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Category: Interior Tags: France, Refurbishment / Extension, Stair, White
Located by the beaches of the Prado in Marseilles, this former smallholding flanked by a stable was renovated in three steps. At the very end of the nineties, the young family setting up on the first floor gladly agreed to the two children sharing the same room for a time. The volume is then entirely [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: aceboXalonso, Concrete, Glass, Museum, Spain
This building is the result of a first prize in an open international competition in order to develop two different buildings on one plot. Mixing both programs into a single shape we obtained an strange concrete tree-like shape that contains in its interior the Dance School, and the surrounding space becomes a Museum. Later, this [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Concrete, Division1, Refurbishment / Extension, Stair, USA architecture, White
Division1 has recently completed a new residential project in Dupont Circle. It is the first residential project in DC to have been issued a permit for gray water. The project also incorporates rain water system, radiant flooring, solar panels and Geo-thermal. This early 20th century row home located in the historic Dupont Circle neighborhood was [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: USA, Wall light
Poalo Franzin designed Alpha & Beta lighting collection for FDV. The Alpha and Beta lights are now available in the North American market. Alpha This retro-shaped wall sconce is available in two sizes and features a unique glass diffuser that adds an interesting design element to any setting – even when not illuminated. It is [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Margot Krasojevic, Pendant light
This 3d printed light acts as a vertical axis wind turbine. The form of the light uses the properties of aerodynamics to behave like a wind propeller, in principal the design is inspired by the Ropatec wind rotor. The ceramic body of the light is attached to a vertical axis which turns a diode rotor [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Milan, modern bench, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012
Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milano 17-22 April 2012 Hall 7, Stand L15+M18 TOTEM is a project born from the collaboration of young designers Davide Bonanni with Accademia, a leading Italian design company producing high quality furniture. A collection of poufs that surprise both for functionality, both for aesthetic adopted: a perfect combination of sophisticated formal [...]
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Category: Automotive, Design, Industrial Tags: Milan, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012
During the Salone del Mobile 2012, MINI presents a probing, thought-provoking and inspiring concept created by the Dutch design duo. Munich/Milan. On the occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2012, MINI presents the installation COLOUR ONE for MINI by Scholten & Baijings. This work by the internationally renowned Dutch design duo explores the design of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: ACXT, ESD design, Green architecture, Lattice screen, Spain, Workplace
The building has an activated load-bearing structure that takes part in the HVAC of the building, a system used in Spain for the first time. The inauguration of the new IDOM corporate office in Madrid took place last Friday 13th of April. Over 900 guests attended the event, including clients, collaborators, top institutional heads and [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: ARCHIT3CTUM, Lobby, Modular design
As a main idea, think of the term “Modular Origami” and starting from there we set through the folds and shapes compose a tessellation of changing hues to serve as housing. Coating was raised a composite panel walls, worked with a fold diagonally to form a composition with pvc stretched ceiling and accent lighting. Composed [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry, Interior Tags: ACXT, Folding architecture, Spain, Workplace
Scheme and Conditioning Factors A complex of 3 buildings and landscaping destined for R&D+i in the Automotive Sector. Two of the buildings are intended for use as Development Units (halls) with laboratories and small-scale production. The third, the Main Building, houses research units of various companies in the automotive sector, a laboratory (for common projects [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, London, Norway, Reiulf Ramstad Architects, RIBA
RRA AT RIBA IN LONDON EXHIBITION OPENING APRIL 17TH – TILL JUNE 15TH 2012 (UK) Reiulf Ramstad Architects and Jensen Skodvin Architects will show separate exhibitions at RIBA, The Royal Institute of British Architects in London april-june 2012. Contemporary Norwegian Architecture Exhibition– “Landscape and Intervention” explores the work over the last 10 years, notably buildings [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Glass, Lattice screen, Tetrarc, Timber
Tétrarc proposal for those 39 social housing shapes as 11 “Houses” gathered side by side. The resultant continuous volume describes a light 21 degrees inflexion on its half, creating two distinct households. As the first one contains 6 rental houses, the second one is dedicated to the 5 sold houses. In order to optimize the [...]
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