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Category: Automotive, Design Tags: Events/News, New York
During the New York International Auto Show, MINI USA has company news and North American vehicle debuts worth checking out this week. Below is a short summary of the news MINI is announcing and the vehicles that will be featured: MINI John Cooper Works Countryman will make its North American debut at the New York [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Childcare center, Color architecture, illiz architektur, Kindergarten, MAGK, Random pattern, White
An influx and increasing birth rate in the community situated to the south of Vienna called for the creation of more, particularly state-of-the-art child care facilities. Therefore a competition tender submission for a new child care centre was issued in 2008. The existing 19th century ‘Gründerzeit’ school was to be extended by eight primary school [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Austria, Cladding, Franz Architekten, Random pattern, Reflective pool, School
one (school) for all Central and still removed from the heavy traffic of the federal highway one can find the most important public institutions of Deutsch-Wagram lined up along a footpath: city administration, kindergarten, primary and secondary schools. In order to enable school education up to university entrance qualification, the municipal council decided the erection [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: aceboXalonso, Angel Acebo & Victoria Alonso, Architectural video, Lighting concept, Museum
Shared by animation studio 24studio, this is their latest audio-visual production of the project National Museum of Science and Technology in La Coruña for architects Angel Acebo & Victoria Alonso. + Project facts Nacional Museum of Science and Technology La Coruña. Spain Client: FECYT (FUNDACION ESPAÑOLA DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA) Architects: Angel Acebo & Victoria [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Barreca & La Varra, Cladding, Glass, Italy, Milan, Random pattern
In the north-eastern outskirts of Milan, as part of the restructuring of the former industrial core that houses the RCS Mediagroup, the new office building B5 designed by Barreca & La Varra studio has just been completed. The building is an integral part of a master plan intended for research and intellectual work and contributes [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Events/News, Italy, Milan, Modern Chair, Modern furniture, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012
Salone Del Mobile, Milan Pavilion 12 stand E14 17- 22 April, 2012 Conceived as an island of comfort from simple organic forms the bed “Dot” is made by the producer Esedra and designed by Leonardo Rossano. Various artisans handcrafted each piece, which is an expression of Italian “know how”, to realize the bed. The simplicity [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Hong Kong, Netherlands, WallArt, Wallpaper
Eco friendly 3d-wallpanels made out of Sugarcane bagasse Eco 3d-wallpanels give an extra dimension to your walls! WallArt will bring your walls to life with their eco friendly 3d-wallpanels made out of the fibrous residue of sugarcane also called bagasse. This fibres of crushed sugarcane stalks, remaining after raw sugar is extracted from the juice [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: London, SHH, UK
A 13,000 sq ft new-build modernist house, located within the Highgate Conservation Area and designed by architects SHH, has now started on site, with completion due in Summer 2012. The scheme, called ‘Fitzroy Farm’, is located on a 0.45 hectare site bordering Hampstead Heath and was approved by the Camden Planning Committee without a single [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Brooks + Scarpa, Concrete, Fluid form, Timber, USA, Workplace
The design of this 4700 square foot tenant improvement evolved from the unique challenge to remodel an early 1963 Frank Gehry designed commercial structure located in the heart of downtown Santa Monica. The client is a full service post-production facility based in Chicago. They provide every aspect of the TV commercial making process, including [...]
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Category: Book Tags: Publication
CityVision magazine is pleased to share with you the Issue #5. Out now! The magazine introduces new special projects, interviews, columns and photo-issue collected during last four months. Special Project An editorial intro named Past Shock (pastshock.tumblr.com) collected quotes by important architecture protagonists to introduce the launch of New York CityVision Competition, the fourth international [...]
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Category: Design, Installation Tags: Installation, Student works, White
+ Project Abstract we wanted to create a continuous surface that would bring spatial interest and social interaction to the gallery. the woven installation is a solution to providing students and faculty a setting to not only read about our projects, but also to enjoy the space. + Project Description “white” was a gallery installation [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Germany, MenoMenoPiu Architects, Museum
The transparency makes the continuity between inside and outside, the outside comes inside and vice-versa. An eclectic conquest of the space makes the building not a barrier but a dynamic urban link, crossed by a linear flexible path across Bauhaus history. The idea of creating a new unity by the marriage of many arts and [...]
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