today and tomorrow

This house in Kohoku looks unreal, designed by Torafu Architects.
You can find more photos at Arch Daily.

Last weekend was TodaysArt Festival in The Hague (The Netherlands). The festival is all about creativity and audiovisual experiences. Pablo Valbuena was one of the artists who presented his work, he is known for his video projections on 3D objects. In The Hague he showed this projection called ‘Augmented Space’ on the city hall. As always the visual experience is amazing, just watch these 2 videos.

both video by Ri Ra Robbie

photos by Wilbert Baan

Note to myself: stop checking out Japanese architecture!
This House N by Sou Fujimoto Architects is … I’m just speechless. Iwan Baan made those photos and of course he has some more here.

Gustafson Porter and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol are the landscape architects who designed this installation called ‘Towards Paradise’, for this years Venice Biennale Architecture. They used helium balloons to create these floating clouds over the garden of the Arsenale in Venice.
All I think of now is the music video of Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb.

found at e-architect

I guess the worst client for an architect is a colleague, the second one could be an industrial designer. Koji Tsutsui Architect & Associates was asked to do the private residence of an industrial designer in Tokyo. The result: I would move in tomorrow if I could.
It’s official now, I’m a fan of Japanese modern architecture.

Last weekend, Greg Lynn Form won the Golden Lion for the Best Installation Project in the International Exhibition at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, for his Recycled Toy Furniture designs. I wouldn’t be surprised to see something like this in the Ikea children’s department.

found at dezeen

Renate Buser is a Swiss photographer. This project is called ‘Tower Piece’.

The building has two identical sides, one reflecting the other. This symmetry will be visualized by putting two monumental photographs of the façade of the building on each side of the north west tower. The idea is to open up the solidity of the building, to split it in half, with two photographic images and make it transparent. This will create tension between the photographed spaces and the real space around it, between illusion and reality, and between the inside and the outside. When driving by in a car on Alton Road, the relation between photographed and real perspectives will constantly change. Therefore the installation will be seen best in movement.

Indeed, you’ll have to go and see this video on her website.

found at designboom weblog

This 151.80 m² atelier in Ushimado, Japan, is want I want. Nothing more, just that. Designed by Tezuka Architects.

found at dezeen

‘Les Bains des Docks‘ is a 5000 m² aquatic complex in Le Havre (France), designed by Jean Nouvel.
Photos by Clément Guillaume.

found at designws

Anwohnerpark is a project that osa, the office for subversive architecture, did in Cologne, Germany.

found at rebel:art