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Category: Culture Tags: Art Gallery, BIG, Competition, Fluid form, Stair, Timber, USA architecture
BIG + Architectural Nexus + Dunn Associates + VBFA + Envision Engineering + Big D design the winning proposal for the renovation and expansion of Kimball Art Center in Park City, projected for completion by Mid-2015. The Kimball Art Center, home to Sundance House during the Annual Sundance Film Festival, invited an international group of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: 10 Design, China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Fluid form, Library, Perforated
AIA JURORS’ Comments: The jurors found this design engaging and dynamic. The central vortex was described as creating a focal area for an interesting series of spaces for the community. The building section illustrated for the jurors, the attention for both an urban and internal connectivity. The various adjoining spaces spiral inward in celebrating how [...]
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Category: Hotel, Interior Tags: Bathroom, Hirsch Bedner Associates
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and what better way to turn up the romance than with a dip in the tub with your precious loved one? Leading design firm HBA / Hirsch Bedner Associates has designed some of the most amazing hotel bathrooms that are sure to impress on the most romantic day of the [...]
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Category: Events/News, Installation Tags: Installation, New York, Rice Gallery, USA
Shapiro’s Rice Gallery installation, on view through March 18, is a gravity-defying array of color, form, shape and line. Wooden elements, vibrantly painted with supersaturated pigment and casein, seemingly levitate in the air as they are held in tension by string stretching from the center of the gallery’s floor to points on the ceiling. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Glass, Italy, Stair, UAU
The new directional building has been designed to abstract itself from the common building scheme, rejecting analogies and mimesis, while intended to assume technology and innovation as its essence. The traditional building techniques make room to the use of innovative materials or the different exploitation of the old ones, and, at the same time, to [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Italy, Refurbishment / Extension, UAU, White
Since the family had increased in number after the first renovation of the house the challenge of the project has been to make the most of the available space. The project aims to bring up the family to a multifunctional use of the spaces, without conventional limits. That’s why we decide to give the existing [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern Chair, Recycle
Vienna designer Martin Mostböck has created the FLAXX Chair. The FLAXX Chair is a hybrid design which offers the comfort of a free-swinging chair as well as the functionality of a conventional four-legged chair. The novel structure of the support frame and the combination of advantages from both designs is a contemporary interpretation in both [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: AH Asociados, Courtyard architecture, Folding architecture, Spain, White
This house is located in an area dotted with residential buildings. Building a house that creates an isolated world for its inhabitants requires a simple but determined execution. It has been necessary to make the most of the views by making use of the elevated position of the plot to protect it from the impact [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: AH Asociados, Cladding, José Manuel Cutillas, Refurbishment / Extension, Spain
It was necessary to eliminate the divisions in order to obtain a free space on both floors: the offices and the architect’s studio. Inside this free space, the existing structure and the built elements, which have been properly repaired and painted, are visible and add a timeless characteristic which contrasts with the new elements. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Beijing, China architecture, DRDS, Exhibition, Fluid form, Museum
The project, based on an exclusive agreement with the Chinese Government and the National China Geological Society, is for a new international jewelry exhibition and cultural center located adjacent to Beijing Airport. The project, envisioned for domestic and international travelers, leverage synergies between the Chinese jewelry industry, retail and entertainment, creating a single cultural center [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: AH Asociados, Library, Refurbishment / Extension, Spain, Stair, Stone, Timber
The internal space of this monastic creation turns out to be the prime factor in the intervention since this space is recovered as a staged union of three public rooms, which allow a synthetic knowledge of the constructive process of the monastic complex. To achieve this, the original volumes are recovered by means of new [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Competition, DRDS, Fluid form, Korea, White
DRDS design for South Korea’s Land and Housing Corporation wins international competition. The project, located in Jinju South Korea, was selected among 9 teams competing for a new US320 million corporate headquarters. The vision for the project is to create a new sustainable campus with integrated green architectural design features for a new corporate headquarters [...]
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