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These are some of the most interesting and beautiful things that we talked about at our studio this week. We show you the stuff that we have come across on instagram, the web or in real life and that inspires and excites us. And yes, sometimes we mingle in our own projects. We enjoy sharing it with our friends, colleagues and anyone interested. Below this week’s 5 tips, here our collected overview.
1: Esther Stewart
Esther Stewart creates spectacular paintings and installations that both harness and challenge the visual languages of architecture, design and geometry. Her art practice explores ways of re-imagining, collapsing and expanding spaces through painting and architecture while also examining historical influences and sociopolitical contexts.
2: Doors of Kypseli
Doors of Kypseli is a seriously beautiful, and meticulously rendered dive into the surprising modernity of mid 20th century Athenian door architecture. A great series of photos and compilation of illustrations presenting the diverse array of hand forged iron door designs from this culturally and geographically central Athens neighbourhood, Doors of Kypseli is Eleanor Lines’s love letter to her adopted city.
3: Drawing Architecture Studio
Established a decade ago, Drawing Architecture Studio (DAS) is a group of young Chinese architects committed to the practice of architectural drawing, architectural design, and urban studies. DAS explores the possibilities of drawing, space and urban studies in a unique way. Also check out DAS’s ‘Flakes of the Snow Country‘ prints series at A83.
4: Salmon Eye
Salmon Eye is an offshore interactive exhibition area (and the largest floating art installation on the planet) that explores sustainable aquaculture industry. The venue emerges, like a glistening pebble, from the waters of Hardanger Fjord in southwest Norway.
5: Merlin Kater
“It works! It works!” Merlin Kater creates, or constructs, autonomous ceramic kinetic sculptures, consisting of a series of gears and bolts, turning on ball-bearings. All his mechanisms are entirely ceramic, with the exception of two hidden driving motors that make the sculptures move.