Project description by General Architecture (GA):
The competition brief was to design a covered market at the old harbour in the center of Bergen. The location is close to Bryggen, which is listed as an UNESCO world heritage. GA proposed a timber structure consisting of a system of three dimensional vaults. The base of each vault formed a storage space for the merchants thus creating an open uninteerupted space.
The you know who stadium now has its bamboo version. Made by a group of villagers in Hangshou City, the replicas constructed with 1000 pieces of bamboo and completed in two weeks. Now I’m sure that Chinese are replicators of all the things not just electronic devices.
The Lam Tara Towers will be located directly opposite the Burj Dubai. This twin tower stands at heights of 360 metres and 320 metres and will mix the use of office space and 405 luxury apartments.
The towers will be clad in turquoise colour glazing and features lattice work patterning worked from thin strands of steel. This patterning only extends up over the hexagonal part of the towers and finishes by flaring out slightly from the towers in a pointy manner where the cylindrical parts of the towers begin.
The well known Japanese architect, Shigeru Ban, is happy right now as his art works, Paper Tea House was sold for £31,700. I like the monochrome color, it’s cool man.
The house is made entirely from recycled cardboard rectangular tubes, as is the table and four stools in the main room and the customary bench in the waiting area. By including details such as the waiting area, Ban is keeping the design of the house in line with traditional tea ceremony practice.
I learned and read book about Frank Gehry’s masterpiece since i was in college, and now he designed another wonderful thing, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008. Located in London, the Serpentine Gallery utilizes random element as you can see in the image.
Frank Gehry said: “The Pavilion is designed as a wooden timber structure that acts as an urban street running from the park to the existing Gallery. Inside the Pavilion, glass canopies are hung from the wooden structure to protect the interior from wind and rain and provide for shade during sunny days. The Pavilion is much like an amphitheatre, designed to serve as a place for live events, music, performance, discussion and debate. As the visitor walks through the Pavilion they have access to terraced seating on both sides of the urban street. In addition to the terraced seating there are five elevated seating pods, which are accessed around the perimeter of the Pavilion. These pods serve as visual markers enclosing the street and can be used as stages, private viewing platforms and dining areas.”
As mentioned by weblog.housing.com, the picture above was called as _gin and tonic bus stop_ that made by Lee Brackett, a designer based in Nevada City. He has 5 years experiences of working with a Kyoto temple carpenter. From the product page, it is called as Summer House with area of 6 x 10 feet and costs $19,000. The basic structure is a timber frame and uniquely using traditional Japanese joinery (mortise and tenon, etc) to assemble it.
