today and tomorrow

Oliver Kosta-Théfaine is a French artist. These ceiling decorations are made with the flame of a lighter. Hot!

‘Low Budget’ is an other series of work by him.

photo by derekb

This is probably one of the smallest houses I know, it is located in Antwerp (Belgium) and was designed by Sculp(It) Architecten. It is actually their own house and office at the same time. The front side is only 2,4 meters wide and it is 5,5 meters deep. So they only have around 60 square meters to live; divided over 4 floors. The ground floor is their office, first is the kitchen / dining room, second the living room and third is the bedroom /  bathroom. They acually even have a bathtub on the roof. I don’t know if I could on such a small space …
Photos by Luc Roymans.

Today I finally had the time to visit the new adidas concept store No.74 in Berlin. Its name is quite self explanatory … its location is in the Torstrasse 74. At the moment they only have the adidas Y-3 spring summer collection, in May and June they will have selection of adidas Originals. From July on, they will have a wider product range with limited editions and special items related to Berlin. You may also expect a China like market shop interior in the coming months, hence the olympics. Definitely a new spot on my Berlin tour.

Lately there are a lot of small Japanese architecture projects floating around the internet. Most of them aren’t even that new, this one is C-1 by Curiosity. I think it’s always nice when the architecture and the interior design are done by one team, you can really tell.
Other nice Japanese projects: 63.02° and Ring House.

The Boros Collection is a private art collection in Berlin, located in a huge WWII air-raid bunker. On top of it, they have build this penthouse. Unfortunatly I couldn’t find better photos, but I guess you can imagine that this is an unique project and living space.

63.02°, a 71.4 m² apartment / house in Tokyo. If they would only add an other 50 m² and build one in Berlin, I would definitely be interested. 63.02°, by the way, is the angle of one side to the street. Build by Schemata Architecture Office Ltd.
found at dezeen

This weekend house called ‘Ring House‘ by TNA Architects, was this years winner in the annual Wallpaper* Design Awards in the category ‘Best new private house’. You have a full 360° view on each floor, some rings are a little higher to provide a minimum of privacy.
I wouldn’t mind to have a weekend house like this, 300 km outside of Tokyo.

The Selexyz Dominicanen bookstore in Maastricht, The Netherlands, is definitely my kind of church.
Done by Merkx-Girdo architecten.

Jason Salavon, famous for his ‘Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades‘, his latest project is called ‘Field Guide to Style & Color‘. It is a fullsize reproduction of the entire 2007 IKEA catalogue, leaving only color and structure.

‘Prop‘ by Peter Marigold.