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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Fluid form, Glass, Hexagon, Singapore, UNStudio
Ben van Berkel / UNStudio have designed the new UIC building, ‘V on Shenton’, in the heart of Singapore’s Central Business District. The former UIC Building dominated the city skyline as Singapore’s tallest building for many years since its completion in 1973 and was part of an important collection of towers located along Shenton Way [...]
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Category: Design, Installation Tags: Fluid form, London, UK, Zaha Hadid
Dover Street Market has commissioned Zaha Hadid to design a site-specific installation to be showcased in their London store during the 2012 Olympic Games. Entitled “Aqua”, the concept references the formal language of Hadid’s renowned London Aquatics Centre. Designing for Dover Street Market is an exciting opportunity to install a piece inspired by the fluid [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Fluid form, LAVA
And they’ve set up their very own embassy in inner city Sydney! The new embassy was designed by LAVA, with partners Will O’Rourke and The Glue Society, as a fusion of a whale, a rocket and a time tunnel, an immersive space of oscillating plywood ribs brought to life by red planet light and sound [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Bar Lounge, Dubai architecture, Hirsch Bedner Associates
The vibrant bar and lounge is located in the Grand Hyatt Dubai and HBA brilliantly showcased their expertise in restaurant and bar design, drawing inspiration from the vibrancy of Dubai while offering the ultimate guest experience. Dubai is such a vibrant and culturally rich city that we did not have to look far for inspiration [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: Fluid form, Green architecture, White
Hovering above the concrete jungle of the Bandra neighborhood in Mumbai, ‘The Terrace Garden’ by The White Room studio was built to offer respite from the chaos and clatter of the city, offering obscure views of the Arabian Sea. This 1500 sq ft rooftop was conceived as a pleasure garden where one could watch the [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern Chair
Designer Yuval Tal has designed a series of tables in three sizes made from wooden dowels wrapped with a metal ring. The design allows for a solid and stable structure without the need for glue or screws. The table’s color arrangement is inspired by a color vision deficiency test. Every piece has a uniquely designed [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Coop Himmelb(l)au, Display design, Fluid form
“The Wiener Walzer” The task for the „Regionals“ zones in the Heinemann Duty Free Shops in the new “Skylink” terminal of the Vienna Airport was to translate the topic “Vienna” into the design of a multifunctional furniture element so that it can be experienced by the travellers and allows them to symbolically connect the inside [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Competition, Denmark, Events/News
Denmark’s largest waste management company seeks out help from design students from all over the world to co-create the trash can of the future. A waste management company called Vestforbrænding, from the environmentally friendly country Denmark, wants design students from all over the world to design a trash can that encourages sustainable behavior in private [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: A-cero, Folding architecture, Spain, Swimming pool
Spanish architectural studio A-Cero recently has completed a detached house in Madrid, Spain. + All images courtesy A-cero
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Enrique Abascal, Theater
Nerva, north of the province of Huelva, in the Tinto River basin, was born to host the mining. The construction of a building of its type (theater/cinema) is the most important event for the whole city. What is even more in the case of Nerva, with a long tradition in using this kind of cultural [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Color architecture, Enrique Abascal
The proposal starts with some conditions, housing: social, planning regulations: with quantitative and volumetric rules of a place: an area of expansion based on a pure model of growth without a special intention in forming a kind of city, and tight economic conditions. The proposal starts with some conditions, housing: social, planning regulations. Some quantitative [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: Color architecture, Complex City
Binds to the wine concept store The design of a concept store in a commercial is not obvious, located in an urban environment very cubic, it is often the result of a set of front linked to his content. It should then treat the subject by crossing name: programmatic and symbolic urban Three basic concepts [...]
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