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After kurage1 and kurage2 here comes the kurage3

project description “Kurage3″ by schemata
“We made the third of Kurage. This kurage changed 1.0mm into 1.5mm, and enlarged the size. As a result, the illuminance went up, too. There are 4 types of forms. This time, I first changed the size of the optical fiber from 1mm to 1.5mm, the size of the main body has grown along with it, too. The size grew and the illuminance went up. Kurage is composed of optical fiber. By bending the optical fiber, the whole area is illuminated outside of the immediate area of the light, and together, they can make very soft light. The brightness can be adjusted by the size of the curve.” read more

We came across some great images of the Myto Chair by Konstantin Grcic and it will now be available @ the MOMA store. While I think that the price is a bit high, I am still blown away by the economy of material/structure of this chair. Brilliant!

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Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world’s emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there’s a backlash brewing, as everyday people start putting the brakes on their all-too-modern lives. read more

We have been watching the German company Festool for many years now. With its 80 year commitment to innovation and top-of-the-line quality, Festool stands out as the very finest in portable power tools. We firmly believe that once you use these machines, you’ll be hooked. With that said we would like to take the time to thank Festool for giving core.form-ula the opportunity to play w/ some of their amazing power tools.

at: villa foscari la malcontenta, venice, italy
from: 14th september - 23rd november, 2008

to mark the 500th anniversary of palladio’s birth zaha hadid and patrik schumacher have created ‘aura’, which will be installed at villa foscari la malcontenta as part of the venice architecture biennale 2008. the installation is made up of the two sculptures ‘aura-S’ and ‘aura-L’, each will be shown in a separate room. via designboom

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Exhibition discussion with Eric Owen Moss, Lisa Iwamoto, Craig Scott and representatives from Buro Happold: Friday, 08.15.08 at 7pm

The SCI-Arc Gallery is pleased to present Voussoir Cloud, a site-specific installation by San Francisco based architecture and design practice IwamotoScott in collaboration with Buro Happold. Voussoir Cloud’s design explores the coupling of potentially conflicting constructional logics – the pure compression of a vault with an ultra-light sheet material. Opening August 8, this installation will be fabricated by IwamotoScott in association with SCI-Arc students.

Voussoirs, the wedge shaped masonry blocks that make up an arch, are redefined in Voussoir Cloud using a system of three-dimensional modules formed by folding paper thin wood laminate along curved seams. The curvature produces a form that relies on the internal surface tension to hold its shape and allows for a structural porosity within the constraints of sheet material. The resulting dimpled, concave modules pack together; naturally creating vaulted forms with a light porous surface. The form-finding exploration of the whole is thus dependent on the geometric performance of the individual units and their relation to the gallery walls. read more

A Problem of Bubbles Frames an Olympic Design

It is not often that a 19th-century scientist plays a central role in 21st-century architecture, but the new Beijing National Aquatics Center is no ordinary building.  With a steel framework of seemingly random polyhedrons covered in soft plastic pillows, the center, known as the Water Cube and home to the swimming and diving events at the Olympics beginning this week, “really looks like nothing else in the world,” said Tristram Carfrae, the structural engineer who designed it. “It’s a box made of bubbles.”  That’s an appropriate image, for the inspiration for Mr. Carfrae’s design originated with a problem about aggregations of bubbles — in other words, foams — posed by the great British physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. via>nytimes>science

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Flagship store Louis Vuitton, Japan

The design for the 10 storey (54 meter tall) flagship Louis Vuitton store in Japan aims to establish an architectural equivalent of the identity of Louis Vuitton in which classical and modern qualities are blended, reinforcing each other. The design inspires the visitor with a feeling of being in the House of Louis Vuitton by celebrating the qualities that make up the essence of the company, its products, its history and its future. read more

Script this, Computational that, Algorithmic this… bla bla bla!

Yutaka Igarashi’s work goes back to a Joseph Kosinski media course reference @ Columbia in the early 00’s. It may be that I am coming down from that “Oh So Sweet” sugar high that a nice script can give you or the frustration w/ the current crop of cad jockeys that can not model the simplest forms. Either way, Igarashi’s work is a much needed inspirational stopping point that will deliver you into a perverse world of hyper detailed vehicles and leave us questioning their true end use. read more

The Welcome Center, designed by Till Schweizer, is situated at a crucial point of the JinHua Architectur Park.

The pavilion overlooks at a significant bend of the river bank, therefore it marks the turning point in the overall direction and perception while entering or leaving the park. read more