Archive for October, 2005
October 30, 2005 at 10:41 am · Filed under Architecture, Design
Via i.d.:
Duravit Headquarters
A gargantuan toilet has landed in Germany’s Black Forest. In December the bath-fixture manufacturer Duravit opened a new five-story headquarters in the medieval town of Hornberg. The $14.3 million, 54,000-square-foot building was designed by Philippe Starck, a Duravit contributor for more than 10 years.
The flamboyant Frenchman conceived a steel-paneled facade that frames the 30-foot-high tribute to good hygiene; visitors can alight on the bowl’s rim, which serves as a viewing perch for the surrounding landscape. Inside, showrooms designed by Atelier Brueckner and Torsten Neeland display smaller-scale wares by the likes of Starck and Sieger Design—whose Happy D sink ($650–$800) and bathtub ($2,995–$4,500) are shown here.
Duravit
Werderstrasse 36
78132 Hornberg
Germanytel: +49 07833 70 0
www.duravit.de
October 12, 2005 at 11:50 am · Filed under Design, Technology
Apple’s newest iPod can now receive podcasts, tv episodes as well as download video (upto 150 hours), audiobooks, and music (of course), all with the new iTunes 6.0. 30GB and 60GB models available, starting @ $299.
The new model is 10% thinner and has a longer 20-hour battery, which should appease the iPod battery-stricken masses.
It’s finally here… now I can’t wait til I can actually vlog or moblog with it!
October 10, 2005 at 7:13 pm · Filed under Architecture, Design
Philippe Starck, Oliviero Toscani, Peter Gabriel and Luca Trazzi juried DesignBoom’s international competition with surprising results:
www.designboom.com/contest/winner.php
Be sure to check out the following entries:
DobRe by Jesper Legaard Jensen + Kasper Nedergaard Sorensen (Denmark)
www.designboom.com/contest/view.php
Eden by Anniina Koivu (Germany)
www.designboom.com/contest/view.php
“a door is the transit between two parts. a door is not anymore inside, but not quite outside. eden is not paradise, though it is a step passed the present, yet not the future. eden is sensual. eden is mystical. eden ghost like. eden is the soul of a door. eden is embedded in the wall and only visible when touching it or passing through it. eden is a swinging door, a light weight aluminium frame filled with silikon gel (or polyethan gel). its smooth, soft and warm surface is stretching and can be grabed, pulled or pushed.”
– Anniina Koivu
