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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, New York, Stair, Stelle architects, Swimming pool, USA, USA architecture, White
The house is sited on a bluff overlooking the bay within a grove of cedar and locust trees. Discrete volumes of varying public and private functions are organized around an axial promenade, extending to the outdoors. Single story volumes, separated by glass interstitial spaces, were utilized to lessen the overall impact of the structures while [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, Norway, Perforated, Religious architecture, Visiondivision
Spire is Visiondivision‘s competition entry for a new church in the small town of Våler, Norway. The church in the small town of Våler in Norway burned down and a competition was held to build a new one. We joined the competition with the following entry. It is in the rural church that the people [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Romania, Square ONE
In most of the interior refitting cases of a top floor apartment, the starting point is a compartmentalized space, and the result – an open space. However, in this case, the starting point was a penthouse with interior elevator, divided only by glass panels and curtains, obtaining two distinct apartments with shared exterior access to [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Timber
Situated in a residential area in Château d’Oex, this new building was thought as a replacement for the former house whose size and outer layer failed to meet present day standards for a family home. The structure of this new building is made of poles and beams as a reference to the local traditional chalet. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: AH Asociados
The type of language adopted for the carrying out of work on this project aims to be a means capable of unifying criteria which are at times so difficult to harmonise, such as aesthetics, town planning, and conceptual and constructive ideas. A certain type of manufacturing based language, with an austerity of volume, with some [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: AH Asociados, José Manuel Cutillas, Pavilion, Public square
The current urban area of the Carlos III and Roncesvalles avenues were designed for the flow of vehicular traffic. It is a strongly directional area, isotropic along its axes, whose job it is to deliver the greatest amount of traffic flow with the minimum of fuss, where the only difficulties presented along the length of [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Color, Display design, Italy
Italian studio Metroarea has designed Illyteca in Illy home city Trieste, a prototype of a new colorful series of shop to be built worldwide. It is designed to unify in a single shop the five brands owned by Illy: Illy coffee, Domori chocolate, Dammann Freres tea, Agrimontana jam and bakery products, Mastrojanni wine. Each of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: ECDM, France, Perforated
Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) has designed the new office building Lot 4 – Gentilly. + Project facts Program: office building Owner: SODEARIF Architect: ECDM Location: Gentilly (94) Area: 5250 sq.m. Cost: 10.8 M € Contest: 2011 + All images and drawings courtesy ECDM
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Brick, HILBERINKBOSCH, Netherlands, Stair, Wood
Due to the demolition of several old sheds a unique plot became vacant in Oud-Empel. Oud-Empel is a small village situated along side embankment of the river Maas. The dike divides the village in two parts: the unsafe waterfront where the smaller labourers cottages are situated and a protected side with the large farms and [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern Chair, Modern table, Poland, WAMHOUSE
Polish design studio WAMHOUSE recently has created the Table and chair “rajtuzy“.
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: FG+SG, GEZA, Landscape architecture, Workplace
In Fagagna, a town in the province of Udine, in Northern Italy, the new headquarters and production complex for Pratic by GEZA architects Stefano Gri and Piero Zucchi has been recently inaugurated. The building demonstrates architecture’s ability to reinterpret the notion of landscape as well as to redefine the quality of industrial space. The inauguration [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Bora CAKILKAYA, Modern Chair
Designer Bora ÇAKILKAYA designed the Multi-function chair for grandmothers. Many of our grandmothers pass their time in their homes with knitting and sewing works. At least, this was the situation in my environment. I wanted to design such a product that will simplify this works of our grandmothers and that will give them the feeling that [...]
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