Friday’s news: Breathing furniture, poignant photography and the property market hits a new low 6 November, 2009
Posted by katiehodgkiss in Daily news.Tags: architecture, beathable, Berlin, chair, ergonomic furnitue, exhibition, footballers, friday, mansion, photography, property market, underground property, wall
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Friday’s child is loving and giving, and so are the team here at mydeco! There were some great design stories to choose from today, but we’ve handpicked our favourites to keep you going until you flee the office at five. Enjoy!
mydeco’s pick of the top three news stories:
1. Design Milk: Breathing Chair Made Out of Foam
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Who says that comfort automatically means a sacrifice in style? Well this chair doesn’t exactly do much to disprove the theory. Created bu Taiwanese designer Yu-Ying Wu, who wanted a seat that would help ease the problems she has with her knees, the square block turns into an armchair when you sit on it. Do the ergonomic benefits override the fact that it looks like a giant block of swiss cheese? You decide.
2. Cool Hunting: Kelly Gorham: The Stones Have Memories
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Berlin still bears much of the architectural scarring that resulted from WWII, and Kelly Gorham captures this perfectly in her latest photographic exhibition, The Stones Have Memories. Monday will mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, but many structural symbols of the society it created still exist. The resonant emotion in such architecture is allowed to speak for itself in Gorham’s photos – they really are worth a look.
3, Daily Mail: Unveiled: The luxurious £2m underground mansion designed to keep away prying eyes
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Although this underground nirvana is still only in the planning stages, several footballers are already believed to be engaging in estate warfare to get their hands on the property. Personally, I hope Wayne Rooney gets it. No offence Coleen, but I don’t want to see any tabloid pictures of Wayne in his undies.
The best of the rest:
Daily Mail: Can you dig it? If you want more space, it’s time to go underground
The Telegraph: Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan’s Belgravia restoration
The Telegraph: Is the property market recovering?
The Telegraph: Design notebook by David Nicholls
Design Week: Wallpaper designs by Damien Hirst
Dexigner: 2010 Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition
Interior Design: New product: Hammered Bowls
That’s your lot for today everyone, so it’s goodbye until Monday from the daily news blog, I hope you don’t miss us too much!
The Eco-Luxe Factor 5 November, 2009
Posted by Nicola Wilkes in mydeco guest blogger.Tags: architecture, design, Design Hotels, eco luxe, interior design, The Scarlet
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A four hour car journey peppered with rush hour traffic and a plethora of roadworks on a Friday afternoon perhaps wouldn’t be described as my favourite way to start a short weekend away [rather preferring to cram maximum 'us' time in more locally], but when the final destination is a hotel that’s been billed as possibly the greenest in Britain (Times Online), The Scarlet, then I’m willing to forgive the arduous trip.
Not that I should have worried about whether we’d be able to make the most of our two days of supposed bliss away from the kids once we’d reached our Cornwall address – the ‘Scarlet’ seems to intuitively know that long car journeys aside, some of it’s guests may have gone to great lengths to enjoy their ‘grown up’ weekend away minus children and the stresses and strains of the daily grind; the absence of a formal ‘check in’ or reception desk cleverly enticing you to relax your shoulders the moment you step into this eco-luxe establishment. Suddenly it’s just you, him (I’ve also bookmarked this hotel as a great girly retreat) and nothing but peace, tranquility and a hotel that claims to cater to your ever need without a pretentious hotel manager, overly pushy waiter or stuffy interior in sight.
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The ethos behind the Scarlet: reconnecting – whether that be with friends or spouses. It’s all about taking stock and seriously kicking back, celebrating lines, wrinkle, laughter, sand between your toes…you get the jist…
Yet this was work, or at least that was the idea of the review, and putting my journalist hat I tried very hard to focus my curiosity on how this much needed combination of hotel + eco consideration + serious luxe factor would really work in reality. I’d stayed in smaller B&B’s whose owners had successfully managed to pull the two together for a smattering of guests. But how was this modern hybrid of interior style – ‘eco luxe’ – going to work on a large scale? I was pen and paper at the ready but that was not to be.
For the Scarlet literally lulls you into a state of deep relaxation and you are powerless to stop it. This, I realised, was all part and parcel of my experience in this idyllic retreat and was key to any stories I might recount after it. If the chalk board welcome of ‘Please take a seat [on a Missoni clad sofa] and someone will be with you shortly’ doesn’t do it for you then a four hour spa journey that combines ‘Ayurvedic wisdom with the natural essence of Cornwall’ will…But I kept going back to those all important questions that I felt I was there to answer for any readers of my review: what do you get when you combine grey water and rain water harvesting with pared-back but seductive interiors? A biomass boiler and ventilation heat exchange with Ligne Roset soft seating? OR, a timber frame building constructed with an air tight seal [not to mention the thermal solar panels] with the latest collection of Missoni prints?
Image credit: The Scarlet
If you’re to believe the hype then the answer is simple. This is luxury meets eco, and owners of The Scarlet – three sisters, Emma, Debbie and Rebecca – are rather proud of it. ‘We run a hotel next door that caters for families at every level, even if that’s a bottle of milk needing warming at 4am, but at The Scarlet we wanted guest to find somewhere they could come for precious time away where you needn’t worry about what designer bag you’ve brought with you, whether you’ve had your botox or if you can connect to the internet [although there is provision for those guests that need to]. We wanted to help celebrate friendships and marriage and remember what it feels like to be ‘you’ without the pressures of work or family life, bring back all those memories of why you couldn’t wait to get married, or how wonderful life is when you take stock,’ says Emma.
Image credit: The Scarlet is now ranked in the hotel style bible, Design Hotels
I have to say I was dubious. But that was before my arrival and by a calm and sunny Sunday morning having soaked up the surrounding coastline – a pasty from Rick Stein’s deli followed by a romantic walk along the hidden gem of Constantine Bay on a Saturday afternoon, followed by afternoon tea lazing on designer day beds on a rooftop terrace, not to mention dinner at Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen only five minutes away, I could only conclude that I’d found my own special sanctuary for those times when a weekend ‘just the two of you’ is what the doctor ordered.
So, is it the UK’s greenest hotel? Well, according to the experts that might be up for debate, but if the phrase ‘home from home’ can come in the form of eco-luxe, Missoni prints and a chefs with Michelin stars [local boy, Ben Tunnicliffe'] The Scarlet, set against the rugged Cornish coastline in the bay Mawgan Porth, is just that.
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Tuesday’s News: See where the Facebook magic happens, a classically contemporary townhouse and architectural voyeurism 3 November, 2009
Posted by katiehodgkiss in Daily news.Tags: architecture, classic, contemporary, design, facebook, office, remodel, social networking, townhouse, website
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Afternoon to one and all! It would appear that the pretty autumn sunshine has disappeared in favour of the quintessential English gloom we know and loathe. But fear not, good citizens, because although I have failed miserably in my aim to get the news blog up earlier, the mydeco team have managed to find some real gems for design lovers today. Don’t say we never give you anything…
my deco’s pick of the top three news stories:
1.Design Milk: Facebook’s Offices in California by Studio O+A
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The average office usually comprises of three standard elements: fluorescent lighting, swivel chairs and a micro-kitchen. These do feature in the new Facebook HQ, but seemingly as token references to the traditional workplace in what is essentially a modern utopia. Gourmet meals are provided for employees at all hours, desks are largely shunned in favour of ‘impromptu work spaces’ (comfy sofas and chairs), and when the stress all gets too much, the ever-trendy Facebook crew can unwind in the DJ area. Still, we got a new water cooler in the office last week…
2.dornob: Small Remodel, Big Ideas: Tiny Townhouse into Cool Condo
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I usually consider remodelling classic into contemporary akin to putting ketchup on steak: ruining a good thing. However, so stark is the contrast between the intricacies on the exterior of this townhouse with the stark minimalism of the interior that I am almost convinced. On the surface it’s quaint, picturesque; open the door and it’s like falling down the rabbit-hole into a completely different world. Inspired contemporary design solutions make the most out of awkward narrow spaces, but my favourite feature has to be the spectacular courtyard.
Image credit: Cool Hunter
Launched today, Architzer combines the informality of social networking with opportunism. Essentially a website to unite architects across the globe, it gives those in the business the chance to advertise their work to potential employees, and those merely interested in the business (like me) the chance to have a good old nosy at some incredible design projects, both complete and incomplete. The map selector tool will also be particularly useful to any travellers interested in checking out some architecture that won’t be found in a guide book.
The best of the rest:
Daily Mail: Ossie Ardiles’ Marbella dream home goes on the transfer market
Daily Mail: Graham Norton’s Cape retreat is so sold
Daily Mail: It’s women who decide when to move home
The Times: Architects: Catch a rising star
The Telegraph: Word on the street: Rent the Killers’ party house
The Telegraph: Let out a spare room and let the money roll in
The Telegraph: Property in London’s suburbs: welcome to Superbia
The Telegraph: No odd jobs for Tom Parker Bowles
The Guardian: My Space: Neisha Crosland, textile designer
The Guardian: Orchids all around
That’s all for today folks, hope you enjoyed your daily fix! Do come again tomorrow.
Monday’s news: Liveable lifeguard towers, murals that mess with your mind and a slim solution to dining 2 November, 2009
Posted by katiehodgkiss in Daily news.Tags: architecture, Beach, conversion, dining table, illusion, ocean, space saver, surreal
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No time for Monday blues in the mydeco office as we are dutifully ignoring our post-Halloween headaches and scouring the world-wide-web to find the best design stories for your enjoyment. (Warning: story two might be best avoided if you are still feeling a little queasy from weekend excursions!)
mydeco’s pick of the top three news stores:
1. dornob: 10 Cool Lifeguard Towers Could be Converted Beach Homes
Whilst these little seaside towers are not ideal for the claustrophobic, the ingenuity of design is simply fabulous, and perhaps the perfect untapped resource for travellers looking for ocean views without the inevitable mark-up in price. My favourite is the pastel-coloured postmodern conversion pictured below. It might be lacking in toilet facilities, but hey, the ocean is right there…
Image credit: dornob
2. dornob: Mural Artwork on Acid: Surreal Optical Illusion Architecture
Contrary to first impressions, this dizzying image is not the result of a photoshopper-gone-mad, but a snippet of what is actually a full-building mural in Paris. Created by mixing real-life perspectives with artistic distortions, all the windows and details are actually 2-d paintings, but so realistic is the illusion that it is almost impossible to distinguish where the real building begins. Funhouse or visual nightmare? You decide.
Image Credit: dornob
3. MoCo Loco: A very slim table by Nilly Landao
Perhaps the most sensible of our chosen news stories today, this unique table offers a solution to those of you who have an appetite for dining with family and friends, but not necessarily the space. Personally I’m not sure the design would be sturdy enough to hold my preferred mammoth-sized portions, but it would certainly put a stop to me putting my elbows on the table!
Image credit: MoCo Loco
The best of the rest:
dornob: Classic Storybook Home Designs that Really came to Life
The Independent: Home interiors: The exhibitionist’s shopping list
MoCo Loco: Glass microbiology by Luke Jerram
MoCo Loco: Reinventing the videotape
The Guardian: Three simple craft ideas for your garden
The Telegraph: The perfect Mayfair bachelor pad
Hope you enjoy our chosen stories as much as I have enjoyed writing my first mydeco blog, even though it did take me an unreasonable 5 hours to do it! Maybe tomorrow I’ll manage to get it out before lunch. Watch this space…
Friday’s news: Space architecture, intelligent wall stickers and colour confidence 9 October, 2009
Posted by katykimbell in Daily news.Tags: architecture, children, colour, space, telescope, tent london, toys, wall sticker
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We’ve had a busy week for news – Ron Weasley is a property guru, gargoyles are back in fashion and Brangelina are building a private airport at their French Château. So now that it’s Friday, is there anything more that the Design world can offer us? Of course there is – read on and find out!
The Guardian: Man on the moon: Norman Foster prepares for architecture’s lift-off
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Across the world, space experts and astronomy enthusiasts are preparing their telescopes and pointing them space-bound to catch a glimpse of the latest NASA experiment that is literally blasting the moon today. So while we eagerly await the experiment results, let’s take a look at how British architect Norman Foster would build on the moon.
The Guardian: The fourth plinth: it was just Big Brother all over again
Visitors to Trafalgar Square may have loved Anthony Gormley’s conceptual installation but Jonathan Jones wasn’t so sure.
ecogeek: The Dow chemical company introduces stealth solar shingles
dornob: Intelligent Wall Stickers
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The ubiquitous nature of wall stickers caused design brand Hu2 to create decorative adhesives with more meaning and purpose than your typical toy-car or princess. The Hu2 wall stickers don’t just brighten up your walls, they inform and educate. Buy a wall sticker – gain a life skill!
MoCo Loco: We love the Cascade Chandelier by Bodo Sperlein
MoCo Loco: Asymmetrical furniture by Hannes Grebin
We blogged about Hannes Grebin on the mydeco blog ages ago, but see what Moco Loco has to say about the affable German designer who showcased his work in the Talent Zone at Tent London.
The Times: Camden – A hip location with a groovy charm
The Times: Historic homes in the BBC’s new series of Emma
The Times: Jeanette Winterson and her Spitalfields home
The Cool Hunter: Childhood toys are the inspiration for a new Sports centre in Paris
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It doesn’t take much imagination to understand that toys and memories of childhood were the guiding inspirations for the recently completed children’s sports and recreation centre near Paris.The 1,600 square-meter centre is unexpected and bold in its riotous use of colours both inside and out. Running on the treadmill would feel a whole lot easier with these cheerful surroundings!
Wallpaper*: New office furniture by Pearson Lloyd
Hands up whose glad it’s Friday? Well now you’ve had your daily design update, you can enter the weekend in style!
Friday news: Edible dishes, on-trend offices and the shower that’s got me in a lather 11 September, 2009
Posted by lucindamydeco in Daily news.Tags: 9/11, architecture, bathroom, design, desk, Four Seasons restaurant, home office, sculpture, shower, tableware
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After a week of collection previews and launch parties I’m looking forward to a relaxed weekend in the country with my family and cats.
But before I head off for my train, there’s the small matter of sharing with you the latest design news I’ve picked from today’s offerings. Enjoy!
Dornob: No dessert until you’ve cleared your plate (and eaten it)
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Actually, this delicate, paper-thin tableware is not designed to be eaten. But if you’re not feeling sufficiently sated by your spag bol you could be tempted to have a nibble. Made from tomatoes, carrots, peppers, peas and other veggies, these curious but charming pieces by Danish designer Geke Wouters are totally organic and very beautiful.
The Guardian: Save Victorian architecture!
Design Week: London’s new graduate design school promises hot, new talent
Design Week: LSE building gets an artistic twist
Design Week: Get the latest London Design Festival news
The Telegraph: Contemporary art storms Versailles
The Telegraph: Sculpture with its own 9/11 story
Image credit: The Telegraph
Today is the 8th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, and New Yorkers will hold a number of public and private memorials to mark the date. What most of us don’t realise is that more than 2,000 relics from the attacks (above) are currently stored in a hangar at JFK airport. Now the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is offering the items to cities around the US for use in public memorials and sculptures. It’s good to see that something positive and beautiful can be created from such a tragic event.
Trendir: Pop-art is back – and it’s in your bathroom
BBC News: Stop press! UK City of Culture list unveiled
The Times: This season’s hottest office essentials
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With the kids back at school (are you secretly just a tiny bit relieved?) it’s time to turn your attention to your own office space. I love this Home desk by Vitra. It was initially created by George Nelson as a ‘ladies’ desk’ and made slightly smaller than was standard. It’s a perfect example of the ‘raw materials and glossy brights’ trend that our resident spotter has been harping on about. Check out our tips on creating the perfect workspace.
The Tines: Robert Cavalli’s glamorous garden shed
Interior Design: Go Greek with La Murrina – Cross lighting
Interior Design: This new shower design has got us in a right lather
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Love, love, love this new shower by Bmood. The unit combines a Cristalplant solid surfacing tray with orange or blue acrylic or transparent glass panels, which swivel to fit in the corner or centre of a wall. Team with the pop-art radiators from Antrax for a seriously funky bathroom.
Interior Design: The Netherlands’ stylish gift to New York
Interior Design: Yet more beautiful lights
Architectural Record: A birthday facelift for the Four Seasons Restaurant
If you’ve ever been to the Big Apple, you may have checked out (if not dined in) the legendary Four Seasons Restaurant, now in its 50th year. If you haven’t, you certainly should on your next trip. To celebrate its big 5-0, the restaurant’s famous Philip Johnson-designed interior is being over-hauled by Manhattan architect Belmont Freeman, FAIA. Well, it’s only fair the old girl gets a nip and tuck – she has to keep up with her plastic guests somehow. Happy birthday Four Seasons – you don’t look a day over 25.
Friday’s news: Feuding artists, space-saving toilets and a house that stands on chicken legs 4 September, 2009
Posted by lucindamydeco in Daily news.Tags: architecture, art, banksy, damien hirst, designer, furniture, pendant lights, Tate Britain, toilets
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We’ve been scouring the web to bring you lots of lovely design news and property gossip to accompany your extended Friday lunch. Enjoy!
The Guardian: Banksy caricature of royal family is removed by council
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Now I’m not one to condone graffiti, but when it’s an original Banksy that someone’s taking the hose to, I might just take a soaking in the name of art. Lucky (for my new coat) then, that I wasn’t present when council officials in Hackney painted over a Banksy graffiti sketch that had been left untouched for eight years. The sketch is a cartoon of the royal family waving from a balcony and was used by the band Blur as the cover artwork for their 2003 single Crazy Beat. Local residents were not impressed and neither am I.
Design Week: New Mallett furniture designed by former photojournalist Willy Rizzo
I am in love with this new range of furniture for Mallett. With its simple structure and metallic finish, it’s a perfect example of the architecture fashion trend that’s hitting homes this season.
Image credit: Design Week
Design Week: The Government calls for more work experience
Cool Hunting: The New Millennium paper airplane book
The Times: The tide is turning for property in Merseyside
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The Telegraph: Empty shop windows in York are works of art
BBC News: Parents want ‘kitchen classrooms’
BBC News: Titanic museum designs unveiled
KBB: New design -washing your hands in the toilet
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Teeny tiny downstairs loo? We’ve got the answer: a new toilet that incorporates a sink into the lid of the toilet tank. Even better, it’s totally eco. When you flush, fresh cold water runs through the faucet for hand washing, which then drains back into the tank to be used for the next flush. Genius.
Moco Loco: Kisawings lamp for Yamagiwa
How cool are these structural, transforming Kisawings lamps? Statement pendant lights are a great way to add drama to a room. Hang a row of Tom Dixon Beat Stout pendant shades over your dining table for instant envy from your dinner guests.
Image credit: MoCo Loco
The Independent: Shortlist announced for World Architecture Festival Awards
The Independent: Damien Hirst in feud with teenage artist over pencils
Lesson of the day: Don’t nick pencils. Especially if they’re part of a Hirst sculpture. A teenage rival to the millionaire artist stole pencils from Hirst’s Pharmacy scultpure as part of an ongoing feud. He is now banned from visiting the Tate Britain and is waiting to find out if he will be formally charged with causing damage to an iconic artwork. Oops.
Dornob: Home furniture collection from recycled airplane parts
Not a look that can be easily recreated (unless you’ve got some spare airplane parts lying around), but I love the industrial look of this totally unique furniture collection.
Dornob: Private condo + natural light = luxury townhouse living
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The Metro: Chicken-legged house is clucking ridiculous
And just in case you’re lacking that funny, Friday feeling – here’s something to make you chuckle. Russian carpenter Vasily Kozin has created a replica of the wooden hut that Russia’s legendary witch character Baba Yaga lived in.
The chicken-legged house stands on a plinth outside the village of Ulyanovka, but you’ll be pleased to learn that no poor soul lives in it – not even the crazy carpenter himself.
Happy Friday!
Designer MP expense scandal revenge 28 August, 2009
Posted by eleanorjoslin in Editors' blog.Tags: architecture, competition, design, mp expense scandal, winner
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The winner of an architecture competition aiming to design ‘state-owned, temptation-free’ housing for MPs – and to poke fun at the embarrassment that is the MP expense scandal – has been announced.
The winning design by Collective Architecture
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Glaswegian company Collective Architecture won The Architects’ Journal competition with their design ‘Common Houses’. This details a scheme that aims ‘to increase participation in democracy through a network of local assemblies served by re-nationalised railways and ferries’.
Only one problem here – MPs would have to give up their chauffeured BMWs and hop on trains and sweat next to the public whose ‘interests’ they supposedly serve. Expect another John Prescott / egg / punch-up debacle.
The former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone was one the competition judges. He said: ‘I can’t remember how long I’ve been in favour of moving parliament out of London. The Foreign Office can go to Bradford and the MoD to Liverpool, spread the jobs around a bit.’
The MPs would have their heads in the clouds with this competition entry…
Image credit: The Architect’s Journal
Design company Hole in my Pocket created the competition amid the furore of the expenses scandal. In the wake of the scandal many MPs had to ‘apologise’ for their absurdly high expense claims for second homes and refurnishing – though it is more than likely they were sorry about being found out…
The winner’s prize was very apt – part of it was the fulfilment of an MP-styled expenses claim form. But quips aside, the competition produced outstanding designs and imaginative ideas.
This competition entry is a political game – much like politics in reality then
Image credit: The Architects’ Journal
Sarah Siena Edwards was the runner-up with her ‘Ministers Mole Hole’ design. She portrayed the London underground as a house for ministers. In real life, wouldn’t it be brilliant if we could taxi around willy-nilly like many MPs did before the scandal, while they suffered in the underground’s cloying heat?
Neil McGuire was another runner-up for his design ‘Redacted Residencies’. His system resulted in shrinking the accommodation of MPs the more their expense claims were blacked out. Justice would be served.
These designs will be exhibited at The Lighthouse in Glasgow and all the entries can be seen via the The Architects’ Journal.
A peek round Ireland’s Origami House 12 August, 2009
Posted by eleanorjoslin in Editors' blog.Tags: architecture, origami, origami house, property
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Image Credit: Jane D Burnside Architects
An illusion on the eye, this Origami House in Ireland appears to be eight separate houses but they origami structure links them to create just one single home. Designed by Jane D Burnside Architects, the eight pavilions are staggered into each other and utilises the tapered high ceilings and cut-out walls to link the interior rooms. It’s these features which give the house in Kells its name, especially as the roof gives the creative illusion of being folded over to accommodate the staggered multi-house structure.
Image Credit: Jane D Burnside Architects
The aim of this origamic design was to recreate the look and feel of clustered homes in small Irish villages. Judging by the online response to the Origami House it’s certainly succeeded in doing just that. Responses praise what has been dubbed as the ’staggered cottage effect’ and the beauty of working with rather than against the Irish landscape.
The eight pavilions make up the carport and house which are connected over the dam, waterfall and burn by a modern foot bridge with a wooden rail along one side. It could almost pass as a bench – as long as you don’t have vertigo with such a watery drop below!
Image Credit: Jane D Burnside Architects
In contrast with the rural trickle of the dam, autumnal embankment and spindly trees created by Mother Nature, Burnside Architects have opted for edges as clean, smooth and straight as a house of cards. The cut-out windows open the house to the landscape and lights up the property to give the white exterior a warm character it would otherwise lack. Inside, cut-out walls link each pavilion and shows off the creative origami style further, accentuated by the skylights and linear surfaces. The kitchen carries on the trend with the island’s sunken sinks. Even the fruit bowl is cut-out and cradled with metallic spikes.
Image Credit: Jane D Burnside Architects
Image Credit: Jane D Burnside Architects
However, with furniture consisting of glass tabletops, beige rugs and a fawn sofa, a splash of colour wouldn’t go amiss. And the origami theme can stay in its carefully-constucted place with an Origami silk cushion (£54.95) at Nitin Goyal London and Origami side tables (£250) from Leigh Harmer.
Image Credit: Leigh Harmer
For more unusual and creative style trends, click onto mydeco’s shopping pages and the design boutique for lots of original British design.
Is this the house of the future? 12 August, 2009
Posted by lucindamydeco in Editors' blog.Tags: architecture, Awards, British Home Awards, design, Eco
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Image credit: Daily Mail
I’ve just found a great article about the shortlisted entries for the Lifetime Neighbourhoods category of the British Home Awards.
Designs in this category must be architecturally interesting, eco friendly but most importantly, flexible for all generations – think moveable walls and other ingenious accessibility solutions. And this year’s designs don’t disappoint.
My favourites include John Smith’s House, which can be added to or taken away in stages, Sunny-Side Up, which incorporates planters into its design to encourage the growth of home produce, and the Flat Pack House (above), which gives great views and a sense of security to older residents.
Check out the shortlisted entries and keep an eye out for the winner, which will be announced on September 17th.
