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Category: Design, Events/News, Technology Tags: Creative design, Interactive, Lighting concept, Pendant light
3M Architectural Markets introduces the 3M™ Sunlight Delivery System, this daylighting solution captures and harnesses sunlight in an energy-efficient lighting system for commercial buildings. It is a sophisticated hybrid system combining multiple technologies to bring sunlight deep into interior spaces and provides consistent light levels throughout the day. The technology holds promise for both energy [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Loft, nemaworkshop, USA
Designed by nemaworkshop, the newly renovated One Bond Street Loft in New York originally was 2 separate apartments. The concept was to create an environment which was luxurious in materials yet informal in layout. The main living space contains the kitchen, the dining area, the living space and the library. The areas are distinct but [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: AQSO, Folding architecture, Ireland, Lattice screen
A Spain and China based young architectural firm AQSO arquitectos office has designed the Burke House in Galway, Ireland. In a country like Ireland, where many families live in private houses with a courtyard, extensions are a very common way to adapt the residence to new family situations. This house stands in a low density [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: De-spec, White
In residential projects, de-spec believes that architecture, interior design and decoration must reflect the client and their lifestyles. That the space should accommodate their story and not to be generated as a result of stylistic moves by its designer, where the brand of the designer supersedes those who live in it. In this regard personalizing [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: De-spec, Display design, USA
Manfredi jewelry store is an international jewelry store originally from Italy with stores in Milan, Rome, Shanghai, and Tokyo. For the New York store, Manfredi was looking for a concept suitable for the new location on Park Avenue, NYC. De-spec identified the issues that would guide the design as the necessary change of speed that [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Den Architecture, USA
A young couple from Central America acquired an original flow-through unit in a prestigious modern building from the late 1970s. With surgical precision, carefully selected interventions transformed a compartmentalized old-fashioned apartment into a modern collage of spatial experiences. The composition of volumes, including furniture and built-in cabinets, fills the generous open spaces without an overwhelming [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Den Architecture, Kitchen appliances, USA
American architectural office Den Architecture has completed the Salvade-Serenelli Residence Renovation in Pinecrest FL. The Kitchen: Located in a heavily vegetated residential neighborhood southwest of Miami, this kitchen remodel required a radical departure from the existing layout of the house. Formerly enclosed by full-height cabinets and walls, the proposed design expands the spatial relationship of [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: Jesús Torres, Spain
Spanish architect Jesús Torres García recently has completed the Lorca’s Square located in Salobreña, Spain. + Architect’s statement by Jesús Torres García Spanish “LOW-TECH”*1 It was the first week of April in 2009, the journal EL PAÍS had a strange headline: “The capitalism has become a corpse”, it was Santiago Niño Becerra, IQS’s Professor, in [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: EMF, Refurbishment / Extension, Spain
In 1961, on the eastern tip of Iberia Peninsula, Cap de Creus cape, one the windiest and most northern exposed corner of our geography, Club Med constructed a privative holiday village with 430 buildings to receive around 900 visitors 3 months a year. The urbanization project it is considered as one of the most notorious [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, id-ea, Indonesia, Lattice screen, Stair, Tropical architecture, White
Designed by ID-EA, the Alam Family Residence is a private residence fostering the heart of interactive family lifestyle. A residence to host two generations and three households in a single three-storey building. The different levels – one for the parents and two separate ones for the son’s family and the daughter – are designed to [...]
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