3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Manfredi Caracciolo, known as Fredi, is a standout digital artist whose work seamlessly blends bold shapes, striking lighting, and futuristic colour palettes.
His evocative creations often feature small figures set against expansive, shadowy backdrops of what may look like early avantgarde architecture, inviting a sense of introspection and narrative depth.
After success start of house concepts in Metaverse in 2021 by Krista Kim and its representation as an exhibition pavilion the idea of creating virtual living started evolving. Here is Andrés Reisinger and Alba de la Fuente designing modernist house in a frosty metaverse landscape. At some point they can easily swap it during the holidays with Krista’s Mars House
“Winter House is stacked on a large concrete slab to create a "floating floor", underneath which a glass box houses a chunky concrete staircase that leads visitors from the front door into the house.” writes Dezeen
“Argentinian digital artist Reisinger created the house together with Madrid-based architect De la Fuente to reflect the early 1960s projects of industrial designer Dieter Rams, while also exploring winter in the metaverse.” Echoing with functional principles of Le Corbusier “Reisinger explained that the house's expansive windows intend to connect the inside and outside spaces, all of which have been rendered with a subtle splash of pink.”
“In his latest series, titled Wittgenstein’s cabin, visual artist Dionisio González (more here) envisions a group of amphibious dwellings set on the Norwegian fjords. the project draws from Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s secluded hut, planned and built in 1914 on the steep shore of lake Eidsvatnet in Skjolden, beside the Sognefjord. Designed as prototypes for thought, the amphibious dwellings act as reflections of the world while in turn, they are reflected on the mirror of the waters.” , read more on designboom
Tel-Aviv based Israeli architect Yael Steinwurzel creates beautiful illustrations that try to capture the unexpected mystery in the everyday built surrounding with detailed, digital architectural illustrations.
Seoul-based architects WGNB shares their latest design project created for Juun.J flagship store. Under the slogan “See the same thing but think differently”, WGNB pursues creating a new perspective through connecting the various inspirations of our daily lives with the spatial design. With the new perspective and flexible thoughts, WGNB redefines the boundaries between design that ranges from architecture, furniture to product design. Based on this creative goal, we seek to create a new sense of experience by collaborating with various genres of art.
Juun.J
by WGNB
It’s the first flagship store of the fashion brand of Juun.J. It’s divided into two floors; the first floor comprising cafe and women’s wear, while the second floor men’s wear. We used natural elements such as light and shadow in order to express darkness within space using black – identity color of Juun.J brand. The shape of the architecture was initiated from geometry that is the basic form in all designs. Juun.J’s flagship store surely has a certain form but in the shape like a shadow without exact shape, which is similar to Juun.J as it invites endless curiosity to people.
We built our first flagship store where customers are able to experience at once all lines of not only men’s and women’s wear collections but of limited collaboration products at Dosan Park, Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
The flagship store is composed of the first and second floors with the total size of 396㎡. The first floor is arranged centred on women’s line and collaboration products, while the second floor displays men’s products. We at Juun..J provide differentiated brand experience to customers by arranging a garden as well as the best specialty coffee brand FELT COFFEE on the first floor so that they can experience a diverse range of brands at the same space.
“Black is a color symbolic of Juun.J and the most beautiful shadow out of the shapeless existences is also black.“
If we look at the traditional house structure in the East, large roof files are put above the house basically and the whole structure is absorbed into within the deep and wide shade generated by the awning. Deep darkness below the awning is shadow as well as black within the space.
In an attempt to turn black into space, we organised space by either hanging plenty of objet or separating them and generating shadows. All spaces except white part for women’s wear on the first floor are composed of varied densities of darkness. While the first floor has contrasts with some white part, clothes here are also hung in darkness. The space of cafe generates various darknesses due to natural light dramatically penetrating from the ceiling. And eaves spreading forward work as an awning and make visitors feel natural light coming as a result of reflection on the garden. They can see the garden from within the space and find another shadow as a tree is floating in the garden.
The shape of the architecture is composed of circle, quadrangle and triangle, basic forms in all designs and the architecture is designed with the concept of dark matters of the universe. Especially, the garden-shaped circle, which is a space drawing natural light, plays an important role in making this dark matter a striking contrast.
This architecture and space started very much from the Orienal way of thinking, and the structure of space and formative approach were complete based on the Western style. We expressed achromatic color of black as darkness within the space instead of a simple painting and, as far as the used materials are concerned, we diversely applied materials that black has intrinsically instead of painting them in black.
Artists Elmgreen & Dragset’s share The Hive, a new and permanent installation affixed to the ceiling of Moynihan Train Hall in New York City’s Pennsylvania Station, the busiest transportation hub in North America. The work is based on “City In The Sky” installation on the view at Gallery Perrotin.
Both City In The Sky and The Hive — produced only one year apart — manifest an imaginary city in the form of a scaled model, installed upside-down. With technological precision, this cityscape captures the multiplicity and synergy of the world’s metropolises. It is a kaleidoscopic installation, consisting of a dense network of illuminated skyscrapers and modern tower buildings, both real and fictional.
“PMA studio, a Spanish architecture studio founded by Pablo Madrid, designed a minimalist holiday home located in the charming neighbourhood of Portixol, in Palma de Mallorca.
The project consisted in the renovation of a traditional row-house on a very narrow plot. Despite the slender shape of the property, the plan ensured that the interiors of the home still received plenty of light..” via @trendland
Photography by Pernilla Danielsson (@lifestyle_mallorca)
Utopia is a short film using a cross section view. This perspective is used exclusively as we follow the characters enigmatic journey as they navigate the complex concrete structure looking for the tomb at its core. As they navigate the structure we see and hear glimpses of the changing environment as the building reveals itself.
Inspired by architectural perspective illustrations first developed in the renaissance period and still used in the present day - the cross section drawing of the Barbican by Chamberlin Powell and Bon is a fine example - The film adds the dimension time being compressed as we travel through the scene. The building was designed in collaboration with an architect to create a functional structure and incorporating the letter form of the ‘U’ in the final frame.
Griselda Duch is a photographer specializing in landscape, still life, and architectural photography. She likes to travel around while working for both personal and commissioned projects.
“Being unique among creative and artistic professions, I think architecture is very important. Beyond merely providing shelter, architecture becomes the stage set and context for our lives, and an important influence on our living. Playing between line, shape, and color; the series aims to transport the viewer into a setting. Being drawn to the places we all inhabit and that become frames full of unusual details and combinations, I seek to reveal the role of architecture to endless possibilities, looking for aesthetic sensations where symmetry, light, color, and textures become the main protagonists.”
Kapsimalis Architects designed a picturesque minimalistic house in Pyrgos, Santorini with views towards the Mediterranean Sea. It offers breathtaking views towards vineyards and the Mediterranean Sea. The property can be divided into three separate dwellings with individual outdoor spaces.
Photography by Giorgos Sfakianakis
“Sebastian Weiss is a Hamburg-based architecture photographer with a flair for exquisite, impeccable angles. Having documented sites such as Spanish La Muralla Roja for Wallpaper* and Parisian suburbia, he is also the author of “Dramatic personae” series that aims to “represent public faces that deliberately restrains the identity of the object in order to concentrate on its public performance” via @trendland
“An old factory in Poblenou, Barcelona was converted into a creative centre for business innovation. Envisaged by ARQUITECTURA-G for a decade of development, led by the economy of means, the original layout of the space was preserved and features an office, classroom, workspace and bathrooms.”
Photographer Kris Provoost shares his shots of Taipei Performing Arts Center that is still under construction under OMA/Rem Koolhaas architect direction and looks like a giant golf ball hits a cube
In the Austrian countryside a decidedly modern farmhouse is enhanced by traditional elements. Villa B is a two-storey home that feels perfectly settled against the idyllic fields and mountains of its locale. Villa B was designed by Bergmeisterwolf, an architectural office based in Italy.
Surrounded by sprawling farms and patches of woods, the form of Villa B draws from traditional farmhouse architecture. Dotted across the countryside, farmhouses typically side with the form follows function mentality; in short, they are practical dwellings suited for housing those who work on the land. Simple design features such as sloped roofs protect the homes from falling rain and snow. Wood cladding most often covers the exterior walls: a no-nonsense material that is readily available in rural settings. The farmhouse we know today may have humble beginnings, but its characteristic form continues to be relevant for regional architecture. Read more on @minimalissimomag
Panelki by Zupagrafika (previously known by Brutal London project) allows readers to assemble a genuine Soviet-era prefab block, panel by panel, while learning about the history of prefabricated construction systems commonly used behind the Iron Curtain.
Plattenbau, Panelák, Wielka Płyta, Panelky, Panelház or Панельки: Prefabricated panel blocks go by different names around the former Eastern Bloc, but no matter where they were built, their goal was always the same: to provide homes for expanding city populations after World War II.
The Standard's first UK hotel opens this summer inside a brutalist building, featuring colourful interiors designed by Shawn Hausman to contrast "the greyness of London".
Occupying the former Camden Town Hall Annexe in King's Cross, The Standard is designed by Shawn Hausman Design with brightly-hued guest rooms and communal spaces that have an "element of lightheartedness".
The studio worked alongside London-based Archer Humphryes Architects, who carried out internal structural changes as part of architecture practice Orms' wider refurbishment of the building.
Opening its doors to the public this July, the hotel will have 266 rooms, a bar, recording studio, and three restaurants – one of which is on the building's roof and overlooks the surrounding cityscape.
Text by @dezeen
“Stark grey precast concrete, with an orderly gridded pattern covering every single surface visible to the eye. Large openings, pouring skylights, verdant greeneries embracing the neighbourly views. Monolithically, House in Ashiya by Japanese architecture firm Kazunori Fujimoto Architects stands still like a gentle giant in a residential area of Ashiya city, Hyogo Prefecture.”
Brest based designers Yauhen Liashchynski and David Tsibikoff (@leskeagroup) present the visualization of Tree House Constantia project designed by Pieter Malan and Jan-Heyn Vorster at Malan Vorster Architecture Interior Design which was among the first projects created within leskea ARCHIREPLICA.
“ARCHIREPLICA was created to help newcomers to adapt to the corporative culture and working approach of leskea through creation 3D copies of vivid examples of modern architecture. The main duties of modern architect today, on our mind, are working and studying hard and systematically, to be inspired by the best works, never give up.”
“We knew the approach of the architects of this house - Pieter Malan and Jan-Heyn Vorster (Malan Vorster Architecture Interior Design) - from the mass media, but the challenge was to show this building in a different way.
Now it is the first-person narration about one day of the house without any connotations with people living here, their fantasies and routine, just architecture and nature. “
Located in the middle of five acres of land, providing plenty of privacy, sits Carmel House, in the northern California region. It is a hefty 530m² single-story residence designed by renowned architect Jim Jennings for a retired couple. It is a love letter to modern architecture; a fully realised project looking back to stark geometry as the main conceptual argument.
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