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Laboratory Schools, Early Childhood Center | Valerio Dewalt Train Associates

Laboratory Schools, Early Childhood Center | Valerio Dewalt Train Associates

Category: Architecture, Education Tags: , , , ,
| March 13, 2011 | 0 Comments

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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Crystal Stone at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show

Crystal Stone at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show

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| March 13, 2011 | 0 Comments

Last month, we’ve introduced the Dare to Design competition held by Crystal Stone, which gave designers the chance to submit ideas for the stone presentations at the Home Design Show and Artist Project NY exhibits. Well, how was that? Did you join it? It is the time now to visit the showcase at the Architectural [...]

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Design Incubator – Theater of Production \ Alan Lu

Design Incubator – Theater of Production \ Alan Lu

Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: , ,
| February 20, 2011 | 1 Comment

Alan Lu shared with us his academic project and concept just recently completed at MIT in Cambridge, MA. + Project description by Alan Lu This project by Alan Lu explores the notion of programmatic extremism in a design incubator facility where a central defined figure that contains a vertically integrated manufacturing/workloft arrangement occupies the void [...]

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The Architectural Digest Home Design Show + Artist Project NY Competition

The Architectural Digest Home Design Show + Artist Project NY Competition

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| February 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

Kultivate has partnered with Crystal Stone on Dare to Design, a unique design project to be showcased at the  Architectural Digest Home Design Show and The Artist Project NY in March. The Architectural Digest Home Design Show and The Artist Project NY have offered Crystal Stone and fellow stone company International Stone Collections the opportunity [...]

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Chandeliers | Robert Kaindl

Chandeliers | Robert Kaindl

Category: Design, Lighting Tags: , ,
| February 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

If you are looking for a pendant light to fit in your living hall or any grand spaces, you have now an option to consider this Chandeliers by international glass artist Robert Kaindl. It looks huge and artistic, click to his official website that you can see more varieties and also the making of the [...]

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West 57th Street Residential Building | BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

West 57th Street Residential Building | BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
| February 8, 2011 | 3 Comments

Durst Fetner Residential selects BIG to design 600-unit residential building on W57th Steet in Manhattan, New York. The building is conceived as a cross breed between the Copenhagen courtyard and the New York skyscraper. The communal intimacy of the central urban oasis meets the efficiency, density and panoramic views of the tall tower in a [...]

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Parametric Bookshelves | Caterina Tiazzoldi / Nuova Ordentra

Parametric Bookshelves | Caterina Tiazzoldi / Nuova Ordentra

Category: Design, Furniture Tags: , , , ,
| February 4, 2011 | 2 Comments

The Parametric Bookshelves is designed by Caterina Tiazzoldi and uses advanced digital techniques, developed with the experience as director of the Advanced Research Lab NSU at the School of Architecture at Columbia University, to achieve a formal exploration of new configurations of a bookshelf. +Designer: Caterina Tiazzoldi / Nuova Ordentra | http://www.tiazzoldi.org/

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Cherokee Mixed-Use Lofts | Brooks + Scarpa Architects

Cherokee Mixed-Use Lofts | Brooks + Scarpa Architects

Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: , , , , , , ,
| February 2, 2011 | 0 Comments

Brooks + Scarpa Architects has designed the Cherokee Mixed-Use Lofts in Los Angeles, California, USA. The building is inspired by the series of paintings by the British artist Patrick Hughes titled, “Perspectivity”, whose paintings appear to be ever changing and physically moving while being viewed.  At Cherokee the main architectural feature of this project is [...]

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Step Up on Fifth | Brooks + Scarpa Architects

Step Up on Fifth | Brooks + Scarpa Architects

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| February 2, 2011 | 0 Comments

The several awards winning project Step Up on Fifth by Brooks + Scarpa Architects was designed to accommodate 46 studio apartments, ground level retail space and subterranean parking. The building is loaded with energy-saving and environmentally materials/devices with 71% recycling rate achievement. The front facade is designed with a series of water jet cut aluminum [...]

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UPDATE of Bicycle Transit Center: More images, drawings & diagrams

UPDATE of Bicycle Transit Center: More images, drawings & diagrams

Category: Architecture, Selected, Transportation Tags: , , , , , ,
| January 29, 2011 | 0 Comments

We’ve featured the Bicycle Transit Center by KGP Design Studio few days ago, here is supplemental information, including full project description, credits, images, drawings and diagrams shared by architect. If you missed our previous post, let’s check it out here. + Full description by KGP Design Studio Summary At the cusp of a livable cities [...]

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Bicycle Transit Center | KGP Design Studio

Bicycle Transit Center | KGP Design Studio

Category: Architecture, Selected, Transportation Tags: , , , , , ,
| January 24, 2011 | 2 Comments

Washington-based architectural firm KGP Design Studio recently has completed the Bicycle Transit Center (BTC) at Union Station, Washinton DC. It is designed to store 150 bicycles as well as a locker/shower and a repair rental store. While “differentiating” itself from Union Station itself, the Center does merge with its surroundings adapting the vocabulary of the bronze [...]

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Michael Stolworthy’s Showcase

Michael Stolworthy’s Showcase

Category: Design, Furniture Tags: , , , , ,
| January 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

American designer Michael Stolworthy recently has designed the Intrigue Bar Stool, Serous Bar Stool, Lo-Boy Lounger, and Twelve Bar Stool. I developed a passion for art & design at an early age and it eventually grew into a fascination with three dimensional form manipulation. In my spare time I try to create things that you [...]

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