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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Cladding, Color architecture, Concert Hall, Concrete, Cultural center, Refurbishment / Extension, Skin, Tetrarc
On the “île de Nantes”, La Fabrique takes place on one side of the previous Dubigeon warehouse, near the Alstom warehouse ( the upcoming centre of the “Quartier de la Création”) and the old shipyard turned to great gardens. This context gave Tétrarc the opportunity to gather the recalls of a place abandoned by History [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Ka-Lai Chan, Milan, Modern bookcase, Random pattern, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012, White
Last year, we introduced Ka-Lai Chan‘s SheLLf which was presented at Object Rotterdam 2011. Further to this, she is going to show the sheLLf limited edition AND sheLLf standard edition for KRISTALIA during the upcoming International Furniture fair in Milan. This bookcase creates a sensation of movement, as it captures the eye with its dynamic [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Industrial Tags: Color, Holder, Kayiwa, modern bench
Lincoln Kayiwa has recently created the DOM•I•NO & FAITH Candle Holders + JOKI Bench. DOM•I•NO Candle Holder Inspired by dominos, the minimalist tealight candle holders may be arranged and/or used as many as one pleases. The classic model’s black groove not only holds the burnt out matchstick, but it also conceals its burn marks. The [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: ICFF 2012, Modular design, molo, New York
molo will be exhibiting in New York at ICFF! May 19 – 22, 2012 Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen, co-founders of the Canadian multidisciplinary design studio molo, announced that along with American sound artist Ethan Rose, they have created experimental prototypes that have the ability to turn their award winning paper softblock room dividers into [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Glass, Modern table, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012, Tokujin Yoshioka
In 2012, “LUMINOUS” will be presented at GLAS ITALIA in Milan Salone del Mobile 2012. GLAS ITALIA is an Italian manufacturer of glass furniture who has a long history and tradition, and it is a first collaboration between GLAS ITALIA and Tokujin Yoshioka. “LUMINOUS” is the transparent glass table completed by the solid glass structure. [...]
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Category: Events/News, Interior Tags: Portugal, Spaceworkers, White
Reinventing the space that time stole was our task this time. The history of intervention is simple. A house, safe haven for a family of four elements, no longer has the space needed for their everyday experiences. The old subdivision of “social area” of the house, where reigned the space static and mono-functional, has now [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Ake E.son Lindman, Auditorium, Cladding, Concert Hall, Concrete, Fluid form, Performing Arts Center, Random pattern, Sweden, Wingardh arkitektkontor
Spira has four different performing arts venues: a main concert hall that seats 910, a 450-seat theater, a 200-seat black box, and a 200-seat café stage. The building is situated on an artificial peninsula jutting out into Lake Munksjön, right in the center of downtown Jönköping. The layout follows from a foyer that opens to [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Poland, WAMHOUSE
Poland-based design studio WAMHOUSE recently has created the new wall unit “WAFELEK”.
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: BIG, Canada, Courtyard architecture, Random pattern, Skyscrapers
The 490-foot-tall Beach and Howe mixed-use tower by BIG + Westbank + Dialog + Cobalt + PFS + Buro Happold + Glotman Simpson and local architect James Cheng marks the entry point to downtown Vancouver, forming a welcoming gateway to the city, while adding another unique structure to the Vancouver skyline. BIG’s proposal, named after [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern Chair
Missix by Di Marzio Design_Where opposites attract – even in design: Missix is a small armchair made of rotational moulded polythene and featuring a fully modern and clean design. And yet its soul looks back at the mysterious Minoan spirals from Santorini. Missix’s name comes from its unique heavy-rounded, number six shape. This small armchair [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Concert Hall, Goettsch partners, Music center, USA architecture
GOETTSCH PARTNERS DESIGNS NEW MUSIC BUILDING FOR NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Groundbreaking for new home of Bienen School of Music to be held in May Architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) has designed the signature building that will be the new home of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and provide additional space for the School of Communication [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: Fluid form, New York, USA architecture
Recent news coverage for the 7-acre parcel, Manhattan’s biggest undeveloped, publicly owned development site south of 96th Street, has provided the chance to contemplate many important urban issues. Firstly, are we taking full advantage of this great opportunity to develop a vast land in the heart of Manhattan, or just limiting our imagination under current [...]
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