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Category: Architecture Tags: Architectural video, Future Cities Lab, USA, Waterfront architecture
Future Cities Lab recently completed speculative interactive proposal: HYDRAMAX. The drawings and interactive model are currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as part of their ‘Utopian Impulse’ show. HYDRAMAX proposes a radical rethinking of the relationship of San Francisco to its waterfront post sea-level rise as a machinic, biotic and productive [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Lattice screen, Refurbishment / Extension, Spark, Thailand, Workplace
Fai-Fah, which means “light energy”, is a corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme initiated in April 2010 by TMB Bank. The programme acts as a catalyst for change in Thai society through working with underprivileged children and teenagers in their community using the arts as a vehicle for self-development and creative thinking. In October 2010, Spark [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: Cladding, Folding architecture, Malaysia, Shopping complex, Spark
Starhill Gallery is perhaps Kuala Lumpur’s most iconic shopping mall, featuring an extraordinary array of luxury shops and fine dining restaurants. Spark’s design proposal dealt with the reinvention of the existing façade of Starhill Gallery facing Bukit Bintang. This reinvention of Starhill Gallery is designed by Stephen Pimbley, founding director of Spark and the architect [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Area Declic, Events/News, Milan, Modern Chair, Modern Lounge Chair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012
This year, Area Declic will present these collections for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012 during 17-22 April 2012 in Pavilion 12, Stand C16. California, design Mino Bressan / Thesia Progetti Relax: with this spirit was born the series CALIFORNIA, a Chaise longue for sitting around a pool, indoor or outdoor, in a garden or [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: mode:lina, Oriented strand board, Poland, Workplace
mode:lina architekci became a part of CoOffice in a refurbished Old Printing House now called Concordia Design. mode:lina‘s designers need both open space for the joint meeting and discussions, as well as smaller, separate areas for focusing on individual work. Thanks to the large amount of room, all workstations are enclosed in a wooden box [...]
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Category: Design, Installation Tags: Installation, Japan, New York, Rice Gallery, USA
YASUAKI ONISHI reverse of volume RG 13 APRIL – 24 JUNE 2012 OPENING CELEBRATION Friday, 13 April 5:00 – 7:00 pm Talk by Yasuaki Onishi at 6:00 pm GALLERY TALK AND REFRESHMENTS Saturday, 14 April 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Talk by Yasuaki Onishi at 12:00 pm NEW ART/NEW MUSIC: CASTING THE INVISIBLE Saturday, 14 [...]
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Category: Automotive, Design Tags: Events/News, New York
During the New York International Auto Show, MINI USA has company news and North American vehicle debuts worth checking out this week. Below is a short summary of the news MINI is announcing and the vehicles that will be featured: MINI John Cooper Works Countryman will make its North American debut at the New York [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Childcare center, Color architecture, illiz architektur, Kindergarten, MAGK, Random pattern, White
An influx and increasing birth rate in the community situated to the south of Vienna called for the creation of more, particularly state-of-the-art child care facilities. Therefore a competition tender submission for a new child care centre was issued in 2008. The existing 19th century ‘Gründerzeit’ school was to be extended by eight primary school [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Austria, Cladding, Franz Architekten, Random pattern, Reflective pool, School
one (school) for all Central and still removed from the heavy traffic of the federal highway one can find the most important public institutions of Deutsch-Wagram lined up along a footpath: city administration, kindergarten, primary and secondary schools. In order to enable school education up to university entrance qualification, the municipal council decided the erection [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: aceboXalonso, Angel Acebo & Victoria Alonso, Architectural video, Lighting concept, Museum
Shared by animation studio 24studio, this is their latest audio-visual production of the project National Museum of Science and Technology in La Coruña for architects Angel Acebo & Victoria Alonso. + Project facts Nacional Museum of Science and Technology La Coruña. Spain Client: FECYT (FUNDACION ESPAÑOLA DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA) Architects: Angel Acebo & Victoria [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Barreca & La Varra, Cladding, Glass, Italy, Milan, Random pattern
In the north-eastern outskirts of Milan, as part of the restructuring of the former industrial core that houses the RCS Mediagroup, the new office building B5 designed by Barreca & La Varra studio has just been completed. The building is an integral part of a master plan intended for research and intellectual work and contributes [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Events/News, Italy, Milan, Modern Chair, Modern furniture, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012
Salone Del Mobile, Milan Pavilion 12 stand E14 17- 22 April, 2012 Conceived as an island of comfort from simple organic forms the bed “Dot” is made by the producer Esedra and designed by Leonardo Rossano. Various artisans handcrafted each piece, which is an expression of Italian “know how”, to realize the bed. The simplicity [...]
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