Dynamic facades: Carlos Arroyo Architects, Madrid: their Oost Campus (civic centre & town hall), MWD Academy of Music, Word and Dance, & House of Love. See Blogroll for a link.
Oost Campus, Bruges / Academie MWD, Dilbeek, Belgium
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Spatial interaction: Iart, located in Basel, are award-winning designers & engineers of media art, initiating interactive & kinetic systems. See Blogroll for a link.
Christ & Gantenbein // Kunstmuseum Basel 2016: LED Fries in Motion // Architektur Basel – YouTube Kunstmuseum Basel by Christ Gantenbein, Basel. 2015. ‘The facade of the new building for the museum produces […]
The demise of all-glass building facade? David Baggs, Australian architect, sustainability consultant & integrative design facilitator, states why he thinks this will occur.
‘There is no doubt that glass is an essential component of building facades, and it’s very good at doing certain things, such as letting daylight and solar radiation in and […]
AEPPAS20* has begun a programme of visits & lectures on 20 of Spain’s most symbolic buildings. The 1st, held in January, was on the restoration of the floating, glazed, tower, the Castelar Building by Rafael de La-Hoz (Jnr.). A video of the tower’s construction process is here.
*Spanish Association for the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of the Twentieth Century. https://aeppas20.wordpress.com/ Click on the heading ‘Reccordos’ (‘Walking’) for ‘Building Castelar’. The building was designed by architects Raphael De […]
Cross-disciplinary design office located in Mexico City, Esrawe Studio. Selecting here from their interiors / cultural work. Post 1 of 2.
City Express Hotel, lobby / Tori Tori restaurant, Mexico City / Mi Casa, Your Casa: Interactive Design Intervention on the Sifly Piazza, High Museum of Art Atlanta, Woodruff Arts Centre […]
Colour installer: The work of Quebec architect, Hal Ingberg whose expertise in coloured & reflective glass is sampled here. See Blogroll for a link to his site.
Text is taken from Hal Ingberg’s Facebook site / Montreal Convention Centre by architects Tétrault, Dubuc, Saia & Assoc. Hal Ingberg architecte (Independant architectural consultant and co-designer) / For Réflexions […]
Surface Design Awards 2015, London: Some of the more dramatic surface finishes among this year’s architecture / interior design finalists. A link to the Award site is under Blogroll.
Grandioso (Door), United Kingdom, Lee Simmons / Techno Prisme Storage Depot, France, Brisac Gonzalez Architects / Ospedale Giovanni XIII Chapel, Italy, Traversi + Traversi Architetti & Aymeric Zublena / Kew House, United Kingdom, Piercy […]
Just a small selection of facade materials that have popped up on my radar 2013/14. Links are contained in the post.
Casting & pressing of metals, concrete & glass> moving towards raw & non-patterned / Cast bronze / Cast Aluminium / All above from Axis Facades http://www.facades.com/cast-aluminum (representation in Europe & USA) […]
Abstracted from the whole: USA photographer, Rob Stone’s shots of mirrored facade..Gehryesque. See Blogroll for a link.
The work of Decker Yeadon: Homeostatic facade, Smartscreens, Buckypaper & their Light Sanctuary (ribboned solar panels). See Blogroll for a link.
Homeostatic Facades: A thermo-responsive building skin (or muscle) that flexes to open and close as solar heat rises or falls, acting as a barrier to solar heat. As it adapts […]
Decanted 