Architect Armin Blasbichler’s playful and well-designed home, called der Muslhaufen, is filled with his minimalist and modern décor concepts. Located in South Tyrol, Italy, the outside of the home resembles musls, or log stacks, and was constructed to blend in to the surrounding scenery.
Several cheerful design concepts include doors within doors, doors in the ceiling, and a stained glass window door, compiled from Pantone swatches, laminated glass, and a wood frame. As natural light streams through the Pantone swatch door, the hall is filled with square patterns of luminous color. On each swatch, a handwritten note identifies each color in comparison to the surrounding environment, including deep orchid, daffodil, and faded rose.
Cathedrals across the globe are always a hot spot for tourists. Generally, the first thing anyone does upon entering one of these monumental sites is to look up and appreciate the incredible size of the space. The vaulted ceilings always have a major wow-factor, and the overall massive architectural detail of a cathedral is just mind-blowing.
American photographer David Stephenson spent six years capturing this grand, awe-inspiring world of centuries-old architecture. Particularly, he focuses on abstract, precise compositions of the high-vaulted ceilings found in European religious structures, and these photographs are featured as a collection in his book titled Heavenly Vaults.
By lying on the ground at a central point in each structure, Stephenson is able to transform the elaborate ceiling details into symmetrical patterns of geometric shapes and colors.
Slovakian artist Matej Kren‘s installation Scanner is like a bookworm childhood fantasy sprung to life: It’s a giant fort made out of thousands of books.
It isn’t your eyes that deceive you in Jim Kazanjian‘s eerie house photographs — it’s the pictures themselves. Kazanjian creates the Tim Burton-esque structures by recomposing several photos into a single, surreal image.
In Salt Lake City, a place not renowned for progressive architecture, Brent Jespersen built a luminous canyon retreat—using his architect father and a famed Utah modernist as his guides.
Caliper Studio’s recent installation — a wall made of polished stainless steel folded panels, inserted in a brick wall niche enclosing a discreet garden. Their goal is to expand this panel system to complete building facades. That would be cool.
Italian studio MARC has transformed a 20th century classical mansion in Turin, Italy into a contemporary office space for the lawyer firm, Tosetto, Weigman and Associates. The elegant interiors have been respected including a grand entry staircase which leads to the first floor reception. Contemporary and functional have been introduced, including a library network which has been suspended above the main employee floor. The white steel walkway which weaves above hallways to form a mezzanine level, containing lines of bookshelves which may expand over time given the breadth of the extensive labyrinth.
Connecta and their roommates built this wood wall from a huge stack of cordwood from floor to ceiling. Awesome. See more photos here.
Mumbai-based practice LIVE architecture (Nuru Karim) has shared with us images of ‘AMET school’, a 6,500 m2 international school in Lonavala, Maharashtra, India. Taking advantage of the picturesque hillside of the site, the design seeks to directly engage with the setting by framing and releasing views through an undulating elevation composed of rib-like fins.
