comme des filles

2011-09-21T09:21:00.000-07:00

A minha perspectiva vê-se alterada a cada instante, girando sobre si própria em ciclos regulares e pousando altimetricamente sobre patamares em forma de antítese (regra geral, um anula o anterior). O meu gosto, esse, balança como pêndulo entre o deslumbramento com a expressividade formal e a segurança que o zelo funcional permite.Se por um lado me emociono irremediavelmente com a beleza sedutora da forma - sobretudo quando desenhada qual delicado objecto de escultura - por outro lado, reconheço um incontornável poder de sedução em edifícios duros de aspecto atípico, cuja aparente objectividade se reveste afinal de uma ambiguidade macia e inquietante: capta-nos o olhar e não nos deixa desviá-lo, como se ali estivesse pedaço de enigma a decifrar.Se por um lado me revolta a "endless discussion" que sucessivamente e a cada instante refuta e invalida verdades "agora" absolutas e "segundos depois" absurdas - regra geral fruto do efeito de uma qualquer retórica bem estruturada - , por outro lado cativa-me a recusa do óbvio e o desdém por formas vazias de intenção e significado .Se por um lado me parece ridícula a incansável, intensa, i-n-t-e-r-m-i-n-á-v-e-l discussão que leva a decisões de forma e programa, por outro lado, é com facilidade que me envolvo nelas e que de repente lhes reconheço toda a legitimidade e importância (porque para se ter uma estrutura inquebrável, todas as pequenas peças têm que ser rigorosamente produzidas e montadas).Hoje, neste instante, a minha noção de qualidade arquitectónica aponta edifícios erigidos em bases simples e sinceras, que não surgem directamente da vontade de criar uma peça formalmente sedutora, mas que, fruto do tempo, do amadurecimento de ideias e da sucessiva necessidade de resposta a problemas de ordem funcional e construtiva, acabam por constituir uma peça de especificidade e beleza difíceis de refutar.. E por ser tão sólida, tão pura e consistente, esta arquitectura adquire a resistência e legitimidade de "elemento natural".
Verdadeira. Forte. Sedutora.

pristine.

2010-11-06T15:36:00.001-07:00

FRIEM Headquarters by Onsitestudio

2010-07-18T02:06:00.000-07:00

Italian architects Onsitestudio have completed the Milan headquarters of an electrical product manufacturer, wrapped in profiled steel.

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24 ISSEY MIYAKE Shop by Nendo.

2010-05-28T15:30:00.000-07:00

Japanese design studio Nendo have completed a store for fashion designer Issey Miyake where accessories are displayed atop clusters of steel rods.

Called 24 Issey Miyake, the store is located in the Shibuya Parco shopping complex in Tokyo.

The store features Miyake’s new Bilbao bag and the interior and its fixtures have been designed around it.

Instead of traditional shelving a set of thin steel rods of different heights stand in the centre of the space with merchandise laid out on top.

The design is one of Nendo’s 24 ISSEY MIYAKE concept shops, which all feature 7mm diameter steel rods. Read more about these stores in our earlier story.

See all our stories about Nendo in our special category.

via dezeen.

2010-05-12T13:13:00.000-07:00

"Do things with passion, or not at all."

"Para ser grande, sê inteiro:
Nada teu exagera ou exclui.
Sê todo em cada coisa.

Põe quanto és
No mínimo que fazes.

Assim em cada lago
A lua toda brilha,
Porque alta vive. "

R.R.

2010-04-29T04:06:00.000-07:00

"Il n'est nulle grandeur là où manquent simplicité, bonté, et vérité."
L. Tolstoï

texture.

2010-04-26T14:41:00.001-07:00

www.buronorth.com

2010-04-24T20:32:00.000-07:00

weheartit

The more you give, the more you get.

2010-04-19T04:17:00.001-07:00

via graphic exchange

2010-04-18T05:09:00.000-07:00

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid.

balloons by aaron feaver +

Swedish proverb.

2010-04-15T04:02:00.001-07:00

2010-03-27T18:21:00.000-07:00

"Si vous êtes nées sans ailes, ne faites rien pour les empêcher de pousser."

Coco Chanel.

difmagazine.

♥Lanvin.

2010-03-27T16:00:00.000-07:00

Joanna Newsom.

2010-03-23T12:35:00.000-07:00

just love it.

2010-03-21T14:05:00.001-07:00

B & W done beautiful

2010-03-21T07:35:00.000-07:00

sophisticated.

2010-03-21T07:33:00.001-07:00

2010-03-18T13:24:00.001-07:00

via http://www.trufflegirls.com/

looking forward.

2010-03-09T15:32:00.000-08:00

woman.

2010-03-08T14:40:00.000-08:00

20100308.

feels like spring.

2010-03-04T13:36:00.000-08:00

Kristi Malakoff

via.

2010-02-27T14:32:00.001-08:00

2010-02-27T14:30:00.000-08:00

2010-02-26T11:46:00.000-08:00

25.

2010-02-02T04:13:00.001-08:00

2010-01-18T11:15:00.000-08:00

2010.01.18

2010-01-17T10:03:00.000-08:00

Left, Boudicca, Lowry Skirt: platform13.com, Photography: Studio88, Model: Paul@Premier, Art Direction: Tank. Right, Frank Gehry, Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2003, © Todd Eberle.

Left, Boudicca, Black Lowry ensemble from Invisible City collection, Autumn/Winter 1994-1995. Right, Hussein Chalayan, Afterwords Collection, © Chris Moore, Courtesy of Hussein Chalayan.

Shigeru Ban, Curtain Wall House, Itabashi, Tokyo, 1995, © Hiroyuki Hirai.

Yeohlee Teng, Cotton Hoist Dress with Cable-Wrap Pouffe, Spring/Summer Collection, 2006.

J. Meejin Yoon/MY Studio, Möbius Dress.

Hussein Chalayan, Afterwords Collection, (Autumn/Winter 2000).

In recent years, connections between fashion and architecture have become increasingly apparent. Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture examines shared strategies and techniques of the two disciplines, highlighting common ground and suggesting potential for the future development of each, including new design processes, fabrication methods, and aesthetic directions.

Much of the work in Skin + Bones challenges conventional ways of thinking about architecture and fashion, revealing the potential that can be gained from an ongoing dialogue between the two disciplines. Inspired by the rich array of work on view, new generations of designers in both fields are sure to develop even more ingenious ways of adapting and adopting forms and strategies from each other that will transform the very nature of buildings and clothes.

2010-01-15T15:11:00.001-08:00

architectural fabric.

2010-01-15T15:09:00.000-08:00

THOM BROWNE PAILETTE COAT FROM SPRING/SUMMER 2010

2010-01-15T14:58:00.001-08:00

Jenny Holzer+Jacques Herzog talk.
20100112 Basel.

Murano Ceiling Lamp

2010-01-15T14:37:00.001-08:00

Mazzega di Murano: Medusa Grande Di Venezia
Mazzega di Murano, Italy.

by Yamamoto.

2010-01-13T13:15:00.001-08:00

Trapezoid watch by Naoto Fukasawa

2010-01-13T13:08:00.000-08:00

Trapezoid, a watch designed for fashion brand Issey Miyake by Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa, has gone on sale.

japanese house-twinbricks

2010-01-13T12:26:00.000-08:00

I love how the glass cubes throughout this house let in natural light that plays on the floors and walls – a playful yet functional architectural feature.

Alexander Wang.

2010-01-11T12:53:00.000-08:00

adoro.

under water.

2010-01-11T12:42:00.000-08:00

photo by Sanaa is from the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art at Kanazawa.

AIRES MATEUS Casa em Azeitão.

2010-01-11T12:05:00.000-08:00

Aires Mateus

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall by Zaha Hadid Architects

2010-01-11T11:56:00.001-08:00

Zaha Hadid Architects have built an installation at Manchester Art Gallery to house performances of music by Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

A translucent, fabric membrane stretched over a steel structure suspended from the ceiling divides and encloses the space, creating a stage, enclosure for the audience and passages into and out of the auditorium.

Clear, acrylic panels suspended above the stage reflect and disperse the sound.

Created for the Manchester International Festival, the venue hosts a series of concerts which started last Friday and continue until 18 July. Concert details are on the MIF website.

JS BACH / ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS CHAMBER MUSIC HALL AT MANCHESTER ART GALLERY FOR MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

Zaha Hadid Architects have created a unique chamber music hall specially designed to house solo performances of the exquisite music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

A voluminous ribbon swirls within the room, carving out a spatial and visual response to the intricate relationships of Bach’s harmonies. As the ribbon careens above the performer, cascades into the ground and wraps around the audience, the original room as a box is sculpted into fluid spaces swelling, merging, and slipping through one another.

“The design enhances the multiplicity of Bach’s work through a coherent integration of formal and structural logic. A single continuous ribbon of fabric swirls around itself, creating layered spaces to cocoon the performers and audience with in an intimate fluid space.” said Hadid.

Erster Showroom in New York - Cotton made in Africa

2010-01-11T11:48:00.000-08:00

Quelle: Aid by Trade Foundation
via.

Olivier Ratsi

2010-01-10T13:37:00.001-08:00

Olivier Ratsi - anarchitecture

Olivier Ratsi - anarchitecture

Olivier Ratsi - anarchitecture

The absence of complexity.

Civita’ di Bagnoregio by Progettospore

2010-01-04T12:44:00.001-08:00

Italian architects Progettospore.

Lamborghini Ankonian

2010-01-04T12:35:00.000-08:00

Leaf house.

2010-01-04T12:27:00.000-08:00

Architects: Undercurrent Architects
Location: Sydney, Australia
Project Team: German Perez-Tavio, Didier Ryan
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Hugh Rutherford

2010-01-03T07:06:00.000-08:00

de regresso . :)
round III começa hoje.
2010.01.03

2010-01-01T09:56:00.000-08:00

Atrevam-se a sonhar alto.
Sejam determinados e persistentes.

Depressa os sonhos se tornarão realidade.

Feliz 2010! ♥

Kengo Kuma Inflatable Tea House.

2010-01-01T09:22:00.000-08:00

2009-12-28T10:54:00.000-08:00

christmas.

2009-12-24T09:34:00.000-08:00

have a merry merry one.

PROMONTÓRIO ARQUITECTURA,Hotel Victoria,2009,Tróia,Portugal

2009-12-23T02:53:00.000-08:00

Arquitectura.Promontório Arquitectura
Fotografia Fernando Guerra

McFancy

2009-12-21T17:14:00.000-08:00

via.

AZL ATELIER ZHANGLEI,Cipea 4 # house,Project Year 2009,Japan

2009-12-17T03:48:00.000-08:00

Architects.AZL Atelier Zanglei
Website.http://www.azlarchitects.com/

bang bang.

2009-12-14T18:38:00.000-08:00

Andre Wagner

2009-12-14T10:33:00.000-08:00

Berlin photographer Andre Wagner creates negative space in the best of ways.

http://www.andre-wagner.com

LEGO Wallets.

2009-12-14T10:30:00.000-08:00

UK label Color By Numbers designed these amusing LEGO-inspired wallets that bring back fond memories of my childhood. The base plate allows the owner to customize their wallet with a selection of bricks they receive with it or just leave it blank. Each wallet is handmade to order and supply is limited.

via.

SPLITTERWERK

2009-12-14T10:26:00.000-08:00

SPLITTERWERK, photo © Nikolaos Zachariadis

«Frog Queen, or the Prisma Engineering Headquarters (a machine and motor technology company) is located in Graz, Styria, Austria. Its facade was designed by SPLITTERWERK and looks like one giant pixelized box.» Design milk

Sources: SPLITTERWERK, Design Milk

done. :)

2009-12-12T06:18:00.000-08:00

20091211 :)
knotan.

SEARCH ARCHITECTS,Villa Vals,2009,Switzerland

2009-12-09T03:16:00.000-08:00

Website:http://www.search.nl/

waiting.

2009-12-09T03:11:00.000-08:00

Carlos Lascano.

2009-12-08T17:09:00.000-08:00

A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.

website
seen in

Tokujin Yoshioka

2009-12-07T18:40:00.000-08:00

source

Tara Donovan

2009-12-07T18:38:00.000-08:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11483960@N08/3157998342/

plastic jewelry Jayhun Rita Baek

2009-12-07T18:34:00.000-08:00

link

Venus - Natural Crystal Chair

2009-12-07T18:31:00.001-08:00

source

2009-12-07T18:20:00.000-08:00

2009-12-04T06:53:00.001-08:00

de viana ♥ com amor.

2009-12-03T04:16:00.000-08:00

__________

2009-12-03T04:07:00.000-08:00

http://www.hofstede.com.au

2009-12-03T03:32:00.000-08:00

f&a

2009-12-02T14:55:00.001-08:00

Beijing Noodle No.9 (above) in Las Vegas by Japanese studio Design Spirits is one of five winners of The Great Indoors Awards this year. More »

Aqua Tower by Studio Gang

2009-12-02T14:51:00.000-08:00

archdaily.

catalogue or envelope.

2009-12-02T03:44:00.000-08:00

http://www.danielcarlsten.com

ill studio.

2009-12-01T15:37:00.000-08:00

dreaming architecture.

2009-12-01T15:34:00.001-08:00

555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

Peter Root: Low-Rise staples

2009-12-01T15:28:00.000-08:00

hello china.

2009-12-01T15:14:00.000-08:00

DANIEL CARLSTEN Acne paper invite

2009-12-01T15:03:00.000-08:00

http://www.danielcarlsten.com

wanted.

2009-12-01T07:27:00.000-08:00

weheartit

ÁBALOS & HERREROS ARQUITECTES,Casa en las Rozas,2007,Venezuela

2009-12-01T06:58:00.000-08:00

NAUMANN ARKITEKTUR,Unser S(ch)austall,2007,Germany

2009-11-29T17:21:00.001-08:00

Architects:Naumann Arkitektur
Website:http://www.fnp-architekten.de/

2009-11-29T10:39:00.000-08:00

weheartit.

Kendall Buster

2009-11-27T05:13:00.000-08:00

Kendall Buster, New Growth/Stratum Model, 2009, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA.

Kendall Buster, New Growth/Stratum Model, 2009, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA.

Kendall Buster

2009-11-27T05:09:00.001-08:00

untitled.

2009-11-26T09:48:00.001-08:00

untitled monument to a failed adventure
+Jeremy Mora

Sky-high opulence.

2009-11-25T17:19:00.000-08:00

Burberry.

I ♥ 500

2009-11-25T17:05:00.000-08:00

The Fiat 500 C has taken over Montenapoleone, the famed fashion street of Milan. The street has 20 fiberglass replicas of the 500 C, all built on a 1:1 scale. It is all a part of an installation called “Per fare un albero” (Create a tree) which is a joint effort by the city of Milan, Fiat and designer Fabio Novembre. The objective is to bring together trees and cars, both of which are more or less diametrically opposite in the spectrum of urban spaces. The replica Fiats parked next to trees perhaps put the message across very well.

Via: TheCoolHunter

can't wait.

2009-11-25T17:03:00.000-08:00

we♥it.

LOCALARCHITECTURE,Nouveaux Musee cantonal de beaux-arts,Project Year 2005,Switzerland

2009-11-25T03:46:00.000-08:00

Architects:Localarchitecture
Website:http://www.localarchitecture.ch/

paper dress.

2009-11-25T03:44:00.000-08:00

Russian Creative Agency Doberman

coco cocoon

2009-11-25T03:24:00.001-08:00

Vodafone headquarters by Barbosa & Guimaraes, PORTO

2009-11-23T06:38:00.000-08:00

here.

2009-11-23T06:25:00.000-08:00

www.todayandtomorrow.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/digital_portraits_1.jpg

Origami Chair by So Takahashi

2009-11-23T06:22:00.000-08:00

Oslo-based designer So Takahashi presented Origami chair as part of 100% Norway in London last month.

OCTOBER UEDA & NAKAGAWA ARCHITECTS,Halfrooms House,2007,Japan

2009-11-22T14:13:00.000-08:00

Architects:October Ueda & NaKagawa Architects
Website:http://www.october-web.com/

New Jelly Toy Watch

2009-11-22T14:06:00.000-08:00

The fluro/rainbow color trend is still moving off the RTW catwalks and into accessories with a bang (or should we say a splash?). We're loving this Italian range of watches, amusingly dubbed the "Jelly Toy Watch which comes in blindingly bright selection of primary and fluro colours, only this time, the latest Toy Watch throws in a jelly-like matching silicone strap. Buy online from Toy Watch USA

red trend cafe

2009-11-22T12:23:00.000-08:00

dima loginoff

CEBRA A/S ARKITEKTERR MAAS,Sinus House ,2007,Denmark

2009-11-19T17:27:00.000-08:00

Architects:Cebra a/s Arkitekterr Maas
Website:http://www.cebra.info/

2009-11-18T17:54:00.000-08:00

weheartit

sandra backlund

2009-11-18T14:13:00.000-08:00

2009-11-18T14:04:00.001-08:00

ladybird

2009-11-17T13:56:00.000-08:00