Baltasar Portillo is a furniture designer born in El Salvador, he has recently designed the Armadillo and Lodge Chair. Art, sculpture, furniture, all three terms are important in the description of the Armadillo and Lodge chairs, part of a series of unique pieces by Salvadorian artist Baltasar Portillo. The architectural form, brings to mind a [...]
Hangar Design Group has created the Oblique. Versatility and essentiality of forms are the main characteristics of the Oblique collection by Hangar Design Group. Made of cut and laser bent metal, in Oblique the volumetric elements in contrast create an innovative shape, with an eclectic mood. + Designer: Hangar Design Group
Marc Th. van der Voorn designed the DOTS and MIST – Clocks for Nextime. For a considerable time, I was walking around with the idea to design the glass plate of the clock instead of the dial. After seeing the ANZAS Dance Studio in Beijing, I was convinced. By using a grid of dots, a [...]
Dutch-based practice Serge Schoemaker Architects has designed a modular wooden building system: Plan Libre 2.0. The environmentally sustainable construction can be assembled within one day and dismantled for reuse or recycling elsewhere. The clear architectural form of the structure is based on a natural solution for structural efficiency, and creates a unique spatial quality. The [...]
Konstantin Achkov and Petar Zaharinov presented their design exhibition “Puzzles for living“, in gallery Credo Bonum, Sofia Bulgaria. Konstantin Achkov presented his 3 new chairs in this format: -KO-Ko (arm chair with hole), Stack (bar stool) and Frame (arm chair with fermi construction), in their design exhibition “Puzzles for living”, in gallery Credo Bonum, Sofia [...]
Danish practice 3XN is the architect behind a new experimental conference center and hotel where everything is adapted to the circulation of nature and where guests will get an idea of how it feels to live in a world without waste. No waste The Green Solution House conference center on the Danish island of Bornholm [...]
New “Aro” Pendant Among the Elite Chosen Leucos USA is hitting the ground running in 2012. The company is pleased to announce that it has been recognized for excellence by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture and Urban Studies. The prestigious organizations bestowed their GOOD DESIGN award [...]
Chicago-based architecture firm Goettsch Partners recently has been awarded the 2012 Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture from the American Institute of Architects. This national award honors outstanding building interiors worldwide, created by architects licensed in the United States. Goettsch Partners has done remarkable work in the USA and abroad and is excited to be [...]
Books have an important role as the tool to give us knowledge and aspiration. There are often cases where people welcome the converting point of their life to check in their lives through 1 piece of book. This object that shows the meaning and importance of a book through the V – shape that is [...]
This space was designed for a studio where several creative starting companies work together in an openspace office. They needed a space where they could retreat to brainstorm, informal meetings, presentations, … Because this building is situated in a busy shopping street, this design serves as a showcase for the various companies. The box, which [...]
‘Uccello Table & Lamp’ that is designed being inspired from the novel ‘Bluebird’ is a work that made an effort to deliver the most intuitive and emotional feelings to users. The frame of table and lamp is made being connected with pipes to let people remind of branches, and for the objet bird, cute bird [...]
The ‘Brownstone’ is a cocktail lounge located in the Surpass Court of Yonjia Lu 570, emerging epicenter of Shanghai night life. It was developed as a prototype for a venue of new concept in co-operation with ‘Blue Horizon Hospitality Group’ (Blue Frog). The project combines a simple and efficient layout, partly suggested by the limited [...]
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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 [...]
