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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, Italy, Milan, Minimalism, Piuarch, Stair, Steel
Milan-based architectural studio Piuarch has designed the New D&G Headquarters located in Milan, Italy. The facades of the building housing the showrooms are entirely glazed and feature a series of vertical, closely spaced louvers of opal glass. This membrane, made of glass, acts as a filter, softly diffusing the daylight through the building and serving [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Glass, GROUP A, Refurbishment / Extension, Timber
Dutch architect GROUP A recently has completed the interior design project for Aramco Overseas Company. + Project information courtesy of GROUP A The Aramco Overseas Company head office has recently moved into their new accommodation in The Hague. The new office, housed in an existing building from the eighties, needed to be fully refurbished. Following [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Architecture Award, Events/News, Western Red Cedar
The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association invite entries in the 2010 Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards program, all entries must be submitted by July 30, 2010. + Press release Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards CALL FOR ENTRIES Awards Recognize Innovative Design Using Western Red Cedar Vancouver, B.C. (November 18, 2009) – The Western [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Contemporary design
Spore, a Seattle-based design firm has released an illuminated doorbell – TRUE, designed by Ted Pierson, 2009 – which takes the doorbell out of the afterthought and into the foreground of contemporary home design. The TRUE button bridges the gap between modern and traditional design. An all-metal push button is surrounded by a thin halo [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Competition
The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), AIA NY Chapter has announced the jury and extended registration deadlines for its fourth biennial international ideas competition, High Bridge: Bronx, Building Cultural Infrastructure (HB:BX). Visit our previous article – HB:BX Internation Competition or the homepage www.enyacompetions.org for further information. + FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EMERGING NY ARCHITECTS LAUNCH [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare Tags: Architecture Award, C. F. Møller Architects, ESD design, Hospital, Norway
In 2000, C. F. Møller Architects won the 1st prize in international competition to design the Akershus University Hospital. This year, the project has been awarded Building Better Healthcare Award for Best International Design. + Press Release courtesy of C. F. Møller Architects Building Better Healthcare Award The most prestigious prize in the healthcare built [...]
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Category: Healthcare, Interior Tags: Color architecture, USA architecture
Florida-based Evoke Design recently has completed the Tooth Tales – Pediatric Dental Office located in Miramar, Florida. The project begins to rethink the dental typology and creates a more playful and fresh environment that appeals to the imagination and the senses of both the parents and kids alike. Evoke Design – Daren Chen + Project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel Tags: Europen architecture, Francisco J. del Corral & Federico Wulff, Refurbishment / Extension, Spain
Gar_Anat Pilgrim’s hotel in Granada, is an interior design project in restoring the old building designed by Spanish architect Francisco J. del Corral del Campo. + Project description courtesy of Francisco J. del Corral del Campo Dear Traveller, Welcome to Gar_Anat, Pilgrim’s hotel, gate to the world of your imagination. ABOUT the INTERVENTION It takes [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: BAAS architects, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, FG+SG, Museum, Refurbishment / Extension, Spain
Spanish architect Jordi Badia, founder of BAAS architects has designed the Can Framis Museum located in the 22@ District, Barcelona. The project consists in restoring the two current factory buildings which are connected by a new linear block. A new courtyard therefore is formed to define an entry plaza to the project. With “Can Framis” [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Exhibition, Fluid form, Korea, UNStudio
In Suwon – Korea, Dutch architectural practice UNStudio designed a showroom to exhibit the residential urban and façade design for I-Park City development which covers approximately 33.5 ha and includes 88 apartment buildings. + Project description courtesy of UNStudio The Model House for I-Park City is a showroom to exhibit the residential urban and façade [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Courtyard architecture, ESD design, Landscape architecture, USA architecture, Visitor center, Wood
American architect Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has designed the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center located in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. The center was organized as an U-shape to form a central courtyard, the roof tilts upward and away from the courtyard, its jagged edges celebrating the peaks of the Teton Range beyond. + Project [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Area Declic, Italy, Modern Chair
An Italian design Sunny Chair recently has been launched by bd Design, founder of Mara Picco & Roberto Foschia for Italian brand Area Declic. + Design description courtesy of Area Declic The main features of its character are revealed by its own name: SUNNY is a pleasant and easy going chair that manages to keep [...]
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