Four Eyes House by Edward Ogosta Architecture

Four Eyes House by Edward Ogosta Architecture:

Instead of being built for interior functionality, the Four Eyes House was designed to enhance the homeowner’s experience of the surrounding landscape and the phenomenal natural events that occur. Designed by the Los Angeles-based Edward Ogosta Architecture, the weekend family home is located in California’s Coachella Valley desert.

The unique design is based around four “sleeping towers,” each with a small bedroom on the top floor that you reach with either a ladder, spiral stair, switchback stair or shallow-riser stair. The bedrooms come with a window that frames a specific optimum view including: morning sunrise in the east, mountain range to the south, city lights to the west in the evening and overhead nighttime stars.

The main floor houses the common areas and connects the four towers and it also features floor-to-ceiling frameless windows that offer their own amazing landscape views.

The bedrooms are equal in size and remain unassigned for family members to rotate throughout based on their desired viewing experience.

Photos © Edward Ogosta Architecture.

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Great talk by Wilson Miner - have a watch.


Wilson Miner - When We Build from Build on Vimeo.

Farrow and Balls interior color Trendforecast

Farrow and Balls interior color Trendforecast

Bold Graphic use of colour muted tones revisited from past eras ("retro") .

Link to full article on trendland

MARK GARRY, BEING HERE

Lovely Installation by Mark Garry: Being Here.

The installation Being here comprises three essential elements: an intervention made from beads, pins and threads, a carved wood sculpture and mechanical musical mechanisms.

Circular Book Library

Some how I think my front room may be a little too small for one of these -

Smart idea.

Circular book library

Currently on display at the University of Roskilde Main Library Denmark, is David Garcia Studio'sCircular Book Library titled Archive ll. Designed to investigate the relationship between books and space Archive ll serves as a chair, mobile library and bookshelf. I like!

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Circular Book Library

Bella Sky Hotel

Bella Sky Hotel:

For lovers of Finn Juhl - and attention to detail


On our press trip to Copenhagen, we were treated to a tour of the new Bella Sky Comwell Hotel on the outskirts of the city center. As you can see, it’s a striking piece of architecture. Designed by the Copenhagen-based architecture firm 3XN, Bella Sky is the largest hotel in Scandinavia, with 23 floors, 812 rooms and 30 meeting spaces and conference rooms. It’s comprised of two towers, with angled facades, joined by a walkway. The hotel just won the “Best Architecture in Europe” award at the International Hotel Awards in London. We were definitely wowed by the architecture and interiors when we visited.



Grass wall in the lobby



Sweeping view of the lobby



Florescent light chandelier in the lobby



Finn Juhl furniture is everywhere in the hotel



Lime green Wishbone chairs in The Balcony Restaurant



Rope and wood divider in one of the hotel’s three restaurants



A restaurant dining room



Interesting deconstructed, decorative wood wall



Guest room bed with Hay pillows and Louis Poulsen sconces designed by Arne Jacobsen



The other side of room – love that Finn Juhl loveseat in gray and black



Even the conference rooms are chic



A light filled corner in which to linger, with furniture that resembles the hotel’s facade



Sky Bar



Banquette detail



Piano at Sky Bar

Vanke Triple V Gallery by Ministry of Design

Vanke Triple V Gallery by Ministry of Design:
Ministry of Design have completed the Vanke Triple V Gallery in Tianjin, China.

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Description from Ministry of Design:

Designed as a permanent show gallery and tourist information center for China’s largest developer Vanke, MOD’s dramatic design for the TRIPLE V GALLERY has become an icon along the Dong Jiang Bay coastline.

Despite its obvious sculptural qualities, the building’s DNA evolved rationally from a careful analysis of key contextual & programmatic perimeters – resulting in the TRIPLE V GALLERY’S triangulated floor plan as well as the 3 soaring edges that have come to define its form.

The client’s program called for 3 main spaces: a tourist information center, a show gallery & a lounge for discussion.

Requiring their own entrances, the tourist center and the show gallery are orientated to separate existing pedestrian pathways and can be operated independently.

An extension of the show gallery, the lounge area is where discussions are conducted. This space takes advantage of the panoramic views of the coastline and comprises a sculptural bar counter.

Tectonically, the building responds to the coastal setting and is finished in weather-sensitive corten steel panels on its exterior and timber strips on the interior walls and ceiling for a more natural feel.

Visit the Ministry of Design website – here.

Photography by Edward Hendricks/CI&A Photography

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PKO Bank Polski by Robert Majkut Design

PKO Bank Polski by Robert Majkut Design:

Robert Majkut has completed the interior design for PKO Bank Polski Private Banking in Poland.

Description from the designer:

The starting point for this project was Bank’s corporate identity developed by White Cat Studio, above all the modernized logo of PKO Bank Polski in its elegant color version for Private Banking sector – black, white and gold, which created a set of basic colors for the interior. Other graphical elements were also inspiring – in particular one decorative motif consisting of a grid of elegant, sinusoidal lines, consistently applied in the graphic design for the PKO Bank Polski Private Banking.

The theme of delicate grid was treated in a very innovative way – a bi-dimensional pattern was completely transformed by introducing an additional dimension: it was made spatial by being projected on the tri-dimensional model of the interior. To achieve this effect special software for parametric design was used, which allowed for the creation of a complex and ordered structure formed as a transformation of the subtle grid of lines converging in one abstract point. This complicated geometry setting has become a model to be filled with interior design solutions.

As a composition it is coherent and complete, being a real challenge at the stage of realization. The final effect is a balance between purely aesthetic choices and a mathematical order, accepted by the designer, yet generated by software that was treated not only as a tool, but as a creative factor. It is a kind of metaphorical code which presents the character of the institution and its services, being a mix of mathematical analyses and human element of experience, knowledge, and decision making process.

Visit the Robert Majkut Design website – here.

Photography by Szymon Polanski

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PE Guerin

PE Guerin - the art of casting. The anthropologist beautifully describes the process of artisan crafts people in this lovely documentary.

Elevations.. for inspiration...