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Loft Cube, Live Anywhere Micro Home
Designed for those empty spaces on top of buildings, the Loft Cube, was meant to be a temporary living structure, but with a look like this, why not make the move permanent? The interiors are customized by client, as are the window treatments that decide whether you’re living in a glass house or in a glass house blinds.
Loft Cube, Starting from $111,000.00 by Werner Aisslinger, for Loft Cube
Interiors: Fabbrica by Tjep
Fabbrica interior was nominated for the Dutch Design Awards,
Fabbrica meaning factory in Italian, Like in the canteen of a factory you will find long tables and benches, but then coloured in Italian ice-cream shop style, pink and pistachio green.
Fabbrica, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Interior and identity design by Tjep
Mesa — Vitra Edition Table by Zaha Hadid
Mesa evolved from an architectural experiment which was to do with creating connections. Elastika was an installation created in the Moore Building in 2005 for the Miami Design Fair. The brief had been a sculptural structure to revivify the 1921 building’s atrium. Zaha Hadid’s proposal was an organic set of tentacles which linked spaces and floors across the atrium, defying changing levels and criss-crossing each other in mid-air. The effect was like a huge, sticky chewing gum pulled out of shape across the interior. This concept is now illustrated as a Vitra Edition table.
Mesa, by Zaha Hadid, for Vitra.
Photography: Volkswagen Wolfsburg Plant
The German Car Giant Volkswagen, has built the largest motor vehicle factory under one roof in the world. The machine is building the machine.
Photography by Benedict Redgrove, of the Volkswagen factory, Wolfsburg, Germany for City
Model: Johnson House
J. J. Pieter Oud. (Dutch, 1890-1963). Johnson House, project, Pinehurst, North Carolina. 1930-31. Wood.
Permanent Collection MoMA
Missed Tree by Jean-Marie Massaud
A large scale planter, for large scale homes and gardens.
Missed Tree, by Jean-Marie Massaud, for Serralunga
Transforming Tate Modern, by Herzog & de Meuron
Tate Modern is about to get an addition designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the new building will add a 65% increase in display space, to their already expansive facility transformed from a disused power station in 2000
New Development of Tate Modern, Bankside, London, United Kingdom, by Herzog & de Meuron, for Tate Modern
Oceano Travel Trunk from Poltona Frau
TheOceano steamer trunk evokes the spirit of overseas travel of the 1930’s aboard transatlantic ships. The bedroom trunk is for storing objects, clothing and accessories.
Oceano, by Andrée Putman, for Poltona Frau
Icon: Polaroid SX-70
Polaroid’s first fully automatic, motorized camera was an instant design classic, even starring in a documentary the year it was introduced by company cofounder Edwin Land. The camera is detailed with tan leather and folds into a rectangle the size of a paperback book. Smart.
Polaroid SX-70, by Edwin Land, for Polaroid
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