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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Hong Kong, Netherlands, WallArt, Wallpaper
Eco friendly 3d-wallpanels made out of Sugarcane bagasse Eco 3d-wallpanels give an extra dimension to your walls! WallArt will bring your walls to life with their eco friendly 3d-wallpanels made out of the fibrous residue of sugarcane also called bagasse. This fibres of crushed sugarcane stalks, remaining after raw sugar is extracted from the juice [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: London, SHH, UK
A 13,000 sq ft new-build modernist house, located within the Highgate Conservation Area and designed by architects SHH, has now started on site, with completion due in Summer 2012. The scheme, called ‘Fitzroy Farm’, is located on a 0.45 hectare site bordering Hampstead Heath and was approved by the Camden Planning Committee without a single [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Brooks + Scarpa, Concrete, Fluid form, Timber, USA, Workplace
The design of this 4700 square foot tenant improvement evolved from the unique challenge to remodel an early 1963 Frank Gehry designed commercial structure located in the heart of downtown Santa Monica. The client is a full service post-production facility based in Chicago. They provide every aspect of the TV commercial making process, including [...]
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Category: Book Tags: Publication
CityVision magazine is pleased to share with you the Issue #5. Out now! The magazine introduces new special projects, interviews, columns and photo-issue collected during last four months. Special Project An editorial intro named Past Shock (pastshock.tumblr.com) collected quotes by important architecture protagonists to introduce the launch of New York CityVision Competition, the fourth international [...]
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Category: Design, Installation Tags: Installation, Student works, White
+ Project Abstract we wanted to create a continuous surface that would bring spatial interest and social interaction to the gallery. the woven installation is a solution to providing students and faculty a setting to not only read about our projects, but also to enjoy the space. + Project Description “white” was a gallery installation [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Germany, MenoMenoPiu Architects, Museum
The transparency makes the continuity between inside and outside, the outside comes inside and vice-versa. An eclectic conquest of the space makes the building not a barrier but a dynamic urban link, crossed by a linear flexible path across Bauhaus history. The idea of creating a new unity by the marriage of many arts and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Color architecture, Italy, Library, Random pattern
MedaTeca library| information| spare time The new cultural hub of Meda designed by Alterstudio Partners On 10th April 2012 MedaTeca opens to the public; the new library of Meda’s township designed by Alterstudio Partners, a modern cultural hub of more than 1.900 sq. m. entirely devoted to culture, information and spare time, connected with others [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic Tags: Competition, Prison, Student works
499.SUMMIT is the competition entry designed by 2 architectural students Andreas Tjeldflaat & Gregory Knobloch. Our prison system has failed to see advancements throughout the past century and desperately requires innovation and re-imagination. While recent literature begins to question the sociological status of prisons, there has be little exploration of the physical apparatus in which inmates [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Fluid form, Krill architecture, Landscape architecture, Norway, Religious architecture
An Open Ring in the Woods In commissioning the competition, the church of Våler chose for a seldomly witnessed step in church history, one that always comes with interesting results. Tapping on a source of collective creativity in modern architecture offers the chance to bring the development of church architecture to a new level. A [...]
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Category: Design, Technology Tags: Korea
Korean designer Kim Jun Pyo has designed the patrol unit “NR-02” for police department. NR-02 is concept patrol robot unit for police department based on UCAS -Unmanned Combat Air System-. Autonomous flight through A.I and GPS and navigation equipment, flight by radio controlled in limited range. To quick realizing of situation and prompt response, realization [...]
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Category: Installation, Lighting Tags: Italy, Lighting concept, Massimo Iosa Ghini, Milan, Milan Design Week, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012
State University of Milan 16-28 April 2012 Installation QUATTRO PUNTI PER UNA TORRE Project by MASSIMO IOSA GHINI Partner FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti In collaboration with IGUZZINI, TECNOVISION, FARAONE CONCEPT The monolith, the stone, the tower, ancestral typologies. The continuous surface, the leather has no perimeter, each junction is a cost and a loss [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, Netherlands
The 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: Making City is only a few weeks away. Opening on 20 April 2012, the 5th IABR: Making City explores the making of tomorrow’s city and the new alliances between designers, politicians and other stakeholders. Making City includes exhibitions at various venues across Rotterdam, Almere, Sao Paulo and Istanbul, a [...]
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