London-based architectural firm Foster + Partners recently unveiled the CircleBath located in Bath, UK. The three-storey building is set into the hills facing to the protected green belt, internally the function rooms are planned around a central light filled atrium, promoting a sense of orientation and intimacy. The building provides operating theatres, bedrooms, consultation, treatment and [...]

John Harrington, is a English designer/maker of items as diverse as jewellery to chandeliers to hotel interiors. He loves and appreciates the skill of great craftsmen, by reinventing tradition he endeavours to make sense of those skills for a modern lifestyle. Three of his lighting designs – Cut Glasses Chandelier, LEGO Chandelier and Lit Cornice, have [...]

UK design studio Funkdalata Design recently has completed the contemporary lighting series – Circus of Freaks Collection. + Design description courtesy of Funkdalata Design The high quality of this product is due to the fact that they are laser cut tailored to perfect fit and click without the use of glue of any sort. Part are made [...]

Hanover House by Kraus Schoenberg Architects is the refurbishment and extension project on the rooftop of a Victorian warehouse building located in Bradford, United Kingdom. The sculptural aspect of the roof silhouette is no mere architectural fancy, but reflects the roofscape of the surrounding buildings and has been used to form the living spaces. Kraus Schoenberg Architects + [...]

The new phase 2 of the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum by C. F. Møller Architects had the grand opening on 14 September 2009 and unveiled to the public on 15 September. The new Darwin Centre features a huge eight-storey concrete cocoon surrounded by a glass atrium, this iconic form expresses the enormous [...]

Ryszard Rychlicki of H3AR has won the 3rd prize of London Bridge 800 Competition organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects & Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects. + Project description courtesy of H3AR If we treat a house as a product with a programmed product life, which after the expiry of the guarantee period we may [...]