Daylighting Summer Course, Vicenza, Italy 8th-22nd July 2012 A Sustainable Design Approach based on Experimentation and Contemporary Architecture of the Venice Region. The University of Florida are holding a summer sustainable lighting design course, which we feel may be of interest to your association. We would therefore like to arrange with you the possibility of [...]
The project wanted to solve some problems of space and logistic that badly characterized the pre-existing rooms, giving the owner the chance to dedicate a single space to each activity scheduled. The focus of this project is the so-called decompression gangway conceived to incline the user towards the Pilates approach. The mood is thus cozy [...]
.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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Since the family had increased in number after the first renovation of the house the challenge of the project has been to make the most of the available space. The project aims to bring up the family to a multifunctional use of the spaces, without conventional limits. That’s why we decide to give the existing [...]
The MINO garden gnome takes care for your plants. The garden dwarf tradition is older than what is commonly believed. Originating in XVII century Germany, garden dwarfs were exported by an English nobleman to decorate his garden, and they have now become the globally widespread kitsch ornaments that we all know. Despite its jazzy colours, [...]
Kokaistudios, a Shanghai based international architectural design firm, proudly announces its Miele House project located in downtown Shanghai wins 2011 MIPIM Asia Award Gold Prize in Retail Store Design Category. Competing with 80 entries from 15 countries, Miele House has been selected by the jury group, made up by the top real estate players in [...]
Illy Shop is a temporary shop for Illy Caffe’, located in Milano in Galleria San Carlo nearby the Duomo. The concept for a reconfigurable store, characterized by different modulations of a single element, a “cube” which is 45x45cm-squared base. Using a grasshopper definition it has been parametric device, it has been possible to manipulate the [...]
Fluidity is a public space that interprets the many possibilities that are offered to the most innovative and creative architects for sustainable design of modern cities. Today’s global society requires a greater continuity between public and private, indoor and outdoor spaces, from which new synergies arise, and lead to more dynamic urban spaces with a [...]
A-001 Architectural Workshop has designed the Museum-Bridge in Venice, Italy. The arch as a string instrument that inspires the structural melody of a bridge in Venice, two points of tension and multiple lines that distribute the forces. This project is the alternative of an uncommon solution: proving that the equilibrium, does not require symmetry. The [...]
Massimo Iosa Ghini designs for Faraone the balustrade Lumina, a perfect marriage between functionality and aesthetics, where the lightness and the technical elements create an innovative and versatile product. The aluminum frame blends harmoniously with the surrounding architecture and Lumina becomes a design element that draws the spaces with light. The LED illumination is behind [...]
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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 [...]
