r27’s posterous

Art is around us all of the time, as designers, and it is easy to see the artistic nature or our surroundings leaking into our design works. The subtle interpretive elements that bring a piece of art alive seeping into the functional frameworks that construct the basis for our creations, until they begin to slowly meld the flow and the feel of the design with the artistic. We see it happening all the time, and it is an exciting, and often times, inspirational occurrence. An especially exciting place to see this artistry crop up is in architectural design.

Of course design of all kinds has to meet a level of functionality as is brilliantly discussed over on The Difference Between Art and Design, but we always expect more function from our architectural structures. Forgetting how wonderfully artistic these needs can be met. In this post we take a look at the more artistically crafted architectural designs, from concept to reality, as long as there is an artistic edge! Still serving their functions brilliantly, and innovatively changing the landscape of the world in which we inhabit. So take a look at the following showcase below.

Once in a while it is nice to not work on a commercial project and have the freedom of doing whatever you want. Fortunately the people at Büro Hirzberger hirzbergerevents.com were totally open to whatever we presented them to decorate parts of their office space in Vienna.

My fellow co-workers at Strukt Design Studio came up with this digital wallpaper, using 2 projectors to map an entire wall and using VVVV to do the deskewing and to generate the content.

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Here it goes one of the most expected articles from de design history series: The Bauhaus. Let's see how everything begun, its artists, its influences and many things about the first big school of design, that means so much for us.

The very fabric of skyscrapers is being reinvented now as architects and engineers look to make these dense urban buildings more sustainable. One of the biggest dilemmas they face is allowing for visibility without overheating the interior from direct sunlight. BIG Architects recently came up with their solution to this issue, winning them the award to design their origami-folded skyscraper for the Shenzhen Energy Company. The facade is folded accordion-style, and shades the office complex from direct sunlight with integrated solar thermal panels, while simultaneously allowing for indirect light into the interior.

London based Platform 5 Architects have designed a modern oriel window as part of a renovation to a run-down derelict house in the London Borough of Hackney.

The modern structural glass oriel window is lined with cherry wood and projects into the garden, juxtaposing with the Victorian bay window that projects into the street.

Architects Todd Saunders, a Canadian who has lived and worked in Norway since 1997, and Thomas Pfeffer have completed the Villa G in Bergen, Norway.