Located on San Francisco Bay, in the East Bay city of Emeryville, the marina provides unprecedented views of the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate bridge, the San Francisco city skyline, Alcatraz, and Angel Island. The marina was originally built on landfill and had compacted several feet over the years, causing flooding of the Bay Trail [...]
Proposed by estudioOCA, this riverfront redevelopment project provides a range of possibilities and aims to improve urban life and spatial appropriation. There are no grand gestures; areas remain open, often surprising, and spatially generous. The project invites residents to take a walk with children along the river, go fishing, stop under the trees of Lent [...]
LAMP HANDS OUT THE “LAMP LIGHTING SOLUTIONS 11 AWARDS” IN A HALLMARK EVENT IN BARCELONA On June 9th, the fourth edition of the 2011 Lamp Lighting Solutions Awards ceremony was held at the signature auditorium, Petit Palau del Palau de la Música Catalana. The event, presided by Mr. Ignasi Cusidó, CEO of LAMP, and conducted [...]
Using only domestically sourced woods from either salvaged trees, or wind and/or storm damaged trees, Hudson Furniture Inc. features furniture with organic lines and geometric forms that employ traditional joinery techniques and hand rubbed oil finishes. We love that you can choose the dimensions and finishes to customize many of the designs to work with [...]
Experiential design experts MET Studio have created a new travelling branded exhibit for the Campaign for Wool, an initiative originally conceived in 2008 by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and launched publically in 2010, in response to the enormous challenges facing the wool industry. The new exhibit launched at Grand Designs Live (winning [...]
Rotterdam-based design studio Reinier de Jong Architecture & Design recently has created the DEX desk. DEX is a refined, compact en minimalist desk that fits anywhere at home. The frame consists of two horizontal cross shapes of solid wooden laths and a drawer unit. The frame has a minimal presence round the seat for optimal [...]
Award-winning London based designer Timothy Schreiber launched his latest design called “Trace table” during London’s Clerkenwell design festival earlier this month. The table is made from a series of 12 slightly different bent metal tubes which are attached around a central spine and form a tree like table base. Round clear and back painted glass [...]
South Korean designer Jongho Park has recently created ‘Square in Boots’. Funny and friendly the ‘Square in Boots’ series looks as if square tables are wearing boots in their legs to walk, and has two stools and one table. Wood and metal, which have different character, were used, harmonized into one piece of furniture, and [...]
Pap is the first piece of furniture launched in the 2011 collection by Projecto Martins. Designed by architect Maria Manuel Oliveira, the bookcase is now being presented and marketed in Portugal and abroad. Whe designing Pap, Maria Manuel Oliveira wanted to reinterpret a piece of furniture that existed in living rooms or libraries to store [...]
Parisian based Belorussian designer Dzmitry Samal designed the new furniture collection “Parallel world“. It is a storing system realized in MDF of white color and manufactured by french company “V2 Design”, distributed exclusively by “Achatdesign.com”. The collection has certain philosophical meaning, as it reminds us about possible existing of parallel worlds, so presented pieces are [...]
Launched in June 2010, &CAIRO is a collaboration between the new HardWood Furniture Co. generation and Alchemy Branding & Design Management under the Art Direction of Karim Mekhtigian. The new furniture brand is created for a relaxed lifestyle that holds simplicity and comfort. &CAIRO’s first official appearance took place at Furnex and +20 Egypt Design, [...]
Llandudno Beach in Cape Town, situated on the Atlantic seaboard of the Cape Peninsula, is surrounded by large granite boulders and overlooked by mountains. The infinity pavilion beach house balances on the cliffs overlooking the town of Llandudno in cape town, the design directly engages with its context. the main open plan accommodation area consists [...]
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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 [...]
