Tori Tori and Rojkind Architectos Design

      On December 19, 2011 I found the Tori Tori restaurant in México City and fell in love with the outside facade and unique interior design; I posted computer renderings of what the restaurant would  look like after it was built, today I have been looking for interesting doors for a project for my materials and methods class and found Tori Tori again and found pictures of the built structure that I found in this webpage: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/17762/rojkind-arquitectos-tori-tori-restaurant-now-complete.html
I love the design and it just makes me want to go to Mexico and work there, but for now I will continue focusing on my education in the USA.

image by paúl rivera, © rojkind arquitectos

image by paúl rivera, © rojkind arquitectos

image by paúl rivera, © rojkind arquitectos

image by paúl rivera, © rojkind arquitectos

image by paúl rivera, © rojkind arquitectos

image by paúl rivera, © rojkind arquitectos

image by paúl rivera, © rojkind arquitectos

image by paúl rivera, © rojkind arquitectos

Project information:

Program: restaurant
Construction area: 629 m2
Status: completed
Design date: 2009
Completion date: 2011
Location: Polanco, Mexico City

Architectural project: Rojkind Arquitectos + Eseawe Studios
Rojkind Arquitectos: Michel Rojkind [founding partner], Gerardo Salinas [partner]
project team: Tere Levy, Agustín Pereyra, Raul Araiza, Carlos Alberto Ríos, IsaacSmeke J., Enrique F. de la Barrera, Daniela Bustamante, Daniel Hernández.

Esrawe Studios: Héctor Esrawe [principal in charge]
project team: Ricardo Casas, Basia Pineda, Ian Castillo, Karianne Rygh, Alejandra Castelao, Jorge Bracho, Alejandro Zárate, Marcela Muños, Edgar Sanchéz, Rodrigo L. Franco.

Design computational consultants: Kokkugioa [Roland Snooks, Robert Stuart- Smith]
Construction: ZDA desarrollo + arquitectura[Yuri Zagorin]
Structural Engineering: Ing. Juan Felipe Heredia
Facade engineering: Grupo Mas [ing. Eduardo Flores]
M.E.P.: Quantum Diseño
Lighting Design: Luz en Arquitectura [arq. Kai Diederichsen]
Audio & Video design: NTX New Technology Experience
Landscape Design: Entorno taller de paisaje
Furniture: Esrawe Studio
Kitchen: San-Son
Visualization: © glessner group [www.glessnergroup.com]
Interior Visualization Esrawe Studios
Photographer: Paúl Rivera


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All these names reminded me that the career I am perusing will become a job that will require team work abilities for all types of projects, there are so many creative people and making a good team creates great designs.

The Tangga House

The Tangga House is another Singapore’s dream home designed
by Guz Architects.
Completed in 2009, the 7,663 square foot residence is located in Holland Village, an elite district of Singapore that is famous amongst the expatriate community.
It is luxury single-family home.

I had already posted about this house on my last entry, but I looked at the link I have on the last post, and I was shocked how beautiful the house was. I fell in love again. So I thought it would be a great idea to put some of the pictures from the link in my blog to share with you.
The house has  a great design and beautifull bambu and unique wooden finishes which are very classy and in harmony with nature.

LOOK AT THAT CEILING!

wonderfull lighting !

awsome pool desing, very jello-looking !

great lighting and water ambient!

YOU HAVE TO LOVE THIS HOUSE <3

Urban 'Pop-Up' Bench

 The innovative and practical design developed by ducth designers Carmela Bogman and Rogier Martens,  'pops-up' from the pavement only when needed. Its design allows the space where it is to be multipurpose, as it adapts to the pedestrian's usage.   

The First pop-up installation can be found in the Quarter Lombok in the city of Utrec, Netherlands.

The design, to me, is something worth remembering when designing anything, because everything that man makes should be intended for the benefit of society and should be useful to the users. I think that architecture should also have in mind the adaptability of humans and the user friendly aspect of the structure.