March 2010 Archives

This is a funny Dilbert comic strip about an Architect's work and Architecture.



A very very familiar situation.  Rushing presentations for a project which you don't know if you're gonna get, a classic Architect's experience especially here in the Philippines.

The shoe shaped bath tub, designed by Italian designer Massimiliano Della Monaca, is truly a woman's bath tub.  It is designed to look like an elegant pump shoe with a skyscraper heel. Though the design looks like its painful to wear as a shoe, it is a perfectly shaped bath tub to soak in.

Yes, you read it right, glow in the dark bath tubs.  This is actually a product of Lucedentro, a company that specializes in the research of photoluminescence. Their product is the photoluminescent ceramic mosaic.

Here's an interesting set of pictures from Apartment Therapy.  If you want a vintage inspired bathroom, specifically from the 1960s, these pictures might help.  These are pictures they found from Flickr's picture set - Bathrooms (1960-65).

A new way of presenting Architectural Visualization and 3d Imaging has surfaced.  No need for a physical scaled model or a 3d digital representation for your architectural projects and building.  All you need is this plastic sheet with your 3d architectural design and a light source and your design will be displayed as a hologram, much like what you see in most sci-fi movies.  This Holographic Architectural Representation System is a product of Zebra Imaging.

If you can't imagine what I'm saying, check out the videos below.

Here's another video of the World's Tallest Tower, Burj Khalifa or formerly Burj Dubai in Dubai, shot from a helicopter.

A fine looking chair of plywood grids designed by Los Angeles designer Christopher Warren of WORD.  Called Myrkr Chair, meaning "darkness", this chair is made from 12mm plywood sheets laser-cut and then put together with dowels.

No, this is not a carton box and yes, this is actually a furniture.  It's the "Karton Chair" designed by Florian Kallus. As you can see, this chair was indeed inspired from an open cardboard box or carton.

This is yet another creative design using the kids' colorful blocks toy, LEGO, and this time as a functional furniture for an office setting.

The architects, abcg Architects, were commissioned by a newly created advertising agency Boys and Girls to design their office in Dublin, Ireland.  And as part of the design, abcg had a very playful idea for their conference table.  They made the table top entirely out of LEGO blocks.

The Kinetic Sculpture created by ART+COM, a digital media design agency in Berlin, Germany, for the BMW Museum in Munich, Germany, is made up of 714 metal spheres individually hanged from a thin steel wire.  These spheres are able to move individually vertically by a special mechanism which can be moved in unison to create amazing sculptures in mid air.