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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Gonçalo Campos, Portugal, Table lamp, White
Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos has recently created Called Nata. Called Nata (the Portuguese word for cream) referring to it’s pale white color and its classic dinnerware look. This is a lamp made from an old shape, discontinued, found at a ceramics factory. The fact that this shape ceases to be interesting and its production stopped, [...]
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Category: Design, Sanitary
VASKEO is a company specialized in the design to kitchen and bathroom. VASKEO have just created a range of design washbasin which meets a beautiful success. It is in 2010 that VASKEO came into the conception and the distribution of luxury furniture for bathroom. Since the beginning we chose to put the design in the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Choi Ropiha Fighera, Courtyard architecture, Swimming pool, Timber
Narrabeen is a suburb with housing plots and street layouts characteristic of the ‘garden suburb’ ideals espoused by early 20th cen- tury Australian town planning. The Narrabeen House of 2009 sits in this historical context amongst the other two storey family homes with each dutifully addressing a quiet, tree-lined street. It is a safe and [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Choi Ropiha Fighera, COR-TEN, View point
The design is inspired by the natural ‘sun trap’ edges that exist along many of Sydney’s beaches, landscape escarpments and the bow form of ships that traverse the waters of Port Botany. Choi Ropiha Fighera The Millstream Lookout is located at the western end of the foreshore beach park at Port Botany. The concept makes [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Architecture Award, Coop Himmelb(l)au
The Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au has been awarded Two International Awards. The Dedalo Minosse International Prize COOP HIMMELB(L)AU received the Dedalo Minosse International Prize for commissioning a building for their design of the BMW Welt in Munich on June 24, 2011 in Vicenza, Italy. The Dedalo Minosse International Prize was handed over by Bruno Gabbiani, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Office Tags: New York, USA architecture
Morris Adjmi Architects announced it has received approval from the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission for its design of 837 Washington Street in the Meatpacking District. Located just east of the High Line and across from the Standard Hotel, the six-story office and retail building at 837 Washington Street will feature a four-story glass [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: London, Modern Chair, Timothy Schreiber
Award-winning London based designer Timothy Schreiber is pleased to announce the launch of a carbon fibre version of his Plooop Chair at 100% Design London, 22-25 September 2011. With an eye for fusing state of the art technology with hyper contemporary design Timothy has teamed with Fi-tech Ltd, the UK’s leading aerospace and motorsports carbon [...]
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Category: Education, Events/News Tags: LEED, LEO A DALY
US Green Building Council Awards Prestigious LEED® Platinum Certification to LEO A DALY-Designed FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science Building First Academic Building in Southeast Florida to Achieve LEED® Platinum Certification The U.S. Green Building Council awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)® Platinum certification to the recently completed Florida Atlantic University [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Bar Lounge, SHH, UK
Architects and designers SHH have completed a luxurious £3m, 2-storey VIP passenger lounge at Biggin Hill airport, for client Rizon Jet, a Middle East- and UK-based private aviation group. Located within a major new-build 130,000 sq m hangar and VIP terminal facility at the airport, the lounge – comprised of a 478 sq m ground [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Courtyard architecture, Creative design, Landscape architecture, Mirror
The design was prompted by the idea of an exibition space forming an integral point of the large Kamberovic Park alongside the River Bosna, in the centre of the town of Zenica. The concept was based on a deterministic approach to history – as a series of causes and consequences, while avoiding falling into a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Bosna i Hercegovina, FILTER, Random pattern
This individual residential house is located in a suburb of Sarajevo. The house was designed in the ambit of an older building on the same site, which was an urbanistic requirement. The program demanded a much greater capacity for the new facility. For this reason, a concept is created for reduction of the horizontal communication [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News
Arte Laguna and the Italian cultural association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art) are working together since 2006 on promoting contemporary visual Art. Main result of this collaboration is the International Art Prize ARTE LAGUNA. The Prize is aimed on supporting emerging and also already well-known artists, giving them the possibility to show their artworks in high [...]
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