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Category: Architecture, House Tags: FujiwaraMuro, Japanese architecture, Stair, White
Japanese architectural firm FujiwaraMuro Architects recently has completed a small yet contemporary house in Showa-cho, Japan. Showa-cho is a quiet place even though it is downtown. There are many people residency from a long time ago. The design of the residence has a narrow frontage, which is a part of a row house (17.89m ×3.94m). [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Apostrophys, Display design, Pavilion, Stair, Thailand
The TOT Pavilion participated in ITU Asia, the International Telecommunication Union fair. TOT is one of Thailand’s biggest telecommunication companies which has been developed into different parts of Thai society in many ways. The concept of the booth focused on Expressing the Network of TOT throughout Thailand which is about the work of the TOT [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Coo Planning, Japanese architecture, Minimalism, Timber, White
Japanese architect Akiyoshi Nakao of Coo Planning designed a house in Hamadera. It is a house where three families who built in Osaka Prefecture Sakai City live. It is located in a still residential area where an old station and the tram named hamadera suwanomori remain. The master bought land for this town where memories [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Courtyard architecture, South Africa, studioMAS
JoziRows in Forest Town, Johannesburg, is one of the latest residential building designed by South African office studioMAS architects + urban designers. The design was based on the ideas in the Courtyards in Oxford project. The project aims to achieve the spacious house with the feeling of safety with openness. It consists of 4 “lock-up-and-go” [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Industrial Tags: Display design, Oneto/Sousa, Peru, Timber
This is a module for a timber plant designed by Peru-based design firm Oneto/Sousa Arquitectura interior for Grupo Forestal Vulcano in the EXCON 2009 Fair. The idea of the project was to bring some sort of elegance and to merge wood and nature with sophistication. Using a black wall with white strips which brought the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: Competition, Iconic architecture, Link-Signatur, NBBJ, Norway, Peter Pran, Stadium
Winning a design competition for the Valerenga Football Club’s new stadium, the team of NBBJ / Link-Signatur / Multiconsult designed a 22,000 seat facility in addition to the Master Plan for the overall site: stadium, public amenities and up to 100,000 square meters of commercial development. The stadium was designed with the ability to expand [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial, Lighting Tags: Apostrophys, Display design, Lighting concept, Modular design, Pavilion, Thailand
The diamond tile mobile pavilion by Apostrophy’s was participating in the Thailand architecture expo 2010, to promote the brand Diamond Tiles and its products. Since it is a company for roof tiles, the idea of expressing the character of being a Diamond tile was used to express the look of the brand and to promote [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Abu Dhabi architecture, Club, Iconic architecture, Omiros One Architecture, Waterfront architecture
A composition of dynamic and fluid forms that link the buildings to the nautical theme, the heritage of the location and the new F1 character of Yas Island…The Yacht Club is designed to excite, inspire and strengthen the concept that is Yas. O1A principal and founder Mr Omiros Emmanouilides The Yas Island Yacht Club’s streamlined [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Italy, KUADRA, Lattice screen, Lighting concept
11 KILOMETERS OF CHAIN… New Branch of the Cooperative Credit Bank, Fossano, CN A cascade of chains on the facade, dynamic space, mobile, changing, not what you would expect from a bank, especially in a province at the foot of the Maritime Alps. The branch of this Credit Agency, winner of a closed competition, brings [...]
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Category: Installation Tags: Italy, KUADRA, Museum, Steel
In Borgo San Dalmazzo (CN), Italy, Italian architecture studio KUADRA designed the Memorial of Jewish Deportation. The base of the memorial is a concrete slab that has been slightly raised off the ground as if it was the platform for the freight wagons. The platform is surrounded by rocks of different sizes. On the platform, [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: DZstudio, Modern light, Pendant light
Pie Pendant Lamp is a recent design by DZstudio of Enrico Zanolla + Andrea Di Filippo. The name suggests exactly where the idea came from: a pie. The texture is inspired by the crusty weaves of a pie converting them as diffuser of soft and warm light coming from the inside like the tasty and [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Bar Lounge, Lebanon, Paul Kaloustian, Restaurant
Located in the iconic night life district of Beirut, the MYU bar/restaurant inhabits an old small liquor factory. The design concept is based on creating 2 separate spaces of bar and restaurant defined by 2 vaults different in scale. These vaults which form a room whithin a room are made of stretch black fabric that [...]
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