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Flowers in the City

Wild flowers on a window sill, simply put into bottles....

Libellés : architecture, Homes in Switzerland, Inspiration, Urban; Geneva

Mobilier urbain

Mobilier urbain
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Sièges installés sur les rochers au bord du lac à Vevey.

Zaha Hadid's Fire Station at Vitra / Weil am Rhein

Backpart of the firestation.

Part of the front

Kitchen upstairs

Zaha Hadid - Vitra Firehouse View from Terrasse to Kitchen

Kitchen / refcetory seen from the roof-terrasse

Zaha Hadid - Vitra Firehouse Changing Room

Lockers in the women's changing room.

Zaha Hadid was born in Bagdad (1950). She trained maths at the American University of Beirut (1968 - 1971) and studied architecture at the Architectural Association School (AA) in London, UK (1972 - 1977).

The first of her major projects to be built was the fire station for the Vitra furniture factory at Weil am Rhein, Germany (1993).

http://www.design-museum.de/museum/weil/fuehrung/index.php

Tel Aviv - Architecture

Weird building at the seashore of Tel Aviv. Don't really know what to think about this kind of architecture, but i tend not to really like it.

Sol au Centre de la Photographie

Sol au Centre de la Photographie
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This is a beautiful, industrial wooden floor, seen at the Centre de la Photographie in Geneva.

http://www.centrephotogeneve.ch/

Im Hackeschen Hof

Im Hackeschen Hof
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Hackescher Hof Café in Berlin-Mitte.
I love the Retro-style of the wallpaper as well as the color-combination!

And, sorry for being absent such a long time. I'm back.

Designer's Saturday '08: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München

This was THE highlight of Designer's Saturday '08:

The entire first floor of the Mühlehaus contained this alien-like installation, imagined by the students of the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Munich.

It was made from plastic strips you normally use to keep together all sorts of cables. Though they used a rather rigid materiel, the whole thing was confortable and the atmosphere very cosy and comforting.

I asked about how much time was necessary for it. The project from planning and designing to the final result took 3 months, from which 6 weeks were necessary to weave the whole structure, employing 52 students full-time !

I loved this installation because it was original, very innovative, using an almost "every-day" materiel, looked utopic but was cosy and confortable despite the rigid appearance. And this could easily be produced, either as outdoor furniture, and even indoors..
Bravo!!