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Category: Architecture, Landscape Tags: fondaRIUS architecture, Landscape architecture, Pavilion, Spain
In Barcelona, SPAIN, although municipal regulations make building on Montjuic – the mountain between the city and the sea – almost impossible, the Barcelona municipality is nonetheless keen to incorporate this green area into the city’s leisure network. The only way to do so is by re-using and revitalizing existing structures in order to give [...]
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Category: Design, Events/News, Furniture Tags: Airnova, Milan, Modern bookcase, Modern Chair, Modern Lounge Chair, Modern table, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2011
SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEL MOBILE – MILAN FURNITURE FAIR 12-17 April 2011 Pavilion 6 Stand E 33 From 12 to 17 April the most important furniture fair in the world will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in Milan: AIRNOVA is taking part in this event and celebrating its success in the high quality sector. This year the [...]
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Category: Design, Events/News, Technology Tags: Design video, Events/News, Interactive, Milan, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2011
Social Cave International Furniture Fair of Milan 2011 (Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2011) Salone Satellite 50 + 50 – Designing the Future 12th/17th of April, Pav. 22-24, Columbia University Piazza n.5 In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Furniture Fair of Milan, the Salone Satellite chief curator Marva Griffin invited the architecture and design [...]
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Category: Design, Events/News, Furniture Tags: Events/News, Milan, Modern bookcase, Modular design, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2011, Zaha Hadid
Salone Internazionale del Mobile 12th – 17th April 2011 Hall 20, Stand C01-D02 Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects for MAGIS, TIDE is a modular lightweight shelving system which embodies the transition from the heavy mass of traditional wooden furniture to the minimal thickness of plastic surfaces. The design refers to geometries and mathematics of minimal [...]
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Category: Design, Events/News, Furniture Tags: Events/News, Milan, Modern Chair, Modern Lounge Chair, Modern table, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2011, UNStudio
Salone Internazionale del Mobile 12th April – 17th April 2011 Fiera Milano exhibition centre, Milan Hall 7, Stand A27/ A31 Sit down, sit up, lounge, hang, repose, move, work, read, consult or relax, alone or together This year, Ben van Berkel / UNStudio will present 3 new seating designs at the Salone Internazionale Del Mobile [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Sport Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Denmark, Refurbishment / Extension, School, WE Architecture
Light Box by WE architecture, is the 3rd prize proposal for an extension of the existing high school of Falkonergården. The building is a Danish international style complex worthy of preservation. As a result of increasing popularity and the addition of an athletic department, Falkonergården is in high lack of improved gym facilities and a larger assembly [...]
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Category: Design, Events/News, Furniture Tags: Area Declic, Events/News, Milan, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2011
Milan International Furniture Show April 12-17, 2011 Pavilion 12, stand C16 Area Declic celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Milan International Furniture Show with its forty-eight years of uninterrupted participation to the exhibition. Area Declic, in fact, is a brand of ARRMET, historical Friulian Company operating, since the sixties, within the Chair District of Manzano (Udine) [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Milan, Modern table, Timothy Schreiber
Award-winning London based designer Timothy Schreiber is pleased to announce the launch of his E-lastic Table at the Milan Furniture Fair, Rho Fairgrounds from 12th -17th April 2011. In line with his “pop modernism” manifesto, Schreiber’s new design carries forward the spirit of the second generation 1960s and 70s modernists. Inspired by the work of [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern Lounge Chair, Modern sofa, Studio Kawamura Ganjavian
Contemporary domestic spaces tend to be sleek and cool but often miss cosy intimate corners. Oyster is a versatile piece of furniture. When folded it is a cushion, when unfolded it creates a cosy and comfortable private shelter. + Designer: Studio Kawamura Ganjavian
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Category: Interior, Selected Tags: Fluid form, Modern bookcase, Studio Kawamura Ganjavian, Switzerland
Librairie La Fontaine is a historic bookstore inside the EPFL campus in Lausanne. Its venue moved in 2010 to the new Rolex Learning Centre designed by SANAA architects. Taking into consideration the architectural language of the host building the bookstore is organised around 5 “pods” that articulate thematic categories. All pods are slightly different from [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: City hall, Landscape architecture, Library, Museum, Norway, Waterfront architecture, WE Architecture
Notodden Townhall has decided to join several cultural functions such as a cafe, a museum, and a library under one roof; this allows the possibility of creating a building where people of different ages and interests can meet and interact. As a tribute to the history of the site, the roof of the building is [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: modern bench, Modern Chair, Studio Kawamura Ganjavian
Studio Kawamura Ganjavian has created the Caterpillar benches, Caterpillar is a series of benches (varying lengths and finished) that elaborate on the notion of lightness and redundancy. Their multiple legs seem to be set in perpetual motion thus questioning the static feeling of stability often associated to a bench. + Designer: Studio Kawamura Ganjavian + [...]
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