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17 posts tagged steel

Singapore constructs a forest of steel “supertrees” over Marina Bay.

The new concourse at London’s King’s Cross Station.

The Big Basket Chair by Swedish designer Ola Gillgren.

Landscape Fence, a free-form steel ‘cocoon’ built over a private swimming pool in Austria.

The new Arts of Islam gallery at the Louvre boasts a massive undulating glass roof configured to look like a flowing Islamic headscarf.

A helical wave-like gazebo structure equipped with a brick and steel char-grill, designed for a Russian home makeover television show.

AUTOBOX by Guilherme Torres.

Japanese architect Tetsuo Kondo has designed a 95-meter long curving steel pipe path that snakes between the trees of Kadriorg Park in Tallinn, Estonia.

AGMAR by UPI-2M

A NYT video explores the stratospheric world of the “Sky Cowboys” who are constructing WTC 1, aka, the Freedom Tower.

The exterior of Zaha Hadid’s Transport Museum for Glasgow, above. Interior shot, below. 

More on the construction and questionable design agenda here.

Infographic time… Our resident designer and architecture school graduate takes a look at Zaha Hadid’s latest, the Transport Museum in Glasgow, and finds it to be a “deeply smug building that parrots the class hierarchies of the Industrial Revolution.” 

One could argue that there is little romance to be found in Edward Burtynsky’s portrayals of decay, but we happen to find photographs of steel machinery ever-so-slightly sexy. 

Santiago Calatrava steel orb encasing a 98-foot mural by painter Frank Stella. At Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin starting tomorrow. More details here!

The original: Herzog & de Meuron’s Dominus Winery in Napa Valley, California (1997). For other examples of this building method (reinforced concrete and gabion cladding on steel tube frame supporting baskets filled with rocks), read on here.

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