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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Concrete, Glass, L3P Architekten, Random pattern, Switzerland
The 6 Family House Staldern Regensberg ZH in Switzerland, is a housing project designed by Swiss architect L3P Architekten. It features the randomized glazing and openings on the facade with its unique panorama view. The architectural expression is essentially defined through the location of the property, with its unique panorama view, and the historical reference [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial, Lighting Tags: Creative design, Outdoor lamp, USA architecture, WEATHERS
Climate Design™ series – Wanderings by Chicago-based design studio WEATHERS investigates its ‘climatic infrastructure’ that augments and re-configures existing external micro-climates for occupation and programmatic use. The attempt is to create multiple zones (micro-climates) that pull from and alter the existing climatic context, creating distinct and definable edges, boundaries and transitions of these materials. ‘Wanderings‘ [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Italy, Massimo Iosa Ghini, Modern light, Pendant light
Aria is the new lamp designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini for Murano Due, the FDV Group brand that gives expression, through its products, to the synthesis of a meticulous research applied to the glass design and to its techniques of realization. Aria is a refined and ethereal empty crystal bubble which fills with the light [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Contemporary design, Philippines, Spa, Zubu Design
Philippines-based architecture firm Zubu Design Associates recently has completed the interior works of the Nouveau Salon Spa. + Project description courtesy of Zubu Design Associates The concept of the salon was conceived as a sublime interpretation of a hair piece as it moves creating a wall and seating spiraling towards the ceiling. The wall blocks [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Penthouse, Spain, YLAB arquitectos
Spanish architectural studio YLAB recent has completed the interior refurbishment of a penthouse in the very center of Barcelona. The apartment was conceived to be used as a weekend apartment and includes the level of comfort of a hotel. The project includes a new space layout, new surfaces and fittings and the detailed design of [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand, Public square
Australian landscape design firm ASPECT Studios has completed the landscape design for the new Melbourne Convention Centre & the adjacent South Wharf mixed use Precinct. The project connects Southbank to the Docklands, with a series of public promenades civic and retail buildings. ASPECT Studios designed to integrate the public realm with the large scale buildings [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use Tags: 36 The Calls Design Competition, Color architecture, Competition, P+HS Architects, UK, Waterfront architecture
This proposal by P+HS Architects is one of the short-lister for the international “36 The Calls Design Competition” run by the Architects Journal with developer Citu. Entrants were asked to draw up proposals for an ‘iconic’ commercial building in Leeds, on a tight car-park plot on the north bank of the River Aire. The objective [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: 3XN, Construction, Denmark, ESD design, Green architecture, Modular design, White
In Denmark, Middelfart Savings Bank by 3XN recently has unveiled. The project was awarded the MIPIM Future Projects Award in 2006. The idea behind the Middelfart Savings Bank design is to let the building room an entire public space with a small square, shops, and a café. All this kept together under the same big [...]
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Category: Book Tags: UNStudio
REFLECTIONS, the new book about UNStudio’s small Stuff, presents a selection of interiors, installations, pavilions and products from the last 20 years. The 30 projects are organised in pairs which form each other’s mirror image, illustrating the idea of reflection and its manifold meanings at literal and symbolic levels. Scattered throughout the book are statements [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Australia NewZealand, Marcus O'Reilly archtiects
Australia-based architectural firm Marcus O’Reilly Architects recently has completed a house on Baker Street. + Project description courtesy of Marcus O’Reilly Architects Located on a highly desirable street two blocks from the beach in the Melbourne suburb of St. Kilda, this extension grafts on to an Edwardian home in a dramatic yet sensitive fashion. Due [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Industrial Tags: Milan Design Week, Modern table, Versace
Sunburst, is one of the new Versace home collection unveiled at Milan Design Week. Sunburst is a crystal round table. Its base is composed by 14 elements in chromed metal that conveys the strength of a solar explosion. Meanwhile, Versace and Venini announce a new partnership agreement for the production and distribution of exclusive collections [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Industrial Tags: Contemporary design, Creative design, Portugal
Portuguese designer Acácio Viegas Pereira has designed the Ethanol Fireplaces. Clean, burning is based on denatured ethanol, a solvent composed of ethyl alcohol, no smell and no smoke. + All images courtesy of Acácio Viegas Pereira
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