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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Ceramic tile, ESD design, Massimo Iosa Ghini
If you still remember our previous post for Massimo Iosa Ghini‘s South Face installation in Milan last year, it is time for you to have a second thought and option when designing a vertical green for your project. + Project description courtesy of Massimo Iosa Ghini South Face is a solution for a wide range [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Joong Ho Choi, Korea, Modern cabinet
Korean designer Joong Ho Choi designed the Riddle / Furniture – Storage with invisible handle for the drawer. What do you expect when you open the drawer? There are inborn feelings in humans that we want to know whatever. This storage makes users feel strong urge to open it by spreading slightly. Users can use [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Construction, Glass, Iconic architecture, Modular design, REX, Turkey
The internationally-renowned architecture and design firm REX recently has completed the Vakko Fashion Center and Power Media Center in Istanbul, Turkey. The project will serve as corporate headquarters of Vakko (Turkey’s preeminent fashion house) and Power Media (Turkey’s best-known music and television network). It was built based on the existing abandoned hotel’s structure, REX divided [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use Tags: Creative design, Modular design, Prefab, WATG
The design firm WATG won first place in the 2010 Radical Innovation in Hospitality Competition for their entry, Mosaic. The award, which was founded by The John Hardy Group and co-sponsored by Hospitality Design, recognizes ingenuity in built or unbuilt hospitality concepts. There were more than 30 entries from eight different countries. The challenge was [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Mexico, South American architecture, usoarquitectura, White
Mexico-based architectural firm usoarquitectura designed the office space for Grupo Rotoplas. Transparency and natural light are the 2 main characteristics of the project. Round and dynamic surfaces predominate in the design, filling the space with the brightness of all the different materials applied in white. All these create a very interesting contrast against the dark [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: A-cero, White
The spanish architecture firm A-cero recently has completed the interiors design in the 50th floor of the building Torre de Cristal “Crystal Tower”. It emphasizes the dark tones in general, but furnishing in white color in contrast with dark carpeting. They are shaped by the dynamic lines thought out the interior spaces. + Design: A-cero [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Modern light, Table lamp
The Midwest-based design studio Kassen Lifestyle recently has created a new and innovative lighting solution for the modern aesthetic – Stalbe Lamp. + Project description courtesy of Kassen Lifestyle Kassen Lifestyle Returns Truth to Materials with the Stalbe Lamp Kassen Lifestyle has created a new and innovative lighting solution for the modern aesthetic. The Stalb [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Canada, Hong Kong, Kitmen Keung
Chinese-Canadian product designer Kitmen Keung has created a simple mouse pad featuring a slightly sloping edge to hold tiny accessories. The A4-size silicone piece brings together the convenience of a mouse pad and a resting place for tiny desktop accessories such as clips, erasers and pens in the form of a slightly inwards sloping edge. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Industry, Office, Selected Tags: Concrete, Italy, Lattice screen, monovolume
Blaas general partnership project by monovolume architecture + design is a new head office for the company Blaas in Bolzano specializing in electro-mechanics. It is a three storeys building with a basement designed to accommodate the sales division, repair service and administration office. The interplay between glass and sun shading are specially designed for the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Ake E.son Lindman, Courtyard architecture, Elding Oscarson, Minimalism, White
Sweden-based studio Elding Oscarson has designed a minimal style townhouse on a narrow site in Landskrona, Sweden. Our intention is to use small means to create an array of different spatial experiences in this very small project. Elding Oscarson + Project description courtesy of Elding Oscarson The narrow site is sandwiched between very old neighboring [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Architectural membrane, FIFA World Cup 2010, gmp architekten, Iconic architecture, South Africa, Stadium, Structure, Tensile structure
In Durban, South Africa, the 70,000-seater Moses Mabhida Stadium by gmp architekten has an unique architectural feature inspired by the South African flag. With its grand arch design, the two legs of the arch on the southern side of the stadium come together to form a single footing on the northern side, symbolizing the new [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Architectural membrane, FIFA World Cup 2010, gmp architekten, South Africa, Stadium
For the 2010 World Cup, Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium by gmp architekten is a 46,000 seater stadium situated on South Africa’s south-east coastline, Port Elizabeth. The stadium has an eye-catching, unique roof structure and a spectacular view, overlooking the North End Lake. The geometry of the roof is tailored to local conditions, and protects the [...]
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