Σπίτι που επιπλέει_

Το κτίριο αυτό σχεδιάστηκε για να φιλοξενήσει την έκθεση φωτογραφίας του Ondřej Kavan παρουσιάζοντάς την στο κοινό μέσα από τη μετακίνηση του σπιτιού σε διάφορα λιμάνια.

Ξύλο και laminate χρησιμοποιούνται τόσο στο εσωτερικό και εξωτερικό. Τα υλικά παραπέμπουν σε σκάφη. Οι κυματιστές γραμμές, που προσομοιώνουν τα κύματα της θάλασσας, επαναλαμβάνονται σε όλους τους χώρους, διευκολύνοντας την ένταξη του κτιρίου στο περιβάλλον του. 

A Man Takes A Single Rake to The Beach. And When You Zoom Out And See It… Mind BLOWN_

If you live in San Francisco, California, then you may be lucky enough to come across the art of Andres Amador. He doesn’t paint or sculpt. He prefers a medium that is temporary but absolutely beautiful: a sandy beach at low tide. He uses a rake to create works of art that can be bigger than 100,000 sq. ft.

He spends hours creating these intricate masterpieces, knowing that the tide will soon come in and wash away his work forever.

For Andres, his art is “more about the process and less about the result.”

The Danish National Maritime Museum By Bjarke Ingels Group_

photo © Rasmus Hjortshoj. 

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has just completed another impressive project in their home country, Denmarkwhich opened its doors to the public in early October 2013. Located in the town of Helsingør, (just 50 km north of Copenhagen) the building for the new Danish National Maritime Museum sits in the shadow of one of Denmark's most important buildings, Kronborg Castle - also known as Hamlet’s Castle, after Shakespeare’s play. With the aim of keeping views of the venerable landmark unobstructed, the architects at BIG decided to submerge the entire museum, building its galleries underground. However, in doing so, they faced a major problem: in building underground, where exactly do you place the facade? A solution was found throughincorporating the gigantic on-site 60-year-old dry dock: measuring some 7 meters in depth, the dock became a submerged courtyard onto which all the museum spaces open up. Instead of a monumental facade, the architects gave the people of Helsingør an ‘‘urban abyss’’ as they call it - a void space that functions as an inversion of a public building.