A Thread for Fine Design

dale

http://yatzer.com/Metropol-Parasol-The-World-s-Largest-Wooden-Structure-J-MAYER-H-Architects

Thanks unclebim, This architects website is really worth a visit. http://www.jmayerh.de/home.htm
Some very inspiring work here, and a great website.
Some more.

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dale

@unknownuser said:

Don't no why I have missed this thread
My contribution!
My SKP model of this Alessi Cupola by Aldo Rossi
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Ah Rossi. I love his preliminary sketches. Passes in 1997.
Also the Author of L’architettura della città [The Architecture of the City] (1966), and Scientific Autobiography (1981). Thanks Pilou.

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dale

@d12dozr said:

Cool, unclebim! Its awesome what 3D sculptures can be made starting with flat stock and a CNC machine!
That's how these mind-boggling stairs were made, as well: http://www.atmosstudio.com/#791981/081-23MR-Stairs = Tons of photos...

It is going to be interesting to see what happens when Atmosstudio completes their website, because those stair images, and the others that are in place are awesome.
I can't help thinking Rennie Mackintosh, and Gaudi when I see images like this.

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dale

A Mackintosh just for reference. http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/Mackintosh/browse.html

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pyroluna

Design with nature...
http://vimeo.com/20403282

baz

@unknownuser said:

Design with nature...
http://vimeo.com/20403282

Amazing, a must see... living bridges... wow.
baz

dale

+1. Wow

simon le bon

Dear Dale.
I go back to your post about Christo.
I was living in Paris at this time when Christo had come to wrap the Pont Neuf. This happened from September 22 to October 7, 1985.

One afternoon that I was passing in this place, I suddenly discovered this amazing thing. On the Pont Neuf, both sides was a number of cubicles equipped with semi-circular bench. They was packed and the old street lights staying along the parapet was packed as well. This place I had always known as a place of movement was suddenly becoming a place to stay and rest. The strange comfort of these pleasant outdoor lounges was appealing you. I had then taken a sit in one of the stalls, but many people had had the same idea. Thus the stalls were crowded, and this people accustomed to cross around without seeing them together astonishingly began to speak. I remember a wonderful evening passed to rebuild the world with perfect strangers in an atmosphere superbly cosi.
Following this, the tissue that had been used to wrap the Pont Neuf had been completely cut into small three centimeters squares and freely distributed to millions of Parisians and tourists who had visited the bridge .... the idea was simple and superb.

Cheers, simon.

dale

Well described Simon.
The interaction, the celebration, the sensual confrontation, even some of the negative reaction to this kind of work is stimulating and challenging.
I think it is so cool that you were actually there.
However, you seem to end up in a lot of interesting and stimulating places
Thanks for sharing.
Dale

Roger

@dale said:

a portable wood fired hotub, proving you can take it with you.

Did you mean "ho tub" or "hot tub"?

dale

Roger, I just moved back to Northern BC. There is no way to discretely describe that genre here. Let us suffice to say you don't want to share bathwater unless it's boiling.

solo

http://jackmon.typepad.com/patentworld/2010/11/transparent-camping-tent.html

david_h

Cool idea in concept--however I see a few drawbacks to that design . . .

a small itty-bitty hiccup to that idea is that if you spent more than 1/2 hour in there during the day you would die.
Not to mention everyone else can see you and your drawbacks . . .ahem . ..as it were.

Roger

Cristo's art killed one woman. I don't remember the year, but Cristo planted a field of giant umbrellas in California and Ibaraki, Japan. They were to be opened simultaneously. The California location was very windy and one of Cristo's volunteers was killed when a 450lb umbrella fell on her. Ironically, she was dieing of cancer and had two weeks to live.

I was reminded of this when when a wind lifted one of my garden umbrellas into a neighbor's yard. No one was home, so I sent my ninja son over the wall to retrieve said umbrella.

On another occasion I saw a whole gazebo took flight and came down in a street right behind an unsuspecting driver in a pickup truck. And we have had at least 3 bounce houses take flight with kids in them in the last month. Some of the kids were seriously injured when they fell on the roof of a house.

"Toto I don't think we are in Kansas any longer.

" Trying to kill my neighbor with an umbrella.

d12dozr

Lectori Salutem Desk by Jeroen Verhoeven

@unknownuser said:

Artist and designer Jeroen Verhoeven has created a polished steel desk using the profiles of two of his studio colleagues and computer aided design/ manufacturing.

The workmanship is astounding More pictures here.

dale

@d12dozr said:

Lectori Salutem Desk by Jeroen Verhoeven

That is really a brilliant piece of conception and workmanship.
Also the website above and on d12dozr's link is well worth the peruse.

As for Pete's tent. I'd love to spend one of those star filled nights in that tent, but being able to see into a tent I occupy wouldn't be that pretty