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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Contemporary design, Modern Chair, Modern furniture
Mazy, designed by Ronald Jeanson of the Rotterdam, Netherlands based interior architects INTOO. It will be introduced by Italian manufacturer Zilio A&C during the furniture fair of Milan (22-27 April 2009). + Designer’s statement, provided by Ronald Jeanson/Intoo Mazy is a comfortable armchair inspired by modern architectural forms. A network of branches creates a random [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: + Designer, Contemporary design, Modern cabinet, Modern furniture
This Crystal Commode is designed by Xi Zhang & Erich Diserens for EXH in Shanghai, China. The geometric surface functions as a handle, dictating the overall form. Available in gloss white and black lacquer.
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Alvaro Uribe, Creative design, Modern furniture
A bench in urban room, Public Stairs, designed by New York based industrial designer Alvaro Uribe. The multicolored benches use to bring new life to the park. + Design statement, Alvaro Uribe This concept for public furniture, was designed to engage the urban dweller with the city’s parks and plazas. Talking a simple element of [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: Concrete, Glass, Landscape architecture, Marmol Radziner, Swimming pool, Timber, USA architecture
Designed by Los Angeles based architect Marmol Radziner and Associates, the Vienna Way residence for a young family, is located on a large, extensively landscaped lot in Venice, CA. Floor to ceiling glazing and outdoor living spaces fully integrate the home within the California native landscape. Working within the restrictions posed by the narrow site, [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, Japanese architecture, Minimalism, Miyahara Architect Office, Modernism
Japan practice architect, Teruo Miyahara / Miyahara Architect Office recently has completed a private house – House Sz, located in Ibaraki , Japan. Use of internal courtyards to act as buffer zones between the spaces, and also to maximize penetration of the natural daylighting into the interior spaces. + Text below provided by architect, Teruo [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: A-cero, Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Folding architecture, Spain
The spanish architecture firm A-cero, directed by Joaquin Torres, has built a new house in the Madrid outskirts that synthesizes the evolution of the studio’s signature design language and its technical experimentation over the last years. The house can be aesthetically inscribed in the series of projects made by the studio since its international expansion, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: A-cero, Cladding, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Glass, Madrid, Showroom, Spain, Stair
Spain based architect A-cero has designed a contemporary GIBO showroom in Madrid, Spain. The use of contemporary geometrical form to shape the building facade with the big display windows is the feature of this project. + Text below and images provided by architect, A-cero Purity, force, expressiveness; starting from an old construction that has already been [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Contemporary design, Modern Chair, Modern furniture
Do you like this chair? It has an expressive line and look like a shark fin, giving a sense of being vacationed, the Surfboard Chair is designed by Adam Scott. + Designer’s statement, Adam Scott The aim of ‘SIT DOWN’ is to provide a juxtaposition and a contradiction for the perceived usages of a product. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Selected Tags: Abu Dhabi architecture, Contemporary architecture, Fluid form, Waterfront architecture, White
This is the invited competition project won by New York practice Leeser Architecture – Helix Hotel. The five-star luxury hotel in the Zayed Bay in Abu Dhabi, featuring an iconic design and state of the art technology that creating dynamic mini-city in the UAE. + Text below provided by architect, Leeser Architecture Leeser Architecture, an [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Claudio Vilarinho, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Portugal
Portugal based architect Claudio Vilarinho has designed a private house, House 1 in Penafiel. The idea of the project is to build a house that sitting on the sloping green terrain and cantilevered towards the valley, the car-porch space is defined by the overhanging white volume where the living and dining space take place.
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Cladding, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Europen architecture, Italy, Landscape architecture, Museum, Steel, Theater
Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au always give a very good impression to me in every design, this time, the new Art Museum Strongoli in Calabria, by Coop Himmelb(l)au, is the third project in Italy. The art museum is situated on the top of the ‘Motta Grande’ hill overlooking the city, featuring a very long cantilever terrace offering [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Residential, Selected Tags: China architecture, Concert Hall, Features, Iconic architecture, Perforated, Skin, Theater, Yazdani Studio
Located in the southwestern part of Inner Mongolia, in Ordos City, the Kaokaoshina New District is an emerging art and cultural district organized by Ai Wei Wei. Kaokaoshina is positioned to be a thriving tourist destination, in anticipation, the development calls for a series of villas for people to live and visit to experience this [...]
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