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ROLHA side table \ Gonçalo Campos

Cork is a very special material with qualities that make it perfect for a wide range of technical applications, while being environmentally sustainable, reason why it has seen a great appreciation in the last few years. Most of its harvesting and production is also based in Portugal, because of the particularly favourable climate to it’s [...]

Thermal baths in Bad Ems \ 4a Architekten GmbH

4a Architekten extend their bathing repertoire: The Bad Ems Thermal Baths proves itself with its distinct character and high standards of comfort. Since December 2012, the spa town of Bad Ems now has another new attraction: The new Bad Ems Thermal Baths designed by 4a Architekten is an architectural highlight that tempts visitors to the [...]

Adobe Utah Campus \ WRNS Studio

WRNS Studio has completed The Adobe Utah Campus in Lehi City, Utah. As a global leader in digital media and digital marketing, Adobe has attracted some of the nation’s top talent, people that are inspired, that want to be a part of something truly important and exiting. Employees expect to find more than just a job at [...]

Boll Lamp for Atelier-D \ Jonathan Dorthe

The Boll Lamp is inspired by Scandinavian design and is handmade in Montreal out of a light birch structure, which is wrapped in bands of sycamore veneer. This sculptural lamp is created with bands of different widths, assembled to create an elleptical shape. When the light is turned on, the particular woven grain of the [...]

P50 Apartment Renovation VdC01 \ A2OFFICE

This intervention was made in an apartment located in a rooftop penthouse, with 18 years old, with a dark and heavy interior. It was asked to do the best intervention possible spending a small budget, previously defined. Two decades ago, the initial design did not anticipate the need for a toilet placed in the social [...]

PLATAFORMA ZERO \ A2OFFICE

  A small space with just over 20m ² was the site for the deployment of this kiosk in the Casa da Música Metro Station in the city of Porto, Portugal. This project was based on the idea of “pause”. Pause between commuting routes (home-work-home, home-school-home, etc.) where one color dominates: the yellow. As in [...]

HOUSE AM OBEREN BERG \ Alexander Brenner Architekten

Alexander Brenner Architekten has completed a house named HOUSE AM OBEREN BERG in Stuttgart, Germany. When approaching the building via the access road an in-depth layered picture is discernible. The northeast side of the house is an addition/a combination of white cubes. Each of them is recognizable as an individual structure when viewed from close up, [...]

one2free MEGASTORE \ Clifton Leung Design Workshop

Clifton Leung, a veteran in retail shop design has recently completed a revolutionary retail project for one2free, witnessing the birth of the biggest mobile store in the city. The unconventional design and the brand new customer experience have taken the mobile retail industry by storm. For one2free Megastore debut, our design must fulfill the client’s [...]

Culture Island \ UGO architecture

Culture island – model of a public library for a small towns up to 15 thousand inhabitants. The starting point for creating the architectural concept of a model municipal public library was the research carried out in 2010 by the Office for Readership Research of the National Library and the Public Opinion Research Centre TNS [...]

Foster + Partners: the Art of Architecture

‘Foster + Partners: the Art of Architecture’ will be staged at Galeri PETRONAS, Kuala Lumpur, from 7 March to 12 May 2013. The exhibition is the first major survey of the studio’s work to be held in South East Asia and follows critically acclaimed recent shows in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Arranged around the themes [...]