Product of the Day: Rieder – Façade Covering Concrete skin, silvergrey
fibreC, which is also known as “concrete skin” and has won international architectural awards - is a concrete panel reinforced with glassfibres which combines the advantages of concrete and glassfibres in one product: it is as solid, mouldable and durable as concrete, but thanks to the glassfibres also thin-walled, fireproof and light-weight. Like a skin of concrete, it allows the construction of slim elements with a tensile strength. The extremely thin concrete slabs contribute to the new language of shapes.
All pictures: Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, U.S.A., Concrete Skin, silvergrey, Matt
Architect: Steven Holl, New York, U.S.A. & Vitto Acconci, New York, U.S.A.
The intelligent façade
Façade constructions usually consist of two individual components which often have to be laboriously adjusted to one another to satisfy the developer's aesthetic requirements and functional demands. But it can be done differently.
Black, with a view
A house in the Japanese town of Otake with spacious open and white zones forms a marvelous frame for an almost limitless panorama.
Going through walls
The Art College and Galerie Stihl in Waiblingen both shimmer milky white, playing with the light, seemingly light, and lit up at night.
Nightingale, I cannot hear you!
Acoustics are becoming an ever more important criterion in the planning and outfitting of interiors.
Perfecting the Invisible
Discretion is a fine thing. What we don't need to see relieves the burden on our eyes. Where a building's appearance recedes subtly into the background and systems that are essential for a building's functionality are no longer visible, it opens up manifold possibilities for design.
Futura vs lego
Futura is an alien period. He manages to turn all that madness into something beautiful.
Yana Moskaluk
Yana Moskaluk´s works is truly exquisite!! has got a very cute, dark, vivid portfolio.
I wish i knew more about her… The only things i know, well she´s Russian and she´s an amazing artist.
You better check out more of her work at http://yanamoskaluk.com/