New & Cool Architecture
New & Cool Architecture / Hotel Full Moon
July 2, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
The vision of South Korean design consultancy Heerim Architects, the 35 story Hotel Full Moon is being built in Baku, Azerbaijan, on the west coast of the Caspian Sea.
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New & Cool Architecture / The dream house? Yes, please!
June 29, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton 
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Ok, so this lifetime might be a write-off as far as ever owning a house like this is concerned. But in my next one. Oh yah, give me a slice of that pie. Phlease! This luxurious abode, appropriately nicknamed The Mansion, was built on a 16,000 square foot property in London and designed by the husband and wife team, Anil and Marisa Varma. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / Japan’s Namba Park
June 23, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Casper Johansson |
Situated amongst the urban bustle of Osaka, Namba Park is a welcome relief from the walls of gray concrete that swathes the city. This green oasis — with its cliffs and waterfalls — stands where the local baseball stadium used to be, and is made up of a thirty-floor skyscraper and a shopping mall with eight floors of terraced gardens.
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New & Cool Architecture / Lego Architecture
June 19, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Gerry Mak |
Grown men who get excited over Kid Robot products and ‘adult’ toys generally give me the heebie-jeebies, but Lego’s new Lego Architecture division gets me pretty excited. Soon you’ll be able to build iconic buildings such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum, in addition to the Taj Mahal, the Sears Tower, the Seattle Space Needle, and others already available.
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New & Cool Architecture / The Mirage by Kjellgren Kaminsky
June 15, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Casper Johansson |
In 2006, Fredrik Kjellgren and Joakim Kaminsky won the International Competition for their vision for a new dance hall in Falsterbo, Sweden. Now the building, known as the Mirage, is to be inaugurated. The design placed considerable emphasis on creating ’spaces with extraordinary acoustic qualities. A custom made damping wall was designed in collaboration with an acoustic expert, consisting of a black acoustic felt covered by white wooden boards of various dimensions’. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / Hamburg’s Spiegel Publishing House
June 9, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
Built in 1969, the Spiegel Publishing House in Hamburg is one of the most remarkable interiors you’ll ever see. Designed by Verner Panton, the building includes a courtyard, lobby, canteen, bar areas, and a stunning looking swimming pool [above] in the basement, among other distinct additions: ‘All designs were his own — lamps, textiles and wall claddings, only the furniture had to be ordered from Knoll International according to his contracts. The specially designed mirror lighting used on walls and ceilings was of major importance. While the swimming pool area was destroyed soon afterwards by a fire and the entry and lobby saw major redesign in the 90s, the canteen has so far remained in the original version and today represents a unique and valuable historic document’. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / Barbie does Shanghai
June 4, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Yuko Shimizu |
I was never a big fan of Barbie, but I would travel to Shanghai just to visit this mind-blowing castle for Barbie dolls. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / Barcelona’s Chic and Basic Born Hotel
May 30, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
My wife and I have just returned from a week lapping up the culture and exploring the long winding alleyways that run off the main streets in the center of Barcelona. What a magnificent city! The seamless blend of old and new in the architecture, food, and sounds, which float out of the bars and cafes, combine with a very distinct design aesthetic, which permeates the stores and hotels to create a thriving modern city with one eye firmly on the future and the other on the artifacts of its past. While in Barcelona, we spent a few nights staying at the sublime Chic and Basic Hotel [photographed above and below], located in the Born area. This hotel symbolized so much of what we considered Barcelona to be about. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / China’s Jinhua Architecture Park
May 21, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Katherine Brice |
An architecture lover’s paradise, the Jinhua Architecture Park in China is a two kilometer ribbon of land that winds itself along the Yiwu River. It includes seventeen specially designed pavilions by leading Chinese and international architects. The project began in 2002 as a memorial dedication from Chinese architect Ai Weiwei for his father, Chinese poet Ai Qing. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / France’s Centre Pompidou-Metz
May 9, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Katherine Brice |
Due for completion this year, the Centre Pompidou-Metz in France is an elegant and audacious structure. The design features a transparent polytetrafluoroethylene roofing membrane, stretched over a hexagonal lattice, thats form is derived from a ‘muak kui’ (traditional Chinese woven hat). The Centre, which is to be used predominantly as a gallery, will have both adaptable spatial and lighting options, which enhances the notion of flexibility both within the aesthetics of the building and within its function. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / Arty facade for indigenous theatre
May 5, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Xavier Toby |
A previously vacant block in Sydney’s inner-west is to be the home of a new, three-storey office block for various indigenous communication services and other organisations. More importantly, though, for Sydney residents, the exterior will feature a major new Aboriginal artwork to be three-storeys high and sixteen metres wide with the aim being to inspire indigenous inner-city residents
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New & Cool Architecture / Brisbane’s Taringa Transit towers
May 4, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Xavier Toby |
Still in the early stages, this new development in Brisbane looks very slick. The $150 million project will incorporate a mix of commercial, residential and retail, and if the concept images are anything to go by, it’ll add something special to Brisbane’s skyline. Known as the Taringa Transit Orientated Development, I’m especially fond of the abundance of glass and the use of open space. The dividers between levels, if they make it to construction, then provide that factor which makes this design extraordinary. It almost looks like a horizontal fin, poking out of the side there.
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New & Cool Architecture / Melbourne’s Docklands gets a facelift
April 30, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Xavier Toby |
It’s always nice when a shed gets a facelift, and Melbourne’s Docklands is slowly transforming from an area full of sheds into a slick, urban and commercial community. This shed was a former train freight discharge terminal, or big goods shed, and is now set to house shops, eateries and offices. A walkway through a centre atrium gives a spacious, luminous feeling to energise the space, and with a high energy rating, environmental concerns have also been incorporated. The most important part is that with all that glass, lights and large spaces, it will be a treat to hang around this old goods shed which is scheduled for completion at the end of 2009.
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New & Cool Architecture / Paddington’s Reservoir Gardens
April 23, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Xavier Toby |
Instead of demolishing the old Paddington Reservoir, architects TZG have incorporated into the design a new outdoor public garden in Paddington, Sydney. The results are stunning, with the nineteenth century structures providing an amazing starting point. Looking less like a garden and more like an overgrown ancient city, with the remnants of historic walls and vaults, this new public space is well worth frequent visits.
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New & Cool Architecture / Lower East Side Girls Club gets a facelift
April 13, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Katriane Hill |
This year, the Lower East Side Girls Club (in partnership with high-profile local developer, The Dermont Company) will break ground on a new project: a 30,000 square foot mixed-use arts and community building on the corner of 7th Street and Avenue D. It is the first and only Girls Club Facility in New York City, and will ‘triple the program’s capacity’, according to the Girl’s Club website. Read more
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Luke Kopycinski is a concept artist for a game company in Melbourne, but his fine art transcends any niche genre with its rough paint strokes converging into luminous and expressive figures. Read more
The Sound of Animals Fighting again unleash their experimental blend of progressive electronic hardcore rock. Known only by their animal names — Nightingale, Walrus, Lynx, and Skunk — and wearing masks for their rare live appearances, TSOAF have released two albums. Their latest, The Ocean and The Sun, offers an intense mix of genres, as delicate Brazilian-inflected melodies careen into shattering guitar workouts.
Jen Hseih’s illustrations are a wonderfully exciting explosion of colour and subtle innuendo, finely detailed windows into a world that I’ll never know. Read more
I really don’t understand cat haters. Most of them claim that our feline companions are aloof and distant, graceful and mysterious to a fault. In my opinion, cats are just as goofy as dogs, which is why any documentation of them acting like spazzes makes me chuckle uncontrollably. Read more
This clip had such an impact on me when it first came out, back in the day. There’s just something so poignant about the idea that some people you pass on the street everyday have a little bit more insight into their world — our world — than we could ever imagine. It’s beautiful and confronting, and it’s all set to the most wonderfully evocative music.
When you first see The Gershwin Hotel, you might think it’s an art gallery or a public art installation. The white, bird-like shapes sticking out of its red facade is certainly unique, without being too loud. The rooms are rather small but the location and accessible price range makes it all worth it.
Put simply, Sydney fashion label Andrea and Joen create the hottest shoes around. You’ll find a combination of pure sophistication and rock and roll attitude in every pair from their range. Their sexy style has become a must for contemporary women, including Gwen Stefani, Katy Steele and Pink, all of whom have been seen proudly flaunting them around town.
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When I did the Master Cleanse diet a few years ago — the one where you consume nothing but lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper for ten days — I sat at work looking at pictures of food as if they were porn. Scanwiches would have gotten me hot and bothered like nothing else.
Guido Daniele’s amazing hand painted animals
Italian artist Guido Daniele creates the most surreally brilliant portraits of wild animals using little more than body paint and a hyper-realistic imagination. Read more
Born in a sub-provincial city of China, and raised in the suburbs of Northern California, Brooklyn-based artist Jing Wei attended the Rhode Island School of Design where she ‘developed a great affinity for printmaking, snow, and pizza’.
Argentine illustrator Poly Bernatene miraculously creates many of his beautifully textured, painterly images in Photoshop. Despite his twenty-first century method, his illustrations achieve a sort of timelessness that is bound to mesmerize children for years to come. Read more
Design collectives can often be a mess, only bound together by a splash page and a few lines of text. Lie-ins and Tigers are without a doubt one of the most unified collectives and one of my favourites. Sam Kerr, Walter Newton and Russell Weekes may all have their own sites and services, but in collaboration, the humour and design intention remains remarkably unified. Read more
Legendary pop culture artist and Agit Pop founder Ron English will be a guest compiler of an upcoming issue of our email newsletter, writing about his favorite cultural discoveries. To read Ron’s edition of Lost At E Minor, simply sign up to our weekly newsletter. It’s free, you win!
Our friends at the multidisciplinary design studio, Bestial, have created a t shirt for Lost At E Minor that we’re now selling through our online store. The robotic design comes printed on a skin-hugging ultra-soft fitted American Apparel t shirt. Read more
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