Glenwood Residence by Wernerfield Architects

Organized around a central pool courtyard, the main living space and master suite all open onto the courtyard through a series of floor to ceiling mahogany and glass sliding panels that seamlessly integrate interior and exterior. Deep overhangs along these spaces serve to protect the home from the harsh Texas sun and create a generous covered outdoor living area.

Glenwood Residence, Dallas, Texas, USA by Wernerfield Architects
via: Contemporist

Kugeln from depotArt

depotArt is a showcase for computer generated art. Most pieces in a series are similar yet different. Limited edition of 10.

Kugeln, from depotArt

Tulip Armchair by Marcel Wanders for Cappellini

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has designed the Tulip Armchair, recently presented at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan.

Tulip Armchair, by Marcel Wanders, for Cappellini

Books: New Architecture in Japan

With a comprehensive overview of more than 100 projects built or designed in Japan over the past 10 years, New Architecture in Japan is an informative and beautifully illustrated book. Photographer Edmund Sumner manages to capture not only the power of architectural space, but he always allows a glimpse of the surrounding urban landscape by including neon signs, pylons, high voltage power lines and pedestrians into the images. Critical essays by Yuki Sumner and Naomi Pollock contextualize the work, and each project is described in detail with the required drawings.

Included in the book are museums, private houses, schools, shops, hospitals, airports and chapels. Both cutting-edge, emerging young practices – such as Sou Fijimoto and Junya Ishigami – and established, internationally known architects – among them Toyo Ito, Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma and SANAA. This illuminating survey is essential not just for architects and designers but also for anyone fascinated by Japan’s unique – and increasing – influence on architecture worldwide.

New Architecture in Japan, by Yuki Sumner and Naomi Pollock with David Littlefield, Photography by Edmund Sumner, Published by Merrell, Hardback, 272 pages, 400 colour illustrations, 237 plans, 25 x 25 cm (9.75 x 9.75 in), ISBN: 9781858944500
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Multiuse by Angelo Mangiarotti for Agape Casa

A furnishing system features a structure in which seamless horizontal planes hold up the vertical elements and are fitted with extruded aluminium cross-beams, allowing the the front doors to slide.

Multiuse, by Angelo Mangiarotti, for Agape Casa

Once Upon a Dream by Mathieu Lehanneur

Designed for the Hôtel de Marc at Rheims, Once Upon a Dream has been designed to help people rapidly recuperate and adapt to their new surroundings. Based on psychological studies used in sleep treatment clinics to help cure chronic insomnia, the capsule installation will allow guests to recover as quickly as possible from jetlag. The extraordinary space is a sleep unit that is a hybrid between fairy-tale and home cinema. This is also nod to the history of the Veuve Clicquot House as Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin was a notorious insomniac.

Once Upon a Dream, by Mathieu Lehanneur, for Veuve Clicquot

Photography: While You Slept by Tobler & Schilling

While you slept, we revolutionized the world. When she was imprisoned in your bunker, we changed the music…

While You Slept, Photography by Stefan Tobler & Holger Schilling

House Beo

House Beo, via: Office for Word and Image Photography: Tim Van De Velde

Lighthouse by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Established & Sons

“Established & Sons invited us to conceive a contemporary lamp using the traditional know-how of Venini, Italy. For Lighthouse, our inspiration came from the observation of the sophisticated craftsmanship of Murano’s master glass blowers. The idea was to light up a voluminous round glass structure that would be supported by a delicate aluminium stick. We worked on the precariousness of the equilibrium: there is one and only, sharp point of contact, no fixation, as if the glass was in its originate state, hanging insecurely from the blowing pipe. We wanted to work on the vulnerability of the object.”

Lighthouse, by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, for Established & Sons

Seasons by Nao Tamura

Designer Nao Tamura, has won the SaloneSatellite Award, with a serving container made in silica sand. Seasons is an interpretation of functional kitchen and serving ware, inspired by nature and technology, through the cultural lens of Japan. Like a real leaf, each serving dish is flexible and multi-purpose. It rolls up for storage using the benefits of silicone to insure its use in an oven or microware, able to withstand repeated dishwasher cleaning. Each leaf enjoys its own shape, stackable in its open state, and in multiples, creating a sculptural display of serving artware.

Seasons, by Nao Tamura, for Nao Tamura
via: Daque Design