Herman Miller has just launched a new video series/site Points of View a site celebrating five California architects' perspective on design, directed by Hello Design.
Each interview explores design elements behind each architect's work including buildings like the Marmol Radziner Desert Prefab house and the Cigolle x Coleman TR+2 StudioHouse. Architects include Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner (Marmol Radziner), Kim Coleman (Cigolle X Coleman), James Meyer (LeanArch), Jim Jennings (Jennings Architecture), and John Friedman (JFAK Architects). POV showcases a photo gallery as well of each home giving an exclusive look at the architecture and landscape. Also users can enter to win Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered, a collection of forgotten architectural masterpieces from Shulman's personal archives. Click here to see.
I missed the latest Pecha Kucha but heard it was a good one. The folks from Coast Modern Film presented and I just caught a look at their trailer for Coast Modern Film , a film about a journey from Los Angeles to Vancouver; from 1922 up to the present exploring modernist architecture on the West Coast and how today a third generation of architects are embracing the ideas and issues raised by modern architecture. Can hardly wait to see this! So exciting!
Existing on a 55-acre property in the remote hills of Malibu, architect David Hertz designed this unique home incorporating a 70's 747 airplane into the structure, inspired by the un-obstructed view of the mountain range and distant views of the area.
Quoting from the architects website, "The Main Residence will use both of the main wings as well as the 2 stabilizers from the tail section as a roof for the Master Bedroom. The Art Studio Building will use a 50-foot long section of the upper fuselage as a roof, while the remaining front portion of the fuselage and upper first class cabin deck will be used as the roof of the Guest House. The lower half of the fuselage, which forms the cargo hold, will form the roof of the Animal Barn. A Meditation Pavilion will be made from the entire front of the airplane at 28 feet in diameter and 45 feet tall; the cockpit windows will form a skylight. Several other components are contemplated for use in a sublime manner, which include a fire pit and water element constructed out of the engine cowling."
The structure's makes a statement about the obsolescence and ephemeral nature of our technology and our society. "The recycling of the 4.5 million parts of this “big aluminum can” is seen as an extreme example of sustainable reuse and appropriation. American consumers and industry throw away enough aluminum in a year to rebuild our entire airplane commercial fleet every three months."
I came across this amazing conversion of a laneway warehouse into a modern house, courtyard and studio via a press release from the Come Up to My Room 2009 exhibition. The Courtyard House as it is called was created by Peter Tan and Christine Ho Ping Kong of Studio Junction, Toronto. They will be creating a room installation at the Gladstone Hotel "Come Up to Room" 2009 event February 5-8, 2009 (which coincides with IDS).
loving this polish pavilion design by architects, wojciech kakowski, natalia paszkowska, and marcin mostafa which was meant to embody "the motif of folk-art paper cut-out[s}" for shanghai's world expo in 2010. (via paper alchemy).
