Shared by Mauro Fassino, an Italian artist from Turin. BIOmorphing is an art installation in Trento (Italy North East) designed for the national competition entry “Science en plein art” organized by Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Fondazione Galleria Civica, PAV – Parco Arte Vivente and Museo Tridentino di scienze naturali. The work describes the integration between humanity [...]
Shared by Deve Architects, Näverket is a competition entry for the Södra Tennis Competition in Sweden. How can wood construction be utilized to create the ultimate competitive tennis environment in Växjö, Sweden? After laying out a continuous tennis surface on the Södra Tennis site, a simple shell is created to enclose three indoor courts, while [...]
Designed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka, TWILIGHT is a project installed in MOROSO Showroom during Milan design week, it was to display new chair series “MOON“. “MOON” is a chair inspired by the beauty of the moon, its glowing light and shadows. The chairs express the full moon when seen from above; the half moon [...]
Designed by Australian architectural firm Architects EAT, Linear House is situated on a slight hill, 500m away from the Portsea back beach. The site is a relatively large and newly subdivided lot of 2600m2, and the client wanted a holiday house that will eventually become their permanent family home. Architects EAT calls the underlying principle of [...]
Open House is an Australian house designed by Architects EAT. The internal planning strategies are devoted to the layering of spaces, and orchestrating the sequences in a mise-en-scene liked methodology. Architects EAT have opened up the interior, got rid of the original rabbit warren internal walls, and starting from the dramatic suspended black raw steel [...]
Shared by Paris-based firm NZI Architectes + Sandra de Giorgio, this loft has been transformed from a 50m² artist’s workshop (13m long x 3.5m wide x 5m high) to a compact living and sleeping spaces. Due to tight space, NZI Architectes has clearly defined the spaces by changing the level and also provided a sleeping [...]
South Korean Monocomplex design group has created the ‘Junk Chair Project‘ . ‘Junk Chair Project‘ is a work emphasizing the importance of design concept. Using plastic chair which can be frequently seen around, it was intended to figure out the identity as designer or a human while experiencing the course of objective introduction of one’s [...]
Stray Dog Café will release new book by Thom Mayne (founder of Morphosis architects) “Combinatory Urbanism: the complex behavior of collective form”. This book explores new directions and approaches to urban planning and design. In the PREFACE, Architecture and urban planning have changed dramatically in the past few decades, not only as separate disciplines and [...]
New York-based boutique design firm Neal Beckstedt Studio recently has completed a model apartment at The Lucida on East 86th Street. In designing the 5-bedroom apartment, Beckstedt faced two interlocking challenges: giving the place a contemporary slant in keeping with the architecture of the building and creating spaces that would appeal to a range of [...]
Shared by Italian firm STUDIO 06, this project is to redesign a new city hall in Borgaro Torinese, near Turin, Italy. + Architect: STUDIO 06 srl (Roberto Guadrini, Massimo Guglielmotto, Paolo Mattiolo) + Collaborator: Roberto Raglia + All images courtesy STUDIO 06
Spanish firm Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura has recently completed Krea Art Centre in Spain. The solution proposed for the Art Centre is basically articulated around a dialogue between the old convent and the new building. A building-corridor winds next to the old building and goes over it to end up inside the cloister. It is conceived [...]
One of the most famous Lithuanian designer Nauris Kalinauskas has designed the Puzzle Rug IMPERIAL. Forget the moment of disappointment when the rug you chose failed to fit the place you prepared for it because it was too long, too short, or too wide…Contraforma Studio offers a solution to this problem – Imperial – the [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
