Nice chance to insert some awesome bits of architectural and furniture design courtesy of the peeps over at MoCo Loco.

The above image is the Mikimoto Ginza 2 store going up in Tokyo. Schweet. For more info and images on it head over to ML’s entry on the work in progress (Link).

And the image below, according to ML, is “Rainer Mutsch’s abstract re-interpretation of Wenzel Hablik’s (1881-1934) historical “Salon of Itzehoe”. O-kay. All I know is that it seems like someone has been pretty heavily influenced by low-poly videogame design, and reminds me of RCA’s PSP polymesh people project I posted about earlier (Link).

It also reminds me of a chair design project from my “foundation” year in art school. Fellow industrial designer – and last I heard, Little Tikes employee – Jeff Gatto created a foam chair from rectangular blocks and painted it to look like concrete. When called to introduce his design, he jumped into the air to take his seat and the class let out a collective gasp assuming incorrectly that he was in for a hard landing. It was a very cool idea. Too bad Rainer’s chairs aren’t similarly comfortable (“made of plastic and MDF”).

Anyway, it’s kinda interesting to me how in some ways these two can share similar shapes, but the top one might be considered an “organic” building while the furniture would definitely come off as “inorganic”. Interesting considering my post yesterday declaring Lego’s to be biomimetic.

{Images source: MoCo Loco}