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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Residential, Selected Tags: BIG, Courtyard architecture, Denmark, Waterfront architecture
8 House by Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has been completed recently. Celebrating its third project with the same development team in the maturing neighborhood of Orestad, the construction of the 61,000 m2 8 House has come to an end, allowing people to bike all the way from the street up to its [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Car Park, Perforated, Random pattern, USA, USA architecture, White, WRNS
In San Francisco, WRNS Studio has recently completed a dramatic multi-story parking structure in the heart of the city’s Mission Bay redevelopment zone. This new seven story elevated parking structure serves adjacent laboratories and offices with 1,420 spaces. The north and east façades, which border a public plaza, are clad in perforated aluminum panels whose [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: DZstudio, Modern light, Pendant light
Plera is a new suspension lamp designed by DZstudio of Enrico Zanolla and Andrea Di FIlippo. Pleara means funnel in Friulan, the language spoken in northeastern Italy. The idea was to realize a small suspension lamp which could express minimalism but with the soft touch of the wood in opposition to the cold touch of [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Netherlands, sprikk
The Dutch studio sprikk designed an innovative meeting centre for youmeet. Youmeet offers meeting- and workshop spaces as well as training sessions in innovative ways of working hosted by creative professionals. The space provides environments according to five steps in the creative process : ‘create’ generating ideas, hosting brainstorm sessions ‘design’ laboratory for developing ideas, [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: mode:lina, Oriented strand board, Poland
Designers from mode:lina have recently finalized their premises in an elegant 60′s building basement in Poznan / Poland. Faithful to the idea of using cheap materials without cheap appearance, designers used lacquered OSB boards for the flooring and furniture. Desks, also made of OSB, are covered with artificial leather to make sketching and drawing more [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Australia NewZealand, ESD design, Events/News, Green architecture
Future Proofing Property Conference, one of the Australia’s Top Green Building Event that will take place in Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre (Queensland, Australia) on 8th-9th November, 2010. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to hear from over 25 of the world’s leading domestic and international sustainability thinkers. Future Proofing Property is this year’s most [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern Chair, Modern furniture, Outdoor furniture, outdoorz gallery, Paris
For the occasion of the Chic Art Fair Paris, British designer Tom Price created this serpentine bench by seamlessly weaving together 5 separate Blue Cable Rope chairs. A perfect compliment to the newly renovated Docks en Seine building which now houses the Paris center of fashion and design on the left bank of the Seine. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Foster + Partners, Luxembourg, Shopping complex
Foster + Partners has won an international competition to design Luxembourg Royal Hamilius, a mixed-use development in the heart of Luxembourg City developed by Codic International. We are delighted with this excellent result and look forward to further developing the scheme. Our proposal is based on a sequence of rich public spaces, inside and outside, [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: France, Guillaume Lehoux
A french product designer Guillaume Lehoux designed the SOD Project which was based on the results of a NASA experiment. This experiment was designed to study the influence of certain psychoactive substances on the behavior of living things. The researchers inoculated the test substances (marijuana, caffeine, benzedrine and chloral hydrate) to spiders and then let [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Fluid form, Italy, modern bench, Sand & Birch
Sand & Birch this time goes back to its first and most successful inspiration, and presents a new interpretation of a concept that made this young italian studio known by public: just like the famous Velvet Sofa, this Velvet Chair takes its shape from the idea of a ribbon three times wrapped on itself. Thanks [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern table
Flip Table, is a recent creation designed by Effie Bouras. The table itself is constructed of recycled steel, according to designer, the steel was a scrap for an art sculpture, it has been re-used and dubbed “the flip” because of the conspicuous table top that forms a sharp 90 degree angle turning into a half [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Fluid form, Modern table, UNStudio
SitTable, is a recent realized furniture design for PROOFF designed by Dutch firm UNStudio. The SitTable is designed for the various ways in which people communicate. Through a cross combination of usage possibilities, it extends the traditional role of the table as a social meeting place. Ben van Berkel Sit down, sit up, lounge, hang, [...]
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