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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Mobile architecture, Pavilion, Studio Kawamura Ganjavian
In Madrid, Spain, Infomab10 by Studio Kawamura Ganjavian is a pavilion designed and built in record time and within record budget. It consists of an off-the-shelf 28m³ glass-fiber reinforced polyester water tank that was intervened. 100 circular perforations allow speckles of natural light to flood the space during the day, whereas during the night they [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Joong Ho Choi, Korea, Modern Chair
Miryeo, the first chair of South Korea product designer Joongho Choi, 2010, was aimed to express comfort by applying the structure of a human body and to show elegant and delicate lines. Miryeo refers to being elegant and delicate in Korean language, therefore it was created to be assembled in a simple line by each [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, Milan, Zaha Hadid
During 11th-17th April, Zaha Hadid architects will be attending Milano Capitale del Design. Please click the image above to enlarge.
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, New York, The Museum of Arts and Design
HOW DEVELOPING WORLD TECHNIQUES AND AESTHETICS HAVE INFLUENCED CONTEMPORARY ART AND DESIGN IS THE FOCUS OF NOVEL EXHIBITION THIS MAY Designer Stephen Burks, Celebrated for his Brilliant Fusions of the Artisanal and Industrial, Serves as Curator Works by the 42-year old industrial designer Stephen Burks and 20 other mostly contemporary designers, and artists will be [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Competition, UK
A recent competition set by the NRW Forum in Dusseldorf called for contestants to design homes using a single shipping container. Here’s what the Heterarchy Studio, based in the UK, came up with. The concept for the design was to literally turn the container on its head, allowing the compact home to be assembled on [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, ESD design, Landscape architecture, March Studio, Zinc
‘Brent Knoll‘ is a new house by March Studio located on the outskirts of Malmsbury. Despite a brief to extend an existing 1850′s homestead, it became apparent that the new extension be detached. Rather than a reinterpretation of a past architecture, the resultant became a celebration of both old and new. The two freestanding structures [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Denmark, JWH Arkitekter, WE Architecture
Danish architectural firm WE architecture & JWH Arkitekter have won the 2nd prize for the Rødovre Syd urban planning project. Rødovre Syd is a suburbian area of Copenhagen, characterized by a mixture of open green areas, a network of roads, large apartment complexes and low row-housing enclaves. The project offers to transform the existing planning [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: 3XN, Denmark, Events/News, William McDonough + Partners
3XN Enters Innovative Cooperation with William McDonough + Partners The international team is about to develop one of Europe’s first and most ambitious Cradle to Cradle® projects; the Green Solution House on the island of Bornholm, Denmark. Green Solution House will be an innovative ‘Demonstratorium’ facilitating the development and test of new green technologies on [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, Lighting concept, New York, Rice Gallery, USA
Rice University Art Gallery is pleased to present Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, a talk by Robin Clark, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), on Thursday, April 14, at 7:00 pm 7:30 pm, preceded by a wine and cheese reception at 6:30 pm 7:00 pm. Both reception and lecture are free [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Selected Tags: Fluid form, MAKEMEI, Modern Chair, Modern coffee table, Modern furniture
MAKEMEI has created these 3 modern pieces, the RD Table + Tipper + Koffie Table. RD Table The RD Table is a solid American walnut coffee table finished in natural oil and beeswax. The tilted area with a carved out surface is specially designed for displaying literature. Due to the precise detailing, the magazines/books sit [...]
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Category: Book, Landscape Tags: Green architecture, New York, Publication, USA architecture
Every city needs parks, but how about those highly developed cities like New York City, London, Hong Kong? It is impossible to squeeze and create a green park from their exiting dense contexts. The April issue of the National Geographic magazine features a really neat piece on how an abandoned rail line in New York [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Folding architecture, Landscape architecture, Malmström Edström, Sweden
Malmström Edström were along with three other architectural firms invited by to a parallel assignment to create a concept for future railway installations and maintenance buildings. The aim of the assignment was to find a design concept with a high architectural standard. Jernhusen – the client – owns and develops stations, maintenance depots and freight [...]
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