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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: Brininstool + Lynch, Courtyard architecture, USA architecture
Brininstool + Lynch has designed the Claremont House located in Chicago, Illinois. Due to its long lot site, the house was designed with the full width of window walls at both front and back sides of the house to maximize the penetration of the natural daylighting into the interior spaces, and also to create a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Brininstool + Lynch, Cottage, Landscape architecture, Lattice screen, Timber, USA architecture
Coffou Cottage in Michigan City, Indiana, USA, was designed by Chicago-based Brininstool + Lynch with a simple structural system, and was enhanced by a horizontal wood rain screen of Western Red Cedar to privatize the entry sequence on the North, and a wall of operable glass on the South. + Project description courtesy of Brininstool [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Incorporated, Modern Chair, Modern coffee table, Modern sofa
New York-based design studio Incorporated is a multi-disciplinary architecture and design studio with experience across a wide range of project types that specializes in the integration of the design disciplines. Here are the two unique product designs by Incorporated – Hex Chair and Branch Table. + Design description courtesy of Incorporated Hex Chair Incorporated’s Hex [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office, Residential Tags: Iconic architecture, LAN Architecture, Lebanon, Random pattern
Paris practice LAN Architecture has designed a 142m high the Tower 486 Mina El Hosn, the ‘mirror-tower’ for Beirut, Lebanon. The exterior skin consists of sliding perforated sheet stainless steel panels with a mirror finish, ideally to reflect and symbolize the history and culture of the city within a heterogeneous context. The Cluster Houses materialize [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Contemporary design, Modern Chair, outdoorz gallery
French designer Cecile Planchais has designed the Icila Chair. The chair is now available for sales in Outdoorz Gallery. + Design statement courtesy of Outdoorz Gallery Reminiscent of the Japanese art of origami, Icila is made from a single sheet of steel, cut and folded, without welds. The seat is wide (57 cm) and surprisingly [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: BIG, Sweden
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with AKT, Tyréns and Transsolar are awarded first place in a design competition in Malmo, Sweden for a 100.000m2 first of its kind sports facility – The World Village of Women Sports. + Project description courtesy of BIG BIG wins competition for The World Village of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Exhibition, Fluid form, Korea, Peddle Thorp Architects, Waterfront architecture
Designed as the concept of Fluid – Amphibian Pavilion, is the submission project by Australia-based Peddle Thorp Architects for the international competition for the Thematic Pavilion of the world expo 2012 in Yeosu, Korea. The pavilion is resolved as a vessel – a floating exhibition space that can be sailed to other cities. It aims [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Color architecture, Fluid form, Folding architecture, Glass, Italy, Massimo Iosa Ghini
Italian designer Massimo Iosa Ghini recently has completed the Ferrari Factory Store located in Serravalle Scrivia, Italy. The color, form, and graphical style has been carefully designed to transmit the architectural idea to identify the ‘Ferrari’ image. + Project description courtesy of Massimo Iosa Ghini Ferrari Factory Store of Serravalle Scrivia, entirely designed by Iosa [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Creative design, mode:lina, Poland
Polish studio mode:lina recently has designed the Audiochmura (Audiocloud) project which is made of corrugated pipes. This project is under the auspices of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland. + Design description courtesy of mode:lina A project of Audiochmura (Audiocloud) was inspired by the concept of Audioarchitektura (Sonicarchitecture) – brainchild of artist Piotr [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: ESD design, Green architecture, Minimalism, Perforated, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel, Studio Comoglio Architetti
Italian architect Giorgio Comoglio recently has completed the renovation of the Ex Sellerie, which is located in the area of the ex military arsenal in Turin, Italy. The task of the project is to increase the original building’s floor area and height. The minimal form of perforated steel envelope has been introduced to integrate the existing [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Cladding, Lithuania, Paleko ARCH Studija, Random pattern, Stone
Nocios Apartment House by Lithuania-based architectural firm Paleko ARCH Studija is located on Nocios St. in Vilnius. This is a four levels apartment building with a level of basement carpark which features the rhythmic openings on the facade. Building forms a new way of interpretation of historical Lithuanian architecture. One more “vila” in dense vilas [...]
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Category: Commercial, Interior Tags: AUM arquitetos, Brazil, Display design
Brazil-based AUM arquitetos has designed a concept store for Centauro at Shopping Cidade Jardim in São Paulo, Brazil. The use of the red and white colors, which are characteristics of the brand, and exploring the race track, which exists in all stores, were important elements in the new project. AUM arquitetos + Project description courtesy [...]
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