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Architecture overview: Poland | Architecture | Wallpaper* Magazine
Polski Hak district in Gdansk, by Daniel Libeskind The Polish-born architect has a handful of projects on the drawing board in his native country, including this new riverside office and housing district in Gdansk. Polski Hak has been conceived as a series of low-rise curving blocks, arranged jigsaw piece-like in front of a skyscraper. No date has been revealed for Polski Hak’s completion.
Jardín Flotante
-Jardín Flotante se tomó la salida de aire de metro Baquedano, frente a Mutual de Seguridad. -Los peatones, aún en bicicleta, esperaban con expectación el paso del tren para tomar fotos, grabar y algunos más perdidos sólo para ver qué es lo que sucedería. Algunos pasaban por encima y se atemorizaban con el despertar de éstas plantas exóticas que mantuvieron la atención de celulares y cámaras fotográficas durante Dos días…
Photo: arcspace The IJ River served as Amsterdam's harbor in the golden age. Then, when the harbor fell into a decline, the buildings, warehouses, and shipyards were left unused. In the 1980s, when Amsterdam had a housing shortage, the city regained interest in the river's potentials and a variety of restructuring projects, where the designers tried to fuse the remaining structure and character of the harbor with new architecture, followed. The 157 apartments, business units and public spaces, in the Housing Silo, are compressed within a 10 story high and 20 meters deep urban envelope. The apartments, rental and owner in different sizes, are stacked in internally connected neighborhoods.
MVRDV Silodam (Housing Silo) :: arcspace.com
Creative Review - Where Children Sleep
Four-year-old Jivan lives in a skyscraper in Brooklyn, New York, USA Where Children Sleep, set to be published later this year by Chris Boot , is a collection of James Mollison 's photographs of childrens' bedrooms from around the world. The book also contains a portrait of each child and, as you'd imagine, the differences between the spaces each one calls their own are striking... The book has been designed to appeal to readers of all ages, with the texts apparently prepared with an audience of nine- to thirteen-year-olds in mind. "I hope this book will help children think about inequality, within and between societies around the world," says Mollison in his introduction, "and perhaps start to figure out how, in their own lives, they may respond." Fourteen-year-old Rhiannon lives in Darvel, Scotland
go to the apartment therapy website Whether you inhabit a studio or a sprawling house with one challenging space, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, co-founder of the most popular interior design website, Apartment Therapy, will help you transform tiny into totally fabulous. According to Maxwell, size constraints can actually unlock your design creativity and allow you to focus on what’s essential. In this vibrant book, he shares forty small, cool spaces that will change your thinking forever.
Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
7 Ways to Get Rid of the Bed : TreeHugger
For LifeEdited, Graham describes his sleeping requirements: "Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time.Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time.Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time.It's time we gave this some thought." While Bucky notes that beds are used for a third of the time, we are asleep for much of that. So why do we give them so much space? What else can we do with them?