interior designer : canadian 'design junky'

9.25.2007

Shigeru Ban

monsieur shigeru ban, he shocked nyc a couple of years ago with his stacked shipping containers on display alonside the hudson river and now he makes his nyc mark in condominuim architecture on manhattan's west side with a project dubbed 'the metal shutter houses' magnificent. when do little man and i move in? beyond hot. read more here.








the metal shutter houses, at 524 west 19th street, are scheduled for completion in fall 2008.



this was a temporary museum housing an exhibition of large-scale photographic works by artist gregory colbert from march to june in 2005, it was constructed with paper tubes and 148 shipping containers. 20m-wide by 205m-long and 4500㎡-surface.

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