ASPECT Studios has just completed a transformation of the public domain of Darling Harbour. This public domain project, commissioned by SHFA and Lend Lease now known as Darling Quarter, is a major place-making project for Sydney with a world class children’s playground as its centre piece. At over 4000m2 it is the largest in the [...]
The Renova SP Contest, held by the City of São Paulo, Brazil, was a National Competition to select the best proposals for 22 different areas of the city to redevelop and urbanize slums and risky areas of the capital. Urban Design The development plan proposed for Jardim Japão I, a neighborhood of predominantly industrial use [...]
Call to Rotterdammers: Make Rotterdam The 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam and architecture firm ZUS launched the first project of ‘I Make Rotterdam’. To ensure our cities remain habitable in the future, we must conceive, design and manage them differently. That is the message of the 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR): Making City. It [...]
Part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programme “The Bullhorn” International design competition invites architects to improve the living environment of urban dwellers. Cembrit, a company specialising in the manufacture of fibre cement based building materials, is organising an international architecture competition. The theme of the competition being urban transit areas. Cembrit invites architects [...]
Peddle Thorp Architects undertook the interior store planning and fixture design of the 3 top floors in the newly refurbished flagship MYER store in Melbourne. This department store receives the “Store Design of the Year Award” at the 2011 Oracle World Retail Awards. Myer is Australia’s largest department store group and has been a market [...]
The Sports Park Stozice is a hybrid project. Its realization is the result of the publicprivate partnership between the city of Ljubljana and Grep Development Company. SADAR + VUGA, the architects responsible for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia in Ljubljana, have again designed a project whose influence reaches beyond the boundaries of [...]
Quada chair is realized under the sign of a profitable collaboration between Sand & Birch Design and the new brand Blueside – Emotional Design, born from the long-standing and professional italian company Steroglass, who’s trying to face new challenges in the field of furniture design. Sand & Birch and Blueside share a common sense of [...]
Research by Think Brick Australia in collaboration with The University of Newcastle’s faculty of engineering has shown that Brick is officially the most thermally efficient building material. + Press release The Research Data is in: Brick is officially the most thermally efficient building material New research undertaken by Think Brick Australia, in collaboration with The [...]
Upon entering the space we find an open reception area in a circular form which embraces you as you open the elevator door, this reception area is flanked by two stained-glass windows in blue tones with abstract graphics of medicines and when looked at closely these are infinitely deep. At the center and as the [...]
One of the first interior designs located at the attic of the old tenement house in Cracow adapted for an apartment with a mezzanine. The concept assumed to redesign the common part consisting of a kitchen and a dining room to a living room with a fire place, a wardrobe sheltered by the entry door, [...]
The exhibition ‘Lumiere‘ will illuminate Durham’s historical buildings, streets and bridges for four nights; including a special exhibition of the interactive light artwork ‘Liquid Space‘. Lumiere 2011 Artichoke, 17-20 November, Durham UK. LIQUID SPACE 6.0 is an interactive space that becomes physically bigger, smaller, and brighter in relation to human behavior. As an organic fusion [...]
MDO recently collaborated with Janis Leonard Design Associates for the new Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMOCA) Lounge space- lounge grand opening is just before Halloween – October 28. A redesign of existing gallery space- the client needed an area that would serve to contrast yet mirror the modernity of the art on the walls, [...]
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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 [...]
