Apr 28, 2011
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When it comes to places to be, it’s personal to everyone. Personally, I love New York. It’s a busy bustling and inspiring place for me to be and I love it when I get chance to spend any amount of time there. That’s why I keep an eye on things that are going on there and blog them here for you as often as I can.
So here’s one that is pure awesome… ness. Yes, awesomeness.
There’s a little coffee bar around the back of Grand Central Terminal that needs to be seen to be believed. It’s set up to look like a library/reading room but turned 90º on it’s side. So lights that hang from the ceiling become seats, and seats become lights that protrude from the wall above the bar.
It’s designed by the talented people at Nema Workshop, a New York based group of Architects, Designers and Thinkers. If you look at their very inspirational site you will see that they have worked on some amazing projects which make you realise that design, once again, is used to give a good feeling and add a little humour to the job in hand. Click on the picture above and you can go to their site to see for yourself just how inspiring it can be.
Everybody says… Brilliant.
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Apr 05, 2010
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I’ll start this in the old way I used to start most of my older blog posts… just because it’s true, so here goes.
Once in a while an item comes along and makes you stand up and pay attention. Here is one of them. This is an attractive looking hen house which is quite extraordinary, if only for it’s external beauty!
The wooden, multi-level hen house is designed to be a place to roost and rest for the (possibly more pampered) chicken(s) in your life. Using principles of architecture in the design of a simple hen house is a stroke of genius and we wonder how long it is before someone starts a study on whether chicken lay more in this than a standard koop.
The designer is Frederik Roijé, who is from the east of the Netherlands. After a prodigious period at the reknowned Eindhoven institute and a couple of internships at famous designers’ in both the Netherlands and Italy, he opened the door on his own design practice in Amsterdam during 2003, specialising in product design. His early flair for “interior items” has been continued through his work for companies such as Droog design and many of his own collections.
We thoroughly recommend a good look around his website to ensure you see all his work, it is very inspirational. Click the image above and you will go to his site to see his works and learn about him and his company.
Everybody thinks this is great work and inspiration to everyone indeed!
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Dec 06, 2008
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It’s been a long time coming and the Stuttgart car makers’ museum to themselves has been slightly delayed again. The Viennese architect-designer, Delugan Meissl, designed this masterpiece to showcase the history of one of Germany’s most iconic brands.
The whole building is intended to look as if it is floating above the ground when you are inside and houses some of the best examples of German sportscar design from the last 100 years of so. Everybody would love to give you more details about the museum, but it is a little hard to decipher the language used on the site. It’s probably best that you just look at the pictures and pop in to the actual museum next time you are in or near Stuttgart. As ever click the picture to see the site and the building works on it.
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Aug 21, 2008
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One of our favourite cities is Antwerp. Dunno why but the place rocks. The atmosphere there is a great one and there is a real sense of style it feels French but isn’t that far away.
Architecturally there is a great deal going on too, old and new mix with ease and shops pop up in old bank buildings and the such like. The shops exude a great deal of style too with upper class boutiques and (my favourite shop) the grungy, down-to-earth-skater-hang-out, ‘Fish ‘n’ Chips’, which is well worth a look if you are trying desperately to be down with the kids… I still am, I just like the place.
Anyway, this recently caught my eye and you are bound to see why. Nestled in between the standard buildings is a glass fronted piece which has multiple usages – shop, office, apartment and storage space. It’s designed by the Import/Export Architectural practice and we like it lots of plenty. The building is in the trendy part of town and deserves to be. It’s full of angles which are not quite 90º and seems to be very fragile (hence the name) but is just as strong and sturdy as any of the buildings around it.
It’s not hard to see why this building works in Antwerp, it has a great feeling which could only be bettered if it overlooked the river. I’d think about relocating the business to this building if I could live there too. As usual, click the picture above to get more images from the ‘OWI // Office for Word and Image’ website. Nice.
Images © Dujardin Filip
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Jul 08, 2008
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Ever wonder where artists and designers get all their inspiration from? Sometimes when you’re watching a movie you wonder if people making these things are on a non-prescribed medicine. Sometimes you see logo or poster designs that evoke the same feeling.
Although some designers just design these kind of things out of their heads, a lot of us get our inspiration from the most usual (and unusual) places. Take this picture for example; looks like it came straight out of a movie doesn’t it? In this case, it was a place at the beach in Estonia, right after a storm followed by a cold winter night. What happens next is a sight that is just as unbelievable as it is beautiful and provides people with a huge amount of inspiration. Imagine loving chocolate, and walking into a bonbonshop in Belgium (home of one of the best bonbon makers). It’s a walhalla come to life, which is exactly what happens to designers when seeing inspirational places like this.
Scenes like this happen all around you though; you don’t necessarily have to go all the way to Estonia to see this. You’d be suprised how many fantasy-like places exist, sometimes even right around the corner.
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