llove by lloyd hotel at tokyo designers week 2010

the lloyd hotel, amsterdam directs 'llove', a temporary hotel and café in daikanyama, tokyo. the exhibition brings together eight japanese and dutch designers who will create guest rooms in a temporary hotel, where people can actually make a reservation and stay over night. 'llove' offers the experience of spending a night in an artistic space made specifically for the occasion of tokyo designers week.'llove' designers include: richard hutten, joep van lieshout, pieke bergmans, scholten & baijings, hideyuki nakayama, yuko nagayama, jo nagasaka and ryuji nakamura.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/11786/llove-by-lloyd-hotel-at-tokyo-designers-week-2010.html

raumlaborberlin: soap opera

raumlaborberlin: soap opera

the installation consists of hundreds of transparent, latex balloons--some filled with helium, some filled with just air. varying in size and weight, the scene when viewed from far away resemble a luminous mist of bubbles floating between the old bath house and the grove of birch trees. visitors experience the space by immersing themselves among the balloons, which are illuminated from within.

'soap opera' temporary softens the precision and hardness of the architecture on site--the industrial shaft tower, metal trusses, and brick-clad facade--by its material and form. visitors, who are the real actors in this performance, are encouraged to part the installation by taking parts of it along with them, resulting in the installation gradually dissolving as if it were made of foam.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/11301/raumlaborberlin-soap-opera.html

vacant NL

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/11343/vacant-nl-dutch-pavilion-at-venice-architecture-biennale-2010.html

Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool at P.S.1

http://www.leandroerlich.com.ar/