In yesterday’s post we looked at a new collection of tiles wondering if one day we may see their geometries and colour combinations reinterpreted or applied to accessories. But you don't need to literally apply an idea seen in a field such as interior design to another field like fashion. You can indeed rework one detail in a subtle way into a collection, and architecture can offer us plenty of inspirations and details to reinvent or get inspired by.
The buildings and structures designed by international architecture firm Bar Orian Architects can, for example, provide us with intriguing details.
Established by Tal and Gidi Bar Orian in 1990, the firm is specialized in the preservation of historic buildings (including Tel Aviv's Bauhaus buildings) and in designing modern additions and extensions annexed to iconic buildings, something that allows the architects to create in this way interesting clashes between different eras and styles.
A while back the firm renovated for example The Levee, a 1913 villa in Tel Aviv, reinventing it as luxury accomodation and evoking in its minimal concrete and slatted steel addition that seems to be floating on the roof, the Japanese wabi-sabi notion.
The contrast between classic and modern is a juxtaposition often seen in fashion, but filtered through the architectural lenses it may offer new interpretations.
If you like geometry, instead, check out other inspirations from Bar Orian's portfolio, including the aerial view of the firm's Ben Gurion University's student dormitories, the geometrical details (reminiscent of the coffers in Rome's Pantheon) sculpted on the façade of the Farmer's House in Tel Aviv or the square element that looks as if it were fluctuating on the HaShoftim Tower in Tel Aviv.
The firm recently completed, in collaboration with with Schwartz Besnosoff Architects, the Ahad Haam Tower. Located in Haifa's Hadar neighborhood, the socio-economic and cultural centre of the city, the tower is inspired by the principles of the Garden City.
Architect Richard Kaufman, influenced by Sir Ebenezer Howard, an English urban planner, designed the Hadar neighborhood in the '30s, moving from European garden cities and integrating residential and community gardens, aiming at providing in this way a higher standard of living for residents by incorporating nature into the urban setting.
Throughout the decades the neighborhood changed and, in more recent years, it became a symbol of Jewish-Palestinian coexistence.
Ahad Haam Tower comprises residential and commercial spaces, artist studios, and a library as well. Alongside the skyscraper, there is also the Birkenheim House, a 19th-century Templar building, restored to serve as a commercial area that hosts artist studios and a café.
The architectural elements that may prove inspiring in this case are to be found in the three-dimensional façade. Maybe those elements could be more inspiring for jewelry rather than fashion designers (it is almost too easy to picture in your mind the vertical labyrinthine design of the façade reinvented for a pair of long earrings in precious metals), but it is clear that the firm's sophisticated approach can lead creative minds with a discerning eye to unexplored paths towards innovative modern design solutions. Who's up for this architectural challenge?
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