Featured Blog Posts – January 2011 Archive (25)

Architects, designers, engineers feed on anything. Sometimes it is nature that inspires them, sometimes a sense (a smell, a texture, or a sound). A surrealistic art-work can trigger the creative power inside. Not all of them, but i love some of the surrealistic buildings. The village house designed by…

In a nineteenth-century Roman Catholic cemetery in Rotterdam, two chapel shave stood in years past – a neo-Gothic structure of 1880 and a pyramid-shaped building of 1963 – both of which collapsed due to poor foundations on the soft soil.  For…

Nowhere But Sajima is a vacation home located about an hour from Tokyo, near Mt. Fuji.  The home sits next to the ocean, with a view of the lush verdant island of Enoshima.  However, this same…

Packed is a pavilion constructed of cardboard that was shown in the exhibition "3D paperArt" in Shanghai, as part of the World Expo 2010.  It was designed and produced by Michele Leidi, Min-Chieh Chen and Dominik Zausinger with the help of…

Sometimes as an architect the best way to further your design is to forget what you know. Design Initiatives proposed this little stand alone hotel room to stand atop Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.  This elegant little structure really makes me…