OVER THE TOP Nick Tsontakis, AIA
May 18 2013 ·World Class architecture masterpiece on top of Mummy Mountain in Paradise Valley, Arizona. This 16,370 sq. ft. residence is designed by award winning visionary architect Nick Tsontakis, AIA. It captures views on both the north and south faces while hugging the mountain ridge in the center. The two wings are connected by a 2,000 sq. [...]
Vassilis Avramidis paintings
May 18 2013 ·Vasilis Avramidis graduated from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design with an MA in Fine Art in 2011. Avramidis was shortlisted for the Salon Art Prize 2011 and his work has been collected by University of the Arts London. Avramidis has exhibited widely within the UK and in Greece. Within the setting of [...]
Tilt Shift, Photo Series of World Landmarks as Miniatures
May 18 2013 ·In his “Tilt Shift” series, photographer Richard Silver uses a digital tilt-shift effect to turn world landmarks into miniatures. For another interesting digital photo project by Silver, check out the “New York Sliced” series. Via Laughing Squid
King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station by Zaha Hadid
May 18 2013 ·The ArRiyadh Development Authority has announced that Zaha Hadid Architects will build the new King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) Metro Station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. With over 5 million residents, Riyadh’s population has more than doubled since 1990. To serve its fast-growing population, the city will build a new public transport system. The 20,434 sq. [...]
Century Old Butcher Shop
May 17 2013 ·A century-old butcher’s shop-as in, from the good old days when butchers apparently commissioned artists for reverse painted glass ceilings and stunning decorative tiling—that’s been turned into the hippest of bars in Leipzig, Germany. The transformation of Fleischerei Bar is the handiwork of local designer Michael Grzesiak, who brought into the space, which, by the way, [...]
Oil Finger Paintings by Iris Scott
May 16 2013 ·One day while completing an oil painting of a field artist Iris Scott needed to make a few quick adjustments to some yellow flowers but every brush at her disposal was stained a deep dark blue. Not wanting to stop and wash the brushes she decided to make a few quick touchups with her fingers, a small [...]
Marc Sijan’s Superrealistic sculptures
May 16 2013 ·Marc Sijan’s Superrealistic sculptures are “homages to humanity’s fascination with its own forms — a fascination which has compelled artists throughout the millennia to mirror life in virtually every medium.” Sijan’s figures are incredibly lifelike, sensuous and graceful. In fact, they are so lifelike, they seem always on the verge of movement, a mere instant [...]
manuelle gautrand architecture: europacity competition proposal
May 16 2013 ·The europacity competition to develop the gonesse triangle has yielded compelling ideas about the urbanistic fabric of the future. Despite the recent unveiling of BIG’s winning entry, French architect Manuelle Gautrand’s proposal posits a unified vision of European urban identity with lifted scroll-like swirls in the landscape under which a variously mixed program is tucked. [...]
Photos: The Ruins of Detroit
May 15 2013 ·Up and down Detroit’s streets, buildings stand abandoned and in ruin. French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre set out to document the decline of an American city. Their book “The Ruins of Detroit“, a document of decaying buildings frozen in time, was published in December 2010. From the photographers’ website: Ruins are the visible [...]
STUNNING FROZEN AIR BUBBLES AT ABRAHAM LAKE, CANADA
May 15 2013 ·Abraham Lake is an artificial lake on North Saskatchewan River in western Alberta, Canada. The lake was created in 1972. and was named for Silas Abraham, an inhabitant of the Saskatchewan River valley in the nineteenth century. Although man-made, the lake has the blue color of other glacial lakes in the Rocky Mountains, which is [...]
The real life models
May 14 2013 ·Nowadays almost every photographer use graphics software to complete the picture, like many painters used ‘original version’ in the past.Some artists use pure imagination to paint their artworks, others may prefer to create art by using a real life model as reference for the anatomy. What if these abstract models were real people? My name [...]
BOATS ON CRYSTAL CLEAR WATER
May 14 2013 ·Summer is approaching fast in the Northern Hemisphere. Here is a collection of boats that “fly” over crystal clear water
Joshua Petker paintings
May 14 2013 ·Joshua Petker was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1979 and received a BA in Western History from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. While pursuing a degree in History he maintained a growing interest in the arts that developed out of a fascination with graffiti which Petker started creating as a youth. After [...]
Dimitsana weekend, a photo series
May 13 2013 ·Design Stories was in Dimitsana this weekend. I took the camera and shoot some pictures of this beautiful place. Read from wikipedia more information about this magnificent place Dimitsana (Greek: Δημητσάνα) is a mountain village and a former municipality in Arcadia,Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Gortynia, of which it is the [...]
JKC2 House by ONG&ONG
May 13 2013 ·This house comprises of three volumes positioned around a central courtyard such that they interact, whilst each wing remains distinct enough to be viewed as an independent entity. The home’s interiors and outdoor areas are configured with flexibility of space in mind so that the house can be adapted to suit a broad spectrum of [...]