| Tape Melbourne by Numen/For Use Posted: 21 Oct 2011 06:58 AM PDT Numen/For Use, a Croatian-Austrian design collective, installed a large scale site-specific art project in Melbourne, Australia. 
. Description from Numen/For Use: Tape Melbourne was specially commissioned by Melbourne’s main civic centre and cultural district Federation Square as a part of their Creative Program focussing on experimental large-scale public art and its social and communal relevance. The full 16 meters stretch of the Fed Square’s Western Terrace is the greatest span traversed by a Tape Installation thus far. The structure had to be constructed with the help of special platforms as it projects from the external walls of the Fed Square’s SBS building at the height of 6 meters above ground. Its more slender and tenuous, distinctly willowy form is dictated by the specifics of the bridged span and setting. Tape Melbourne is the first Tape Installation to be executed outside Europe and below the equator. Tape installation was envisaged as a site specific, parasitical structure invading an arbitrary location. The straight lines of main trajectories are stretched across a given area and these tendons are then wrapped diagonally with layers of elastic tape, giving shape to a complex organic form through a process similar to the emergence of such structures in nature. With the further layering of the tape, the figure becomes more and more corporeal as it picks up on the slow increase of the curvature. The interior of the structure is supple, elastic, and pliable while the form itself is statically perfect, as it ideally follows the trajectories of forces, being literally defined by them. In the moment when the audience enters the installation, what started off as a sculpture seamlessly morphs into architecture.                                        Visit the Numen/For Use website – here. Photography by Fred Kroh and Numen/ForUse . .  |
| CUPCAKE Seating Collection from Bretz Posted: 21 Oct 2011 05:46 AM PDT German manufacturer Bretz have recently introduced the CUPCAKE sofa, armchair, and stool. 
. Description from Bretz: It is round, gentle, yet a mind of its own: CUPCAKE. Already its name alludes to comforting, warm dough which is about to flow over while flagrantly leaving the oven. The designer adapted the concept "hard bowl, soft core" to refine her initial idea. In this case the bowl constitutes a fundament covered by leather or fabric. It is decorated with colorful fancy seams leaving the seam either raw, without selvedge or traditionally closed. The soft, gentle core falls smoothly over the bowl. Covered by cuddly fabric or soft leather the huge pillows assemble to a dreamlike sofa idyll. Since the armrest is the backrest at the same time, CUPCAKE can either be seated on in a communicative half-circle or counterpart. No matter if you want to relax alone, experience excitement as two, have fun together with the whole family, discuss with friends or have a talk with your business partners – CUPCAKE enchants smaller and bigger locations with its sweet charm. Who sits down is caught as the will to get up is dispelled by pure relief. Design: Carolin Fieber         Visit the Bretz website – here. . .  |
| Ator Restaurant by Expose Architecture Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:39 AM PDT |
