Springer's Blog – January 2011 Archive (14)

Leaf House

There is something I find so exquisitely graceful about trees and leaves. I’m drawn to them, and I’m drawn to everything that resembles them. Leaf House is a pavilion for a private residence in northern Sydney, Australia. A design by the London-based firm…

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Added by Springer on January 31, 2011 at 8:30am — 4 Comments

Rolling Bridge

This ingenious little pedestrian bridge was designed by Heatherwick Studio to span an inlet of the Grand Union Canal at Paddington Basin in London. The…

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Added by Springer on January 29, 2011 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

Lifepod

The Lifepod project was initially conceived in 1997 by architect and designer…

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Added by Springer on January 28, 2011 at 11:49am — 1 Comment

Designing in Teheran

AquiliAlberg Architecture and Design Studio has created a dynamic proposal…

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Added by Springer on January 27, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments

La Cornette

La Cornette is a gorgeous country house in Quebec, Canada designed for two families to come together on holidays and celebrations. The house's…

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Added by Springer on January 26, 2011 at 4:45pm — No Comments

Banyon Drive Treehouse

Yep, another treehouse. I always wanted one as a kid, but it just wasn’t possible. Now I delight in the adult twists on treehouses designed by contemporary architects.

The…

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Added by Springer on January 25, 2011 at 5:56pm — No Comments

+House

+House is a summer housing project designed by WE Architecture located in Puerto Cayo, Equador. The design takes two linear and rectangular volumes and…

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Added by Springer on January 24, 2011 at 12:00pm — 5 Comments

Jigsaw Residence

From the remains of a single story home on a corner lot rise the layers of architecture that create the Jigsaw Residence. Designed by the architect David…

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Added by Springer on January 12, 2011 at 3:11pm — No Comments

Chopstick Tree

According to the China Environmental Protection Foundation, each year China produces 45 billion pair of disposable wooden chopsticks, the nation's famously convenient and low cost utensils. To produce those billions of chopsticks… Continue

Added by Springer on January 11, 2011 at 11:59am — No Comments

Space Technologies Cultural Center (KSEVT)

The simple and other-worldly architectural design for the…

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Added by Springer on January 10, 2011 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Superstar!

Frustrated with the current Chinatown, which it considers boring, redundant, out-of-date, and lifeless, Bejing-based architecture design firm MAD…

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Added by Springer on January 8, 2011 at 8:40pm — 1 Comment

St. Mary of the Angels Chapel

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…

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Added by Springer on January 7, 2011 at 11:40am — No Comments

Nowhere But Sajima

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…

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Added by Springer on January 6, 2011 at 12:12pm — No Comments

Packed

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…