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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Bulgaria, Fluid form, Peter Ruge Architekten, White
STATION 20 New Metro Station 20 on Metro Line 1 in Sofia, Bulgaria Competition 2011 Size GFA: 2,430 sqm Location Acting as a primary metro connection between Sofia’s city centre and the airport, and the hub of a major commercial redevelopment plan, the design of Station 20 site seeks to establish clear pathways, form active [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Refurbishment / Extension, Visitor center
Camilla Hounsell Halvorsen Design and Architecture designed and transformed an abandoned brick building into a visitor centre for contemporary glass art. The center provides workshops that are organized for visits and experience of the workshop process. A ramp solution contributes to walk through the process is universally designed and available to all visitors. By making [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Contemporary design, Kassen
Kassen has designed the Lagrangian potpourri vessel. Generatively designed to cradle fragrant materials and to mimic the movements of the scent as they are released into the atmosphere. The vessel is hollow and transparent but structured finely to retain volume. The Lagrangian uses steel mesh to be porous to allow for the largest amount of [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Industrial Tags: 5AM, Belgium, Random pattern
5AM is founded by 2 young Belgian designers OLIVIER CALUWIER & MATHIEU BELLENS, who are active in interior & furniture design. In every project they are searching for the perfect combination of function and design with creative touch. 5AM recently have created a creative booth at a fair nearby Kortrijk. They designed a little cocoon, [...]
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Category: Healthcare, Interior Tags: Clinic, Kuwait, White
Interior Designer Farah Al Humaidhi recently has completed the Skin Clinic in Kuwait. Large surfaces of colored stripped wood, waved ceiling and textured wooden walls are the hallmarks of this 500 square meter Dermatology Clinic. Daylight emanates from the perimeter to the interior revealing an inviting feel to the Clinic. Warm pleasing colors along with [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Courtyard architecture, ECDM, France, Paris
Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) has desinged the Campus EDF – Saclay. Rural Urbanism The completion of a building in the planning project of Saclay Paris is a unique opportunity to be one of the markers of the future center of excellence established on the plateau. The uniqueness of the site, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Car Park, Fluid form, Hong Kong, White
“Sky Stree” is the proposal by the Polish desingers Hugon Kowalski, Adam Wiercinski and Borys Wrzeszcz, designed for Hong Kong Alternative Car Park Tower competition which was held by AC_CA organization. The main concept of this project was to create parking space as extension of the street. Typical city-street with traffic lane, parking spaces, sidewalk [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: China, Kokaistudios, Penthouse, Stair, Swimming pool
House of the Tree, located at the 48th and 49th floor of a high-end residential tower in Shenzhen, China, is a penthouse designed by Kokaistudios with the concept of “living between the city and the nature” offers a modern lifestyle with luxury and relaxation. The elegant and exceptional entrance, punctuated by a tree incredibly planted [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: 10 Design, China architecture, Competition, Fluid form, Museum
The planning museum is envisioned to be a new civic sculpture for the city located at the heart of the main the governmental district. The sculptural nature of the building ties to the existing network of sculptural elements and parks placed throughout the city. The building becomes a technological bloom as the massing opens towards [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Barcelona, Refurbishment / Extension, Spain, YLAB arquitectos
The project consists of the renovation of a 130m2 apartment with a terrace, located in the heart of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, in a catalogued building located behind the City Hall. The original space is composed of a sequence of bright and spacious rooms connected by large arched openings, with balconies along the façade and an [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: d10photo, Photography, Portugal, Restaurant
Shared by photographer David Pereira of d10photo, this is a Le Chat Bar located in Lisbon and was designed by Aspa architects. + Photographer: David Pereira of d10photo + All images courtesy d10photo
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Category: Design, Lighting
Designed by an architectural student Tomaz Leskovec, “ADN” is a Christmas tree, made in a simple design that consists of a black rectangle and LED lights that compose a shape of a Christmas tree. By day is just a black rectangle on the wall but by night becomes a very simple and minimalistic Christmas tree. [...]
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