Over the last decade, coffee shops have been serving up more than a cup of coffee to loyal patrons. From a friendly meeting place to a quiet study room, coffee shops have become an extension of our living room, a place we feel safe to harbour for a few hours while incessantly checking our email, [...]
Amagalma Apartment \ Kois Associated Architects
The design is the renovation and the union of two separate neighbouring apartments located in the seaside suburb of Alimos in south east Athens metropolitan area. The design process initiated with extensive talks with the client regarding his life style habits, desires, goals and attitude. The client is an Athenian bachelor with many professional obligations [...]
Atelier Bardill \ Valerio Olgiati
The Bardill Studio building has replaced an old barn in the protected centre of the village of Scharans. Building permission was granted by the local authorities on the condition that the new building would have exactly the same volume as the old barn. The client, Linard Bardill, who lives in a house a very short [...]
The Butler: The Impeccable Bin with Character \ Jangir Maddadi
Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau has come out with a new product, The Butler: The Impeccable Bin with Character. Only Jangir Maddadi could design a waste bin that can truly be described as elegant. But that is exactly what he has done. Elegant and unassuming, a butler provides all your needs before you even have to [...]
Liberty Promenade \ Vivid Architects
+ BRIEF Liberty Promenade was purchased by Liberty Properties in 2004. The existing development consisted of a number of separate buildings on a 22.9 hectare site bounded by AZ Berman Drive to the east and Morgenster road to the north, with the railway line forming the western boundary. The existing shopping centre had a GLA [...]
Located in a pleasant residential neighbourhood, the house is a compact building (almost a cube) surrounded by a 3 meters wide perimeter necessary courtyard, which is the minimum mandatory gap based on current regulations. The pre-existing yard, the swimming-pool and the shed set at the back of the plot are preserved by the express wish [...]
Tom Sheehan Sketches and Collaborations exhibition from April 20 to May 19.2012 Excerpts of his sketchbooks, Tom Sheehan exhibits a selection of drawings from 1997 to 2012. Sketches as notes, as research or as a condition, are the datum of the carrier of a Parisian creator open to the world. The sketch is the irreducible [...]
Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Park \ PQNK
Most of people, except Korean, may not be familiar with the name of Ahn Chang Ho (1878-1938), also known as Dosan, who was one of many Korean independence activists during Colonial Era. However, the small city in east of USA, Riverside commemorate him along with Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. by providing statues [...]
Just like a brand new trip, we investigate and look for new realities, new uses, new sensations. The restyling concept for the place where we book this trip aims to transmit to the traveller a different vision from the usual travel agency polychromy and clutter, hardly forcing on shapes, colors and contents simplicity. A simple [...]
Fable Mantle Clock \ Gilbert13
A digitally crafted ornamental timepiece designed by Angela and Mark Gilbert from Manchester based design studio Gilbert13. “Fable” is a sculptural mantle clock which displays the time in an engaging and captivating way. The classically shaped domed cage frames a tranquil scene, the rotating tree moves with every second gently swaying the swing as time [...]
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 [...]
