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Category: Events/News Tags: Manfred Kielnhofer, Switzerland
Shared by Austrian designer Manfred Kielnhofer. The “Light Guards” project is further developed and become a ghost car touring in Basel art show during June 15 – 19 2011. Art 42 Basel is the world’s premier international art show for Modern and contemporary works, Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Lattice screen, Modern coffee table, Morocco
HOLO, an experimental design collaboration formed by Australian designers Christopher Thomas and Michael Travalia have launched their third furniture collection at DMY Berlin, the Berlin design festival , May 1st – 5th. The collection is called the ‘foundouk‘ series and is inspired by a design jam session the designers took in Morocco. It features a [...]
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Category: Design
London will host the Olympics once more in 2012 and there are obvious changes that are being made all over the metropolis. Design duo BarberOsgerby have been given the enormous challenge and honour of designing the torch that will carry the flame from Land’s End in Cornwall all over the UK ending in London ready [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: estudioOCA, Refurbishment / Extension, USA
This project serves as an extension of the Bay Trail, part of what will be a 500-mile network of bicycle and walking trails connecting 47 cities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. This section begins at the Alameda Ferry station and continues through an industrial corridor, along the property of the Bay Ship and Yacht [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: estudioOCA, USA
Located on San Francisco Bay, in the East Bay city of Emeryville, the marina provides unprecedented views of the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate bridge, the San Francisco city skyline, Alcatraz, and Angel Island. The marina was originally built on landfill and had compacted several feet over the years, causing flooding of the Bay Trail [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: estudioOCA, Slovenia
Proposed by estudioOCA, this riverfront redevelopment project provides a range of possibilities and aims to improve urban life and spatial appropriation. There are no grand gestures; areas remain open, often surprising, and spatially generous. The project invites residents to take a walk with children along the river, go fishing, stop under the trees of Lent [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: China architecture, Competition
X-House is a design proposal for d3 Housing Tomorrow international architecture design competition, the project won a Special Mention and also is the winner in Interior Architecture category. According to a new research in China, the number of young bachelors is drastically raising because of the skyrocketing housing price. Typically girls are unwilling to marry [...]
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Category: Events/News, Lighting Tags: Design Award, Lighting concept
LAMP HANDS OUT THE “LAMP LIGHTING SOLUTIONS 11 AWARDS” IN A HALLMARK EVENT IN BARCELONA On June 9th, the fourth edition of the 2011 Lamp Lighting Solutions Awards ceremony was held at the signature auditorium, Petit Palau del Palau de la Música Catalana. The event, presided by Mr. Ignasi Cusidó, CEO of LAMP, and conducted [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Allied Works, Art Gallery, Museum, Switzerland
ALLIED WORKS REVEALS COMPETITION DESIGN FOR NEW MUSEUM AND CULTURAL DISTRICT IN LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND Allied Works was named one of eighteen international finalists to create the Pôle Muséal Lausanne, which encompasses transforming an historic train shed and industrial site into a new cultural district. As part of the competition, Allied Works created a master plan [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Korea, Ramei Keum
South Korean industrial designer Ramei Keum (Co-work with Jungjin So) has recently designed the XY door handle. The door viewed from the front executes its function through rotation against the Z axis, and the door handle executes its function with the X axis rotating against the Y axis. The interpretation about axis is the beginning [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Lighting Tags: Floor lamp, Modern coffee table, Modern table, Pendant light
Using only domestically sourced woods from either salvaged trees, or wind and/or storm damaged trees, Hudson Furniture Inc. features furniture with organic lines and geometric forms that employ traditional joinery techniques and hand rubbed oil finishes. We love that you can choose the dimensions and finishes to customize many of the designs to work with [...]
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Category: Design Tags: Interactive, MET Studio
Experiential design experts MET Studio have created a new travelling branded exhibit for the Campaign for Wool, an initiative originally conceived in 2008 by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and launched publically in 2010, in response to the enormous challenges facing the wool industry. The new exhibit launched at Grand Designs Live (winning [...]
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