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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Interior Tags: 4a Architekten GmbH, Color, Color architecture, Germany, Random pattern, Spa
4a Architekten create a feel-good hotel ambience with functionality, efficiency and sustainability in mind. Nature, wellness and design – these were the guiding principles for 4a Architekten when constructing the Spreewald Spa Hotel in Burg. Situated in the heart of the Spree Forest next to the Spreewald Therme spa, also planned and built by 4a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: ABIBOO, Waterfront architecture
Designed by ABIBOO Architecture, this 17,000 sq. ft. (1.600 m2) villa is located in a privileged area in the South-Hamptons with the sea surrounding the plot on two 2 different sides. The house belongs to a couple who uses the house during the summer with their relatives and friends. The family’s passion for boats inspires [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Mexico, Sobrado + Ugalde ARCHITECTS, Stone
North of Mexico City, on uneven ground that only offers a few meters wide and 16 meters from the curb drop to the lowest point of the land is the home design Canterbury looking to take advantage of terrain. Following the landform we opted for a design that surprised from its entry because only from [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Argentina, DiA Studio
One Column House is an extension and refurbishment for an existing small old summer house on the shores of a Patagonian lake in the South of Argentina. The conditions of the existing house lack of an optimum spatial and functional distribution that could fulfill the needs and the manners that the summer house is being [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Display design, mode:lina
Designers of mode:lina have recently finalized a shop for CLAE footwear. The challenge was to maximize the shopping experience using the lowest budget possible due to shop’s temporality. + All images courtesy mode:lina
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Category: Landscape Tags: BIG, Iwan Baan
Superkilen masterplan designed by BIG + Topotek1 + Superflex has a great start to 2013 receiving a 2013 AIA NATIONAL HONOR AWARD and a citation as the best Urban Design in the Annual Design Review of ARCHITECT magazine. At almost a mile long Superkilen wedges through one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Jonathan Dorthe, Modern Chair
Jonathan DORTHE designed the First Chair for Atelier-D. + Design statement The idea of this project was to design a simple chair that I could make in my workshop with the tools I had. All the pieces are cut from a flat sheet of Russian plywood, and then assembled using traditional joinery techniques. The front [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: 123DV architecture, Landscape architecture
123DV architecture has completed a landscape full of surprises, Bridge House. The roads are lined with wildflowers. In summer, purple and yellow loosestrife are in bloom. Timber-framed farmhouses, enclosed meadows, ancient fields, and wonderful oak trees with their thick trunks turn your thoughts to days long gone. This villa is set in a newly developed [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Carpet
Does your living room lack a bit of warmth? Is it missing a bit of colour? Does it look a bit bare? Then a wool rug might just be exactly what you need to make your living space complete. Why wool rugs? Because they’re totally natural, they offers incredible comfort, they’re extremely durable, they’re naturally [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Creative design, Jeong Yong, Korea
ONE is a table calendar composed with three differently-sized rings. The biggest ring with 31 units represents the sun raises everyday, and the middle sized ring with 12 units represents the moon gyrates around Earth. The smallest ring with 7 units represents the people who created the seven days of the week. These rings are [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: BAKOKO, Black, Japanese architecture, Lattice screen
Onjuku is a popular seaside resort and fishing town on Chiba’s Pacific coast, about an hour and a half by train from Tokyo. The beach house is sited behind a bluff, 300 meters from Onjuku’s famous white sand beach. Built for an international couple—the husband is a lifelong surfer—who live and work in Tokyo, this [...]
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Category: Installation, Landscape Tags: Installation
The seasons aren’t what they used to be, the earth’s climate has gone off course. Climate change is transforming how we relate to our world, how we live, even how we experience the city. What will the winter of 2013 be like? Snowy, cloudy, rainy? No one can predict, but one thing is certain: an [...]
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