In this week’s architecture and design video round-up (above), Shanghai-based architecture atelier Roarc Renew has linked two old granary buildings in China with a set of “monument-like” corridors, forming what is now known as the TaoCang Art Centre.
Tom Dixon has plumped up the Swirl collection of psychedelic-looking objet with a range of low tables, each with distinct silhouettes, colouration and personality.
Rig up the mirror ball and cue the greatest hits of the 1970s, interior designer Greg Natale has launched disco-inspired glassware in time for boogie nights at home.
And finally this week, Longhouse by Partners Hill is a large unassuming shed in Daylesford that corrals a productive garden, cooking school and residence all under the one roof.
For more information on each of these stories, see below.
- TaoCang Art Centre by Roarc Renew: Surrounded by symbolic lotus ponds, two “monument-like” brick corridors link the buildings of an old granary in China to form the TaoCang Art Centre. Read more.
- Swirl by Tom Dixon: British design house Tom Dixon salvages remnant material from the marble industry to fashion the psychedelic Swirl series of geometric tables. Read more.
- Longhouse Daylesford : The Longhouse by Partners Hillis a 110-metre-long shed in Daylesford that shelters a cooking school, productive gardens and residence for its owners. Read more.
- Greg Natale glassware: A 1970s disco aesthetic informed interior designer Greg Natale’s collection of short and tall glassware, released just in time for glittering summertime sips. Read more.
Tour the arched corridors of TaoCang Art Centre and wander through the indoor gardens of Longhouse Daylesford.
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In this week’s architecture and design video round-up (above), Shanghai-based architecture atelier Roarc Renew has linked two old granary buildings in China with a set of “monument-like” corridors, forming what is now known as the TaoCang Art Centre.
The family of geometric forms that make up Swirl are engineered to be collected and stacked upon one another to create multidimensional, functional sculptures. Their fluid markings in dazzling colours are born from an intriguing manufacturing process that aims to replicate the look of naturally occurring marbles, a luxurious material that is frequently used in other collections by Tom Dixon.
For Swirl, the design brand salvages powdered stone matter – a byproduct of the marble processing industry – and combines it with pigments and resin to create blocks of solid material. Once cured, these individual blocks can be sawn, sliced and spun on a lathe. The combined process gives the resulting products a feeling of weightiness, their lustrous surfaces and an endless array of patterning that shares a resemblance with marbled paper.
Swirl by Tom Dixon is available in Australia from Living Edge.
tomdixon.net; livingedge.com.au
