I have a love/hate relationship with the city of Angels. I’ve lived here since 2002 and in that short time have come to accept some of L.A.’s defining qualities. Sure the traffic gets to me, the pollution and the ever looming threat of the “big one” but what will it really be like in 2030? Newsweek has a cool interactive feature offering glimpses called The Future Of Work. Three visions by three firms – Michael Maltzan Architecture , Gensler and cityLAB .
Website: The Future Of Work by Newsweek
House by House, Piece by Piece
Welcome to SmartHouse! This is a completely modular system for putting together your brand new house, all of it made with pure, sweet, German craftsmanship and design quality. This project, while not conceptual in the way many of the projects on Yanko Design are conceptual, works as a concept for the consumer’s future life. With low operating costs, low environmental impact, and high energy efficiency, all inside a house you yourself designed from a selection of pieces – what more could you ask for? Super neato!
Each house is tailored for your individual needs and personal taste – made with natural materials (as much as possible, I understand,) and delivered to your location of choice as one solid piece. No architect, no construction noise, no mess, no stress. Need an expansion to your home? No problem! Just check the newest catalog for available pieces! Available right this very second via [Mobile SmartHouse]
ALSO NOTE: this design received an honorable mention in the Red Dot design awards of 2009 . Prestigious!
Designers: Mobile SmartHouse
Sitting Pretty in Nagoya City
That’s right! Nagoya! Do you know where that is? The exact location of this project is 3-38-10 Osu Naka-Ku Nagoya City – Aichi, Japan. The project? A cafe! Yay for coffee and snacks! This place of business, art, and design goes by the name “AG Cafe” and aims to tend to artists and consumers of Osu Shopping Street in the center of Nagoya City. Why are we looking at it? Because it’s super lovely! At the direction/request of the future owner of the cafe, this was designed and built to be organically connected to the environment around it.
Embracing not only art reflecting life, but life reflecting art.
There is a warmth here, the loving embrace of the environment that in turn embraces it. The abstraction of a birds nests adds to the home-like feeling you’re meant to feel while chilling here. Lots of windows, lots of transparency, lots of inspiration for people to come in, people to enjoy, and people to take their energy and fly away, shooting out feathers of fabulous artwork all over the city! Hooray!
I can totally see myself chilling here, all writing Yanko and such.
Pretty!
Designer: Kidosaki Architects Studio
Architects: Kidosaki Architects Studio- Hirotaka Kidosaki, principal-in-charge; Satoshi Itasaka, project team.
General contractor: ZEROWORKS-Rei Takeyama, Masahiro Mori
