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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jonathan Dorthe recently designed the Picture-Clock for Atelier-D. These clocks capture time and place with images of urban landscape from Montreal. They are silkscreened with a silver metallic pigment, with backgrounds in black for night images, and white for daylight. 8h28 pm : Cityscape of Montreal seen from the old city at night. 4h47 pm [...]
HK-based design studio AS Design has completed this Aristocrat Deluxe Suite Room for Empire Hotels. Using black as the sole color, designers integrated seven elements including wooden surface made with special techniques, velvet wallpaper, crystalline marble, fabric, glass, steel, wardrobes, and floor mat, to create “a sense of Black Elegance” for a 1,022 square foot [...]
kräf•te recently has completed the Hair Make C’ESTLAVIE in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan. The owner’s request was to make a space functional, neutral and minimum. The space was very small, approximately 36.30 square meters, and this was the challenge part on how to keep all necessary functions as a hair salon. As a solution, I have [...]
This was a renovation project for a private flat of the reinforced concrete building. The owner’s request was to live with greenery, secure two separate rooms with a high regard for privacy and have a living space where friends can gather. I looked at the entire space from a communication point of view and designed [...]
Vederlicht is a fascination that i had when i was a small child, the fascination of model glider plane. Back then these planes cost too much for me to buy and i only could look at them in the shop. The small kid in me is still there so i took the technique and material [...]
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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 [...]
