Australia’s Yellow Goat Design have completed some new custom lighting pieces.

Visit the website of Yellow Goat Design - here.

Seed:

Two aluminium composite wings, mirror on one side and timber grain on the other, simply slotted together around a 250mm diameter opal ball light. Can be built with almost any combination of materials and finishes. Dimensions are 1000mm x 1000mm x 500mm.

Encounter:

Silver spaceships descending. Straight out of an Ed Wood movie, almost too retro. Built from mirror polished aluminium, glossy black acrylic and a circular fluoro mounted on an opal reflector. Dimension; 1200mm diameter.

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Part of the Houses at Sagaponac development in the Hamptons of New York, this 3-bedroom house by architect Stan Allen is currently for sale at $2.6 million.

From the architect:

The Sagaponac House is a prototype weekend house designed without a specific client for a wooded lot in Eastern Long Island. One of a number of houses commissioned for an innovative residential development, our project is characterized by the flexibility of the interior spaces (many of which permit multiple uses) the use of natural materials, and references to the local vernacular architecture.

Visit Stan Allen’s website - here.   Visit the home’s listing - here.

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Thanks to Brigitte for sending us photos of the LUDUS modular sofa from the German furniture manufacturer Mobilia Collection.

LUDUS consists of only three cushion parts: a seat cushion, a back cushion and a corner back cushion (optional) - and a lacquered MDF back part (library). LUDUS affords one a lot of opportunities to sit, lie, play, work or recline. It is up to you. If necessary you can transform it back into a classical club class suite for more serious purposes or, with the arrangement of seat cushions, you can make it into a bed, if your friends really don’t want to leave.

The back part incorporates a library shelf, which can serve as a practical storage space for books or all other items you need. It all makes for a delightful cosy corner in your home.

Visit the website of Mobilia Collection - here.

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RMJM Architects have submitted an application to the Guinness Book of Records to recognise the Capital Gate tower as the “most inclined in the world”.  Currently under construction in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the iconic tower will lean 4 times as far as Leaning Tower of Pisa. Capital Gate leans westward an astonishing 18 degrees; by comparison the Leaning Tower of Pisa leans less than 4 degrees.

Besides being believed to be the ‘world’s most inclined’ building, Capital Gate also features 728 unique custom-made diamond-shaped glazing panels. Due to the structure’s curving shape, each pane of glass is different and each will be fitted at a slightly different angle.

Capital Gate will accommodate the 5-star ‘Hyatt at Capital Centre’ hotel and will provide the most exclusive office space in Abu Dhabi. The tower forms a major part of the Capital Centre development, an AED8 billion (US$2.2 billion) business and residential micro city being constructed around the thriving Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.

Visit the website of RMJM Architects - here.

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Milano is part of the most recent collection from Tubes Radiatori.  The steel tube radiators are designed to meet a balance between function and aesthetics. They can be made for a variety of heights up to 7.5 feet, can be free-standing or wall mounted, and are available in 60 colours.

Visit the Tubes Radiatori website - here.

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J. MAYER H. Architects and Sebastian Finckh have completed the Home.Haus - Home for Children and Adolescents in Hamburg-Bergedorf, Germany.

From the architects:

Located near the edge of the forest in Hamburg, a new residential building is now finished as a home for children and adolescents. The characteristics of the building are based on a two colour relief facade embracing a compact house volume. A central staircase penetrates the division between floors in favour of communication to create a central open space for the community.

Visit the website of J. MAYER H. Architects - here.

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Thanks to Juliane from the greutmann bolzern designstudio for letting us know that the “Third Space” interior architecture exhibit will be on display at the annual “Designers’ Saturday” in Langenthal, Switzerland on November 8th and 9th, 2008.

See the description below the photos for more info…

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Italian architect Matteo Thun designed the “Zen meets Pop” interior of the 5-star SIDE Hotel in Hamburg, Germany.

Visit Matteo Thun’s website - here.  Visit the SIDE Hotel’s website - here.

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Tiago Rosado designed this hotel bar in Portimão, Portugal. Originally, it was only supposed to be a poolside bar for the hotel, but it ended up being much larger.

Visit the Ginkgo Lounge website - here.

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Belgian designer Ellen Ectors created the SwiTCh Table-Chair as her graduation work that is a result of her time spent studying interior design at Sint-Lukas in Brussels.  She was then approached by Ellesco International to produce SwiTCh, and it’s now being made in Belgium.

SwiTCh is made of solid European oak wood and leather. It is available in Apple Green, Marine Blue, Café or Espresso Brown and Polar (Cream).

Visit the SwiTCh website - here.

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From the architects:

The spanish architecture firm A-cero, directed by Joaquin Torres, has built a new house in the Madrid outskirts that synthesizes the evolution of the studio’s signature design language and its technical experimentation over the last years. The house can be aesthetically inscribed in the series of projects made by the studio since its international expansion, in places like the Dominican Republic and Dubai, presenting a greater spatial complexity and and use of shapes that underlines the relation between A-cero’s architecture and contemporary sculpture.

At first impression the house clearly shows its intentions, with the dominance of stylized curves and bold shapes that relate harmonically to its natural context while keeping a clearly modern character. The horizontal shapes pile up one on another, creating a stratified building that seems to emerge from the earth like a natural formation, the façades are treated with a texturized dark concrete, completing the mineral analogy. In this capacity of being at once natural in its matter and artificial in its forms, the house reminds of the work of minimalist sculptors like David Nash, or a piece of land art.

Visit the A-cero Architects website - here.

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Horn is a collection of porcelain stoneware tiles from Rex Ceramiche Artistiche.

The tiles are available in various sizes, they have an eggshell surface in either matte or shiny finish, and come in three shades, light, warm or dark.

Visit the website of Rex Ceramiche Artistiche - here.

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Benthem Crouwel Architects designed this penthouse addition on the roof of the Las Palmas building in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Visit the Benthem Crouwel Architects website - here.

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Barcelona based designers Harry&Camila have created the BCN Stool for the Italian furniture manufacturer Kristalia.

From Kristalia:

Research into new furnishing materials has produced the BCN stool. The seat, with its visible curves and ergonomic feel, is in special plastic, generally used as insulation for electronic components, as it is highly resistant to wear and tear, solvents and heat. It is available with a tubular steel frame with chrome finish, or in a colour to match the seat: black, white or fluorescent green.

Visit the Kristalia website - here.  Visit the Harry&Camila website - here.

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The Aussersihl Community Center in Zürich, Switzerland was designed by EM2N.

Visit the website of EM2N Architects - here.

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