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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Museum, OODA, Taiwan
The competition intention was to create a pioneering and innovative design concept which will stand as a new-age landmark and a symbolic voice to the world of Taipei City new spirit. The concept form proposed emerges from a big volumetric cube in confrontation with a smaller inner structure cube – hypercube – in which is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Korea, OODA, Performing Arts Center, Theater, Waterfront architecture
Designed by OODA, the scheme engages with the natural topography, articulating a multi-levelled building and integrating the different cultural activities and program seamlessly. The dominant flow circulation, flexibility and concept strategy enables full accessibility. The design concept creates spaces that blur the difference between building and landscape, intensifying the fluidity between interior and exterior spaces, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Korea, Performing Arts Center, Peter Ruge Architekten, Theater, Waterfront architecture
The city of Busan plans to build a new opera house as a new symbol and multifaceted center for culture events and performances for the inhabitants and visitors on their gorgeous waterfront. Peter Ruge Architekten designed in their brand-new competition entry the opera house as new unique landmark to combine the awesome geographical situation of [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Vasiliy Butenko
Slice Glass is one of latest project by Vasiliy Butenko. The concept that combines the simplicity of form and dynamics of a certain “fallingbody” created by the cutting plane. When filling a liquid form starts to”play” for the unusual distribution of content, unusual for everydaylook. The same concept is inherent functionality: a hollow shape with [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Design video, New York, Outdoor furniture
New York artist Michael Beitz‘ Picnic Table was commissioned by the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, in Omaha, Nebraska, as a permanent installation on its front loading dock, in conjunction with the Bemis Gardens exhibition and design laboratory. While in residence at the Bemis Center in 2010, Beitz produced a series of conceptual furniture drawings [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Landscape Tags: Africa, Hirsch Bedner Associates, Pavilion, Swimming pool
The leading global design firm HBA / Hirsch Bedner Associates has completed the Residence Zanzibar. The all-villa resort is located on a remote corner of the island of Zanzibar and is the first project on the African continent for HBA’s Singapore office. Stretching over 80 acres, the 66 villas designed by HBA boast a colonial [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: Spaceworkers, Spain, Stadium
spaceworkers® designed the 08EMP stadium in Mouriz, Paredes. Countering a trend of the current stadium, enclosing its green area inside, was what motivated us in finding this solution. The idea of “giving back” an acre of green space to the town was the main motto for this project. A solid block, which levitates into the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Coop Himmelb(l)au, Fluid form, Religious architecture
The world-renowned architect Coop Himmelb(l)au has recently completed the Martin Luther Church Hainburg in Austria. The play with light and transparency has a special place in this project. The light comes from above: three large winding openings in the roof guide it into the interior. The correlation of the number Three to the concept of [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Table lamp
Lucrecia moribunda has created the “Pagoda” floor lamp. + Design statement by Lucrecia moribunda Again utilizing modern ceramic dishes from the depths of the cupboard I have fashioned a grandiose, ever extending, seven tiered floor lamp profusely immersed in suede floral at every juncture; the piece intrepidly stretches upward bearing similitude to some decorative tower [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Concert Hall, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Orproject, Performing Arts Center, Theater, Waterfront architecture
Orproject is pleased to present Anisotropia, a proposal for Busan Opera House. A FROZEN PIECE OF MUSIC Anisotropia, the design for the new Busan Opera House, is based on Klavierstück I, a composition for piano by Orproject director Christoph Klemmt. It is based on a twelve tone row which is repeated and altered by the [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: London, SHH, Stair, UK
Interior Designer Susan Knof of London-based architects and designers SHH has created a new home for private clients in Hyde Park, London, which combines understated elegance with practical and flexible spaces for real family usage, set within a classic, white stucco Victorian townhouse. SHH’s client – an international family with a suite of homes (including [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Bar Lounge, Egypt, Restaurant, Stair, Wood
Egypt-based Segments architects & planners have completed The Wif Bar & Restaurant. + Architect’s statement When we started the work of the imagination the initial design of this project we have in mind some limitations and objectives: First, create a character and identity of different and distinct, and the flexibility and clarity to enable the [...]
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