east England is no stranger to flooding, the generous decking outside conceals the fact that the house is built on stilts. The Salt House is quite a marvel of architectural design.
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11/4/2005
In a bid to pay tribute to the cell phone that made his fortune, Millionaire Mobile Phone magnet, John Illhan, hopes to build a $40 million landmark tower in the shape of a cell phone in Melbourne, Australia.
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7/21/2005
Architect Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues wanted to work on a project that functioned as architecture, sculpture and a “made-to-order”product, so when they got the opportunity to do an outdoor installation for Materials & Applications (M&A) in Los Angeles, they dipped in their collective creative gene pool and came up with the “Maximilian Shell”. A year in development, the installation takes its inspiration from the black hole and relies on the sun to create fractal light patterns on the ground while a tranquil subsonic drone from an integrated ambient sound installation by composer James Lumb rumbles below the feet of its visitors.
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1/25/2005
Literally. Nendo turned an old house in Tokyo into a restaurant made from a sheet of canvas. Given a small budget, the group used a 200 meter sheet of canvas and wrapped the entire house, inside and outside including the table cloth and the chair coverings.
The remaining canvas was used for cards and matchboxes as well.
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10/19/2004
Using the help of his readers, Dilbert’s creator Scott Adams has created a virtual web-based home for his character complete with Cat Room, Basketball Court and Home Theater. Check it out.
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7/27/2004
Metropolis Magazine examines the winning entry for a new Baha’i temple in Chile. The competition brief wanted “a space (that would) clearly feel like a house of worship but must not prioritize the iconography of any one religion over any other. It must be welcoming to everyone—the type of place, they said, that a six-year-old child would be attracted to—but it must also be as perfect in form as humanly possible. And it must be domed, with exactly nine sides and nine entrances”. Read on.
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7/1/2004
Hear Ye, Hear ye – Architecture for Humanity is launching a competition today called Siyathemba to develop a soccer field/healthcare facility for young girls affected by AIDS in Africa.
The organization was founded in 1999 to promote architectural and design solutions to global, social, and humanitarian crises through competitions, workshops, educational forums, partnerships with aid organizations, and other activities.
The winning design will be announced on World AIDS day (December 1, 2004).
Note: “Siyathemba” is the Zulu word for hope.
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6/28/2004
An Australian Architect’s (Sean Godsell) solution to housing for refugees and the homeless – A house constructed from a recycled shipping container outfitted with a minimum of industrial materials, and maintained by solar power, the Future Shack can easily be created within 24 hours.
It was also a selected entry for the Architecture for Humanity relief housing competition from among 200 plus submissions from 30 countries.
The curator, Floramae McCarron Cates,explained one of the reasons behind the exhibit in the press release: “Architects are perhaps among the few that by defination are trained to address some of the most pressing housing issues people face today. Yet, only a handful of contemporary architects actually design domestic housing for the less affluent.”
The exhibit is part of the Solos series that explores groundbreaking innovative international and contemporary architecture and design works spotlights. Its still on till Octobor 11th (2004) at the National Design Museum, so don’t miss it if you’re in or will be visiting New York City.
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