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Category: Events/News Tags: A' Design Award and Competition, Call for entries, Competition
Every year, A’ Design Award and Competitions aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best designs, design concepts and design oriented products & services. Mission Provide a fair, ethical and competitive platform for companies, designers and innovators form all the fields with different experience levels, different disciplines and market focus to compete on, while providing [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Cladding, Concrete, Germany, Peter Ruge Architekten, Stair
The site lies upon a hill in a beautiful small village in the district Potsdam-Mittelmark in a fantastic scenic situation with breathtaking views over the nearby lake. The surroundings are dominated by a combination of historical and modern mansions. As many of the old large trees on the site should be kept as possible. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Cladding
The new logistics centre, located on the E45 motorway at Haderslev, supplies all of the clothing company Bestseller’s boutiques, right across Europe. The idea was to create an industrial building that would go beyond the typical standardised solutions for logistic facilities, and create a building with a striking sculptural identity that would add an experiential [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Installation Tags: Cladding, Pavilion, Perforated, Tonic Design
The pavilion is an outdoor classroom and component of the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Sculpture Park. The structure is wrapped in varying widths of horizontal, perforated metal bands, which offer experiences that change with the seasons, the light, and the vantage point of the viewer The pavilion’s metallic “skin” reflects its natural surroundings by [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Tonic Design, USA architecture
The modern 3500-square-foot house was designed and built for art collectors John and Molly Chiles. It was constructed on the bones of an old modern, steel-framed and wood-paneled house overlooking Crabtree Creek in Raleigh, NC, that was abandoned in the 1960s.The original house was in terrible shape: Its wood walls and floors, camouflaged by kudzu [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: China, Club, Crox, Fluid form, Timber
A lake of pleasure in a cup of tea One Taste Holistic Health Club, located in this piece of heaven on earth between Hangzhou city’s Chenghuang Temple and the West Lake, is China’s first club that focuses on the healing of our minds. Caring for the society’s wellbeing, One Taste wishes for the development of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Courtyard architecture, Folding architecture, Library, MenoMenoPiu Architects
Daegu Gosan Public Library will be one of the new symbols of the Daegu Metropolitan City’s new policy direction. The aim of the city management, as well as the goal of our project, is to create small community for local users. The idea of a project on a diagonal axe comes from the concept of [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Christian Richters, Fluid form, Iwan Baan, Landscape architecture, UNStudio, White
UNStudio recently has completed the Haus am Weinberg. The house is located in a setting that is at one time rural, yet suburban. The location of the villa affords pastoral views of the stepped terraces of an ancient hillside vineyard on one side and cityscape vistas on the other. The inner circulation, organisation of the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Design, Events/News, Selected Tags: A' Design Award and Competition, Architecture Award, Design Award
A’ Design Award & Competition aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best design every year, here are the selected 10 award winning designs that we like. …… [ripple] Club House by Kris Lin This is a high-end club is located in Chengdu, China. The overall style is a new style of Orientalism based on [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Fluid form, Iconic architecture, OODA, Skyscrapers
In Sao Paulo, OODA were invited to design an iconic high-rise with 40 stories. The challenge was to merge in just one whole both tourist apartments and luxury residences with plenty of common spaces, gardens and sightseeings. + Project facts Piratininga Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2012 Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Lencastre, Duarte [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: AS Design, China, Display design, Hong Kong
The “kingliness” is what men have been pursuing: Virile, Self confidence, Capability, steady, and Dignity; the ism can be explained by these characteristics. Designer Four Lau and Sam Sum based on “male traits” as the design concept of this top fashion men’s underwear brand shop. They endeavored to inject humanity into interior architecture, searched for [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, Matteo Cainer architects, Museum
The construction of the Afghan museum celebrates the richness of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage and the spirit of its peoples. In a nation devastated by war, the wealth of its cultural background and the spirit of its peoples are embodied here. In spite of the years of conflict and turmoil, the underlying strengths of the country [...]
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