Bora CAKILKAYA introduced the new design called ISTANBOUL in the Design SPIRIT Exhibition within the scope of the greatest design platform of Turkey, Istanbul Design Week 2011. The exhibition, composed of 40 designers younger than 40 years of age, shall be displayed at the Old Galata Bridge between 28th September and 2nd October. This year’s [...]
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 [...]
A fragmented orchard, Kirchberg, Luxemburg OKRA won the competition to design a public space between office buildings in the Gruenewald area of the Luxemburg city borough of Kirchberg. OKRA thought of how to give the fragmented neighbourhood a consistent identity of its own. As the area lacked a clear programme, OKRA chose to come up [...]
In Spain, Jesús Torres Architect designed the Las Negras Waterfront in Cabo de Gata Natural Park, Almería. We are particularly interested in the architecture of supports, or elements open to uses with the capacity to include wishes, activities and creativity of public interest and which, at the same time, are related to the control of [...]
Studio Kawamura Ganjavian has created the Caterpillar benches, Caterpillar is a series of benches (varying lengths and finished) that elaborate on the notion of lightness and redundancy. Their multiple legs seem to be set in perpetual motion thus questioning the static feeling of stability often associated to a bench. + Designer: Studio Kawamura Ganjavian + [...]
London-based architecture and design firm Sybarite has recently created the Archetto bench for Pitti Uomo Buyer’s Club in Firenze, Italy. + Project description by Sybarite The brief was for a communal seating area which would make the best use of a small space in a unique and aesthetically pleasing way. The response is a sculptural [...]
An industrial designer Kim HyunJoo from South Korea has recently created the “cube” Outdoor Bench & Lighting. ‘Cube’ is a outdoor bench, and lighting as well which is made of granite. It seems to be lean to one side without anchor bolt, but it never lean to one side due to the material characteristic; granite [...]
American design studio NunoErin has been commissioned by the Mississippi Children’s Museum to design the Lightning Bench. The bench is able to interact with the users via its hidden network of sensors installed below the translucent surface. This project was inspired by a child’s ability to turn a functional world into an imaginative journey. + [...]
naifdesign was established in 2010, to design durable and cheerful products. The studio aims creating comfortable products with deep relations to their owners, without abandoning the basic rules of design. With their products, naifdesign aims to turn homes, offices and all other living areas into exclusive places. All naifdesign products are created with eco-friendly and [...]
Center Culutural Gabriela Mistral, Great Architecture in Chile The projects arose from the collaboration between Later Arquitectura & Desino and Cristian Fernandez Arquitectos, and is laid out as a multi-functional area that is a part of the main street of the city creating new public spaces. A community space to meet and a landmark for [...]
Dutch designer Floris Wubben recently has created Bench No. 3. The graceful lines of Bench No. 3 bring to mind a wave cascading over driftwood or as Rob Cassey from England’s prestigious Garden Design Journal puts it This is an incredibly beautiful and potentially iconic object that reminds me both of Issey Miyake’s work and [...]
Austrian design studio Designerei Graz recently designed the Getier Bench. Getier, the bench named after its animal-like features, blends well into the environment of Mariahilferplatz (Graz / Austria) and allows a diversity of interpretation. The solid chain is both an anchor and a radius of motion and creates a playful variety of arrangements, which arouses [...]
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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 [...]
