Orcas Stage on the Green, winner of the AIA Seattle 2008 Peoples Choice Award.
Construction photo sequence here.
Archive for the 'Architect' Category
Architect Fiona Dunin is doing great things at FMD Architects. Her work incorporates unique details – take a look and you’ll see what I mean.
Interesting use of mirror. Love the snow white kitchen and the bookshelves. Must have books near the kitchen.
Unique faceted detail above window, L shaped protrusion and angular shelf.
I’m enjoying the sculptural qualities of her walls.
Another sculptural wall treatment, the additive wall element is in the form of cabinetry.
Big beautiful doors bring the outdoors in.
Great website. Design by Monkii.
Enticing. There is something quite alluring about seeing multiples grouped into categories. You’re drawn in by the neat displays, you want to get closer, handle. I admire the architect designed collaborations Aesop uses for their retail stores.
Unforgettable use of corrugated materials for product display. Aesop Flinders Lane designed by March Studio.
Aesop @ Strand Arcade.
Masters of Modernism offers lighting, silver, jewelry and hardware from the masters of modern design. I picked a couple of things that caught my eye.
Flexible Arm Wall Lamp, Eduard-Wilfrid Buquet, 1927
Door Levers, Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1927
“Le tre steghe” Pendant Lamp, Guenther Leuchtmann, 1981
You might think this fixture is strange, even ugly. It’s really a gorgeous piece and you can see it on display at Siematic Seattle.
Online here.
SieMatic Seattle opened recently and I stopped in to look over their showroom today. My client, AOME Architects, worked with the showroom operator, Elaine Pagones, to design her own home.
Thought of this interior today, designed by Michaelangelo ca. 1520. I was obsessed with this space after learning about it in school. It’s an early example of renaissance mannerism exhibiting a sort of minimalism. The interior is quite challenging to photograph due to the intimate scale of the building. After I tracked this down I had a coffee and headed over to the Laurentian Library.
Thinking about this house today.
Designed by Glenn Murcutt and located along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Moonlight Head Private Lodges are surrounded by pristine national parkland and have panoramic views of the Twelve Apostles and beyond.
ORO Editions just put out a book featuring 3 projects from the Seattle architecture firm Suyama Peterson Deguchi. If you view the book at Amazon.com or many other online sites, the cover looks dark green/blue. Maybe this was a pre-production version because the final version I have has a deep dark-brown cover. 112 pages, hardcover. Oro Editions (November 11, 2008)
We’ve been looking for a pair of adjustable reading lamps for a couple of living room chairs. Looked at the Tolomeo but decided against it. We went with the Bill (new) floor lamps as we liked the maneuverability of the head and the warmer quality of the light produced. I’ll take pictures once we have them installed. In the interim, here is an image from the Tobias Grau website.
Handmade designs by Hudson incorporate a variety of rich materials including bronze, iron, teak, walnut petrified wood and lighting with Swarovski crystals. Many pieces offered in custom sizes and finishes, call for pricing.
Atlantis Chandelier
Love You Love You Not Chandelier
detail
Candles and Spirits Chandelier
Atlantis Chandelier, Knight Base Table
English Windsor
The Rock
Bronze Mirror Conv.
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I’ve always thought the existing Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney looked a little rigid; the building could do with an injection of modern architecture. Given the quayside location this new addition looks promising. Trash or treasure? Cast your vote at The Sydney Morning Herald website poll here.
From the Bocci Collection, no.22, flush mount power-point.
Retail remixed by Ksubi. Walking by the outside you wouldn’t know it was a shop. No signage. Doesn’t look like a store. Maybe a gallery. Maybe it’s still under construction? Can I go in? Confusing signals. Which is the point. Ksubi manages to create a retail environment that fuses retail rules with no rules. Constructed entirely from cardboard and tape, the stores location is upscale Armadale so it’s quite a contrast to the surrounding shops which include themes and galleries.
1021 High Street – Armadale – VIC 3143
Arguably the most recognizable building in the world, The Sydney Opera House, was designed by architect Jorn Utzon in 1957. The inspirational series of roof shapes create a monolithic form that draws visitors toward it from land and sea. The view of the sail-like roof forms from the Manly ferry is undeniably beautiful as the building appears to float on water. It is approximately 185 m (611 ft) long and 120m (380 ft) wide at its widest point. The highest roof vault (above the Concert Hall) is 67m (221 ft) above sea level. Approaching the Opera House by foot is just as rewarding. The stairs cascade down the front of the building are faced with pink aggregate granite which was quarried at Tarana in New South Wales.
There are a number of restaurants on the bridge side of the Quay with a view of the Sydney Opera House, however Aria has an amazing, sweeping view of The Opera House and the Harbour Bridge from their main dining room.
Designed in 2002, the Tord Boontje Blossom Chandelier created for Swarovski has already become a modern lighting design classic. I think it’s a beautiful creation and summarizes Boontje’s unique vision of the natural world around us. He describes the chandelier as a fusion of nature and the emotional qualities of crystal.
Above: individual crystals used in the Original colourway. (Crystal with Blue AB coating & Rosaline)
The November 2007 issue of House and Garden magazine wrote a story on Gwyneth Paltrow’s house in the Hamptons. A large Blossom is shown hanging in her dining room. Habitually Chic has a nice story on the photo shoot for the article.
Tord Boontje Blossom Chandelier for Swarovski
Available in the following sizes:
Large: H145cm x L90cm x W165cm, 17kg
Small: H85cm x L50cm x W85cm, 12kg
Mini: H53cm, L15cm, W54cm, 6kg.
Available in the following colourways:
Original: Crystal with Blue AB coating & Rosaline
Night: Jet & Jet with Blue AB Coating
Spring: Light Peridot & Yellow Shadow
Autumn: Bordeaux Blue Violet with Golden Teak coating, Crystal with Golden Teak coating, Copper & Topaz
Check out Crystallized, the Swarovski magazine for crystal innovations.
Woodnotes manufactures paper yarn for a variety of architectural and interior design applications. The company began with their pure modern designs in floor coverings, today they feature numerous products including carpets, blinds & partitions, table textiles, furniture & upholstery fabrics and accessories. The clarity of materials and aesthetics produces the perfect minimalism.
Woodnotes Carpets
Woodnotes Blinds
Woodnotes Table Textiles
Woodnotes Furniture
Woodnotes is a Finnish design company founded by Ritva and Mikko Puotila in 1987.
Notre-Dame-du-Haut is the architect Le Corbusier’s chapel in Ronchamp, France. I had to make the pilgrimage as I was obsessed with this building ever since studying it in Architecture school. Now to describe the building and the experience getting there: the building is surreal. Sublime. Ironic. While getting there was an adventure in train schedules, bus stops and hitch-hiking. The sailing concrete forms were definitely unlike anything I have seen before or since. Well worth the trouble to visit in one’s lifetime.
