Thomas Heatherwick: Making is the first comprehensive monograph on one of the world’s most innovative designers. Only two decades into his career, Briton Thomas Heatherwick has been heralded as one of the most original creative talents in years. His retrospective solo exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum runs from May 31 – September 30 [...]
Austria-based architectural firm x architekten recently has completed PARKPRAXIS, which is a country doctor’s practice with in-house pharmacy located in Austria. Task Dr. Fehrmann decided to build her new practice in the centre of the lower Austrian community of Kasten. The community’s centre consists of buildings which surround a green park on three sides. On its [...]
Hong Kong-based OneByNine studio recently has completed the interior design project in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, where space is at a premium, the OnebyNine studio architects took on the challenging brief to help design a limited 32 square meter apartment. Lukasz Wawrzenczyk and Ewa Koter; architects originally from Poland but now working in Hong [...]
“Bambooline berlin” by Peter Ruge Architekten is a sustainable development strategy for Berlin, it is exhibited and supported by the GALLERY DEN. Brief The bambooline berlin explores the cities urban development and proposes a new approach for the temporary, interim use of sustainable urban wasteland. A new, imaginary band complements the historically developed lines of [...]
Iosa Ghini shared with us their latest installation “QUATTRO PUNTI PER UNA TORRE” for FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti. + Click here to check it out the full story about the project which was featured on +MOOD 2 months ago. We have a way of designing and making things that comes from thousands of years [...]
HBA / Hirsch Bedner Associates recently has completed the interior project for Kempinski Ambience Hotel. Just East of New Delhi, India and opening in July 2012, the Kempinski Ambience is located in the largest convention center in Northern India and will feature 480 luxury hotel rooms, five restaurants, two pools and a state of the [...]
invisiblegentleman shared with us their latest photography project of 4° n’ajuda, it is a refurbishment project designed by atelierBASE. + Project statement This project is very special to us. First, because the client is special – enjoys architecture, understands our proposals and modifications, and above all, is enthusiastic with the project as much as we [...]
Ubicuo Diseño + Deriva Colectivo proposed the Architecture Pavilion for the competition of Arhitekton magazine. + Project statement Our intention was to forget about formal aspects of the skin of the pavilion, we were interested more in what could happen inside of that relatively small container (12.0 x 3.60 x 4.0 mts), in their surroundings [...]
Japanese architect Naoko Horibe recently has completed the House in Kyobate, Japan. This home for a family with young children centers around a Japanese-style mezzanine with tatami flooring. Extending out into the first floor living/dining/kitchen area, and with a view of both that room and the second floor children’s rooms, the mezzanine serves to link [...]
OOIIO Architecture recently has designed the Female Prison in Iceland. How to build a prison that doesn’t look like a prison? For designing this project we decided to start asking to people that lives and work on real prisons. That was the first step on the design process!. And we end up with the conclusion [...]
American design studio NunoErin recently has launched the new Interactive Light Products line at NeoCon 2012 this week in Chicago. An imaginative collection of furniture that offers unforgettable sensory experiences. Each piece from this line features unique interactive light behaviors that respond to the electrical field within the human body. When softly touched , the [...]
SNITT is a cross disciplinary collaboration between architects, product-, furniture-, industrial, graphic- and stage/set- designers. The initial brief for the project was to design an installation that could be utilized in areas accessible by the public, where people are either passing through or in need of a quiet area to sit down and take a [...]
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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 [...]
