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Category: Design Tags: Creative design, Germany, Simon Michel
German designer Simon Michel designed the “Lens Safe”. All in one contact lens case. A smart solution for the care of contact lens. If a contact lens wearer becomes dirt into his eye, he will have a problem to clean his lens. Because contact lens boxes are not contain any care liquid ,to clean the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Residential Tags: AS/D, Mexico, Perforated
Mexican architectural firm AS/D designed the Casa Alta located on a steep slope within a 1,500 square meter plot with magnificent views to the valley, the main structure of this weekend house consists of a 6 m by 6m module in three levels with just 108 square meters and a roof deck overlooking the valley. [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Color, Modern Lounge Chair, Studio KMJ
Studio KMJ designed Poltrona with Acoustics. Whether you are listening to music or reading a book the “Rosa” poltrona keeps one shielded with its acoustic absorbing foam and fabric. The shape of the ROSA chair is inspired by the rose in a particular position. This natural position is clearly seen by roses or sunflowers that [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: New York, Perforated, Valerio Dewalt Train, Workplace
Valerio Dewalt Train Associates shared with us a new office that expresses a networking solutions provider’s innovative culture of collaboration and doubles as a showroom. Juniper Networks is a provider of networking solutions headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For an office in New Jersey, Juniper leased 16,000 square feet in a large office park thirty minutes [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, MenoMenoPiu Architects, New York
Paolo Venturella & MenoMenoPiu Architects shared with us their finalist entry for the LAND ART GENERATOR INITIATIVE in FreshKills Park, New York City. The aim of the “Solar Loop” is to expose more surface as possible to the southern solar rays. The shape comes directly from the solar diagrams, and deals easily with the sun [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: Fluid form, Lukasz Wawrzenczyk, Museum, Waterfront architecture
This proposal for the New Contemporary Art Museum (NCAM) in Buenos Aires embodies the city’s dynamic cultural vibrancy. The building sits along the Rio de la Plata, plugging into the internationally influenced urban context as an architectural artifact representing the city itself. The design provides various exhibition and gathering spaces for both programmed and passive [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: China, China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Fluid form, White, Zaha Hadid
The Galaxy SOHO project in central Beijing for SOHO China is a 330 000m2 office, retail and entertainment complex that will become an integral part of the living city, inspired by the grand scale of Beijing. Its architecture is a composition of five continuous, flowing volumes that are set apart, fused or linked by stretched [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: India, Restaurant, Spa, WOW Architects
Spices, vibrant colours, and evocative textures – these are the elements we utilized to create a truly sensory experience, which we hope will awaken the memories, desires and ambitions of a people deeply rooted in tradition but yearning to modernize. While the overall approach is contemporary and urban, we aimed to create something thoroughly Indian, [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: OODA, Portugal
One of the most demanding tasks in Porto nowadays is the intervention on the major amount of old and historical buildings of Porto downtown which are unnocupied in large percentage of the central urban fabric. This project aims that general emergency and is a recovery of a 18th century building to convert into a 18 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Australia NewZealand, Competition, Lattice screen, Library
Australian-based architectural studio POC+P architects proposal for a new library in daegu, korea, combines four archetypes across culture to create a new symbol. the square, the verandah, the shrine and the courtyard are merged into a simple but powerful form: the grounded-ness of the square, the sheltered path of the verandah, the sanctity of the [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern table
“LOCK” is designed out of the qualities, possibilities and characteristics of its highly sustainable material: BAMBOO. The frame is build up from layers of flexible bamboo. The layers are pressed together. The shape is formed by the bamboo’s natural bending curve. The layers of bamboo curve through each other and entwine, locking each other in [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: L3P Architekten, Refurbishment / Extension, Switzerland
L3P Architekten has completed the new replacement apartment house at Glättlistrasse 31 and 33. The Glättlistrasse neighbourhood, located in the Zurich district of Altstett, is a typical 1950s suburban development. The construction brief for this project was to replace four terraced houses and a kindergarten that was no longer needed with a single apartment house [...]
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