Like architecture, Furniture design should always interact with Light. Enis Aldallal Barcode cabinet was designed and built to read as a sculptural peice, interacting with light through the different densities of shade and spaces dedicated for keeping not only books but also other sculptural elements. Spaces for keeping sculptural items were backlit by lasercut, barcode-like, [...]
Kerem Ercin and Mahmut Kefeli are young designers from Turkey. They established a design studio Escapefromsofa in Istanbul and recently have created the new furniture collection. + About Escapefromsofa Escapefromsofa | http://www.escapefromsofa.com/ Escapefromsofa is a design studio established in Istanbul in 2009. Catering to various design needs like interior and product design. Escapefromsofa creates high [...]
An exhibition of Brazil’s most iconic designers and architects Opening reception for the designers: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 from 6-9pm ESPASSO is pleased to announce ETEL for ESPASSO – an exhibition of Brazil’s most iconic designers and architects, brought together for the first time in the US, beginning September 20, 2011. This group show comprises [...]
fferrone design created the Revolution Collection. Revolution is in the permanent design collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and awareded a prestigious GOOD DESIGN AWARD in 2004. Strikingly simple in form, the Revolution Collection is handcrafted in the Czech Republic by master glassblowers, and formed from a pure extrusion of hand-blown borrosilicate glass. This [...]
The ContestA platform organizes the new contest ROOFTOPS WHY NOT? + A brief description of the contest: Roofs are spaces on the way of desertification. Do the rooftops deserve any usage? This competition requires a functional and architectural consideration of any kind of roofs (flat roofs, sloped, gabled, rooftops… on towers, houses, blocks, urban centers [...]
Korean product designer Kim Minki has recently created the MDC chair. MDC stands for Minki Dining Chair and it is designed to support general use of dining chair. Sepetir wood and dark navy colors were used. The basic structure of the chair was applied to give stable, interesting and elegant looks at the same time. [...]
The Madkulturhus, is a project involving the creation of a new venue in Stege to celebrate the culture of food. The client for this project recently acquired the former town hall, and is restoring the building according to strict historical preservation guidelines in order to open a restaurant. Behind this soon-to-be restored building, is the [...]
Squire and Partners has designed a new office-led landmark headquarters, mixed use scheme for UNISON, the UK’s second largest trade union, representing 1.3 million employees of public services. The site encompasses an entire city block bounded by Euston Road, Church- way and Grafton Place, and upon which stood the grade two-listed buildings of the former [...]
A lot of the best design is generated when you have significant constraints. Andreas Stavropoulous Shared by WEREHAUS, a small creative production studio based in San Francisco, they recently had created an original segment on Andreas, a landscape architect based out of Berkeley, CA. The story caught our attention because he bought and converted a [...]
GROUP A has recently completed the offices for BP Rotterdam Refinery [BP RR], realised according to the Design & Build principles. End of May, the BP RR organisation has moved into this unique design. As youngest and largest oil refinery in The Netherlands, BP RR exposes a powerful dynamism which is reflected in the new [...]
AWP + HHF have just won the competition to deliver a masterplan plan for the development of all urban spaces in the La Défense central business district, Paris. The same month AWP has also won the competition to design the public realm of Jardins de l’Arche, below the Grande Arche de la Défense and around [...]
The P-K House is oriented north-south and located in a setting in southern Burgenland that has an agricultural character which it was wished to preserve. The approach driveway from the road comes from the north-west and is incised into the terrain. It starts with an embankment on both sides and is then flanked by a [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
