Simona Sacchi won the SUN.LAB 2012. The SUN.LAB contest was conceived in reference to the theme of “Nature Inside“, nature inherent in the product, nature as material, nature as a resource to be protected, both in terms of aesthetic appeal and form. The project takes its name from the natural element that inspired the Balanus [...]
An innovative outdoor sculpture at Washington University School of Architecture: This is a class project with mixed media (mixed media: plywood and plastic), under the direction of Joe MacDonald of Urban A&O. It is an organic shape of concave shapes that play with light and shadows. Designed, fabricated and assembled by Zephyr Anthony, Andrew Davis, [...]
Portuguese photography studio FG+SG shared with us the Christmas Lighting photography in Lisbon, Portugal. Most years, Lisbon celebrates Christmas with much fanfare. Its artificial Christmas tree, once set up annually, towered over 200 feet and was one of the tallest not only in Portugal but in all of Europe. This year, however, austerity measures have [...]
At the opening of the Sretenka Design Week two objects, designed by OKRA are placed on a prominent spot on Tsvetnoy Bul’var in Moscow. The objects are designed as a demonstration model for interventions in public realm in Sretenka, one of Moscow’s oldest neighbourhoods. The objects are exemplary for the way interventions in public realm [...]
New York artist Michael Beitz‘ Picnic Table was commissioned by the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, in Omaha, Nebraska, as a permanent installation on its front loading dock, in conjunction with the Bemis Gardens exhibition and design laboratory. While in residence at the Bemis Center in 2010, Beitz produced a series of conceptual furniture drawings [...]
Batoidea is the outdoor furniture pieces designed by Peter Donders. Aptly named for the genus of fish which includes the elegant stingray, Batoidea is an extraordinary example of design and technology. Fluid and airy the chair defies practical conventions. The technique for the 3d printed sand mold is the same as the one used to [...]
Birdtreehut for bird is a the latest creation by Maandag meubels. It is a comfortable home for breading, a feeding place and branches for food. Not only fun for birds, also enjoyable for people. Who doesn’t like birds in garden, balcony or terrace? This birdtreehut attracts them all year round! The house will be used [...]
A young Russian designer Nadezhda Moiseeva has designed the Spider Web Chair. The inspiration of the chair come from trivial spider’s web, made of plastic or aluminum, the chair is perfect for your both indoor and outdoor garden, color may vary: black, white, red, chrome or even transparent. + Recommended spider’s web inspired design featured [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For the occasion of the Chic Art Fair Paris, British designer Tom Price created this serpentine bench by seamlessly weaving together 5 separate Blue Cable Rope chairs. A perfect compliment to the newly renovated Docks en Seine building which now houses the Paris center of fashion and design on the left bank of the Seine. [...]
French designer Alexandre Moronnoz designed a dynamic and fluid bench named it as Muscle Bench. The bench offers the possibility of sitting or lying down in response to the surface’s relief. Muscle Bench As spectacular to gaze at as it is comfortable to rest on, Muscle is a counter proposal to traditional stiff and motionless [...]
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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 [...]
