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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Dong sung Jung, Korea, Modern Chair
A South-Korean student designer Dong sung, Jung has created ‘SIN-sa‘ Chair. Design of the ‘sin-sa’ chair is motivative UK gentleman. Be according to refined image for ‘gentleman’, and then made high-quality, funny. Besides, for the sake of object to productive, and application of ergonomic design, used to walnut. + Designer: Dong sung, Jung | www.jungdongsung.com
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Category: Events/News
We have been using Flipboard since the 1st generation of iPad. It is the great application that allow us to gather all the favored website via feed. The application recently expands to support Android phones especially for Samsung Galaxy SIII (available on Google play). Today, when we updated the Flipboard app in our ipad and Android [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Glass, Goettsch partners
MB Real Estate is pleased to announce the completion of the new approximately $150 million, 446,000 square foot Headquarters for the Americas facility for Astellas Pharma US, Inc.in Northbrook, Illinois. GlenStar Properties, LLC was the developer of the project and MB Real Estate was the overall project manager. Andrew Davidson executive vice president and managing [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic Tags: Norway, Space Group, Waterfront architecture
BUILDING a new headquarter for Luftfartstilsynet is a challenge in creating a place for an uprooted organization, transplanted from Oslo to Bodø, and in doing so, BUILDING a new office CULTURE. The site, a compact waterfront property, is hidden from its street address by the recently completed NAV building. Exploiting the one story difference between [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Interior Tags: Glass, LEED, Lobby, Swimming pool, USA architecture
The City of Dallas, Matthews Southwest and Omni Hotels & Resorts appointed a team of leading experts in sustainability and green buildings to create a luxury convention center hotel for Dallas, designed with innovative features and constructed in a process to meet the highest industry certification standards possible. The fine work of the entire team [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use Tags: Albania, Green architecture
The building occupies a strategic position, at the entry of Tirana (Albania), on the principal major route towards airport. A big terrace – garden, for the exclusive use of the residents, occupies the upper limit of the basement body while other two volumes composes the portal that defines the general conformation. The first penthouse houses [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Interior, Selected Tags: Austria, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Random pattern, Religious architecture, x architekten
Austria-based architectural firm x architekten designed the OASE located in Linz, Upper Austria. Task: The temporary centre of pastoral care in the diocese of Linz, located on the steel company voestalpine’s site, was built decades ago and had to be pulled down due to its poor condition. The new building is designed to create good [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Arup, Design video, Lighting concept, Netherlands
Fireworks above the Amsterdam motorway Love in the City introduces Aphrodite of Amsterdam, a piece of art by Leonard van Munster in the public space. The declaration of love on the rooftop of a building will be visible for the next few years. Overlooking the city’s A10 ring road, the 10m high LED-installation simulates fireworks [...]
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Category: Interior, Selected Tags: Bar Lounge, Color, Stair, Söhne & Partner Architekten
The main challenge at Albertina Passage was to recreate an abandoned pedestrian underpass at the very center of Vienna into a modern dinner club for up to 300 persons. Our target was to design a club that is suitable for an elegant dinner as well as for a big party night. Hence, the design includes [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic, Sport Tags: City hall, France, Glass, LAN Architecture, Random pattern
In the Île-de-France region, the new gymnasium at Chelles is an exceptional example of a public building with a strong architectural identity. The town council’s aim was that this local amenity should play a key role in the harmonious redefinition of the urban landscape. Located in the town centre, the project enhances the surrounding architectural [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic Tags: Courtyard architecture, France, LAN Architecture, Law courts
The major highlight of the Saint-Malo Courthouse project is certainly the opportunity to actively participate to an urban renewal condition in which the downtown is moved from the port to the new pole, following a grid in which Avenue Aristide Briand performs as the main axis. The organization of the new Courthouse demonstrates an example [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand
Alumni Green, the most significant outdoor space on the UTS City Campus, will be transformed into a vibrant, tree-lined city space in the latest design to be unveiled under its City Campus Master Plan. The proposal by ASPECT Studios won the design competition recently held by the university. Inspired by some of the world’s great [...]
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