Archive for September, 2011

Tower Town | Visiondivision

Tower Town | Visiondivision

Category: Architecture Tags: , , ,
| September 7, 2011 | 0 Comments

Designed by Visiondivision, Tower Town is a competition entry for the Taiwan Tower competition in Taichung. Instead of doing one skyscraper, Visiondivision did a cluster of slender ones, creating a much more urban feeling for the designated area. A tall building is simply not enough in the endeavour for an emblematic skyscraper in the 21st [...]

Continue Reading

Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park \ Cook+Fox Architects

Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park \ Cook+Fox Architects

Category: Architecture, Office Tags: , ,
| September 5, 2011 | 0 Comments

American architect Cook+Fox Architects recently produced a video on One Bryant Park, the 2nd tallest building NYC and the first LEED Platinum commercial skyscraper in the world. If you have never heard the story behind the design of this building, let’s take a look how the architect focused on health, well-being, and themes of Biophilia [...]

Continue Reading

United Chicken \ mode:lina

United Chicken \ mode:lina

Category: Interior Tags: , ,
| September 4, 2011 | 2 Comments

Architects of mode:lina are proud to present a design for Polish quick service chain restaurant – United Chicken. mode:lina is the author of the brand identity and the main designer of quick-service chain restaurants United Chicken. Interior design system for United Chicken was created in such a way that the brand was easily recognizable in different [...]

Continue Reading

Hayes Valley Playground + Community Center \ WRNS Studio

Hayes Valley Playground + Community Center \ WRNS Studio

Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: , ,
| September 4, 2011 | 0 Comments

The existing 1958 clubhouse and playground at the intersection of Hayes and Buchanan Streets had become outdated and rundown. It also presented significant accessibility and safety issues for its diverse users. Because San Francisco’s Hayes Valley and Western Addition neighborhoods have few parks in the vicinity, the nonprofit Trust for Public Land (TPL) partnered with [...]

Continue Reading

Bachag Chair  \ Joongho Choi

Bachag Chair \ Joongho Choi

Category: Design, Furniture Tags:
| September 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

Designed by Korean desinger Joongho Choi. Bachag was a part of iDEALGRAPHY project, 2010, to create mix & match style within furnitures and fashion. It was aimed to show the contrastive image in between much different expressions. It was designed to express structures, usability and looks of bags and to provide comfort and unity when [...]

Continue Reading

Digital Origami Emergency Shelter \ LAVA

Digital Origami Emergency Shelter \ LAVA

Category: Installation Tags: , , ,
| September 2, 2011 | 0 Comments

Disaster strikes. How can architects help quickly, efficiently, sustainably and sensitively? LAVA‘s solution is an origami cave. It features in a new exhibition opening in Sydney tonight. LAVA‘s Digital Origami Emergency Shelter is a concept for an inhabited molecule. The design is based on a water-molecule, referencing the Japanese Metabolist movement`s idea of prefabricated capsules [...]

Continue Reading

Busan opera House \ Wahag Studio

Busan opera House \ Wahag Studio

Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: ,
| September 2, 2011 | 0 Comments

Participation of Wahag studio in the international ideas competition to establish a design for the busan opera house to start to construct in 2014 (expected). The opera house will include a variety of facilities that will foster a wide range of artistic activities all the while being accessible to the city’s citizens. The grand scale [...]

Continue Reading

Back to top