The Holocaust Memorial, Berlin

 On a recent trip to Berlin, we went to this memorial center. Each block is to represents a Jewish person who died in the holocaust. I really liked how each block was different to the next, representing again, how each person is different even though they belong to a larger body.

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Sketch, London

When I was 16, I was lucky enough to go to Sketch in London for a friends birthday. I thought the interior was very strange, there seemed to be no links between the rooms, the design did not flow though the building (as you can see from he photos. But then maybe this was the designers hope - to create different feelings in different spaces.

 One thing that did stand out were the toilet cubicles. Separate pods which had Asian music, running water, and wind blowing through trees seeping into the cubicle while you used it.

As the restaurant was very very busy, the main room - featured below - seemed very very big. There was a sea of people, all at one level, and then patricians dotted about, and then a very very high ceiling. Maybe the ceiling was so high because the designer liked the way the height made the room impressive, but to me, it made the ever busy room feel empty.

Allure Nightclub, Abu Dhabi Marina

Le Meilleurs des Mondes

Every year, the ‘Salon de l’IFA’ (French Institute of Architecture) invites a designer to carte-blanche to realize a project within the museum.
 Faustino opted to position his creation in the Cast Gallery where reproductions from The Last Judgement inspired his version of the ‘boardroom’ in which contemporary creation meets heritage.
 The fragile, unstable looking chair ensemble was designed as a distorted reflection of a meeting place — a gathering for an exchange of dialogue, discussion, dispute — and one in which power is most definitely exercised. It's a sort of ‘micro-nation’ with uncertain lines and instabilities that question our debating procedure.
 As always, Faustino’s work is thought-provoking, somewhat un-settling and certainly intriguing.