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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Aedas, China architecture, ESD design, Fluid form, Green architecture, Iconic architecture
International architectural firm Aedas has designed an Administration & Information Centre for Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University located in Suzhou Industrial Park, China. This is the Architecture Award winning project awarded by the Asia Pacific Commercial Property Awards 2009. With the environmental concern, the void on facade is not only creating the impressive architectural perspective but also inviting [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: César San Millán, Francisco Mangado, Minimalism, Museum, Spain, Steel
Museum of Archeology in Vitoria is a competition-winning project designed by Spanish architect Francisco Mangado. We like to think of an archaeology museum as a compact jewel box concealing the treasure that history has entrusted to us piece by piece. But not any kind of history, or at least not the scientific history of experts, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic, Culture Tags: Glass, Jon Tugores, Religious architecture, Spain
Spanish architect Jon Tugores recently has designed a new contemporary church located in Barcelona, Spain. 2 distinct glass boxes designed to symbolize between the city and the sky. + Project description courtesy of Jon Tugores Designing the project of a church without using traditional and rhetorical arguments that are easily understood by the public, was [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: + Designer, ESD design, Gursan Ergil Design Studio, Wood
Istanbul based Gursan Ergil Design Studio has designed an eco-friendly modern furniture, with traditional craftsmanship of wood shaping and joinery. Each furniture carefully retreated, handcrafted and finished with environmentally friendly methods. The furniture is made of reclaimed materials. + About Gursan Ergil Design Studio ‘ENVIRONMENTAL MODERNISM’ Gursan Ergil Design Studio is an Istanbul based Design [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Industrial, Lighting Tags: + Designer, Modern Chair, Modern furniture, Modern light, Samal, Table lamp
Paris-based design studio Samal design recently has designed three contemporary products – Sphery chair lounge, Alien lamp and Human table. The style of which combines both: the futuristic and retro vision on design. I call it “New Retro-Futurism”, mix of retro design with futuristic and advanced elements. I think that the future of design is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Architecture Award, Europen architecture, H3AR, UK, Waterfront architecture
Ryszard Rychlicki of H3AR has won the 3rd prize of London Bridge 800 Competition organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects & Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects. + Project description courtesy of H3AR If we treat a house as a product with a programmed product life, which after the expiry of the guarantee period [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Concrete, Formwerkz Architects, Lattice screen, Singapore, Tropical architecture
The ‘Alley-way’ House, is an intermediate terrace house designed by Singapore-based Formwerkz Architects for a family of four and their pets in Singapore. The transparency of the alleyway spaces is only fleetingly noticeable from the street when the dwelling is viewed head-on, blurring the boundary between the street and the “alleyway’. Formwerkz Architects + Architect’s [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Bionic Motion GmbH, Creative design
The Germany-based Bionic Motion GmbH has developed a new and innovative ventilation system that is based on the principles of ‘bionic air circulation’. The i:wing was shaped on nature’s example: it was derived from the beat of a bird’s wing. Its movements are silent – for comfortably smooth ventilation without draught. That makes the i:wing [...]
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Category: Architecture, Landscape, Master Plan, Selected Tags: Contemporary architecture
Synergetic Regionalism by William Alfredo Villalobos Fernàndez is a theoretical endeavor for a site in the south of Venezuela (in the “La Gran Sabana” area) near the border with Brazil. + Project description courtesy of William Alfredo Villalobos Fernàndez Synergetic Regionalism establishes a syncretic relationship between emergent occidental architectural models and existing indigenous organizational strategies [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Studio ST Architects, USA architecture
New York-based Studio ST Architects has designed a Zero Energy Home – Slice House located in Atlanta, Georgia. The Slice House is an extruded box from which slices were cut to reduce the square footage and create an intelligent and beautiful house. Cuts into the basic form reveal its shape and functions. A slice in [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: H3AR, Poland, Stair
House OR, designed by Polish architect Hugon Kowalski of H3AR for an older marriage couple. + Project description courtesy of H3AR House has been designed for an older marriage couple. Therefore, the aim of all major functions should be concentrated on the ground floor. There were bedroom, kitchen, dining room, laundry room, pantry and living [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Architecture Award, BIG
Congratulation to Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, the Mountain project which has been awarded an Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2009 Award for Excellence. + Press release courtesy of BIG The Mountain has been selected as a winner of an Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2009 Award for Excellence: Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) [...]
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