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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Architecture Award, Reflective pool, Singapore, Tropical architecture, Wallflower
Wallflower Architecture + Design has won the 10th Singapore Institute of Architects Design Award (Individual House Category) for a project titled ‘Water-Cooled House‘. The project is hidden away from the road, the site is surrounded by a verdant screen of mature trees from adjacent properties. Breezes blowing transversely across the site being another notable aspect [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: A-cero, Spain
Luxury, comfort, design and quality have been joined in eight new flats just in the centre of Madrid. They are new reformed luxurious apartments designed by A-cero. They are in an old four storey building. Such are these apartments’ conditions, property of the Group VP Hotels, that all have been rented before being completely equipped. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Foster + Partners, Iconic architecture, Kazakhstan, Nigel Young, Tensile structure, Theater
The grand opening of the Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre was recently held in Kazakhstan. It is the world’s tallest tensile structure designed by UK-based architectural firm Foster + Partners. The project is located at the northern end of the new city axis and soars 150 metres from an elliptical base to form the highest peak on [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Competition, Norway, Random pattern, Theater
C. F. Møller Architects has won a shared first prize in the competition for the new Kristiansund Opera and Cultural Centre located in the centre of Kristiansund, Norway. The inauguration of the Kristiansund Opera and Cultural Centre is planned to take place in 2013. The other first prize in the competition for the Kristiansund Opera [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: DZstudio, Modern light, Pendant light, Russia
DZstudio designed the Basil’s Triptych – lightning project. This project is a tribute to the beauty and uniqueness of the St. Basil cathedral in Moscow. During his stay in Russia Enrico Zanolla spent time observing and studying the constructive system of the domes. The difference in colour and size comes from symbolic meanings assigned to [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Garduño Arquitectos, Mexico, Restaurant
The RESTAURANT O2 by Mexico-based Garduño Arquitectos is a garden restaurant converted from an underground parking lot. When we were confronted with the challenge of designing a restaurant in an overcrowded and concrete-saturated area, we set out to create something that would also make a contribution to area, with vegetation, warmth and a commitment to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: 36 The Calls Design Competition, Aedas, Competition, Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, UK, Waterfront architecture
Aedas Architects of Leeds proposed an office building with stacked containers for a competition in Leeds, UK. The design is an shortlisted entry for the 36 The Calls architectural competition run by the Architects Journal with developer Citu. Also click to read P+HS Architects‘ proposal. The River Aire has always played an important role in [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Netherlands, Recycle, Reinier de Jong
Dutch Designer Reinier de Jong has designed the PLET Table which consists entirely of waste materials. Eighty different strips of reclaimed Perspex (PMMA) make up the translucent top which appears to be hovering above the solid oak wood base. The oak wood comes from a former dining table top. The plywood connection strip in the [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Recycle
Sonia propose a new application for obsolete material from 2009 samples, a brilliant serie of coasters sets.High resistance to contrasts of temperature, 100 % recycling material, gives to this pieces a new function. Ideal complement for home that combine wood & glasses finishes. During several years Sonia is involve in the design process an endless [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Landscape architecture
In Buda, from a well-known large scale Bimbo street starts a small, winding street, the Tulipán Street. The narrow plot takes in the depths to which people have already made plans, but so far no one realized yet. The newly built condominium was built by the Architectural plans of Ferdinand and Ferdinand. It was not [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Display design, Italy, Showroom, Studio 63
The new showroom store Giulio tnaini in Florence designed by Studio 63 Architecture + Design was thought of as a very clean, rational almost rigorous container. All surfaces, floor and walls were covered with grey raisin/cement. All displays and ceiling are white. The ceiling was left uncovered, with tubes and pipes visible, all painted in [...]
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Category: Design, Fashion Tags: Creative design, Gonçalo Campos, Portugal
Oly disposable Bracelet is a latest creation by Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos. A paper bracelet that anyone can download and build, like a children’s game, using glue and scissors. It’s a really special and distinct accessory, to be used anytime you feel like it, without being afraid of losing or breaking, because it’s just paper [...]
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