WOODS OF NET by Tezuka Architects, TIS & PARTNERS

PURE TIMBER CONSTRUCTION FOR GREEN ART LOVERS....

 Located at the Hakone Open-Air Museum, the permanent pavilion has been designed for a net artist, Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam. It encourages children to play and inspire visitors.

The Hakone Open Air Museum creates a harmonic balance of the nature and art in the form of sculptures.

Contemporary African Art...!

INSIDE AFRICAN ART......


"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it" -- George H. T. Kimble, from the book 'Inside Africa'


BEAUTIFUL PAINTINGS AND A DEEP APPRECIATION FOR THIS COLORFUL GENRE OF NATIVE ART.

These paintings depict African landscapes, portraits and genre works. With the amazing richness and variety of colours.

REPLAY, flagship store in Milan

The aim of this new concept is to recreate an environment that offers the visitor a pleasant break from city life, a relaxing experience for both body and mind. The new Replay stores have been carefully studied to give an emotional and human dimension to the commercial interaction that takes place there, with sitting room areas, gardens and little corners in which nature claims back a portion of the built-up landscape.

 Assisted by an atmosphere that gives the place a strong, striking identity.

 

All over the ground floor are high columns of plants descending from the ceiling, symbolising a contact between Man and Nature.  original floral inlay work seems almost to sprout from the plants that climb up the walls.

 The iron and walnut wood used exclusively in the building of the store help to create a peaceful, natural atmosphere that ensures customers a pleasant visit.

The whole area is designed on the model of a huge sitting room where anyone can stop and take a look around, and the idea is to transmit a sense of wellbeing to anyone who walks through the door. 

Japanese Restaurant

An amazing interior

OSCAR NIEMEYER- A Legend of Modernism....

Modern Art Museum, Niteroi

The Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer counts as one of the great architects of the 20th century.  He became well known for his buildings in Brasilia where he  succeeded in devising forms for buildings destined to represent the state that remain equally poignant today.  His architecture combines sculptural monumentality with classic order.

He has constructed more buildings than almost any other modern architect and has not stopped yet. Famous for the city of Brasilia and for the UN Headquarters in New York, Niemeyer says that his inspirations comes from the curves he finds in Brazilian women.

A view from the top

                                                                                       Cathedral of Brasilia, 1958

                                                
                        Ibirapuera Auditorium, in Sao Paulo (Above)

             NIEMEYER'S MASTER WORK:

Presidential Palace, known as Alvorada

Katalogue XXL Exhibition Oscar Niemeyer Museum Oct 2008 – May 2009 Curitiba, Brazil

wedding chapel, by Klein Dytham Architects

TREE SPHERES

A home in the trees...
“A treehouse is sort of a modern lifestyle product which respects and fits into nature."

Pavilion recycled cardboard tubes

By Sydney Architecture students:

 They used plywood sheets and cut holes in the wood to create structural forms, which
the cardboard tubes would slide into. The entire pavilion sits on a small foundation of 
wood slats that curve in half circles to create the pavilion.