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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Creative design, Germany, Simon Michel
German designer Simon Michel shows in his design concept how functional a cake pan can be. His design concept “Flexy” can individually be deformed. This makes it possible to back small and large cakes in the same cake pan. The Problem Baking a cake for some one is very personally. But the shape of cakes [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: AC-CA, Competition, Events/News
This is a brief introduction of our next Competition [PACIFIC 06]. The aim of this International Competition is to design a New Prison afloat the Pacific Ocean, using an oil Platform as a reference structure. The imprisonment of people is probably one of the bigger taboo within our modern society. A Prison is a place in [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Residential Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Wood
Kazuya Saito Architects recently has completed the House YAGIYAMA. + Architect’s statement by Kazuya Saito Architects This one-story house is for an old couple will spend their rest of life after retirements. The house is located in Yagiyama hilly district which lies south of a Hirosegawa river terrace. It it a historical residential area developing [...]
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Category: Architecture, Events/News, Sport Tags: Architecture Award, Australia NewZealand, Competition, Design Award, Events/News, Jones Sonter Architects, Timber
SPUN Architecture Awards Gonzalo Gonzalez of Jones Sonter Architects has been awarded a Commendation for the Education & Sporting Facility (Great Hall & Aquatic Centre) at Knox Grammar School. The award was presented at the SPUN Architectural Awards by Penelope Seidler. The project will be displayed at Gordon Public Library for Sydney Architectural Festival 2012. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Sport Tags: Competition, Japan, Stadium
Andrea Maffei Architects made a design whose intention was to allow people to feel very close to the activity within, to the athletes and football players, to the exciting atmosphere in which the spectator is involved directly in the games. At the same time Andrea Maffei Architects also wanted to design a space which was flexible, that [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand, Laneway
Angel Place and Ash Street are two of the priority upgrade projects which form part of the City of Sydney Laneway Revitalization Strategy, a scheme designed to reactivate a number of Sydney’s historically significant laneways. ASPECT Studios led a design team for the upgrade which included upgraded streetscapes, lighting, extended kerbs to calm traffic, a [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand, Laneway, LED
The upgrades to Little Hay Street, Factory Street and Kimber Lane are stage one in the transformation of Chinatown’s Public Domain. The focus of the work is to uplift the public domain quality and strengthen the pedestrian connections, whilst improving lighting, furniture, and embracing the distinguishing character of each street or laneway by integrating site [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: HOF, Italy, Theater
The Borgobello Puppet Theatre (the first of its kind in Italy) regards the restructuring and conversion of an old military stables building and aims at providing puppet show companies with a stable base in comparison to the former provisional conditions. The original nineteenth century building is located in the historical city centre of Perugia in an picturesque [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Clifton Leung, Display design, Hong Kong, Lighting concept, Stair
Interior Designer Clifton Leung takes pride to unveil the revolutionary retail store design of 1O1O CENTRAL flagship store. With a clear mission to solidify 1010 brand as the leading mobile operator for its elite customer base, the architectural design of the retail space is inspired by the golden era of travel, where 1010 customers embark [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Architectural video, Arkitektgruppen Cubus, Denmark, Norway
Arkitektgruppen Cubus is celebrating 40 years of practice in 2012, and have made this timelapse movie to show some of their work during the last 40 years. Arkitektgruppen Cubus AS is based in Bergen, Norway. One of the larger offices in western Norway with completed projects in around 20 towns/cities in Norway and in Denmark.
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: China, China architecture, Glass, Goettsch partners, Skyscrapers
GOETTSCH PARTNERS DESIGNS PROMINENT POLY BUSINESS TOWER IN SHUNDE, CHINA 200-meter-tall building will be a city landmark between Guangzhou and Hong Kong Architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) has designed the new Poly Business Tower in Shunde, China. Totaling 110,000 square meters, the project is one of several current assignments between GP and leading Chinese developer [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: Competition, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Fluid form, Stadium
Coop Himmelb(l)au recently has designed the Silk Leaf Stadium. Like a modern acropolis, our concept for the new National Stadium of Japan places the arena on a plinth as a sign in the center of the city. A large plaza is created by the plinth forming the main public entryway. The seating tribunes are conceived [...]
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