South Pond by Studio Gang

Architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space have sent us this video of a pavilion situated in Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, designed by US architects Studio Gang.
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The movie shows the construction of the bent-wood lattice structure, the installation of fibreglass shells to the top of the pavilion providing shelter and its various uses throughout day and night.

Studio Gang Architects also designed the boardwalk surrounding the 19th century pond, improving the water quality and habitat for the local wildlife and creating an educational nature trail.

The new pavilion is used as an outdoor classroom, for yoga sessions and other activities.

Here a little more from Studio Gang:

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South Pond
Lincoln Park Zoo
Chicago, USA The project transforms a picturesque urban pond from the 19th century into an ecological habitat buzzing with life.

With the design’s improvements to water quality, hydrology, landscape, accessibility, and shelter, the site is able to function as an outdoor classroom in which the co-existence of natural and urban surroundings is demonstrated.

A new boardwalk circumscribing the pond passes through various educational zones that explicate the different animals, plants, and habitat found in each.

A pavilion integrated into the boardwalk sequence provides shelter for open-air classrooms on the site.

Inspired by the tortoise shell, its laminated structure consists of prefabricated, bent-wood members and a series of interconnected fiberglass pods that give global curvature to the surface.

Architect: Studio Gang Architects
Owner: Lincoln Park Zoo
Status: Completed 2010

Staircase by Ross Lovegrove

This beautiful staircase is the DNA staircase designed by Ross Lovegrove in 2003 and manufactured by Chistophe Moinat Design. The staircase is made out of bladder-moulded glass fiber and carbon fiber.

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Viktor & Rolf Store

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Cristiano Cora Studio

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On the second floor of a sleek sexy building, that is part of the current renaissance in New York architecture, the organic, modernist design of the studio with its clean lines and sensuous curves is the perfect setting for a designer whose signature look is both functional and beautiful.
Completed by stunning furniture designed by Ross Lovegrove, the feeling that you get entering the studio is that of stepping into a future where luxury, technology and beauty become entwined.

Fornarina Las Vegas

Giorgio Borruso Design projected a surrealistic ambience of amoeboid shapes for the italian shop of Fornarina in Las Vegas.
To fight the barnlike 218 square meter rectangular space with 9 meter high ceilings, Borruso designed a series of viscerally organic shapes dominated by four large, hooded, tentaclelike objects hanging from the ceiling. Each one harbors a steel spine carrying LED lighting fixtures and aluminum tubular frames, which in turn support custom acrylic, spherical protuberances encased in a special nylon elastic fabric that they developed with Eventscape.
Shoppers entering the store first confront suspended transparent resin panels 16 feet high, partially enclosing the central space. Blobby fiberglass rings mounted on the vertical panels turn out to be two-sided vitrine elements, in which small-scale items, such as shoes, are displayed. Borruso designed the white custom-cast fiberglass walls to look like soft, fleshy protrusions lighted from inside.

HBO Shop

Gensler designed the HBO Shop located in New York, where the emphasis is on the visit and the brand as much as the purchase.
In the spirit of HBO’s tagline “It’s not TV, it’s HBO”, the new HBO Store is a bold and unique brand experience, imaginatively designed utilizing a mere sliver of well-placed real estate in HBO’s existing lobby.

Heineken Lounge

UXUS designed this amazing lounge bar for Heineken at the Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, USA.
It is a bold new bar concept designed to give travelers a place to escape the chaos and stress of airports, offering the benefit of Heineken’s exclusive Extra Cold chilled beer system, a fully stocked cocktail bar and a relaxing environment you would expect from a VIP airline club.




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Snog Soho

Cinimod Studio have created the second of Snog Pure Frozen Yogurt store, this time located in the heart of London’s vibrant Soho.
In this store they introduce a different quirk in the design: a bubbling ceiling. This lighting feature is comprised by 700 glass globes containing LED lights and presents a new level of visual excitement and public engagement.
Under this effervescent ceiling, a gleaming white counter reaches almost the full length of the store, presenting the assorted fresh and baked Snog toppings within an elegant glass cabinet. Towards the rear of the store the curved super-pink walls meets the icy-cold glass wall which provides the canvas for seasonal works by guest artists.



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