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Category: Architecture, Book, Culture, Selected Tags: Concert Hall, Glass, José Marini Bragança, Portugal, White
Portuguese architect José Marini Bragança shared with us his office’s new monographic book, which features some of the works and projects of the architecture office, Marini Bragança. Party Hall is one of the project featured in this book. The building provides a strong relationship with its natural surroundings. To minimise its visual impact, the building [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Gonçalo Campos, Portugal, Table lamp
Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos has recently created the Placa Lamp. The lamp shades simply placed on a wooden board. The impact that such a simple premise brings is unexpected. Besides creating a “stage” for placing other objects of interest, (effectively turning into a plinth) it provides room for the relationship between its elements to develop. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: André Espinho, FG+SG, Portugal, School
Portuguese architectural firm André Espinho Arquitectura has designed the School Center Paredes – Alenquer. School Center Paredes is composed of a white volume resting on four black volumes, thus marking the separation between floors. The majority of the project works around the creation of three patios/playgrounds and the relationship of the building with the slope [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Portugal
Portuguese ceramic maker Carla Santiago from Estudio BIS//CUIT designed 2 tableware sets, Patterned Face and Patterned Smile. The homeware pieces are inspired by the virtual and digital imagery taken from computer graphics, video games and fashion editorial images. + Product description by ESTUDIO BIS//CUIT PATTERNED SMILE – porcelain tableware set Inspired by virtual imagery and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Paratelier, Pavilion, Portugal, Timber
“PARATELIER”, founded in 2007 in Lisbon (Portugal), is now presented in the exhibition “PROGETTI DI GIOVANI ARCHITETTI ITALIANI”, held in Milan between 2nd of December 2010 and 10th of January 2011 as a part of Triennale di Milano. This is an exhibition of work organized by the GiArch (National Coordiantion of Young Italian Architects) and [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: FG+SG, Photography, Portugal, White
Portuguese photography studio FG+SG shared with us their latest work of Casa Fez which was designed by Alvaro Leite Siza. + Project credit / data Project: Casa Fez Location: Porto, Portugal Architect: Alvaro Leite Siza Photography: FG+SG | http://www.ultimasreportagens.com + All images courtesy Fernando Guerra / FG+SG
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Creative design, Gonçalo Campos, Portugal
Dedo is an innovative message board designed by Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos. It provides an easy, intuitive, and fun way to express ideas, leave messages and play, just by simply dragging your finger trough the fur you leave a trail, a drawing… By using artificial fur it functions both as a basic communication device and [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: Creative design, Portugal
In Portugal, Lara | Sara (Lara Plácido – Architect and Sara Bento Botelho – Sculptor) designed the Natureza em risco. The design was developed by the idea of “Art in the Garden” to interact with the behavior of its visitors, thus creating a drawing of their journey. … as we walk past it, will grow [...]
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Category: Design, Fashion Tags: Creative design, Gonçalo Campos, Portugal
Oly disposable Bracelet is a latest creation by Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos. A paper bracelet that anyone can download and build, like a children’s game, using glue and scissors. It’s a really special and distinct accessory, to be used anytime you feel like it, without being afraid of losing or breaking, because it’s just paper [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Industrial Tags: Contemporary design, Creative design, Portugal
Portuguese designer Acácio Viegas Pereira has designed the Ethanol Fireplaces. Clean, burning is based on denatured ethanol, a solvent composed of ethyl alcohol, no smell and no smoke. + All images courtesy of Acácio Viegas Pereira
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Category: Design, Fashion, Industrial Tags: Gonçalo Campos, Portugal
Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos has designed the Comion Jewelry Collection. + Design description courtesy of Gonçalo Campos Made in 3D printing technology, representing the amazing possibilities offered by this new technology that makes virtually any shape possible to build. All of these objects where designed and modeled in the computer, and after printed in steel. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Landscape, Transportation Tags: Bridge, Europen architecture, Portugal, Spaceworkers
Portuguese architectural studio Spaceworkers has designed a Footpath and Cycling Bridge proposal for the competition sponsored by the city of Maribor in Slovenia within the European Capital of Culture 2012. The challenge was to create a Footpath and cycling bridge in a place where once existed the first bridge in this city. The dynamics of [...]
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