Sculpture
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Project • By Design+Architecture • Heritages
Morgan Street Revitalization
Mount Morgan is a small town located 40km south-west of Rockhampton in Central Queensland. The town has a little-known but rich history of gold and copper mining, and in 2014 the local council started a master-planning process to revitalise the main streetscape.
Cameron Murchison
Cameron Murchison
The existing context became very important in the concept for the new streetscape. Morgan Street contained a 10-metre-wide park down the middle of the main street, flanked by two one-way roads. Shops and small businesses occupied the northern side of the street, and a local primary school the south. The existing park contained an ageing amenities block, some informal landscaping, and a few items of historical significance. These importa... More
News • News • 31 May 2023
David Adjaye’s Kwaeε serves as a temporal device at Venice Architectural Biennale
Kwaeε is the newest of Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye’s earth-based social sculptures. On display at the Venice Architectural Biennale 2023, Kwaeε is both a viewing platform and a venue for programmed events.
Michelle Äärlaht
Kwaeε translates as “forest” in Twi (the language of the Akan people in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire). Made entirely of wood with a black-stained finish, the sculpture’s striking form and materiality embrace the qualities of its namesake. Kwaeε is designed in the shape of a triangular prism — a 13-meter-tall structure, with an area of 78 square meters, its construction, doorway, window, and platform are amalgamated in one single... More
Project • By Robbrecht en Daem architecten • Pavilions
Het Huis
On top of a polished concrete base raised slightly off the ground, a light, gleaming, green-painted steel construction unfolds to form a shelter to protect delicate works of art. The diagonal lines of passage through this new pavilion interweave Middelheim Park with the Hortifloria Garden, a recent extension of this well-known Antwerp sculpture park.
Filip Dujardin
Four vertical recesses provide the entrances to the pavilion, divide the space into four and allow in natural light. The difference in the height of the walls gives rise to a complex composite roof surface which, with its boxed ceiling, unifies the internal spatiality.
Filip Dujardin
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Project • By Robbrecht en Daem architecten • Coasts
Rubens Square
Rubens Square is a triangular square with a large opening towards the sea. Two long benches oriented parallel to the water are bordered by a wall of tempered glass which acts as protection from the wind. It is a particularly social place where elderly people often watch children play. The square’s tiles have a mosaic-like pattern with maritime tones that refer to the nearby sea. Blues, grey-greens and whites are interwoven like an abstract pointillist painting. Only the white tiles are strictly arranged diagonally.
Filip Dujardin
Filip Dujardin
A difference in height of 1.2 meters makes the square slightly concave as if it were a stone wave washing up against the dike. Sculptures by Franz West are placed along two sides. Th... More
Project • By Robbrecht en Daem architecten • Art Galleries
Whitechapel Gallery
In the best museums and galleries one finds one's way through a series of rooms, where the artefacts are carefully lit and set off by calm backgrounds. A degree of repetition helps navigation, some variation helps orientation.
Filip Dujardin
The proposals for the Whitechapel Art Gallery are bold in their restraint (someone commented: 'where’s the architecture?') and seize a simple but powerful opportunity: lower and upper floors are configured as circuits of rooms, with the stylistically different but volumetrically similar existing galleries linked up by smaller, more domestically scaled gallery spaces. The subtle rhythms and contrasts of the rooms form the backdrop to the wide variety of work on display (historic and contempor... More
Project • By Robbrecht en Daem architecten • Pavilions
Mies van der Rohe 1:1 Model Golfclubhaus
In the summer of 2013 Robbrecht en Daem architecten realizes a temporary pavilion based on a competition design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930. The design, a clubhouse for a golf course in the gently rolling countryside around the former industrial city of Krefeld, Germany, was never built at the time it was designed. Christiane Lange, art historian and curator for ProjektMIK, invited Robbrecht en Daem architecten to design an objet d'architecture on the basis of the unpublished historical sketches of the project that were found in the Mies van der Rohe Archive (MoMA) in New York.
Thomas Hick
Thomas Hick
The temporary installation resulting from this commission was open for viewing from 26 May to 27 October 2013 at the ori... More
Project • By Robbrecht en Daem architecten • Libraries
Boekentoren - University Library
The conservation project for the Book Tower aims at restoring the historical site of the University Library, situated in the lively quartier Latin of Ghent, meanwhile at transforming it into a library for the 21st Century. The design unites the ambitions of the University to respectfully repair the monumental site to its original condition, but also to render it a contemporary house for a great diversity of users and for the valuable own collection of the institute.
Kristien Daem
The Ghent University Library is internationally renowned for its ‘heritage collection’ of manuscripts, books, coins, curiosa, newspapers and magazines. The study into the conservation project revealed that the conservation of these precious object... More
Project • By aayu design studio • Individual Buildings
Camouflage House
Project Details
Project Name: The Camouflage House
Office Name: Aayu Design Studio
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aayudedignstudio
Lead Architects: Ar. Gokul Mohan, Ar. Devi S Nair
Structural Consultants: Metric Consultants,Thiruvalla
Contractors: Danic Square, Thiruvalla
Interior Execution : Aux Interio, Kottayam
Landscape Execution : Mylackel Agro Farm
Project Manager: Anand Prasannan
Project Description
The Camouflage House, situated in the Pathanamthitta district of Kerala, India, is a residential dwelling for a single family that was built with the aim of satisfying the client's need for a distinctive and practic... More
Project • By Water Studio • Residential Landscape
Malibu Stainless Steel Sculptures
A collection of three stainless steel sculptures stand at the entry wayof a contemporary home in Malibu, California. Strategically designedto mimic the curvature of the house, the sculptures compliment thesurrounding architecture, yet add a unique, captivating element tothe outside patio.
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Cascading water creates vibrant reflections off the stainless steel surfaces, reflecting the existing greenery surrounding the sculptures as well as the illuminated pond below.
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Project • By ArchiGuru • Cultural Centres
Jarillas Eco Sign
Casa de Cultura las Jarillas is a community center in Iztacalco, Mexico City that promotes cultural proliferation through, workshops, theater, arts, and urban farming. To create a more visible presence within the neighborhood a sign was needed to help steer people towards the community center. This signage had to be easy to install, preferably integrated with local plants, and be seen from across the street where a bus station is located. After some studies and research a material was found that could be easily modified and required little maintenance. Coroplast is a white plastic material that is lightweight and can be combined into large pieces to create a visual impact for those who are walking by and driving in v... More
Project • By yuyuartstudio • Sculptures
Time Light
The land shows the accumulative soil erosion of many years, and the underground water trace evokes the image life and presents the history and memories of the past. In the piece, “Time Light,” the artist team utilized bamboo, wood, and iron to make the shape of a seed rising from the ground overlapped with a light trace. The path which is transformed from the sprouting stem invites viewers to enter this space which is illuminated by the light trace. In the space where the path moves, time travel and traces are extracted. The shape reflects waves on the ground via the lighting shadows of overlapping and colliding natural materials, symbolizing life on the land. More
Project • By yuyuartstudio • Sculptures
The Light in Between
The two large curved surfaces float above the water in dynamic tension with each other and the water below. It appears as some sort of gateway or portal, inviting us to enter at one end and squeeze through to the other side perhaps to another place in time.The curves embrace and sky and the earth. They catch the breeze and reflect the light. They tell us of the passing of time and whisper the old songs of the Harbor. More
Project • By yuyuartstudio • Sculptures
Unrelated
In our perceivable space, myriads of border-crossing actions have been taken in a creeping and constant manner. The team created Unrelated, a translucent visual installation, with bamboo, timber, iron, steel wire and LED lights, and then installed it on the surface of the water. The vertical bamboo slices interweave the real and the virtual in this space and produce a riveting intersection of shadow and light in the night breeze. As far as the team is concerned, life per se is essentially featured by a concatenation of encounters, seemingly unintentional yet in fact causally related. Those seemingly unrelated happenings could be the results of predestined appointments. More
Project • By yuyuartstudio • Sculptures
The Cloud at Boundray
四個季節是氣候的心情，是持續情感的象徵。每個季節都交織著故事，化作歷史最後的成就文化。在鹹水發展的軌跡中，有無數精彩的人生故事和辛勤耕耘的感人事件。運用織帶技術，象徵著歷史的傳承與融合與延伸。透過雲層的交織，訴說著這片土地上各種生命的悲歡離合，喜怒哀樂的形態，呈現出柔和而堅實的意念。《變之雲》織雲，載月津港。 More
Project • By yuyuartstudio • Sculptures
yuyuartstudio
Seed-shaped sculptures, floating, moving with the ebb and flow, swaying like waves in a sea of woods. Like signs that point the way along the navigation route, they hover in the first forest on the island after crossing the bridge, guiding the travelers , and connecting Yuguang Island with the travelers on an emotional level. More