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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: FG+SG, Lighting concept, Outdoor furniture, Outdoor lamp, Photography, Portugal, Public square
Portuguese photography studio FG+SG shared with us the Christmas Lighting photography in Lisbon, Portugal. Most years, Lisbon celebrates Christmas with much fanfare. Its artificial Christmas tree, once set up annually, towered over 200 feet and was one of the tallest not only in Portugal but in all of Europe. This year, however, austerity measures have [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Color, Portugal, Refurbishment / Extension, Stair, Workplace
For approximately 300 years cities have been growing, assimilating territory previously reserved for other functions like industry, warehousing/logistics, agriculture, etc. As this process develops, moving around these areas becomes more and more difficult: traffic becomes chaotic; polluting activities are forbidden close to residential and service areas; the price of land goes up. Existing functions tend [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Arquitectos Anónimos, Events/News, Portugal
Arquitectos Anónimos ® will lecture about their latest productions and working processes in ESAP | At Work. Monday, November 14, 6:00pm Location: Escola Superior Artística do Porto – Portugal Organization: David Viana
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Category: Design, Fashion Tags: Portugal
Ana Relvao is a Portuguese designer working in Munique (Germany), she has recently designed Disco, a tiny medal made in polished steel. This piece is now on exhibition, at Objectos Reflectidos, where some new portuguese designers are being showed, as part of EXD’11/Lisboa. + Designer: Ana Relvao
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Category: Interior Tags: Pedra Silva Architects, Portugal, Workplace
Pedra Silva Architects have just completed the new office for the german institute Fraunhofer in Oporto, Portugal. Fraunhofer Portugal is a non-profit private research association and is part of the German Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the largest organization for applied research in Europe. Although not familiar to the general public, Fraunhofer is responsible for many important innovations, including, [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Gonçalo Campos, Portugal, Table lamp, White
Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos has recently created Called Nata. Called Nata (the Portuguese word for cream) referring to it’s pale white color and its classic dinnerware look. This is a lamp made from an old shape, discontinued, found at a ceramics factory. The fact that this shape ceases to be interesting and its production stopped, [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Arquitectos Anónimos, Events/News, Portugal
Arquitectos Anónimos ® will present a scientific paper on COMPUTATIONALLY DRIVEN ARCHITECTURES as part of working processes applied to their latest projects: at Bridges 2011 Math Art International Conference, 28th July (Coimbra-Portugal). + More info at bridgesmathart.org. + Works by Arquitectos Anónimos on +MOOD
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Forward, Green architecture, LEED, Portugal
Green Building – Madan Technology Center stands as a benchmark for sustainability and energy efficiency within the national context. The project makes recourse to innovative solutions to meet the demands of a new environmental paradigm. Green Building – Madan Technology Center was planned by the Forward architectural firm following a commission by the Association of [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial, Lighting Tags: Gonçalo Campos, Holder, Portugal, White
Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos, in collaboration with Maria Bruno Néohas recently has created Pano Candleholders. A collection of candle holders in porcelain, made in a very unusual way, called Pano (the Portuguese word for cloth). These are made by using cotton fabric as the temporary structure to hold the porcelain and at the end of [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern cabinet, Portugal
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 [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial, Lighting Tags: Japan, Pendant light, Portugal, SIMPLEFORMSDESIGN
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, [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Lattice screen, Paratelier, Portugal, Timber
In Portugal, the recently completed Guest House by PARATELIER designed to integrate into the area of sand dunes near the Atlantic Ocean, it functions as a temporary house for guests, parking area and agricultural storage for agricultural activities. Location In the vast nature reserve of “pinhal da Comporta” recognized for its typical coastal habitat of [...]
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