Paul Cocksedge transforms Istanbul view with colourful circles. Red, white and blue translucent circles overlapped to form this screen created by London designer Paul Cocksedge at a festival in Istanbul (+ slideshow). Paul Cocksedge's Palette installation of acrylic disks was erected outside the Turkish city's The Seed venue on the edge of the Bosphorus Strait.
The screen was installed to coincide with the GREAT Festival of Creativity, which celebrated British and Turkish design. Facing across the water to the east, the disks created colourful patterns across the white paving as the morning sun shone through them. "Whatever I did, it had to be about seeing and experiencing the landscape and transforming what you're seeing," Cocksedge told Dezeen. "What I enjoy about Palette is the way it only comes to life in this setting, when the transparency of the material re-defines and celebrates the landscape beyond it: the trees and plants, the sea, the sky... on its own it is not complete," said Cocksedge. Photographs are by Mark Cocksedge. 7 | A "Star Wars"-Inspired Office In The Heart Of Silicon Valley. When Giant Pixel approached Studio O+A to design its new headquarters, the software developer wanted a studio office that would also echo the look of Charles and Ray Eames’s workshop.
And The Jetsons, too. “It was up to us to marry that all together in one cohesive design,” says Denise Cherry, a principal at Studio O+A (the design team behind Facebook's and Square's offices, to name a couple). To capture a 1960s-era, but still futuristic look, Cherry and O+A designer Neil Bartley settled on a spare office with a few marquee pieces, including a large perforated-steel screen that makes up the entryway. The screen reads the opening crawl from Star Wars: “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...” …in binary code. Which explains how the Giant Pixel team also got a Studio O+A-designed speakeasy cocktail bar in their office basement: "The engineers told us they like to go out to a bar to brainstorm ideas, so we built them a full commercial bar," Bartley says.
33 Awesome Inspirations for Your Dream Home. Each of us probably have an idea about what our individual dream homes would look like. Maybe your dream home would have a hammock … or maybe an indoor slide that leads outside into a pool filled with Jell-O. You can have whatever you want, after all, it’s YOUR dream home. But if you need some inspiration, here are 33 awesome things you might want to include in the house of your fantasies. 1. A ping pong table door 2. A steampunk kitty transit system All aboard! 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Too cool. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Tubular. If you’re wanting a refreshing break from the heat, then hit next page below to see a paradise in the backyard. 16. 17. And POOL table. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. Just because. 33. Via BoredPanda If I don’t find a way to have a hammock-bed I am literally going to be disappointed for the rest of my life.
Join the new ViralNova Life Hacks Page here! Jimenez Lai wins Lisbon Triennale Début Award. Lisbon Architecture Triennale: Jimenez Lai of Chicago architecture studio Bureau Spectacular has won the inaugural Lisbon Triennale Début Award, presented to an architect under 35 in recognition of an outstanding career so far. The architect saw off competition from a ten-strong shortlist, including New York office SO-IL and London studio Assemble, to win the €5000 prize, which was announced at a ceremony last night as part of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2013.
Lai founded Bureau Spectacular in 2008. Since then the studio has worked on projects such as Phalanstery Module, a rotating exhibition space for a zero-gravity environment, and Speechbuster, an outdoor table that transforms into a collection of street furniture. Other projects include White Elephant, an exhibition space imagined as a cross between furniture and a small house, and Giant Urban Toys, a proposal to install games in the vacant plots of American cities.
Educational Centre En El Chaparral by Alejandro Muñoz Miranda. Spanish architect Alejandro Munoz Miranda's kindergarten in Granada is designed for children up to three years old and has windows in rainbow colours. It is built around a central courtyard onto which all the classrooms open. Communal spaces such as corridors are scattered with multicoloured light while the windows in classrooms are colourless. Photographs are by Fernando Alda. The following information is from Alejandro Muñoz Miranda: The project is designed as a variable section of wall and ceiling that involves compressing and decompressing the space accommodates. The change of section depending of the uses (corridor / access-bathrooms / classroom / porch (outside covered corridor) / garden and outside covered playground), the sun's movement and the longitudinal slope of the plot are responsible to design interior spaces that open to garden and outside covered playground.
Click for larger image See also: Snowflake by Tokujin Yoshioka for Kartell. Milan 2010: Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka created an installation with hundreds of transparent plastic sticks at the Kartell showroom in Milan last week. Called Snowflake, the installation displayed Yoshioka's Invisibles collection of clear plastic furniture (see our earlier story). More about Tokujin Yoshioka at Milan 2010: Invisibles furniture for KartellMemory chair for MorosoStellar at Swarovski Crystal Palace See all our stories about Tokujin Yoshioka here. See all our stories about Milan 2010 here. The text below is from Kartell: Kartell Gallery The Invisibles by Tokujin Yoshioka 2010 As a special collaboration between Claudio Luti and Tokujin Yoshioka, I am presenting "The Invisibles" collections and a shop installation entitled "Snowflake".
The idea of the "Invisibles" initiates in the discussion I had with Mr. It has been thought nearly impossible to create an industrial product in acrylic of this thickness. "The Invisibles" only leaves the sense as if seating in the air. Twilight by Tokujin Yoshioka for Moroso. Milan 2011: Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has filled Moroso's showroom with mist to present his new Moon chair for the Italian brand in Milan. Called Twilight, the installation comprised artificial smoke hanging in the air with beams of light streaming through.
More information about the Moon chair in our earlier story. The installation is open at Via Pontaccio 8-10 until the end of today.See all our stories about Milan 2011 » More about Tokujin Yoshioka on Dezeen »More about Moroso on Dezeen » The following text is from Tokujin Yoshioka: Twilight Nature is beautiful, yet the unimaginable energy inheres behind its beauty.
We have witnessed nature's threats with our own eyes, and we have been reminded by the the importance of living with nature. Creating the space with the light and the aura, I will display a new chair series "MOON. " I hope the light of "TWILIGHT" will glow within people's heart all over the world. See also: