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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Malaysia, Shopping complex, Spark, White
Ikon Connaught is located at the heart of Cheras where the metropolis of Kuala Lumpur begins to merge with the lush green hills of Kajang and Ampang. Ikon seeks to create a lifestyle destination on an intimate neighborhood scale with the level of quality, impact and vibrancy of a city centre destination. In addition to [...]
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Category: Design Tags: 3form, Lattice screen, New York
3form has recently created the Varia Ecoresin Collection. Starcrossed Introduce a geometric aesthetic to your space with an embroidered interlayer pattern available in three colorways. Like a collection of constellations, Starcrossed gives the striking appearance of stars in the sky, joined by a series of intersecting straight lines – the result is mesmerizing. This new [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Car Park, Perforated, Random pattern, Tim Griffith, USA, USA architecture, WRNS
In San Francisco, WRNS Studio has recently completed a new 10-story parking structure for the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Medical Center. The UCSF Medical Center parking structure is a 10-story, 627-vehicle capacity garage located on the western edge of the new UCSF Mission Bay Medical Center site. Designed for hospital visitors, the parking structure [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: OODA, Portugal
In Benguela, the second large metropolis of Angola, on the scope of the new masterplan in development, OODA designed a 26 story high building for different types of housing units in just one piece. + Project facts BENGUELA 88 Benguela, Angola Team: Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Francisco Lencastre, Duarte Fontes, Francisca Santos Type: Proposal Client: [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Kitchen appliances
The most important thing you can do to prepare your home for all the friends, family, presents, food and general festivities that come as part and parcel of Christmas is to make space for them! If you are looking to revamp your home, here are some top tips to help you let the seasonal cheer [...]
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Category: Design, Technology Tags: Creative design, Germany, Simon Michel
German designer Simon Michel designed the “Awake”. When we think of clock radio then most people think of a plastic box with buttons and an LC display. In times of Full HD Smartphone displays that are filled with colorful apps, the incentive to buy a classic digital alarm clock is becoming increasingly smaller. The designer [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: UK
A new 5,000 sq ft beachside home in Poole, Dorset is being offered by Savills, presented in a contemporary style with luxury guest facilities and a carefully engineered design aimed at waterfront living. The home also features direct access to the beach and a 40ft mooring. At a glance The house comprises: Ground floor: reception [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Color, Creative design, J Schatz
J Schatz introduces mordern tube bird feeder – Hang out with the birds at the Bistro Bird Feeder – a lunch spot for birds. Designed for those who want a modern, colorful, and gorgeous tube bird feeder that will attract birds and looks beautiful in the backyard, terrace or patio. Easy to use, durable, squirrel [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Events/News Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Events/News
The Riverside, a higher educational building designed by KKE Architects for the University of Worcester, has won the Higher Education Building category of the AJ Retrofit Awards 2012. The awards, created by the Architects’ Journal (‘the voice of architecture in Britain’), recognise the vision of clients and the skill of architects in re-purposing existing buildings [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Creative design, Germany, Simon Michel
German designer Simon Michel shows in his design concept how functional a cake pan can be. His design concept “Flexy” can individually be deformed. This makes it possible to back small and large cakes in the same cake pan. The Problem Baking a cake for some one is very personally. But the shape of cakes [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: AC-CA, Competition, Events/News
This is a brief introduction of our next Competition [PACIFIC 06]. The aim of this International Competition is to design a New Prison afloat the Pacific Ocean, using an oil Platform as a reference structure. The imprisonment of people is probably one of the bigger taboo within our modern society. A Prison is a place in [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Residential Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Wood
Kazuya Saito Architects recently has completed the House YAGIYAMA. + Architect’s statement by Kazuya Saito Architects This one-story house is for an old couple will spend their rest of life after retirements. The house is located in Yagiyama hilly district which lies south of a Hirosegawa river terrace. It it a historical residential area developing [...]
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