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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Residential, Selected Tags: Concrete, Contemporary architecture, ESD design, Folding architecture, Glass, Green architecture, Modernism, Swimming pool, Timber, USA architecture, Wood
Project: Skyline Residence Design Architect: Belzberg Architects Location: Los Angeles, Ca 90046 Size: 5,800 ft2 Year: 2007 Watching movie in the sky? Yes, this is ultimate Outdoor home theater, which is designed by Belzberg Architects. A environmental friendly sensitive Skyline Residence in the Hollywood Hills under a limited budget with the use of local manufactured [...]
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Category: Design, Fashion Tags: Contemporary architecture, Contemporary design, Plastic, Zaha Hadid
Pritzker Prize-winning starchitect Zaha Hadid, recently stepped out of her comfort zone to team up with the innovative footwear brand Melissa, which is a Brazilian firm specializing in plastic shoes, to launch their collaboration: architectural, asymmetric, injection-moulded plastic footwear.
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Interior, Selected Tags: Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Dieguez Fridman, Display design, Europen architecture, Folding architecture, Timber
The architect Dieguez Fridman has designed a retail store for Ayres Store, located in El Solar de la Abada Mall, Buenos Aires. The unfolded idea wraps around the store draws the attention from the visitors, that creating a sense of welcoming to the store. The geometry itself expresses the sensuality and amutating infatuation with each [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Contemporary design, Modern light, Pendant light
Ice Black Star Chandelier, designed by lighting designer Sofie Refer (Refer + Staer), is a special limited edition of the Ice Chandelier with exclusive crystal-cuts, combining old style chandelier glamour with modern forms.
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Category: Design, Landscape, Lighting, Selected Tags: Contemporary design, Creative design, Floor lamp, Lighting concept, Modern light, Outdoor lamp
One of Lighting designer Bruce Munro’s most iconic illuminated sculptures – Field of Light, which will be presented his installation at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. The idea was inspired by the way the desert flowers after a rainstorm.
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Residential, Selected Tags: Cladding, Concrete, Europen architecture, Features, Minimalism, Modernism, Wood
Project: Boxhome 2007 Architect: Sami Rintala Location: Oslo, Norway Area: 19m2 (200sqft) Images © Sami Rintala An ecological sustainable design, Boxhome, which was designed by Sami Rintala architect to explore quality of space, material and light over size.
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Category: Architecture, Education, Landscape Tags: Competition, Glass
Type: International Competition Project: Ewha Womans University Architect: Dominique Perrault Location: Seoul, Korea Images © Dominique Perrault This is a very strong axis leading to Ewha Womans University campus from the main road Jung Mun, refining a main access to the campus. The end of axis become the slope to serve as a huge stairway [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Hotel Tags: 3XN, Denmark, Glass, Iconic architecture, Skin, Skyscrapers, White
Project: The Bella Center Architect: 3XN architects Location: Island of Amager, Denmark Area: 31,000 m2 (Phase 1 16,000 m2 + Phase 2 15,000 m2) Team: Kim Herforth Nielsen, Bo Boje Larsen, Jan Ammundsen, Marie Hesseldahl Larsen, Maiken Schmidt Nielsen, Børge Motland, Svend Roald Jensen, Jørgen Søndermark, Bodil Nordstrøm images © 3XN architects 3XN architects have [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Mixed Use, Office Tags: Cladding, Color architecture, Competition, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Glass, Skin, Skyscrapers
Type: 1st prize in the 2002 competition Project: FiftyTwoDegrees, Business Innovation Centre Architect: Mecanoo architecten Location: Nijmegen, The Netherlands Total area: 70,000 square meters Completed: 2008 Structural Engineer: ARUP (competition) Client: Ballast Nedam Bouw, Arnhem ICE Ontwikkeling, Nijmegen Architectural Drawings courtesy Mecanoo architecten Photographed by Christian Richters FiftyTwoDegrees, a Business Innovation Centre with 86 meter [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office Tags: Europen architecture, Glass, Herzog & de Meuron, Paris, Skyscrapers
Project: Le Projet Triangle, Porte de Versailles Architect: Herzog & de Meuron Location: Paris, France Completion: 2006 – 2014 (planned completion) image © Herzog & de Meuron Herzog & de Meuron’s new project raises up in Paris, by lifting of a ban on tall buildings in the city Paris reveals its first inner city tower [...]
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