Category Archives: architecture

follow the wind

18/02/2008 DesignFlute Leave a comment

How would you like arrows for weathercocks – creating geometrical patterns on the outer walls of your house or your building!

This is Daikanyama Installation 2005 – Grand Prix Winning entry by Daisuke Ibano and Ryosuke Fujii –

“Blowin’in the wind”

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In order to perceive the traces of the wind, Daisuke Ibano and Ryosuke Fujii have filled a mesh screen installed on the wall of a building on the Sanno Institute of Management Daikanyama campus with a number of arrows. The arrows point in respective directions as the wind blows and rest in balance as the wind stops.

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architecture, green roots

green turfed roofscape

11/01/2008 DesignFlute 36 Comments

School of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang, Singapore

Designers : CPG Consultants Pte Ltd

This is a 5-storey School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University campus, Singapore. This stunning piece of award-winning architecture is situated in a wooded valley. Before you read on, answer this : is this a landscape or a building?

The embracing arms of this unique building have a most spectacular verdant turfed roof which blends with ground contour as if emerges from it. It has glass curtain wall and raw concrete minus the painting.

Apart from its visual impact, the turfed roofscape helps to lower the roof temperature and surrounding areas. It works as a functional space, as a scenic outdoor community space via easily accessible sidesteps along the roof edge.

Lighting plays an important aspect to the building. The full glass curtain wall allows generous doses of daylight into the studios and galleries while cutting off the tropical heat. At night, the building glows like a lantern.

The exterior glass facade of the building allows full views to the outside, again providing visual connectivity with the surrounding lush landscape.

Three blocks of the school building are organically interwoven to enclose a sunken courtyard and a unique interconnectivity and flow.

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interiors and architecture

blue heaven

21/12/2007 DesignFlute 5 Comments

Designer Paola Navone ‘s Milan Apartment

I was sleeping, sleeping and sleeping last few days and have just woken up dreaming about this blue heaven!

Sleeping was strange enough but that is another story, another post.

As of now let us get into this blue heaven of Italian designer Paola Navone in Milan.

Above image : Specially made in Morocco these blue zellige (enameled tiles) decorates her home as she wanted her apartment to feel like a seaside place.

In Paola’s lounge two white lamps designed by her vie for attention along with a strange fish and Moroccan trays.

The simple dining room boasts of an immense marble table top and American bar stool type seating.

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(images via old interieurs)

interiors and architecture

yoga loft

22/11/2007 DesignFlute 3 Comments

David G. Blanco and William Jurberg @ Billy Blanco Designs

The cleanliness of every corner speaks loudly that it is modern minimalism at its best.

Spaces expand and contract through the use of semi transparent and transparent materials like glass and fabric that allow light to flow naturally and facilitate ventilation.

The white, oversized mirrors and vaulted ceilings are in profusion.

But the balance, illumination and austerity it reflects may be reasons why it is called Yoga loft!

And now you see why indeed it is called yoga loft! (Thank you David for this image.)

interiors and architecture

rain in light

13/11/2007 DesignFlute 1 Comment

casa Delphin

FUSTER + Partners architects

Oh my! what these architects are doing! That was my first expression after seeing their work and still that spell bounding effect has not changed at all.

Playing with light, manipulating light, exploring vertical dimension of light that’s what this Puerto Rico based architectural firm FUSTER + Partners do to the hilt. They are opening up spaces from their dark, hot, lonely environs blending interior to exterior so beautifully that you are mesmerized. To top all this they do not forget sustainable aspects and environmentally responsible design.

casa Delphin

The principal architects of this firm are Nataniel Fúster and George Stewart. Their architecture is modern and they say that modern architecture, in its most radical expression, is authentically tropical.