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Category: Interior Tags: Loft, New York, USA
Guillaume Gentet was given the task of converting a 1 bedroom, 2 bathroom luxury loft apartment into a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom unit. The total area was also increased by 500SF from 2,673 to 3,073 through the extension of the upper mezzanine. + Project Highlights One bedroom, two bathroom loft apartment converted into a three [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel Tags: Color architecture, USA architecture
Stamberg Aferiat recently has completed the Saguaro Hotel in Scottsdale. The architects, Stamberg Aferiat, are known for their bold use of color in architecture, and their ideas about color theory in design. This is their first hospitality project. The hotel’s vivid façade features hues of white, green, yellow, orange and pink, which are applied to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, France, Paris
BIG + OFF WIN THE COMPETITION TO DESIGN THE RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF JUSSIEU IN PARIS BIG + Paris-based architects OFF, engineers Buro Happold, consultants Michel Forgue and environmental engineer Franck Boutte is the winning team to design the new 15.000 m2 research centre for Sorbonne’s Scientific university Université Pierre et Marie Curie [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Broadway Malyan, Cladding, Random pattern, School, UK, Wood
Broadway Malyan’s £66 million college officially opened at launch event The brand new £66 million Bournville College campus in Birmingham, UK, designed by global architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan, and built by national contractor Shepherd Construction for developer St Modwen, has been opened at an event attended by senior officials, local government delegates [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Alex Meitlis, Courtyard architecture, Israel, Swimming pool, White
Israeli based Architect Alex Meitlis has recently completed “House in Savion“, Israel. A single family residence located not far from Tel Aviv. The plot has been divided by vertical walls creating many different spaces, some enclosed with roofs, some semi enclosed and some totally open. The house only occupies a third of the site, while [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Alex Meitlis, London, Restaurant, UK
Nopi is the name of the latest project behind Ottolenghi’s team. Nopi was designed by Architect Alex Meitlis and was recently winner of the Gourmet Award by “Condé Nast Traveller“ in its annual competition Innovations & Design Awards. This Soho based restaurant described as a “brasserie with a twist” is split between two levels. The [...]
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Category: Automotive, Design
“Canot 32” is the latest work done for Arcoa shipyard, with his 10 m lenght and his mahogany deck, the canot 32 remembers the spirits of the automotive boats of the 50′s, used to luxury escape and pic-nic in the islands. White deckhead, lacquer hull, mahogany color, stainless steel fittings, this boat is just a [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand
ASPECT Studios, the highlly awarded Australian landscape architecture company, has completed a multi-use trail at Narrabeen Lagoon on Sydney’s northern beaches. The lagoon is one of Sydney’s natural assets and is a major drawcard and focal point of the area. Diverse experiences are on offer at different locations around the lagoon. The eastern side comes [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: 10 Design, Skyscrapers, Taiwan, Waterfront architecture
lO Designing a 93 ha Masterplan for a CBD in Pingtan, a New Cross-Strait District for China and It’s Trading Partner, Taiwan. Following a design competition IO has recently been awarded both the master plan of a 93 hectare waterfront CBD development and a new Cross Straits Forum in the island of Pingtan in China. [...]
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Category: Installation Tags: mode:lina, Oriented strand board, Pavilion, poznan
Architects of mode:lina were invited by CK Zamek and Inner Art association to create an intervention in one of the backyards located by Saint Martin’s street in Poznan annual celebration of street’s patron saint. Architects responded with an intriguing pavilion called “Gate Five D”: We chose the nicest and the cleanest backyard, which despite of [...]
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Category: Design, Graphic Tags: Japan, Tokujin Yoshioka, Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum has published their very first Symbol Mark and Logo designed by Tokujin Yoshioka on November 15th. The cubic architecture of the current museum building, designed by Kunio Maekawa in 1975. Tokujin has designed the symbol mark based on the concept of cube, which connotes “the origin of creation.” The color is [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Table lamp
Lucrecia Moribunda has created Il gigante poco da bologna lamp. + Design statement by Lucrecia Moribunda In my latest RE-endeavor, I have raised eight columns of up cycled crystal vases and applied winding gilded leaves to each, eight columns of two totaling sixteen. The embellishments are set atop a myriad of diversely textured floral, from [...]
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