The Federal Republic of Germany chose the multinational firm Laboratory for Visionary Architecture [LAVA] as the designers for their bid to host the Secretariat of the Green Climate Fund [GCF] in Bonn. LAVA’s design for the headquarters of the GCF is ‘an ecological model project’ and demonstrates their motto: ‘green is the new black’. The [...]
BUCHMANN GALERIE Charlottenstrasse 13 D-10969 Berlin, Germany +49(0)30 258 999 29 www.buchmanngalerie.com April 27 – June 23, 2012 Berlin Gallery Weekend: Friday, April 27, 2012, 6-9 pm Saturday + Sunday, April 28 + 29, 11 am – 7 pm Weekdays: Tues. – Sat. 11 am – 6 pm The Buchmann Galerie is pleased to announce [...]
The transparency makes the continuity between inside and outside, the outside comes inside and vice-versa. An eclectic conquest of the space makes the building not a barrier but a dynamic urban link, crossed by a linear flexible path across Bauhaus history. The idea of creating a new unity by the marriage of many arts and [...]
Veronica Morales shared with us her photography of BMW Welt by Coop Himmelb(l)au in Munich. The architect Prof Wolf D. Prix and his agency, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, were able to visualize the expectations of BMW In the shape of gigantic cloud developed from a twisted Double Cone of steel and glass, and made accessible to visitors. [...]
Designed by Maximilian Löw, “Edged-Lamp” is a pendant lamp with a span of one meter. The result of this design is a geometric, industrial-looking lamp, which results from symmetrically arranged surfaces. The construction of the lamp has not only aesthetic aspects, but also offers stability, once all the edges are connected. Before the sheet could [...]
OOIIO Architecture recently has designed a housing project in Wurzburg, Germany. It consists of 15 sustainable apartment blocks, with 6 floor high each one, placed in front of a Second World War runway. The buildings are related with a famous landscape exhibition in Germany called “Bundesgartenschau” and special gardens will cross all the development. According [...]
Austria-based architectural firm DMAA (Delugan Meissl Associated Architects) has won the competition for the Urban Planning Quartier M. Two overriding factors flow into the main idea for the urban design: the terrain’s immediate closeness to a trafficked road axis and the western railway, as well as the requirement for high density construction. In response to [...]
The installation “Wandern im Wissen” (Wandering in Knowledge) represents current inquiries and transports the information of different scientific fields visually to the stairway between the four floors of the The State- and University library Bremen. The State- and Universitylibrary Bremen (SuUB) invited the University of the Arts Bremen to contribute to the 350th year [...]
Pott Architects is delighted that through finishing the project Studio Lofts in Hamburg new space for creative companies has been created. On a 7,000 square meter business park site, in a green space between inner city and airport, the studio has realized a modern office concept. Under ecological and energetic aspects the main building of [...]
German design studio vezo design has created new lamp Vezo #2021. The # 2021 is a modern and minimalist table lamp. The standard version is made of anthracite-colored concrete and walnut. It is a warm white LED installed, the light output of these lamps is due to the dark wood very weak. The dimensions are [...]
Modernisation of the Berchtesgaden Youth Hostel– Design meets Adventure: Haus Untersberg – now open LAVA‘s reinterpretation of an existing youth hostel has resulted in a completely new type of space. The transformation of the youth hostel is underway! The design is all about the individuality of spaces – LAVA achieved this by the clever reorganisation [...]
The Festival of Lights is one of the largest illumination festivals in the world. Every year for twelve days in October, Berlin’s world-famous landmarks and monuments are dressed in spectacular light. German and international artists and lighting designers present extraordinary illuminations, light art and creative designs. The festival is accompanied by numerous cultural events, all [...]
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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 [...]
