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F House | Katsufumi Kubota Architect

F House by Japanese architect Katsufumi Kubota. The contemporary geometrical facade is so precise, clean, striking and structurally very provocative. It folded to become a roof and opened up the interior space into the landscape. The house reminds me Tadao Ando works, perhaps because of its concrete finish and clean interior space with light. This [...]

Mayuhana for Yamagiwa | Toyo Ito

Japanese architect Toyo Ito has designed Mayuhana for Japanese lighting specialist Yamagiwa, this light featuring spun thread design with a double or triple skin of delicate fibre mesh, that producing a soft light and shadow around. + Design description This series was created by reeling string around a mold the way thread is spun off [...]

Modern Planter Box | Urban Nature

The iconic planters showcases the plants they contain as the true work of art. Modern design derives beauty from bold yet simplistic forms. The Los Angeles based planter specialist Urban Nature offers elegant, minimal design for its clean line planter which filled in our modern living lifestyle. Overflowing with architectural plants, combined with the clean, [...]

First Artemide Flagship Store | CROX

Designed by Taiwanese designer Crox, the two-floor store installing with the big window glasses evoking the nearby neighborhood through the engaging reflection and curvilinear form. Responding to Artemide philosophy, lighting is a source of physical pleasure and mental comfort, CROX beautifully embellishes the first Artemide Flagship Store in Taipei Downtown with the concept of the [...]

7 famous architects gather in Dellis Cay’s Paradise

Dellis Cay has a surface of 560 acres and should hold 124 private villas, 154 residences, the Mandarin Oriental hotel, as well as a marina. The construction began on June 4th 2008 and is expected to be completed in the end of 2009. The vision of the project is to realize the beauty of nature [...]

Contemporary and Innovative Kitchen Series | ernestomeda

ernestomeda, is a young and dynamic company focused on the highest segment of the kitchen market, adopting an advanced and innovative approach for their kitchen design, favouring transversal finishes and layout solutions. The programmes now available are: Barrique, Elektra, Silverbox, One, Fusion, Seventy, Verve, Solaris and Suprême. Those series are finished in different materials.

Casa Y | anonimous-Led

Casa Y house, has an interesting circulation that well incorporated with the placement of furniture, by anonimous-Led. The volume arises from two boxes that intersect the interior to house, a box of medium height, are buried on the site looking for greater privacy in public spaces. For the South, a glass facade with different elements [...]

Water Fall Bar | Tokujin Yoshioka

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has designed an incredible interior for a bar in Tokyo which is made of optical glass block, that creates the illusion of a “waterfall” while the light reflects off of the glass. + about designer Tokujin Yoshioka was born in saga prefecture, japan in 1967. After graduating from kuwasawa design school [...]

Warm contemporary house in Warsaw | Exit Design

Warm contemporary house in Warsaw, by Poland based interior designer – Exit Design. The idea was to create contemporary interior with unique details as requested by client. The dark color walnut panels give a warmer sense to the living area, where white kitchen was to balance between two common spaces at the ground level. Images [...]

Hillside Retreat in Gerês | Ragazzi Architects

The weekend retreat was designed at protected natural area – Gerês hillside, without destroying the nature of the ground and all the trees must be preserved. The house opens up at one end and almost half length was cantilevered towards the river side. The concrete box was internally finished in birch. + architect’s statement As [...]