Thursday, December 2, 2010

Paper house by Heatherwick Studio

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Paper house is small kiosk for selling newspapers. Heatherwick Studio was commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea to design kiosks for selling newspapers. And Designer Thomas Heatherwick has completed a series of brass newspaper kiosks in London. The kiosks are are made of wood coated in patinated brass, supported by a steel frame. For the governor this kiosk design could be reference to create beautiful public facility without disturb the public activity.
The new kiosk has a distinctive existing design, the result of a more ergonomic arrangement of magazine shelves which also makes the outside a less obvious target for vandalism. The poor design of their structure means that the vendor has to spend up to an hour, morning and evening, setting up and packing away the stand. With a different kind of opening and closing mechanism to make the vendor’s life easier, with flat surfaces and roller shutters, they not only attract vandalism, but are also inanimate and unattractive when closed up at night.

Official website: www.heatherwick.com
Photographs by: Cristobal Palma

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