Friday, January 18, 2008

LTL Architects





Stacked felt and plywood sheets create this dizzying texture. Relatively cheap materials produce a pretty incredible effect. The lighting fixtures also provide brightness for a space that has only one source of natural light and a deep footprint.





Thousands of bamboo skewers create this ceiling texture. It reminds me a lot of Tom Friedman's toothpick sculptures, both in texture and in painstaking effort to create.

2 comments:

courtney said...

the only thing with these little LTL projects, including their ini ani coffee shop is that they haven't held up very well. just a few years later (i visited them last summer) all three projects, esp the felt and cardboard, look really dingy, dented and are delaminating from their backings.

just a thought about our impending use of found/recycled materials and the potential homemade-ness of our construction.

durability is a definite issue...

Bryan said...

Hmmm, I have never seen them in person, so good point!

I could see the materials not holding up as well as they should.