Portuguese architectural studio Spaceworkers has designed a house 07CBE located in Urbanização da Pena, Paredes Portugal. + Project description courtesy of spaceworkers The idea of a vernacular architecture (forgotten) and how it seeks to form a clear speech between the landscape and programmatic needs is something that we always admire. A very successful example of [...]
Project 08CCB, is a private house designed by Portuguese architectural studio Spaceworkers, it was designed to integrate into the slopping site. + Project description courtesy of spaceworkers A simple idea … A “Shelter” which demonstrates the simplicity of the act of building, looking for an idea of ancestral family life, without wasting domestic duties that [...]
Louisiana Pavilion by 3XN architects was designed to demonstrate cutting edge possibilities with sustainable and intelligent materials. The pavilion has now been honoured with the JEC Innovation Award 2010 for its design combining sustainability and intelligent materials. The Pavilion is on exhibit at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until April 1 2010. The Pavilion [...]
Spanish architecture firm A-cero recently has completed a house in Madrid, Spain. + Project description courtesy of A-cero The house is located on a 3.500 m2 plot presenting a light slope that is used by the access ramp to the garage. The floor plan has the form of a greek cross, and is delimited by [...]
Dutch architectural firm Studio Noach and architect Anne Holtrop developed a floating spa wellness center based on recycled waste, in combination with a high tech sustainable climate system and an ecological and botanical coating of plants and flowers, which was invented by Frenchman Patrick Blanc. ‘Floating Gardens/SpaWellness Amsterdam‘ is a world first, and from February 20th [...]
C. F. Møller Architects recently has completed the office complex – Vitus Bering Innovation Park located in Horsens, Denmark. The building’s dynamic and innovative character is expressed via its spiral shape. On the facades, the movement is seen in the glazing strips that stretch towards the sky across the six storeys of the building and [...]
Polish design studio mode:lina recently has designed the contemporary Lamp N°1. + Design description courtesy of mode:lina Imagine a lamp with no beginning or end… Inspired by the infinity symbol Lamp N°1 is basically a ribbon-shaped lamp without a formal beginning, end or lampshade. To keep the source of light undefined stripes of LED lights [...]
The Myrkr Chair is designed and built by Christopher Warren for WORD [Warren Office for Research and Design]. It was originally designed and built for a gallery exhibition called The Page, in which a reading area of various chairs and tables was needed to examine artists’ books. The exhibition is in the Guggenheim Gallery of [...]
India-based architectural practice 10×10 Design Consultants has designed a cafe for Deli at Gateway in Kochi, India. [One] is simultaneously both a ‘victim’ and a viewer, who on the one hand surveys and evaluates the installation, and on the other, follows those associations, recollections which arise in him[;] he is overcome by the intense atmosphere [...]
Portuguese brand Sanindusa recently has launched the “Elegance” series shower tray. + Press release courtesy of Sanindusa Distinguish yourself with … “Elegance” The “Elegance” series is that itself, it bets on the forms subtleness, on simplicity, greatness of the details, for us a synonym of elegance. Its authentic design was created by the designer Melissa [...]
An innovative design studio AGENT. STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE EMBASSY recently unveiled the first transparent soccer ball – CTRUS. Click to watch the video. + Press release courtesy of AGENT CTRUS’ functional principle is based on the mechanical properties of its materials. CTRUS is composed by an inner structure (skelle-core) and an outer net-embedded shell, made out [...]
Portuguese brand Sanindusa recently has launched the NOTE series basins. + Press release courtesy of Sanindusa NOTE, four wash basins, endless configurations NOTE is a solution provided by Sanindusa of 4 bathroom wash basins inspired by minimalist architecture. These pure forms are geometrically shaped in squares and rectangles. The great flexibility in applying the various [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
