The premieres of HGTV’d will kick off on 6th June 2011. This is a new series where HGTV travels across America, surprising fans with home makeovers resulting in over-the-top transformations by their favorite HGTV designers. The makeovers will feature stunning room designs created by HGTV stars such as David Bromstad (Color Splash), John Gidding (Curb Appeal: [...]
20 selected graduating HYPER-VISIONARY thesis projects of architecture students will be showed on May 20/21, 2011, in the Berg Gallery, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. The website will be online leading up to and during the hours of the event, simulcast online @ http://Jackson-Studio.com/hyper Friday May 20th, 5-9pm Saturday May 21st, 10am-5pm Berg Gallery, Building [...]
Rice University Art Gallery is pleased to present Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, a talk by Robin Clark, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), on Thursday, April 14, at 7:00 pm 7:30 pm, preceded by a wine and cheese reception at 6:30 pm 7:00 pm. Both reception and lecture are free [...]
Luna Faucet Design Inspired By The Moon and Stars Gazing into the sky and looking to the moon and the stars for inspiration, the designers at GRAFF created the awe-inspiring, Luna with it’s almost 40” long spout – elegantly curving off the wall and into your sink. The GRAFF Luna Faucet’s sensuous and sculptural form [...]
Artaic creates 330 square foot custom mosaic for the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Two years and $220M later, the grand opening ceremony of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research was set for March 4. Yet the building was still without an important finishing touch. Supplier issues had left lead architect James [...]
Designed by NC-office, the Cafe Bustelo project is an interior build-out at the Gansevoort Hotel South in Miami Beach. The design seeks to emphasize the proportions of the shell by juxtaposing two distinct volumes. The space is divided longitudinally into a compressed mezzanine which contains the service areas, and a double-height volume which is defined [...]
American architectural firm Bates Masi + Architects completed the Pryor house located in Montauk, NY. The house occupies a hill in Montauk with a distant view of ocean. A site that the owners, a couple with two young boys, spent years to find. It is the couple’s reprieve from their home in the city, to [...]
American architectural practice Coates Design has completed the Ellis Residence in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Ed, house owner, describes the first morning in their home, When I saw the sunrise with the skyline of Seattle as a backdrop the whole process was all worth it. Perched high upon Yeomalt Bluff, the Ellis Residence enjoys a commanding [...]
Miami-based firm NC-office recently completed the Inkanta Design Store located in Miami Beach at the 1111 Parking Garage designed by Herzog and De Meuron. The project is a retail interior located at the 1111 Building on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. The space is defined by two walls which contain the display cases. The walls [...]
Commemorating the life of an international leader and educator in the disability rights movement, the Ed Roberts Campus recently opened in Berkeley. When Ed Roberts founded Berkeley’s Center for Independent Living (CIL) in 1972, it was the world’s first organization to be run by and for people with disabilities. After Roberts’s death in 1995, the [...]
In a successful collaboration with German manufacturer Nachtmann and Riedel, Alvaro Uribe has created a collection of three Crystal Lead products (Petals Collection) that poetically reflects the purity of the material and the expertise of Nachtmann as a worldwide leader in the production of glass. These products were launched during the Messe Ambiente in Frankfurt [...]
Valerio Dewalt Train Associates has designed the new Laboratory Schools, Early Childhood Center for University of Chicago. Founded by John Dewey in 1886, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools have been a successful and evolving experiment in an educational model that prioritizes the learning environment as teacher. In 2007, the Schools embarked on one of [...]
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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 [...]
