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Pentagram's Daniel Weil Designs A Clock For An Architect




Privately commissioned to create a gift for an architect, Daniel Weil created a one-of-a-kind clock that is both simple and complex. Reducing objects to their component parts has long fascinated Weil. The Radio in a Bag* he created for his degree show at the Royal College of Art three decades ago is an icon of 20th century industrial design. This clock is the latest demonstration of his interest in investigating not just how objects look, but how they work.




Constructed in ash and nickel-plated brass and silver, the clock is built of five separate elements. The numbers, both hours and minutes, are inscribed on the face and interior of a 9 3/4-inches diameter ring.




The mechanism for setting the time connects with the central mechanism with visible rubber belts.



A single AA battery provides power to the clock through visible power strips that are recessed in the assembly’s base. (Note the different screws that support the battery stand, keyed to the positive and negative poles of the power source.)



And, befitting the object’s recipient, the housing for the central mechanism takes the form of, literally, a house.




Daniel's sketches for the clock:






“Objects like clocks are both prosaic and profound,” says Weil. “Prosiac because of their ubiquity in everyday life, profound because of the mysterious nature of time itself. Time can be reduced to hours, minutes and seconds, just as a clock can be reduced to its component parts. This doesn’t explain time, but in a way simply exposes its mysterious essence.”

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above: Daniel Weil. 'Radio in a bag', 1983. 28.5 x 20.6 c


above article and images via Pentagram

Mike Rantilla's Award Winning Personal Home: A Modern Cabin In North Carolina






Mike Rantilla, a Senior Associate Architect with the Freelon Group designed this amazing residence for himself on 1804 Pictou Road in Raleigh, North Carolina. Nestled amongst the trees, the cantilevered home received the 2009 AIA Triangle Honor Award.

This private home literally springs upward from the pristine wooded site. Wedged between zoning setbacks, a stream buffer and a steep slope, the home squeezes vertically into a three story scheme, elevated above the uninterrupted ground plane flowing beneath. Each floor is expressed as a discrete rectangular volume, clad in a different material and spun radially from a 40 foot tall, 18 inch thick solid concrete shear wall. Fully cantilevered stair treads project from the shear wall allowing light and views to pass through. Vertical circulation always maintains a close connection to the diagrammatic and structural centroid of the building.

Feel like drooling? Here is a huge gallery of photos of the home for you plus a video.












Interiors:





above images courtesy of Mclane and Company, Mark Herboth and Frame Magazine




 Freelon Group

Aldo Rossi's Rugs On Exhibit in London




Some know Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) for his Pritzker Prize-winning architecture, like the San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena and the Centro Torri Commercial Centre in Parma; some for his masterful hand drawings; and others simply as one of last century's greatest Italian architects, who founded the neo-rationalist movement. Few though, would associate Rossi with carpet design; yet the Milanese architect and theorist has much more than architecture projects to show in his impressive portfolio.

Specialist antique dealers Arto and Eddy Keshishian, in association with James Bly, launch today an exhibition of Rossi's carpet designs. The 15 pieces on show were created in 1986, when Rossi was invited to design a series of traditionally woven carpets by the Zeddiani Company, inspired by Sardinian techniques and culture. The architect embraced the local, basic and schematic carpet craftsmanship tradition, which fitted perfectly with his own geometric design explorations, aiming to boost the island's textile industry.



The beautiful pieces are on show in a selling exhibition in London's Kashishian Gallery till the 24th November, along with one each by the designers Piero Lissoni, Ettore Sottsass and Jasper Morrison, and five by Patricia Urquiola, all measuring 2m by 3m.





INFORMATION


Event dates- 14 November 2007 to 24 November 2007
Telephone- 44.20 7730 8810
Address - 73 Pimlico Road, London, SW1W 8NE
source-wallpaper magazine, nov. 14

CA Boom Design Show 4 is This Weekend

+ An Architectural Tour Through Venice

Well, this weekend is CA Boom Design Show 4 here in Santa Monica. The kick off party was last night and thanks to Jean Aw of NOTCOT you can feel as though you were walking through the show and get a look at some of the items being showcased this year in the Barker Hangar via her gallery of photos. You can view them by clicking here.

Today's walking architectural tour (One of the coolest things about the CA Boom show are the architectural tours) is in Venice, CA. For those of you who aren't able to make it, here's a few pics of the five homes they will be seeing today:


Sharkey Residence
by du Architects
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AK Live Work
by Sant Architects
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One window house
by Touraine Richmond Architects
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chroma color house
by translation of space
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mhouse
by XTEN Architecture
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Now you kind of feel like you are there!
If you can't get to the show this weekend, check out CA Boom's site for all the cool things you've missed.

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