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Category: Design, Furniture, Industrial, Selected Tags: ESD design, Folding architecture, Italy, Massimo Iosa Ghini, Modular design, Shelter
Italian designer Massimo Iosa Ghini has designed a South Face installation in Milan, the installation creates spectacular aesthetic effects, making sustainability both beautiful and feasible. + Design statement courtesy of Massimo Iosa Ghini Sustainable but beautiful: this is the goal I have pursued in all of my projects for years. South Face is the outcome [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Cladding, Courtyard architecture, Moho Architects, Pavilion, Spain
Media Island Wifi Pavilion at Miguel Hernandez University Campus in Elche (Alicante) Spain, designed by Moho Architects, with an organization of a central courtyard surrounded by functional spaces, while maximizing the natural daylighting and ventilation. + Project description courtesy of Moho Architects The idea of the project is the construction of an exportable concept of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic, Selected Tags: BIG, City hall, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Iconic architecture
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has won an International Competition to design Tallinn’s new City Hall. + Press release courtesy of BIG BIG wins an International Competition to design Tallinn’s new City Hall An international idea contest was held for Tallinn’s new City Hall in Estonia and the best concept was presented by [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Residential, Selected Tags: Europen architecture, Glass, Green architecture, Park Associati, Skyscrapers, Turchia
Italy-based architect firm Park Associati has designed a 145 m high Regnum residential and office tower located in Istanbul, Turchia. The sinuous form of the tower consists of three main elements united around a central transparent volume and its various façades change according to the position of the viewer. + Project description courtesy of Park [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office, Selected Tags: 3LHD, Features, Glass, Modular design
Croatia-based 3LHD Architects has won a competition for a business center in Zagreb, Croatia. + Project description courtesy of 3LHD Architects The competition program is placed on a crossing of two streets, Miramarska and Bednjanska. It is a point of colliding two urban city concepts: north part with classical city blocks of the Zagreb’s lower [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Canada, ESD design, Green architecture, Paul Raff Studio, Stair, Swimming pool
The multi-Award winning Cascade House by Canada-based architect firm Paul Raff Studio, is an eco-friendly house equipped with solar design systems. We always start from first principles of human scale and flow, and in search of opportunities to engage light and landscape, once we began to work with glass and slate, the house became characterized [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: Display design, Features, Italy, Lattice screen, Perforated, Showroom, Skin, Studio 63
DEX Showroom in Osmannoro, Firenze, designed by Italy-based firm Studio 63 architecture and design. The showroom is given identity by the facade design that appears like a pixelized picture of the trees, filtering the natural and indoor lighting between inside and outside, creating a dramatic screen along the street. + Project description below courtesy of Studio [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: dmp Architects, Features, Fluid form, Korea, Performing Arts Center, Waterfront architecture
Korea-based dmp Architects has proposed an iconic building for Seoul Performing Arts Center located in Nodul Island, Seoul, Korea. The goal of the project is to bring a new life to Han River and Nodul Island which has been forgotten by people of Seoul nowaday. A very good design approach of creating a dramatic roof [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Landscape, Selected Tags: China architecture, Exhibition, Features, Plasma Studio, Waterfront architecture
Flowing Gardens, designed by London-based Plasma Studio for the International Horticultural Fair in Xi’an, China. Circulation is the key idea to develop the whole scheme, the circulation flow begins as a single stream, and then broadens, branching out to form the borders of garden spaces. The gate building is placed at the junction of those [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Art Gallery, Contemporary architecture, Features, Glass, Lattice screen, Museum, Renzo Piano, USA architecture
© The Art Institute of Chicago, Ph. Campbell © Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Ph. Charles G. Young, Interactive design architects © Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Ph. Charles G. Young, Interactive design architects The Modern Wing at Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano, a world renowned Italian architect and recipient of the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: David Chipperfield, Glass, Museum, USA architecture
A new 8,000 m2 Anchorage Museum Expansion designed by UK-based firm David Chipperfield Architects will be opened to public on 30 May 2009. Five distinct linear volumes vary in height and length arranged along the western face of the existing building, creating an interesting skyline to the west side of the existing museum. The glass [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Balcony, Elenberg Fraser, Features
Clara, South Yarra is specially approved and allowed by architect Elenberg Fraser‘s client R.Corporation to be featured on +MOOD. The project’s vision is to incorporate the landscape from the new park in South Yarra throughout the whole development. Irregular horizontal fins and balconies created an impressive and rhythmic effect to the building facade. Besides, please [...]
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