Textile and Architecture can make good bedfellows. The work of SARC Architects has recently incorporated patterned designs by the textile artist Outi Martikainen adding an extra depth to their walls. The Kone headqurters for example has three different glass print designs which combine to give a depth and artistry to the side wall double skinned [...]
Category Archives: Architecture
You win some and you lose some
7 Jun 06
As an Architect you win some and you lose some, I took part with my office in a design competition for Aviapolis Tower which we lost. Davidsson won, and the winning entry image is top left. Its an interesting development mainly because of its height. At about 100 metres high it puts this project at [...]
Floating Architecture
2 Jun 06
Helsinki is about to go through a massive urban change in the next few years. There are many parts to this, of which a good long article might come in the future, but one of the first ones, will be the introduction of houseboats and pontoon houses into Kaisainiemenlahti and Eläintarhanlahti right in the centre [...]
MareNostrum
31 May 06
The MareNostrum in Barcelona is Europes biggest Supercomputer to date. The Photographer Simon Norfolk has documented it with a series of amazing images (like the one shown). The MareNostrum is housed in an old Chapel and thus according to Simon it has become a Divine container for the omnipresent super brain or perhaps alternatively the [...]
Branding Architecture
26 May 06
Architectural design now more than ever is a shared production with the Chief Architect perhaps if he or she is lucky leading the team, but we all want to believe in the Starchitect as Renaissance genius, while the truth is perhaps more mundane the effect of brand building and name dropping by developers and journalists. [...]
Ideology, Football, and Architecture
23 May 06
The biggest sporting competition in the world is hosted by Germany this
year the 2006 World Cup. The backdrop of this are the stadiums of
Germany perhaps the highlight being the new Herzhog & De Meuron’s Allianz Arena.
While this is the architectural highlight of the World Cup, the actual
final will take place in Berlin’s Olympic stadium designed [...]
The Biggest Charity in the World
16 May 06
Did you know that the biggest charity in the world is dedicated to ‘innovation in the field of Architectural and Interior design.’ At some $36 Billion its bigger than the Gates Foundation which is a paltry $27 billion by comparison. But while the Gates Foundation goes around giving out money to fight disease and deprivation [...]
AA Summer Pavilion
10 May 06
Unit 2 of the AA are designing and making a summer pavilion with the help of Finnforest. They were just over there getting drunk with the rest of us in Esplande on Vappu. Looking forward to seeing the pavilion take shape on their blog .
Macintosh Lecture
27 Apr 06
I saw the Macintosh Lecture by Andrew Macmillan former head of the Glasgow School of Art yesterday, who made a good case for Rennie Macintosh being one of the instigators of many of the elements of the modern movement. His architecture is individualistic, fascinating and at times wonderful, however I think he represents the end [...]
The Art Office
18 Apr 06
The Art Office has an installtion called the cylinders a set of different scale interactive scultures which looks good, reminds me of desert roses which give this installation a real edge in its desert setting. They have a blog to.