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Category: Design, Industrial, Lighting Tags: Japan, Pendant light, Portugal, SIMPLEFORMSDESIGN
SIMPLEFORMSDESIGN will present their latest minimal creations at Interior Lifestyle Tokyo 2011 during 1-3 June. SIMPLEFORMSDESIGN was founded in 2004 by two designers: Alzira Peixoto and Carlos Mendonça. Design, innovation, functionality and quality are the driving concepts in the creation and development of every new collection and every new product. In SIMPLEFORMSDESIGN past and future, [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Color, Fluid form, Italy, LED, Massimo Iosa Ghini, Workplace
I tried to configure a place conceived as a new agora, capable of encouraging and stimulating productive discussion, in a dimension of communication that gets away from traditional parameters, making virtual interface scenarios the protagonists. Massimo Iosa Ghini IBM Software Executive Briefing Center in Rome has been entirely renovated and has significantly expanded its area. [...]
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Category: Book Tags: Margot Krasojevic, Publication
“Dynamics & De-realisation” is the second monograph by Margot Krasojevic, which will be available in October 2011, you can pre-order this book at Amazon.com. It is the collection of design projects included provide an overview of philosophical theories that focus on what appears to be real, presenting a range of methodologies and a set of [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: London, ME Design, Modern coffee table, Modern table
London-based ME Design has designed the Consol CL and Fluere furniture pieces. The pieces have been designed with simplicity in mind, featuring delicate legs and solid top. Made in solid Walnut and veneer, both design was inspired by the Bauhaus and G plan design. All the ME Design pieces are made to order, but the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Poland, Timber
The housing estate in Ostrow (Poland) was designed by Konrad Idaszewski Architekt in 2007. The whole development consist of 8 separate buildngs – first building finalized in 2009. As an overall majority of the accommodation in that town are single family houses – the main task was to design higher buildings which would be local-friendly. [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Brazil, Fernanda Marques, Loft, Stone, Timber, Tropical architecture
Daylight, highlighted textures, fully open to the outside. In 250m², Fernanda Marques has created a dream escape from urban frenzy. After her resounding success of her in Casa Cor’s 2008 edition, Fernanda Marques now presents her 2009 version of her Loft 24/7. This time, in the form of a spacious bungalow, of about 250m², where [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Brazil, Fernanda Marques, Green architecture, Loft, Random pattern, Wood
Brazil-based architectural firm Fernanda Marques Arquitetos Associados designed this Sustainable Winter Loft for the Casa Cor 2010 exhibit. A house that expands your horizons. That doesn’t confine. That is virtually and concretely open to the world, nature and its inhabitants. Fernanda Marques From the constructive point of view, Fernanda Marques‘s project for the Casa Cor [...]
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Category: Interior, Selected Tags: Brazil, Display design, Fernanda Marques, Fluid form, Timber
Project conceived for the 2009 Boa Mesa Exhibit, which the architect in a close collaboration with Todeschini, emphasized her very best visionary style. On a 194 square meter area, Fernanda presented a very peculiar version of the contemporary kitchen: one of the most sought after spaces in the show. The wooden ceiling, made of sheets [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Exhibition, Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, Museum, UK, Waterfront architecture, Zaha Hadid, Zinc
The Riverside Museum in Glasgow by world renowned architect Zaha Hadid Architects will be unveiled in JUNE 2011. Check it out our previous story here. The historical development of the Clyde and the city is a unique legacy; with the site situated where the Kelvin flows into the Clyde the building can flow from the [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: London, ME Design
MAMA Bike Rack, the first design collaboration by London based Matt Elton and Matteo Baldarelli. MAMA is a simple stylish solution to store your bike and all paraphernalia in one tidy place. The hard wearing powder coated finish allows you to secure the rack tot he wall, both inside and outside your home or store. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: César San Millán, Glass, Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura, Spain
Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura designed the Musical School in Bilbao, Spain. The new Conservatory of Bilbao is located on an exempt city block in the neighbourhood of Deusto, where it coexists with an important Metro station whose glass shell stands out ostensibly. Because of the possibility of an intervention on all of the surrounding space, the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: César San Millán, Refurbishment / Extension, Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura, Spain
The Sancho el Sabio Foundation, dating from 1964, is the main documentation and investigation centre of Basque culture and history. Designed by Spaish firm Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura, the proposal involves the recovery of a former cemetery and based on that, the development of the remaining building. Because the programme contemplates important storage spaces, it was [...]
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