The design for this music school is based upon the creation of two hermetic chambers to house rehearsals inside a large space in a historic building located in Nova Prata, Brazil. The configuration of such boxes turns the residual space into two ambients that, even though are continuous, configure different spaces for different activities. The [...]
BIG wins the competition to revitalize the city center of the third largest city in Finland. The invited design contest calls for a strong architectural master plan, comprising residential, commercial and cultural programme, forming a new urban area around the existing Ratina sports stadium in one of the most rapidly developing regions in Finland. BIG is [...]
Designed by Dima Loginoff, this collections (Not too late sofa, Diamond Lounge, Kisses sofa, and Confusion sofa) will be presented on Florence Design Week in Lungarno Collection by Salvatore Ferragamo. One of the sofa – four meter long Diamond Lounge will decorate one of the most exceptional and luxury hotel in Florence – Gallery Hotel Art [...]
In Reykjavik, Iceland capital they wanted to build a big new hotel in Ingolfstorg, a public existing plaza in Kvosin, the city historical center, very close to the Iceland Parliament. The program was asking for a way too big building that couldn’t work well with the existing city pattern. There are no big buildings on [...]
Nomad Office Architects have recently completed a public art design project named Space Time Continuum for Hong Kong Cycling Park Public Art Competition. The design is regarded as an integration of land art and light sculpture at night. Instead of a frozen sculpture, it is rather temporal and phenomenal to explore the concept of ‘Time’ [...]
Esrawe Studio has recently created this MiTOTEM Bookshelf. Visually light but structurally strong; the piece’s expressiveness comes from the supporting elements that play with tension and compression. The metal frame is topped with wooden surfaces that have different designs, which in turn are reflected in the mirrored surfaces. + Facts Design: Esrawe Studio Material: Powder [...]
Seoul-based Monocomplex design studio recently has created the ‘After Image’ Floor Lamp. ‘After Image’ was inspired from the scene of mouse fire play (‘Jui-bool-no-ri’ in Korean languege which is one of Korea’s traditional customs. It expressed the fast afterimage of the fire as the natural curve by using wires, and steel pipes which were combined [...]
Elegance and conviviality merge under The Arch in Mandal, Norway Historic white wooden houses, charming narrow streets, a river running though the center and beach and forest nearby. The town of Mandal is the essence of southern Norwegian idyll. Danish practice, 3XN, has designed the town’s new cultural center, a project which required great sensitivity [...]
BIG’s residential towers in the Yongsan International Business District revitalize the Han riverfront into a new commercial and residential center for the citizens of Seoul. Situated at the south-east edge of the Yongsan master plan designed by Studio Liebeskind for the Korean development group Dreamhub, BIG’s Cross # Towers will contribute to the developing skyline [...]
At the Milan Design Week 2012, the brand Enzyma develops table theme, which was absent from the collection, offering a model with a high emotional impact. Fuckiro, designed by Gianluca Sgalippa, is a table of small size and simple shapes. Shocking, however, is its contribution decorative. It belongs to the type of “side table” or [...]
UNStudio and EE&K a Perkins Eastman company, and Jacobs Engineering have submitted a proposal for a scope of work to develop a Master Plan of Los Angeles Union Station. Ben van Berkel of UNStudio, along with Jonathan Cohn of EE&K, presented their ‘Vision Board’ – a conceptual rendering in the year 2050, showing Los Angeles [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
