Architecture

Roll into bed

At the Dasparkhotel in Ottensheim, Austria, guests receive a door code before arrival and let them selves in. Click here to see images.

Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

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SALA Launches

We are happy to announce the launch of UBC’s School of Architecture’s new website. The site offers students, faculty and alumni the ability to upload content and comment on other’s work. We think the custom Flash Tag bar s [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Friday, November 2nd, 2007

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U2 Tower in Dublin

Bono and the boys are busy at work on the tallest building in Ireland, a consortium led by the band has been selected as the preferred bidder to design, finance and construct the £140 million project. The tilted triangular 600ft. building [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Monday, October 15th, 2007

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How to hide an airplane factory

Random surfing this morning turned up this fascinating look at how an entire airplane factory was camouflaged during WW2. Located in Burbank, the obvious solution was Hollywood-style trompe l’oeil to disguise the factory as an average [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 7th, 2007

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Meja Site Launched

We are happy to announce the launch of MEJA.ca, a site that we’ve developed for Marceau Evans Johnson Architects. The site is built on a WordPress content management framework that allows the company to update their online portfolio o [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Categories: Architecture, Branding, Design, Industrial Brand, Vancouver, Websites | 2 Comments »

Modern Death

Not sure how or why, but for a little while I’ve been fascinated with the apparent lack of modern design in funerary monuments and other things like urns, crypts and even coffins. I’m not talking about some crazy high-tech video [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Categories: Architecture, Design | 3 Comments »

Now, I'll admit I'm no philosophy expert or Proust devotee, so I can't comment about his other works, but I can tell you that this book is as easy to read and entertaining as it is enlightening. With humour and an amazing ability to simplify complex concepts, Booton shows us how our surroundings serve as guardians of our identity, both as groups and individuals. It's the kind of book that makes you realize how little you really knew about architecture and its role in your life. Botton is a fascinating man in person. He's humble, soft spoken and rather ordinary at first glance. But let him at the mic and he'll regale you with his thought-provoking perspectives as he challenges long-standing paradigms in fascinating ways. And yes, a building CAN bring you happiness, just as it can make you feel sombre or filled with awe. Just ask the kids giggling in the booth next to you in McDonald's or consider your mood change when you enter a Gothic cathedral. Its a shame so much architecture these days is purely about function now and no longer designed to create a reaction in its users. I wonder...had I actually become an architect, would I have been able to make buildings that made people 'feel'? Click here if you'd like to listen to Alain de Botton's interview on CBC Studio One Book Club. [post_title] => Can A Building Make You Happy? [post_category] => 0 [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => can-a-building-make-you-happy [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2007-07-08 10:28:24 [post_modified_gmt] => 2007-07-08 18:28:24 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://industrialbrand.com/blog/can-a-building-make-you-happy [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) -->

Can A Building Make You Happy?

I love architecture. Heck, at one point in my life my goal was to become an architect. So when I was invited to attend an installment of CBC’s Studio One Book Club to meet and hear renowned philosopher and historian Alain de Botton di [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Categories: Architecture, Inspiration, Learning, Reading | No Comments »

Warped Wallpaper

Surrealalien.de has come up with an interesting idea: wallpaper that warps around your doors and wall hangings. The concept: “Our product dissolves limits between architecture, wallpaper and hangings, with the wallpaper functioning as [...]

Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, June 15th, 2007

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Simplicity in French Design

I prefer to prepare for travel by reading fiction set in or about the places I intend to go, but aside from travel reference material, have never used texts of the non-fiction variety. Having just returned from my trip to France, I just got [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 15th, 2007

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House In A House. Cool or Creepy?

When I first saw this I thought it was a very unique idea. Kind of like being able to sit in your front yard in a big comy couch and tv without concern for the elements. Then again, a read through the comments on this post about Adam Kalkin [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

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Bridging Community in East Van

Two neighbours have built a bridge from one balcony to the other in an East Vancouver neighbourhood. Built as an art sculpture and statement on what it means to be neighbours in a community, the thirty-seven-foot-long bridge spans from the [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, October 30th, 2006

Categories: Architecture, Art, Inspiration, Vancouver | 2 Comments »

Can Architecture Inspire Shoe Design?

A curious interview with Nike’s Tinker Hatfield where he contends that what you draw or design is really the culmination of everything you’ve ever seen or done. In his case an innovative and controversial Georges Pompidou Centre [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 20th, 2006

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Rotor Home

As you claw your way up the design career ladder you might find yourself at home very little. Thus, the Hanse Colani Rotor House may be just the thing for your busy professinal life. Comapct in size, the home’s main feature is a six s [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, October 12th, 2006

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According to the company:

The FREITAG SHOP ZURICH is completely built from rusty, recycled freight-containers. Lovingly they were gutted, reinforced, piled up and secured. Zurich’s first bonsai-skyscraper: Low enough not to violate the city’s restriction on high-rise buildings. High enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine.

Building using shipping containers is not all that new, or uncommon, and in fact many modernist and pre-fab home builders are incorporating them into their home designs, but this is the first time I've seen a structure such as this stacked so high. It must be a little disconcerting to be in there. Who knows, maybe it'll help speed up the decision on what bag to buy. [post_title] => Freitag Bags Boxed [post_category] => 0 [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => freitag-bags-boxed [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2006-10-11 10:01:31 [post_modified_gmt] => 2006-10-11 18:01:31 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://industrialbrand.com/blog/freitag-bags-boxed [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 1 [filter] => raw ) -->

Freitag Bags Boxed

In 1993, then 22-year-old Markus Freitag and his brother Daniel designed a messenger bag out of recycled truck tarps. Flash forward to 2006 and the company has built their flagship store out of 26 stacked shipping containers.

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

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Walk on Water

The London Design Festival just wrapped up. With a mandate to “celebrate and promote all things design”, and from the looks of the website, must have been an amazing event. I came across this installation called Bridge by artist [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 6th, 2006

Categories: Architecture, Art, Design, Inspiration | 1 Comment »