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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: 3XN, Architecture Award, Competition, Random pattern, Sweden
3XN has won the competition to design the new Swedbank international headquarters in Stockholm. The new Headquarters will be one of Sweden’s most modern and innovative office buildings – focusing on transparency, Scandinavian simplicity and dynamic social environments. Behind the project is the Danish Architect 3XN in collaboration with Humlegården Fastigheter, representing the property owner [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Canada, Landscape architecture, Todd Saunders, Waterfront architecture
Saunders Architecture has designed the six artist studios to be located in various locations on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada. Here are 3 selected studios – The Long Studio, The Tower Studio, The Bridge Studio designed for Shorefast Foundation & The Fogo Island Arts Corporation. The idea behind the forms of the various studios was to [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Landscape architecture, Norway, Timber, Todd Saunders, Tommie Wilhelmsen, View point
Designed by two architects Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen, the 33-metre “diving board” shooting out from the road into thin air above the Aurland Fjord in Norway. This Aurland Lookout project is part of a national program on tourist routes commissioned by the Norwegian Highway Department. The landscape is so fantastic that it is difficult [...]
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Category: Design, Graphic Tags: Manfred Kielnhofer, Photography
The Austrian photographer Manfred Kielnhofer develops a new sort of act photographs. Therefore he builds a water plate in his studio, where he can take photos of models sitting or lying likely on a mirror. Kielnhofer is working with the camera like a sculptor. With the human body shapes he creates sculptures in the end [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Industrial Tags: Creative design, Ka-Lai Chan, Modern bookcase, Netherlands, Random pattern
Judy Straten is pleased to announce the first gallery presentation of Ka-Lai Chan’s most recent production SheLLf. This young designer’s work is informed by personal experiences, emotions, observations and the beauty of the unexpected. The contrast between artificial and natural materials is characteristic for objects designed Ka-Lai Chan. Her shapes are often organic, patterned and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Contemporary architecture, Iconic architecture, USA
Alan Lu shared with us his academic project and concept just recently completed at MIT in Cambridge, MA. + Project description by Alan Lu This project by Alan Lu explores the notion of programmatic extremism in a design incubator facility where a central defined figure that contains a vertically integrated manufacturing/workloft arrangement occupies the void [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel Tags: Competition, London, Mjölk architekti, UK
The Whispering House by Czech architectural office mjölk architekti is one of the shortlisted design for the architectural competition “A Room for London” commissioned by Living Architecture. Visibility and exposure are major character traits of the location on the roof of Queen Elizabeth Hall. The feature to present oneself to other people to built by [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Takeshi Hamada
Takeshi Hamada has completed the interior design “Office A“. + Project description by Takeshi Hamada Key word Interior design, Adaptable Office This is a law office planned in the first floor in social building, located in the suburb of Osaka. The concept of this plan is “Adaptable Office”. There are a lot of situations, and [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Lattice screen, Timber
Japanese architect Takeshi Hamada has completed the House D in Osaka, JAPAN. + Project description by Takeshi Hamada Key word Narrow Housing,, Young Owner Background and Environmental Atmosphere The housing is located in the place from one block from the main street in Osaka’s suburb, and I cannot say it’s a calm. There are a [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Berlin, Color architecture, dan pearlman, diephotodesigner, Germany
German design studio dan pearlman has designed the COEO – House of Good Deeds in Berlin. COEO is a store concept for sustainable consumption, which establishes the issue of corporate social responsibility to the principle of the business. The modern design and the architectural concept of the store divide the spacious retail space in four [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Competition, Events/News, New York, USA
Kultivate has partnered with Crystal Stone on Dare to Design, a unique design project to be showcased at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show and The Artist Project NY in March. The Architectural Digest Home Design Show and The Artist Project NY have offered Crystal Stone and fellow stone company International Stone Collections the opportunity [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, Francisco Mangado, Madrid, Spain
The exhibition Francisco Mangado Architect will be on view in the Juana Mordó Hall of Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Circle) from February 22 to April 10, 2011. Through models of building projects and digital representations of interior fixtures and urban furniture pieces, the show presents a large part of the Navarrese’s output [...]
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