Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum has published their very first Symbol Mark and Logo designed by Tokujin Yoshioka on November 15th. The cubic architecture of the current museum building, designed by Kunio Maekawa in 1975. Tokujin has designed the symbol mark based on the concept of cube, which connotes “the origin of creation.” The color is [...]
In Tokyo Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art will held a solo exhibition of Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati. Elegantly combining daring forms and simple plans, Valerio Olgiati (b. 1958) is now attracting attention not only in Switzerland, his homeland, but also of architects around the world. This show illustrates his view of the world [...]
“Cartier Time Art” Art Direction by Tokujin Yoshioka Held from August 26 to November 6, 2011 at Bellerive Museum, Ein Haus des Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Höschgasse 3 8008 Zurich, Switzerland The brilliant innovations of technology and aesthetics for Cartier timepieces will be on display in an traveling international exhibition directed by Tokujin Yoshioka, titled [...]
SIMPLEFORMSDESIGN will present their latest minimal creations at Interior Lifestyle Tokyo 2011 during 1-3 June. SIMPLEFORMSDESIGN was founded in 2004 by two designers: Alzira Peixoto and Carlos Mendonça. Design, innovation, functionality and quality are the driving concepts in the creation and development of every new collection and every new product. In SIMPLEFORMSDESIGN past and future, [...]
Designed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka, TWILIGHT is a project installed in MOROSO Showroom during Milan design week, it was to display new chair series “MOON“. “MOON” is a chair inspired by the beauty of the moon, its glowing light and shadows. The chairs express the full moon when seen from above; the half moon [...]
Tokujin Yoshioka has designed a new watch “O” Shape of Water – Transparent Time. Produced by ISSEY MIYAKE and developed by Seiko Instruments Inc., “O” was launched at the Basel World in Switzerland in March of 2011 in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the ISSEY MIYAKE watch project. “O” has a meaning as “water” [...]
Takeshi Hamada has completed the interior design “Office A“. + Project description by Takeshi Hamada Key word Interior design, Adaptable Office This is a law office planned in the first floor in social building, located in the suburb of Osaka. The concept of this plan is “Adaptable Office”. There are a lot of situations, and [...]
Japanese architect Takeshi Hamada has completed the House D in Osaka, JAPAN. + Project description by Takeshi Hamada Key word Narrow Housing,, Young Owner Background and Environmental Atmosphere The housing is located in the place from one block from the main street in Osaka’s suburb, and I cannot say it’s a calm. There are a [...]
Japanese architectural firm yHa architects has recently completed the YNH house located in Tokyo, Japan. The facade has “autonomously” opening system grid-like continuous pattern and its size are “heteronomously” translated in relation to views or surrounding environment or interior function. yujin HIRASE, founder of yHa architects + Project description by yHa architects I thought mainly [...]
Terminal01 has designed the Dojima River Forum CAFE located in Osaka Japan. + Design statemetn by Terminal01 The cafe is situated on the second floor of the recently opened Dojima River Forum in Osaka Japan. Osaka city used to be called a water-capital. Rivers and canals once crisscrossed the city. There is a big solid [...]
Japanese studio Terminal01 has completed a house in Kitasaya located in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. “void” was placed at the center of the house, which is the main space of the house. This space is open up to the sky…family can feel the cycle of the seasons, weather, light, and so on, through this void space, [...]
Japanese architect Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates has designed a house in Ise, Japan. The building is composed of two volumes arranged in parallel. A vertical void links the rooftop terrace and the light court on the first floor, drawing nature into the interior. Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates + Project description by Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates [...]
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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 [...]
