The Museum of Architecture and Design has launched an international Call for Entries for the 23rd Biennial of Design – the deadline is 30 March 2012. They are inviting designers, commissioners, manufacturers, academic tutors, students or design organisations to apply the latest design works. If you are interested in this event, visit www.bio.si for more [...]
Emotional Architecture in Casa Gavión, Following the Path set by Luis Barragán I believe in an emotional architecture. Luis Barragán Barragán reinvented Mexican modern architecture with sensuous aesthetics, vivid colors, attention to spaces and light, while accentuating the building’s natural surroundings. Casa Gavión by architectural studio ColectivoMX tries to evoke that emotional architecture. The use [...]
.PSLAB and Architect Pier Giorgio Antonetti collaborate on renowned Pier Luigi Restaurant, Rome, Italy. Site-specific response by .PSLAB to bring together the different areas of the recently renovated Pier Luigi Restaurant Wall-mounted products inserted in the box-shaped seating area engages passers-by Lighting concept, the result of the open dialogue between .PSLAB, Pier Giorio Antonetti and [...]
South Korean studio MONOCOMPLEX recently has created a Floor Lamp Scene #01. A skinny branch is reaching over a window. Suddenly the moon emerges making a picture within frame that is called window completed. The branch is fixed, and moves as time goes. Through this, the plane view on the window represents ‘momentary instant’ within [...]
Studio Toer recently has created the Led Lamp Spring. Spring is a directional LED spot, that can be moved easily in all directions. By pulling or pushing the metal wire the lamp will change it’s form and will point its light suitable to your needs. Toer is a Dutch design studio that focuses on designing [...]
Bloom draws inspiration from the blossoming and blooming of nature’s elements, as well as from Lucio Fontana’s reinterpretation of flat volumes in art: Like Fontana’s slash on canvas, in fact, Bloom goes beyond the two dimensions. Designed by Giovanni Tomasini as an explicit reminder of the universe’s organized chaos and primordial crystalline forms, Bloom wants [...]
Poland-based design studio WAMHOUSE recently has created the Table ‘egg’.
BUILDING The original Victorian building at 8 Stratton Street was built in 1871 in the Free Gothic Revival style, and is Grade II listed. This project combines the listed building with its neighbour at No 9 Stratton Street, to provide the UK headquarters for an umbrella organisation based in the Middle East, operating a number [...]
This bicycle design is trying to challenge the imagination of the form, and create a new idea for the motion system. Design language of the bicycle is figured by natural form. Simplified body form which component with smooth shaped elements. The essence of this bicycle design is to create a sexy curve. It presents as [...]
Shapiro’s Rice Gallery installation, on view through March 18, is a gravity-defying array of color, form, shape and line. Wooden elements, vibrantly painted with supersaturated pigment and casein, seemingly levitate in the air as they are held in tension by string stretching from the center of the gallery’s floor to points on the ceiling. The [...]
The new directional building has been designed to abstract itself from the common building scheme, rejecting analogies and mimesis, while intended to assume technology and innovation as its essence. The traditional building techniques make room to the use of innovative materials or the different exploitation of the old ones, and, at the same time, to [...]
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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 [...]
