Billdal, 20 km south of Gothenburg, is a community with a large amount of detached housing, situated within commuter distance to central Gothenburg. The area’s main attraction is truly the sea. Here, the horizon is visible from shore, while further north the vastness of the Northern Sea is obstructed by islands in the southern archipelago. [...]
Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh and Finnish illustrator Kustaa Saksi have joined creative forces to design the installation that will set the stage for talks on design and architecture at the fair. They have each started out from their own perspective while adhering to a shared vision. From the very beginning, the idea has been to [...]
Designed by EGA, the H+ city renewal project in Helsingborg, Swedenhas won the WAN AWARD URBAN REGENERATION 2012. Jury : Alan Thompson, Head of Design Review at the Design Council Biljana Savic, Urban Programme Manager for The Prince’s Foundation for Building Community Richard Brown, Director, Keith Williams Architects Comments from the Jury: It was Erik Giudice [...]
Swedish lighting company, Wästberg, will present the new LED Uplighter designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune, at Orgatec, October 23 – 27, 2012. Historic industrial design icons such as the Starship Enterprise or the Citroën’s steering wheel were inspirational when designing the w126 uplighter. Admittedly two quite technical examples, but this is a lamp that demanded [...]
Claesson Koivisto Rune have recently completed the Widlund House in Sandvik, Öland, Sweden. + Architect: Claesson Koivisto Rune + Photographer: Åke E.son Lindman + All images and drawings courtesy Claesson Koivisto Rune | Photo by Åke E.son Lindman
Spira has four different performing arts venues: a main concert hall that seats 910, a 450-seat theater, a 200-seat black box, and a 200-seat café stage. The building is situated on an artificial peninsula jutting out into Lake Munksjön, right in the center of downtown Jönköping. The layout follows from a foyer that opens to [...]
Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau has come out with a new product, The Butler: The Impeccable Bin with Character. Only Jangir Maddadi could design a waste bin that can truly be described as elegant. But that is exactly what he has done. Elegant and unassuming, a butler provides all your needs before you even have to [...]
The Swedish branch of C. F. Møller Architects, Berg Arkitektkontor, has designed Sweden’s new, spectacular skiing attraction, Skipark 360°, the world’s most complete indoor ski park with e.g. a 700 m long downhill slope and a drop of 160 m, making it the only indoor ski slope in the world to meet the requirements for [...]
This is the result of the Master’s course “File to Factory” at the Department of Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. The third part of this course included the construction of a scene / bar for a HBTQ-festival at The Swedish Design Museum – Röhsska museet. Unit Arkitektur was course director for [...]
Swedish designer Jangir Maddadi has recently launched the Compound Collection. The design challenges the endless possibilities that fit to any size of spaces. unlike any other. It is a huge offering to the world of contemporary furniture design, and I can’t wait to see the outcome of not only the foam coated pieces, but of [...]
Shared by Deve Architects, Näverket is a competition entry for the Södra Tennis Competition in Sweden. How can wood construction be utilized to create the ultimate competitive tennis environment in Växjö, Sweden? After laying out a continuous tennis surface on the Södra Tennis site, a simple shell is created to enclose three indoor courts, while [...]
Malmström Edström were along with three other architectural firms invited by to a parallel assignment to create a concept for future railway installations and maintenance buildings. The aim of the assignment was to find a design concept with a high architectural standard. Jernhusen – the client – owns and develops stations, maintenance depots and freight [...]
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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 [...]
