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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Africa, Contemporary architecture, ESD design, Fluid form, Foster + Partners, Lattice screen, Morocco, Nigel Young
The world-renowned architect Foster + Partners have completed their project in Africa with BMCE branches in Morocco. The BMCE flagship branches – our first completed buildings in Africa – reinterpret elements of traditional Moroccan architecture, combining these with a contemporary interior that reflects the Bank’s progressive approach to its customers. This blend of ancient principles [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Design video, Display design, Herzog & de Meuron, NC-office, Perforated, USA, White
Miami-based firm NC-office recently completed the Inkanta Design Store located in Miami Beach at the 1111 Parking Garage designed by Herzog and De Meuron. The project is a retail interior located at the 1111 Building on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. The space is defined by two walls which contain the display cases. The walls [...]
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Category: Interior, Selected Tags: Hirsch Bedner Associates, Lighting concept, Spa
Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA) recently completed design for the much-anticipated ESPA spa located in the Istanbul EDITION hotel. HBA London’s Inge Moore (one of London’s most in demand interior designer and Principal) and Nathan Hutchins (HBA London Associate) created a contemporary spa inspired largely by Turkish traditions, with design elements that echo the Hammam customs [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Concrete, Jassim Alshehab, Kuwait, Restaurant
Recently completed by Jassim Alshehab, Tatami Japanese Restaurant is located in the business district “downtown Kuwait”. The design concept was derived from the integration of the “japanese tatami mats” method of planning and the industrial ambiance of the city. Thus, The seating areas, wall cladding, lighting distribution, and circulation the ratio 2:1 was kept as [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: A.flo, Mexico, Serrano Monjaraz Arquitectos, White
Casas San Juan is a housing project located in Cuernavaca, Mexico, designed by Mexican architectural practice A.flo. The Project lies in a very dry area in the city of Cuernavaca, Morelos in Mexico. The city was nicknamed the “City of Eternal Spring” by Alexander von Humboldt in the 19th century. One our away from México [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Design video, Events/News
The jury is composed of renowned professionals including Javier Mariscal, Hiroshi Tsunoda, Martín Azúa, Rouzbeh Banisadr and Enric Pastor. Following the success of the first bartcelona competition, Glòries Shopping Centre presents bartcelona.org design edition. This latest version of the contest awards young designers for their outstanding creativity and originality. bartcelona.org design edition is an international [...]
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Category: Architecture, Installation Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, ESD design, Green architecture, Skyscrapers, Taiwan
A Polish architectural student Stanislaw Mlynski has received the Bronze Prize for the Ecological Wall competition organized by National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) School of Architecture. He proposed to create structural wall using organic waste containers. The arrangement of elements, as well as the shape have potential to create shelters for animals, gather water, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Lattice screen, Leddy Maytum Stacy, Ramp, Tim Griffith, Timber, USA, USA architecture
Commemorating the life of an international leader and educator in the disability rights movement, the Ed Roberts Campus recently opened in Berkeley. When Ed Roberts founded Berkeley’s Center for Independent Living (CIL) in 1972, it was the world’s first organization to be run by and for people with disabilities. After Roberts’s death in 1995, the [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Architectural video, Groves Natcheva architects, London, UK
Shared by Pelime. London based Groves Natcheva Architects – Adriana Natcheva & Murray Groves talk about their work, inspirations, hopes and passion for Architecture. + Groves Natcheva Architects | http://www.grovesnatcheva.com/
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Architectural video, Austria, Glass, GSarchitects, Iconic architecture
Elegant and smooth, the ‘black Panther‘s composes eagerness and speed to the urban architecture. GSarchitects An architectonic punctuation at an exposed site of the city – a new and distinctive Entree to the city – a future oriented potential for development for the whole area. Putting a company into the spotlight means transforming a philosophy [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Architecture Award, Australia NewZealand, Events/News
If you have done a house/housing project in Australia. I hope it is not too late to introduce you the Houses Awards 2011 submissions developed by Houses magazine Australia, entries are closing very soon on next Thursday March 31. Winners will be announced on July 15, 2011. + For more information about the submission, please [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Armchair, Modern Chair, Modern coffee table, outdoorz gallery
French designer Benoit Lienart has created the SWEETCH18 Chair. Selected for innovative new design by the prestigious L’Observeur du Design 2011, Sweetch18 is an armchair / coffee table, a coffee table / armchair, two pieces of furniture in one. Raise the center of the coffee table for an armchair, lower the armchair back for a [...]
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