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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Art Gallery, Japanese architecture, Naoko Horibe
Naoko Horibe recently has completed Galerie Ashiya Schule. Galerie Ashiya Schule manages and promotes contemporary artists. Because the lot is located on a corner facing a relatively lively street, the client requested an elegant exterior design that would symbolically represent the gallery. The oversized wooden doors fulfill this symbolic role, drawing visitors into a world [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: mode:lina, poznan
Pracownia Architektoniczna POZNAN_PROJEKT in collaboration with mode:lina architekci have designed the main entrance to the Voivodeship Police Headquarters in Poznan – situated in a building, which is a part of historic urban structure. The aim of this renovation was to adjust entrance for disabled users as well as set a new standard for Police interiors. [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Color, Turkey, Workplace
The new office of “E-bay – Gitti Gidiyor” which is one of the most important players of e-trade in global and local markets is located in O.S.O Mimarlik’s Office Building in Istanbul Atasehir. The office is positioned on one floor of 2000m² with a ceiling height of 530cm. In line with the global trend of change [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Albania, Bar Lounge
A spirit of color In the centre of Tirana, in the characteristic district of “Tirana e Re”, we come across a coffee-bar with a unique style: “Mon Cheri urban life”, the second one of the “Mon Cheri” chain. Located in a characteristic neighborhood of Tirana, it has already been used as coffee before being totally [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Bathroom, Christian Harrup
The principles behind the design were forged from consolidating the functions of a shower within a simple easily recognisable profile that reworks our perception of what a shower should look like. There are two main functions that are behind Aqueous, a shower head and retractable shower unit concealed within one seemingly static sculptural form. Rotating [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: Cyprus, Landscape architecture
The existing villa is typical of the real estate boom in Cyprus. The main goal was its upgrade and the addition of some external floor space, essential for the Mediterranean climate. A new platform was constructed at the main level of the house, projecting as much as possible over the cliff in order to offer [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Tonic Design, USA architecture
American architectural firm Tonic Design recently has won Matsumoto Prize for Modernist Residential Design. + All images and drawings courtesy Tonic Design
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Pendant light
This Aki light by Studio Dreimann for ITRE is an open structure made of CNC milled wood with six built-in LED strips. It is also available in a white or grey enameled finish.
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Category: Landscape
Fort Werk aan ‘t Spoel Fort “Werk aan ‘t Spoel” is a national monument dating from 1794. Part of the New Dutch Waterline – a military defense line making use of intentional flooding – it served to protect one of the inundation locks. The municipality of Culemborg and Foundation Werk aan ‘t Spoel would like [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Club, Competition, Folding architecture, Waterfront architecture
This design was fora new clubhouse at Ullswater Yacht club, it was a design competition run by the RIBA. The concept reflects the calmness and fluidity of the lake in its shape, in particular in its cross section, suggesting a strong reference to the curve of a boat or yacht’s hull. Modern boat construction methods [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Australia NewZealand, Marcus O'Reilly archtiects
Marcus O’Reilly Architects, a St. Kilda based practice, is proud to announce that their project 19 Ruskin Street, Elwood is the recent winner of both “Best New Development 1-5 storeys” and “Best Sustainable Development” in the Annual City of Port Phillip Design and Development Awards. This 5 unit medium-density housing development been designed to contribute [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern sofa
DIZAJNO has launched the CIRRUS, FLORA, IRIS & ZEBRA. The primary idea was light. Light consisting of colors. The colours in the everyday people’s life. The contrast of comfort and discomfort. The sun and the rain. That’s what all of us experience … Lubo Majer, designer Upholstered chairs are possible to combine and create larger sofa. Traditional upholstery composition [...]
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