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Category: Events/News Tags: Architecture Award, Australia NewZealand, Events/News
This is about 2 weeks left for Think Brick Awards 2011 entries, have you submitted yours? The Think Brick Awards for 2011 is one of the richest design awards in Australia, it is not too late for architects and students to submit an innovative brick design for a chance to win the About Face Student [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, Italy, KUADRA, Random pattern, Religious architecture
As documents they recount the millennial history , ancient and modern, which is renewed in the modernity of the forms and the faith which is recalled though prayer. Enrico Tealdi As befits its central role in the community, this Church is a Landmark and point of congregation for all in the area of Piacenza. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Master Plan Tags: Italy, KUADRA, Museum
Area 8 – The Bella island To mark the bicentenary of the death of Giuseppe Piermarini, ( Foligno, 18th July 1734 – 18 February 1808), the architect of the Scala opera house in Milan, the Minister for Art and Culture and the “National Committee for the Celebration of the Bicentenary of the Death of Giuseppe [...]
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Category: Design, Fashion Tags: Japan, Tokujin Yoshioka, Watch
Tokujin Yoshioka has designed a new watch “O” Shape of Water – Transparent Time. Produced by ISSEY MIYAKE and developed by Seiko Instruments Inc., “O” was launched at the Basel World in Switzerland in March of 2011 in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the ISSEY MIYAKE watch project. “O” has a meaning as “water” [...]
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Category: Events/News, Interior Tags: Events/News, HGTV, USA
The premieres of HGTV’d will kick off on 6th June 2011. This is a new series where HGTV travels across America, surprising fans with home makeovers resulting in over-the-top transformations by their favorite HGTV designers. The makeovers will feature stunning room designs created by HGTV stars such as David Bromstad (Color Splash), John Gidding (Curb Appeal: [...]
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Category: Events/News, Landscape Tags: Color, LED, Poland, Public square, Reflective pool
Warsaw, Candidate city for the European Capital of Culture 2016 held the opening of Europe’s biggest Multimedia Fountain Park. The magic are performances involving “light, water and sound“. Every Saturday water jets will be shooting illuminated water to a height of 25 meters and on screens of fog; laser and film projections will be shown. [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, USA
20 selected graduating HYPER-VISIONARY thesis projects of architecture students will be showed on May 20/21, 2011, in the Berg Gallery, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. The website will be online leading up to and during the hours of the event, simulcast online @ http://Jackson-Studio.com/hyper Friday May 20th, 5-9pm Saturday May 21st, 10am-5pm Berg Gallery, Building [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Lattice screen, Paratelier, Portugal, Timber
In Portugal, the recently completed Guest House by PARATELIER designed to integrate into the area of sand dunes near the Atlantic Ocean, it functions as a temporary house for guests, parking area and agricultural storage for agricultural activities. Location In the vast nature reserve of “pinhal da Comporta” recognized for its typical coastal habitat of [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, New York
Model Citizens @ Chelsea Art Museum 556 West 22nd Street Friday May 13, 10am-4pm, Press Cocktails 4pm-7pm Saturday May 14, 10am-8pm Sunday May 15, 10am-6pm Model Citizens is a design exhibition featuring the work of 100+ emerging and independent designers of furniture, products, ceramics, glass, textiles, home decor, art objects and jewelry from the US [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Concrete, Japanese architecture, Mitsutomo Matsunami Architect, Random pattern, Stair, White
As the apartment has ‘A room arrangement matching that of the window pattern’, the part that was once unavoidable has now become a large subject of the design. Taking the challenge of a small apartment within those conditions, whilst dealing with a strict budget, the Katayama apartment was born. The Katayama Apartment is a small [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Japanese architecture, Lattice screen, Mitsutomo Matsunami Architect, Stair, Timber
Japanese architect Mitsutomo Matsunami has designed a private residence in Matsugaoka, Hyogo-prefecture, Japan. The design was developed and based on client’s brief which are to create visual privacy, even if the site is surrounded by adjacent houses. to provide a place where to enjoy view of Satsuki Mountain to create the sense of spaciousness, and [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern table, outdoorz gallery
Designed by Italian designer Alessandro Canepa & Andrea Paulicelli, a new concept in modular furniture FONTABLE is a series of alphanumeric elements reproducing letters A-Z in lower and uppercase and numbers 0-9. The graphic, 3 dimensional ‘type’ becomes the protagonist of a new language in design which is both versatile and eclectic, allowing us to [...]
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