Cut sheets

A collection of thoughts, images and inspiration related to all things design.

Interesting to see the Standard from this perspective….

framenoir:

The Standard, New York is a recipient of the 2012 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture. The Institute Honor Awards program recognizes achievements for a broad range of architectural activity to elevate the general quality of architecture practice, establish a standard of excellence against which all architects can measure performance, and inform the public of the breadth and value of architecture practice.

To read more, visit:  http://www.aia.org/practicing/awards/2012/architecture/

Read the interview with Christine Gachot here

Double Happiness- “tool for exacerbating our senses and sharpening our awareness of reality“. Designed by French-Portuguese architect DIDIER FIUZA FAUSTINO

Fantastic idea. a novel use of an old billboard frame, this is definitely a way I would enjoy viewing the city.

“Double Happiness responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seem to be prevailing over all. This nomad piece of urban furniture allows the reactivation of different public spaces and enables inhabitants to reappropriate fragments of their city. They will both escape and dominate public space through a game of equilibrium and desequilibrium. By playing this “risky” game, and testing their own limits, two persons can experience together a new perception of space and recover an awareness of the physical world.”

http://www.we-find-wildness.com/2011/02/didier-fiuza-faustino/

Slits instead of windows. Eastern architects from Japan play off this narrow site with 66 long vertical slashes cutout of the buildings exterior concrete, to form long streams of light within the interior. Glass is inserted directly into the concrete without frames, forming these sleek minimal slits.

Slits instead of windows. Eastern architects from Japan play off this narrow site with 66 long vertical slashes cutout of the buildings exterior concrete, to form long streams of light within the interior. Glass is inserted directly into the concrete without frames, forming these sleek minimal slits.