MedaTeca library| information| spare time The new cultural hub of Meda designed by Alterstudio Partners On 10th April 2012 MedaTeca opens to the public; the new library of Meda’s township designed by Alterstudio Partners, a modern cultural hub of more than 1.900 sq. m. entirely devoted to culture, information and spare time, connected with others [...]
499.SUMMIT is the competition entry designed by 2 architectural students Andreas Tjeldflaat & Gregory Knobloch. Our prison system has failed to see advancements throughout the past century and desperately requires innovation and re-imagination. While recent literature begins to question the sociological status of prisons, there has be little exploration of the physical apparatus in which inmates [...]
An Open Ring in the Woods In commissioning the competition, the church of Våler chose for a seldomly witnessed step in church history, one that always comes with interesting results. Tapping on a source of collective creativity in modern architecture offers the chance to bring the development of church architecture to a new level. A [...]
Korean designer Kim Jun Pyo has designed the patrol unit “NR-02” for police department. NR-02 is concept patrol robot unit for police department based on UCAS -Unmanned Combat Air System-. Autonomous flight through A.I and GPS and navigation equipment, flight by radio controlled in limited range. To quick realizing of situation and prompt response, realization [...]
State University of Milan 16-28 April 2012 Installation QUATTRO PUNTI PER UNA TORRE Project by MASSIMO IOSA GHINI Partner FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti In collaboration with IGUZZINI, TECNOVISION, FARAONE CONCEPT The monolith, the stone, the tower, ancestral typologies. The continuous surface, the leather has no perimeter, each junction is a cost and a loss [...]
The 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: Making City is only a few weeks away. Opening on 20 April 2012, the 5th IABR: Making City explores the making of tomorrow’s city and the new alliances between designers, politicians and other stakeholders. Making City includes exhibitions at various venues across Rotterdam, Almere, Sao Paulo and Istanbul, a [...]
NOMA Lab: An Architectural Cookbook for the Nordic Cuisine 3XNs interior for NOMA Restaurant’s food lab unites the creative worlds of gastronomy and architecture in a modern expression of the Nordic aesthetic. New Inspiration As the number one ranked restaurant on theworlds50best.com for two years in a row, the expectations for creative innovation at NOMA [...]
IFAC (International Festival of Art & Construction) is focused on 200 young and dynamic people from the world of art and architecture from different parts of Europe. They will live and work together for 10 days in August 2012, in a creative and integrated space of different art programmes, to debate, work and exchange experiences, [...]
On the theme of the surprise, hundred of international teams answered and 10 of them + the invited university are going to present to you works all more surprising than the others for this 7th edition of the Festival of the Lively Architectures in Montpellier, France. From 13 till 17 June 2012, the courtyards are [...]
“LAKE OF SHIMMER” – AVANT Time Nº 3 by Tokujin Yoshioka 2012 -The passage of time marked by the luminance of crystal- “LAKE OF SHIMMER”-AVANT TIME Nº3, watch, was presented by SWAROVSKI at Baselworld in Switzerland in March of 2012. The watch, distinctly representing brand’s elegant and poetic essence, marks the passage of time by [...]
HBA / Hirsch Bedner Associates unveiled their first ever design installation at DIFFA’s 2012 Dining by Design. DIFFA is known for bringing together some of the most talented and celebrated individuals in the worlds of fashion, interior design, art and architecture to create awe-inspiring dining environments and raise money for HIV/AIDS service and education programs [...]
The placement of the new auditorium creates a new central square within the overall structure of the Plantahof agriculture school. The high façade holds together the new piazza. The inner space of the auditorium lies in half-light. Two windows facing each other define the inner space and allow for a view from the new piazza [...]
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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 [...]
