Swedish studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has unveiled plans for a row of high-rise apartment blocks constructed from timber that will tower over an old harbour in Stockholm.
The 4 20-storey apartment blocks proposed for the website by Stockholm-based Tham & Videgård Arkitekter will be constructed and finished completely in Swedish pine, in accordance to the company.
If authorized, the Wooden Highrise apartments will be set along the waterfront in Loudden, a former transport harbour on the island of Djurgården.
“The buildings are constructed totally in one particular material, Swedish solid wood, from the frame to the facade, finishes and windows,” stated a statement from the architects.
The towers will be connected by a 3-storey base and will collectively provide 240 new properties for the city, as properly as quayside dining establishments, cafes and indoor gardens.
Tham & Videgård were commissioned to design the 24,700-square-metre scheme by Folkhem – a regional developer specialising in the building of strong timber buildings – as portion of a wider regeneration of the industrial location.
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“By way of constant use of a renewable material like wood, the outcome is a sustainable, properly-insulated and robust residence structure with very good likely to perform nicely more than time, and minimise the total energy consumption,” stated the architects.
Every apartment will characteristic massive windows that overlook a sea inlet in the centre of the city, whilst enclosed gardens at the leading of each of the 4 blocks will supply residents with communal social room. Apartments will also function personal terraces partially concealed by slatted wooden screens that will provide a degree of privacy and shade.
The towers will be spaced evenly along the block and set at varying angles, to give each residence views in the direction of the sea and to allow sunlight attain the promenade and buildings behind.
The connecting lower-rise block that zigzags along the quayside will accommodate the angle of the towers and develop triangular patios planted with trees.
“The high-rise towers are interconnected by a 3-storey base that supports a clear street segment,” explained the architects. “Its folded strategy shapes exterior spaces for meetings and outdoor routines in wind-sheltered and sunny spots.”
The roof of the reduce connecting building will be planted with flowering sedum to provide drainage for rain water, although solar panels will be positioned on top of the four towers to offset some of the building’s power needs.
A begin date for development of the venture has not but been confirmed.
Scandinavian firm CF Møller revealed programs to create the world’s tallest Wooden Skyscraper in 2013. The 34-storey tower block was the winner of a housing design competition for Stockholm and is planned for completion in 2023.
“The primary reason it hasn’t been done before is that concrete and steel have a big portion of the marketplace,” CF Møller architect Ola Jonsson informed Dezeen. “But now the developing industry has commenced taking obligation for the surroundings.”
“We have a prolonged historical past of creating wooden structures in Sweden,” he explained. “We have a higher expertise of how to use the wood these days and we know that glued or nailed wood does have very sturdy development attributes.”
Undertaking credits:
Architect: Tham & Videgård Arkitekter Accountable architects: Martin Videgård, Bolle Tham Crew: Jonas Tjäder, Johannes Brattgård, Ryan McGaffney
A idea for “shadowless” skyscrapers that redirect sunlight to public spaces could operate for tall buildings anyplace in the globe, say the London designers behind the proposal.
Architecture firm NBBJ developed proposals for two twisting towers on a side in North Greenwich, London, that bounce light among them down to a public area that would otherwise be in their shadow.
Led by layout director Christian Coop, NBBJ’s head of computational style David Kosdruy, and architectural assistant James Pinkerton, the group designed the design and style as portion of a research project to see if they could make “shadowless” skyscrapers.
“We like to push the boundaries of what is achievable with design computation by building new applications like the No Shadow Tower,” the designers advised Dezeen. “The algorithm design and style for the tower is based on the law of reflection. Our facade has various angles of panels that distribute light in excess of a specific area at a number of times in the course of the day.”
The reflective panels on the twin skyscrapers could reduce the quantity of shadow they cast by up to 50 per cent, according to the group. Light would be reflected from the person panels that type the skin of the building, down into a public space at the base of the towers.
“One particular of NBBJ’s principle considerations is public room and the approaches the public use and interact with theses spaces,” mentioned the designers. “The No Shadow Tower areas public space at the heart of the venture, along with human interaction and the effect of skyscrapers at street level.”
Diagram exhibiting distribution of light
The group said that the proposal could be replicable for nearly any site in the globe.
“The research that we have undertaken could be utilized in many places in the globe, each and every time creating a diverse form that would relate to its distinct context and solar situations,” they explained.
The style for the towers was created by developing a bespoke algorithm to record the angle of sunlight on the web site each day for a year.
This information allowed the team to predict the behaviour of light at different instances of the day, and determine how it would bounce off the two structures. This info was then fed back into a parametric computer model to generate the envelope for the buildings.
Making use of person panels to produce the facade would allow sunlight to be reflected pane-by-pane, resulting in pools of light on the ground as an alternative of a big, concentrated spot to prevent heat or glare.
“The construction of the tower would not be the most difficult activity in producing this venture, the building operates within the very same parameters as other tall buildings and the curve in the facade would not pose a significant challenge above what’s been accomplished for towers that currently exist,” the venture group informed Dezeen. “The real process is in the approach, the study that determines the sun’s place and angles to create the optimum structure for a particular spot.”
“We see this notion building and sooner or later incorporated into towers around the world,” they added. “It will add to the choices that tall buildings can offer for improved urban environments globally.
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NBBJ submitted the concept for an suggestions competitors run by New London Architecture, with a see to exploring how skyscrapers can increase public spaces at street level.
Dezeen promotion: the Brand New Globe exhibition will showcase new pieces by global layout studios at the Dušan showroom in Milan from 14 to 19 April.
Luscious Meals Cravings by Studio Appétit and Studio Lenneke Wispelwey, photograph by Masha Bakker. Primary image: Eclepens by Adrien Rovero
Taking location throughout the city’s yearly design week, Brand New Planet Milan will deliver together eight studios that each and every mix design and style, producing and entrepreneurship in their companies.
Hurricane Table by Reinier Bosch
Located in the centre of Milan, between the Brera and San Gregorio districts, the display will be housed in a historic building designed by architect Giò Ponti.
Come As You Are by Christophe de la Fontaine at Dante
The Brand New World programme, which debuted at Belgrade Style Week in 2005, showcases a hand-picked assortment of the most revolutionary and innovative designers in spots around the globe. The aim is to bring with each other “important international studios who epitomise the new idea of designers, makers, and entrepreneurs,” stated co-founder and curator Jovan Jelovac.
Flylight by Studio Drift
Brand names and exhibitors incorporate Studio Drift, Tom Strala, Studio Appetit, Adrien Rovero, Buro Belen, Reinier Bosche, Carolina Wilcke and Ilan Garibi.
Kalahario chair by Tom Strala
Dezeen is media companion with Brand New Globe, which will get area at the Milan showroom of fashion brand Dušan, Via Antonio Zarotto 1.
For a lot more information on the event, visit the Brand New World Milan site.
Here are some even more details from the organisers:
Milan 2015
Dante – Items and Bads, Studio Drift, Tom Strala, Studio Appetit, Adrien Rovero, Buro Belen, Reinier Bosch and Carolina Wilcke, and Ilan Geribi for Gal Gaon Assortment will be presented as part of the Brand New Globe Milan 2015 at Dušan, curated and created by Vesna and Jovan Jelovac.
The exhibition will be portion of the Milan 2015 Fuori Saloni plan, from 14 to 19 April, staged in arguably 1 of the most sophisticated layout showrooms in the city – Dušan, Through Antonio Zarotto one.
Aylin Langreteur and Christophe de la Fontaine
Brand New Planet displays pure design 2. pondering, powered by Laufen, bringing collectively eight essential worldwide studios who epitomise the new notion of Designers – Makers – Entrepreneurs, rethinking the entire organization and creative model, unthinkable of only a handful of many years ago. Every studio is exhibiting work premiering in Milan 2015, defining a truly Brand New World of style. An opening vernissage will feature a musical score by the new German DJ Wunderkinds – Destroy The Tills – powered by Architonic.
Tom Strala
The topic of the exhibition is laying on the hand: the globe has changed, and as we communicate the most thrilling new things is getting presented by a completely new wave of designers who are not only creatives, but makers, producers, entrepreneurs, distributers, representatives and gallerists. One particular of them is new Swiss design superstar Tom Strala. Tom has run his very own gallery because 2002 in Zürich’s well-acknowledged Seefeld, and is identified as style pioneer difficult the established values and producing new ones. His performs are pieces of artwork you can settle in.
“If I just believe back about 20 many years, I am confident to discover designers and producers that persuade an very own clear notion and ideology,” stated Strala. “With their design and style they desired to form the world and share their joy about their discoveries with the individuals. Today a lot of designers and producers demand from their operates an abundance of complex criteria. Men and women have to start off dreaming yet again. Artwork does not need to have any complex difficulty solving. We want passion. We want desire. No well-tempered ‘everything and nothing’. No new update of our operation system. We want intensity and this can not be located in a compromise. It is a radical consequence that nowadays I am a designer, maker, entrepreneur and promoter,” concluded Strala.
Studio Drift
One of eight key studios who epitomise the new notion of Designers – Makers – Entrepreneurs is Studio Drift. The studio was founded by Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn, the two graduates of the world well-known Style Academy Eindhoven. Their objective is to develop a dialogue amongst nature and engineering, generating a new synergy. “We want to encourage individuals to see things that they no longer recognize to attain a kind of unconscious recognition that every person instinctively feels and understands, yet have misplaced the time for. In Milan we’ll existing Nola, collectively with Buhtiq31. Nola is a landscape of light captured in glass bells. By combining pastel tinted glass with programmable red, green, blue and white LEDs, Studio Drift establishes a unique colour palette for the new Dutch design and style label Buhtiq 31,” said Ralph Nauta.
Luscious Meals Cravings by Studio Appétit and Studio Lenneke Wispelwey. Photography by Masha Bakker
Major imaginative minds of the 21st century are nowadays making a Brand New Globe in design, that only a couple of of the greatest of the established style brands, the typical innovation powerhouses, can match. 1 of the uncharted territories of new style is the imaginative enjoying field of gustative and olfactory sensations. At Brand New Globe, guests will appreciate the rarefied possibility to taste tasty works created by Studio Appétit, a multidisciplinary knowledge design studio, specializing in eating design and style and culinary oriented tasks, led by designer and chef Ido Garini.
“Consuming (and intercourse) are the only actions we do that stimulate all our senses simultaneously. This is why it is so interesting and appropriate to layout consuming experiences. Exploring and investigating the triggers, notions and reactions the meals culture, nutrition and the act of consuming brings in us. The best recognition for me is actually when folks experience my projects and really feel something new. The studio has created it in the previous many years into a couple of ’10 very best in the world’ lists in the field of foods and layout. We are often happy to hear that we are leading and inspiring in what we do,” stated Ido Garini.
Reinier Bosch and Carolina Wilcke
Designers and Curators
International designers chosen for Brand New Planet – powered by Laufen – contain also Adrien Rovero from Switzerland, Buro Belen, Reinier Bosch and Cristina Wilcke from Holland, and Ilan Garibi for Cal Goan collection from Israel. Dante – Items And Bads was founded in 2012 by artist Aylin Langreuter and industrial designer Christophe de la Fontaine, and right here is what they say about their Brand New Planet method: “The layout of every single product ever produced has always been shaped by the most prominent need to have of the society that created it. A lot more typically than not, it was the search for the practical, for maximal usability. Dante – Items And Bads, nonetheless, senses another wish: Warmth. Content material. So our filter is this: create a connection. Create materials objects that are not just issues, but favorites. Talismans. Every day items that are not a priori sensible, helpful, effective but rather: emotional. So they can have unlikely materials attributes like humor, vanity, passion. Comfort, even.”
Lenneke Langenhuijsen and Brecht Duijf
Brand New World’s curator, Jovan Jelovac, stated: “We are quite excited to recreate the idea of a classical author’s salon at Dušan’s so trendy showroom, with performs and the spirit matching his own terribly substantial couture propositions. Following all, the name is Saloni, not an additional Design Week, and the city is none less than Milano, so we are speaking of rarefied class, deeply rooted in the two cutting edge avant-garde, as well as laser sharp craftsmanship. The place is smack in the middle of town, in 1 of the legendary Gio Ponti buildings, on the border of Brera and the new up- and coming San Gregorio region.”
Bartok Table by Tom Strala
Vesna and Jovan Jelovac, starting in 2005 as Belgrade Design Week, now develop platforms and frameworks all above the world beneath the Brand New Globe mark: Milan, London, Miami, Ibiza, Basel, Paris, Istanbul, and Moscow, with a fresh long lasting design gallery in Zürich, Switzerland. All tasks are made in partnership with local experts – leaders in design promotion and presentation, as nicely as Top Inventive Minds of the 21st Century. BNW has so far worked with in excess of 500 top worldwide design and style and imaginative industries’ view makers and manufacturers in its ten years historical past.
Margo Konings, co-founder of Dutch design agency Organisation in Style and co-organiser of Milan’s Ventura Lambrate design and style district, has left the business.
Konings explained she was leaving to “comply with a new path” six many years after teaming up with Margriet Vollenberg to jointly run the influential agency.
Konings (left in photograph) and Vollenberg initiated the Ventura Lambrate district in Milan in 2010, taking in excess of empty workplace spaces and disused industrial buildings in the north-east of the city and turning them into exhibition venues during the yearly furnishings fair.
“The last years at Organisation in Layout had been unbelievable we travelled the world, worked on incredible projects and launched Ventura Projects,” said Konings. “With a good deal of pride I appear back on all that we have accomplished. I made the selection to follow a new path and for that reason say goodbye to Organisation in Layout.”
The Ventura Lambrate district, managed via Organisation in Design subsidiary Ventura Tasks, has grown to be one particular of the most vibrant and greatest-curated elements of the sprawling city-broad fair, acting especially as a platform for emerging worldwide designers.
Vollenberg founded Organisation in Design in 2005, with Konings joining in 2009. “I was searching for a partner to expand my organization and when I met Margo in Tokyo we identified out that our ideas of the design sector were too comparable to not perform with each other,” Vollenberg told Dezeen.
“It was wonderful to have a partnership these final many years with her, to begin the Ventura Projects and to deliverOrganisation in Layout to where it is now,” she added.
Vollenberg explained they started out the Ventura Lambrate district because “exhibitors started out longing for change. What we identified was missing at the Salone del Mobile was a place that gave space to the designers and their functions, their ideas, their experiments. There had been a whole lot of clean reduce, white pedestal presentations and we desired to deliver one thing diverse.”
Vollenberg extra: “Another crucial point that distinguishes Ventura from other events is the diversity of exhibitors and the artwork route of the full spot. We always strive to discover a perfect balance in Ventura Lambrate.”
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The duo have subsequently taken smaller versions of the Ventura exhibition notion to Berlin, London and Kortrijk.
The multi-faceted agency also acts as a PR business for Dutch designers including Studio Makkink & Bey and Wieki Somers. It has worked on cultural exhibitions this kind of as the 23rd Biennial of Style in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for which they acted as guest curators.
The subsequent edition of Ventura Lambrate requires place in Milan from 14-19 April this year. The temporary district is situated in the Lambrate quarter of the city, a former industrial zone that was after residence to the Lambretta scooter brand, which was named right after the area.
Vollenberg explained they came up with the Ventura Lambrate name “partly due to the fact the major street in the district is the By means of Ventura, but also hinting at the English word journey and Italian word avventura”.
Dezeen has partnered with Ventura Lambrate since its inception in 2010 and is lead media spouse for this year’s event.
Photograph of Margo Konings (left) and Margriet Vollenberg (appropriate), by Nicole Marnati.
Let’s speak layout for a 2nd. Reality be told, I don’t consider that I would ever get in touch with myself “eclectic.” While my furnishings and add-ons certainly have a tendency to be a small in excess of-the-best and “collected,” I come to feel like they have a basic sense of cohesion. I have a particular color palette that I like to stick to, and hardly ever throw in pops of red or random patterns.
Nicely, nowadays I’m announcing that those tendencies have officially gone out the window. If only in the case of a specific new-to-us rug. It all started with an innocent search on eBay for “Kilim runners.” I probably had seen a especially delicious-looking rug in a room that someone like Emily Henderson had developed, and I had an further second to dig about for inexpensive choices that I could include to our personal home.
Again, the search wasn’t all that significant considering that this sort of eclectic pattern and layout is a small outdoors my comfort zone, but I went ahead with my “play” search anyway. I never ever dreamed that I would ever uncover anything at all inside of my cost variety given that Kilim rugs are so on-trend right now, but I was pleasantly amazed to see that I certainly could snag a single for cheap—by the way, to me, a “cheap rug” is anything at all underneath \$a hundred.
Right here is the seller I in the end worked with—a user called turkishkilim. My flat-weave, multicolored runner cost just underneath \$a hundred and came to my door within a week. It was totally best. The colours! The pattern! I’m eclectic—who knew?!
The final piece of the puzzle was to find the ideal rug pad. I acquired so slap-pleased soon after acquiring the rug, that I ran straight to the nearest hardware store for a \$19 runner rug pad. To say it was a disaster would be an understatement. The rug ended up in our upstairs hallway (there are no windows up there, so hence, I could get no site-worthy “after” images…sorry!) and with 3 cats and one hound canine barreling more than it several occasions during the day, the rug ended up in a tangled mass every 15 minutes.
Enter Rug Pad USA. I had worked with the team ahead of on an additional rug project, and knew that their items were leading, Best, Top notch. Happily, they had been much more than ready to oblige and—truthfully, sponsored submit aside—our new runner rug pad has been a dream. The rug hasn’t moved one particular inch (not one particular inch) since I ditched the \$19 pad and put our new Premium-lock/Eco-Cushion pad in place. Plus, the extra cushion beneath-toe is just dreamy. Even John commented on it.
So there are two morals to this story: (1) eBay is an outstanding place to discover reasonably priced Kilim rugs, and (two) purchase the best rug pad you can—it will maintain you rug in spot and leave your toes (and sanity) feeling further content.
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Luscious Meals Cravings by Studio Appétit and Studio Lenneke Wispelwey, photograph by Masha Bakker. Primary image: Eclepens by Adrien Rovero
Hurricane Table by Reinier Bosch
Come As You Are by Christophe de la Fontaine at Dante
Flylight by Studio Drift
Kalahario chair by Tom Strala
Aylin Langreteur and Christophe de la Fontaine
Tom Strala
Studio Drift
Luscious Meals Cravings by Studio Appétit and Studio Lenneke Wispelwey. Photography by Masha Bakker
Reinier Bosch and Carolina Wilcke
Lenneke Langenhuijsen and Brecht Duijf
Bartok Table by Tom Strala
