Aberrant architecture - small coal man’s tiny travelling theatre

British design firm aberrant architecture has developed ‘small coal man’s tiny travelling theatre’. the brilliantly red structure was formed from aberrant architecture’s 21st century re-conceptualization of traveling coal salesman thomas britton’s 1678 mini-entertainment building for london. ‘small coal-man’s tiny traveling theater’ has been constructed in a manner very similar to its previous incarnation— a large sound funnel distributes musical entertainment occurring on the inside to gathered crowds around the exterior of the miniature auditorium. in the time of britton’s structure, amateur performers to symphony stars such as george frideric handel were said to serenade small crowds while hidden away from view. 

all images by Simon Kennedy

[Via designboom]

Moby Los Angeles Architecture Blog:

i’m in new york and montreal and el paso this week, so unfortunately this will be my last architectural update until next monday.

but in the meantime here are some pictures of what is arguably one of the most historic and iconic and remarkable houses in l.a, the schindler house.
it’s been photographed about a million times, and deservedly so, for it’s a beautiful and idiosyncratic and strangely bucolic (although a lot of that is, of course, the setting) house.
it also has a really idealistic and idiosyncratic history, here’s the wikipedia page if you’re interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler_House

and apparently when it was first built you could sit up in the sleeping baskets and see all the way to downtown (now that’s impossible due to the 4 billion buildings that have been built in the last 90 years in l.a between the schindler house and downtown).

also a nice l.a architecture fact: at one point schindler and neutra co-habitated in the house.

i’ll take some other pictures this week, and if they’re worth looking at i’ll put them up here.
and then next week i’ll get back to taking pictures of oddball buildings in l.a.

thanks

moby

Peter Lundstrom - Treehotel 2011

“In the High North deep inside the woods, 

where the tree tops touch the sky, there is 

a place inspired by friendship, designed with 

genius, made by magic, perfect & pure. 

This is Treehotel.” - Clare MacCarthy, Financial Times

LIVE architecture: charkha

the winning entry in a monument design competition, the project draws from the ‘spinning wheel’ symbol promoted by mahatma gandhi to illustrate contemporary india’s spectrum of social and cultural dimensions.

migliore + servetto architetti associati: mole antonelliana LED installation  [ VIDEO ]

set upon the tallest building in turin, italy is the ‘torino + light + italian colours mole antonelliana lighting installation’, a project by milan-based practice migliore + servetto architetti associati, in collaboration with dutch electronics company philips and italian lighting fixture company luceplan. the historic landmark, ‘mole antonelliana’, is currently sporting three rectangular steel frames which contain red, white and green LED lights to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the unification of italy. suspended from the spire and floating above the dome approximately 80 to 100 meters high, the perimeter of the tilted frameworks are 168 meters in length.

“crushedwall” by Walter Jack studio

all photos by simon burt

“crushed wall’ is the latest architectural installation by british artist walter jack. situated at the entrance of the heartlands project in cornwall, UK, the expansive 40-metre long, 3-metre high wall utilizes concrete in such a way that it appears as soft and malleable, partially wrapping around the perimeter of a building.

selgascano: el B - auditorium in cartagena

• floating stairs become focal element | image © iwan baan

• ground level seating and ramp | image © iwan baan

Multiple Years Captured in a Single Photograph

German photographer Michael Wesely shows that it’s possible in his series Open Shutter. In the mid-1990’s, he started capturing building projects and architectural development with long exposures over the course of years.

The final result is a photograph consisting of ghosts of building construction, sun streaks, and trails, along with remnants of people and things passing through the scene over the course of time. Each photograph is a living memory of the time, place, and the people who passed through the space, while the surrounding buildings stand crisp and clear, never changing across the years.

Tetsuo Kondo Architects - Cloudscapes

Clouds are important elements of our atmosphere, framing outdoor space and filtering sunlight. They are the visible part of the terrestrial water cycle, carrying water— the source of life—from the oceans to the land. Clouds find balance within stable equilibria and naturally sustain themselves, embodying and releasing solar energy. The ability to touch, feel, and walk through the clouds is a notion drawn from many of our fantasies. Gazing out of airplane windows, high above the earth, we often daydream of what it might be like to live in this ethereal world of fluffy vapor.

TRANSSOLAR & Tetsuo Kondo Architects create Cloudscapes where visitors can experience a real cloud from below, within, and above floating in the center of the Arsenale. Visitors find a path that is akin the normal experience of walking through a garden. The path winds through Cloudscapes appearing and disappearing. Sometimes people only see the other people across the cloud while the path is obscured. The structure consists of a 4.3 meter high ramp that allows visitors to sit above the cloud. Simply, the structure leans on the existing Arsenale columns. The cloud is always changing so the experience of the path is also dynamic.

The cloud is based on the physical phenomenon of saturated air, condensation droplets floating in the space and condensation seeds. The atmospheres above and below the cloud have different qualities of light, temperature, and humidity, separating the spaces by a filter effect. The cloud can be touched, and it can be felt as different microclimatic conditions coincide. The scene is set underneath an artificial sky where the cloud can be touched and felt as different micro-climatic conditions coincide and where people are changing the cloud and meeting each other.

Collaboration with TRANSSOLAR / Matthias Schuler

Site : Venice, ITALY

SAPS(Sasaki and Partners)

Period: March 2010 - August 2010

Structure : steel

Tetsuo Kondo Architects

The installation was planned for Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. A forest known as Kadriorg is located in the center of city: trees that have grown there for three centuries, around a palace built for the Czar of Russia.Here we will build an elevated path that will weave its way between the trees in beautiful Kadriorg forest. Just 95m long, it will be made of 139mm steel pipe and sheet steel, 5mm thick, leaning on the trees here and there, without a single column.

Artist erin mcsavaney

NATHAN SKILES – HUNTERDON ART MUSEUM

The Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey is currently featuring a solo exhibition of mixed media artist Nathan Skiles called “The Clockmaker’s Apprentice”. Creating objects with an innovative usage of only foam rubber, Skiles challenges the viewer to look beyond the obvious. The artist painstakingly creates an experience for viewers to participate in, confusing our sense of immediate recognition. Skiles has embraced the unique architecture of the museum’s first floor gallery by installing all 100 works in a way that would lead the viewer on a sort of treasure hunt. Follow along as Hi Fructose gets a look in with commentary from the museum’s Director of Exhibitions Jonathan and artist Nathan Skiles.

Carsten Witte - Manhattan Structures