IKEA is going to make tiny homes extremely functional with a flexible robotic furniture system ROGNAN developed in collaboration with the Boston-based start-up Ori Living. With ROGNAN, people will be able to turn their small spaces into smart spaces that have all the comfort and...
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Municipality of Rahovec launches international design competition for the City Square of Rahovec, a competition of ideas aiming to design a new center square to promote urban regeneration for the city. The International Design Competition for Central City Square of Rahovec is organized within the project...
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Los Angeles-based firm Wick Architecture & Design, in partnership with LAND Design Studio, applied anaglyph, an old technology of displaying 3D movies, to create a cathedral-like effect inside the Stereoscope coffee shop, which was recently opened in Newport Beach, California. The coffee shop is situated on...
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Tokyo is going to be a city with the most impressive public restrooms. Within the Tokyo Toilet Project founded by the Nippon Foundation, 16 world-renowned architects, including Tadao Ando and Shigeru Ban, were invited to design 17 public toilet facilities around the Shibuya ward. “Public toilets...
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A decorative roof and curved weathered-steel wall will enclose the Amersham Vent Shaft that Grimshaw has designed for the High Speed Two railway. Built within a road junction in the town of Amersham, England, the cylindrical headhouse will become one of the only visible elements of...
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Modern two-storey residence designed by Marcelo Sodré situated in São Paulo, Brazil. In this design, contemporary style, the architect Marcelo Sodré, created a townhome with integrated around a central landscaped courtyard environment, providing privacy and keeping the modernity of the work over the years. The topography initially...
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OPA designs its faceted ‘shapeshifter’ house outside reno, nevada for two art collectors and dealers specializing in contemporary art and art of the american west. Following the clients’ move from the arid high desert outside of reno to a less remote site overlooking the city,...
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In collaboration with AKT II and Hilson Moran, Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled a new digital architectural platform for creating sustainable modular homes in Roatán Próspera, a semi-autonomous Economic Development Hub set to break ground on the north bay of Honduras’ island of Roatán. The platform...
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The architecture and design of Sangini House explore ways to respond to the context and spirit of the heritage in which it stands. This office building for the Sangini group characterizes new strategies for a flexible, column-free space that creates a new urban venture in...
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The project is the first HEYTEA LAB store in Guangzhou, situated at Parc Central, a luxury mall in the heart of the CBD. From the architect: Since 2018, HEYTEA’s young and cool DNA has been going deep into consumers’ minds through working with different designers to...
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Although deploying four months later than normal (due to an obvious, unforeseen roadblock), the Metropolitan Museum of Arthas revealed its 2020 Roof Garden commission, tapping Mexican artist Héctor Zamora to drop a timely intervention across the New York City institution’s outdoor terrace. Lattice Detour will open...
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A remarkable private house designed by SOMA, built in 2017 in Lebanon. On the North side of Jounieh Bay, where the mountains plunge into the sea, Calypso hovers over the water like a crystal emerging from the rocks. Nestled on a small strip of rugged...
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Taizhou Contemporary Art Museum is situated inside the Shamen Grain Depot Cultural and Creative Park with unique historical context. Taking advantage of a large area of existing factories and warehouses in the former Soviet Union style within the park, the new project aims at reintegrating...
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A courtyard with a swimming pool lies at the heart of this inward-facing dwelling in northern Mexico by architecture studio Cadaval & Solà-Morales. Casa Ombra is 608-square-metre house located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, a town within the sprawling metropolis of Monterrey. The property is approximately...
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A new wall is making headlines - and it is not a border wall. The unveiling of the “largest living wall in Europe”, the Citicape House by Sheppard Robson, in London aims to combat global warming and growing greenhouse gases and improve local air cleanliness...
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Commanding a prominent corner site in the center of Gwanggyo, a new galleria designed by OMA / chris van duijn has opened its doors to the public. Marking the sixth outpost of Korea’s first and largest upscale department store franchise, the huge stone-like volume intends...
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Forget everything you thought you knew about the cinema. Not long ago, in west Berlin, the Delphi Lux theater transformed their screening halls with innovative interiors, lighting effects, and fantastical colors. The new 7 hall cinema has room for 600 moviegoers, in a project from the...
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Anyone in need of a temporary desk during the coronavirus crisis can build one themselves, using this design by Danish startup Stykka. Stykka has developed a simple flat-pack workstation that can be easily assembled out of three pieces of folded cardboard. The designers call it...
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Plants sprout from coolers and plastic pots. There is reflective silver mylar everywhere, and animal skins. On the kitchen shelf cookbooks offer instructions on foraging and recipes call for cockroaches. This is the Singaporean apartment of the future as imagined by the U.K. design studio...
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Crossboundaries’ latest installation is imagined as a fun inducing manifesto of future schools, where you can experience and imagine little glimpses of its principles. The installation is a part of the group exhibition for 2019 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale. The group exhibition contains five installations in...
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The Coronavirus pandemic has been taking over the news for a few months now, and has imposed unimaginable changes on the daily lives of the world’s entire population. Although the situation is worrying, and rather devastating in some cases, being aware of the virus's behavior...
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The underground railway service in Helsinki was opened in 1982 and consisted of a single line, which ran from the city centre to the eastern suburbs, where it then divided into separate branches. Plans already existed in the 1990s to extend the underground in a...
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Designed by LE-X arkitekturë the Lifestyle store exudes design and style that perfectly embody the concept of architecture that completes the shopping experience. The idea of the interior is to provide a unique shopping experience, with different elements in the space seamlessly interweaving each detail with...
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Railway Square is a new public square constructed in the former Midland Railway Workshops. The Workshops are a cluster of late 19th century industrial buildings undergoing thoughtful restoration to create an urban village for a new era. Retaining its authentic, industrial feel, the new urban...
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Molos Group created a contemporary, yet raw, beauty salon following its brand identity and theme of ‘angel’. located in prishtina, the capital city of kosovo, the salon is tastefully decorated with elements referencing wings and feathers, resulting in elegant interiors. the space was reconstructed from...
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This was the second “Low Cost House Series” project by JYA-RCHITECTS, sponsored by Korea Child Fund to improve a living environment for low-income families. The house was situated in a small rural village of Jangheung town in southeastern province of Korean peninsula and was a...
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The site can reach downtown Yangjiang via S365 Provincial Highway (approximately 25 minutes drive), Yangdong District via Shixing Road (approximately 15 minutes drive), Jiangcheng District via Yabai Line West (approximately 35 minutes by car), and seashore in the east. It has extremely convenient traffic conditions...
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A new wall is making headlines — and it is not a border wall. The unveiling of the “largest living wall in Europe”, the Citicape House by Sheppard Robson, in London aims to combat global warming and growing greenhouse gases and improve local air cleanliness...
A new wall is making headlines...
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Designed by Finnish practice JKMM, Amos Rex – a major new art museum in Helsinki – is completed. Amos Rex continues the work of Amos Anderson Art Museum (1965-2017) that was established at the bequest of Amos Anderson (1878-1961), a highly regarded Finnish philanthropist, art...
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Studio Symbiosis, a multidisciplinary architectural firm, has recently proposed a serie of solutions to clean up Delhi’s air, to fight against the already pervasive pollution: The inhabitants breathe 25 times more toxic air than the limit set by the World Health Organization. The first part...
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The Danish architecture firm COBE, headed by Dan Stubbergaard, has designed a new multi-purpose building for the world-famous sports brand adidas’ corporate headquarters in Germany. The building was officially opened last year, and now, the photos have been released for publication. In 2019, the iconic sports...
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Located in Cinere, just outside Indonesia’s capital city of Jakarta, the two-story Flick House stands out with its contemporary brick facade and its focus on sustainability. Jakarta-based DELUTION designed the residence for a family of six who wanted their home to be "humble and warm"...
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Texas studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has turned a former printing house into the New York headquarters of American burger company Shake Shack. Shake Shack's centre of operations spans half of a floor in an industrial building on Varick Street in Lower Manhattan's Tribeca...
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Beginning with a story of the designing company Whitaker Studio: In the spring of 2017 my client in LA had some friends visiting and, having a little time to spare, they all went on a road trip to visit the client’s plot of land in...
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Recycled concrete, repurposed double-glazing and discarded flooring boards were all used in the construction of Upcycle Studios, a Copenhagen housing development designed by Lendager Group. Danish architecture studio Lendager Group built the series of 20 new townhouses in the Ørestad district of Denmark's capital city. All...
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Bridges in China have a long tradition not only as traffic links but also as social gathering places. This heritage is revived in the design by the architects at Atelier FCJZ for Jishou Art Museum in central China. The Jishou Art Museum in the county-level city...
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On the hights of Cheongdam-dong avenue, in Séoul, South Korea, the new Louis Vuitton store is full of contemporary and traditional inspiration. Seen as a reference to the Korean culture, art and creativity are honored. The curved glass facade from Franck Gehry is similar to the...
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SEATOPIA·Bright & Bay Food by Guchuang Design is a supporting property of Sino-Ocean Group. The 2,000 square meter building space accommodated an owner’s canteen and two themed restaurants. SEATOPIA is a Coastal holiday complex developed by the Sino-Ocean Group in Beidaihe New District. It covers an...
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Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects has obtained planning permission for a development of micro homes made from shipping containers with green roofs in Aylesbury, England. Gatehouse Road is a low-cost housing scheme that is part of a series of regeneration plans for underused sites owned by the...
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Liyang Museum is located in the southeast corner of Yan Lake Park in the new urban district, connecting an urban public space to the new nature. The organic lines and undulating mountains compose melodious music in the mountain forest. An Open Attitude welcomes people from...
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Workshop Architects has created the Filux Lab for artistic design as part of the International Festival of Light in Mexico. They transformed an old colonial house located in the city of Merida into a real place of knowledge sharing, research, but also an art gallery....
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New York studio Weiss Manfredi has beaten competition from Dorte Mandrup and Diller Scofidio + Renfro to develop the park and museum accompanying Los Angeles' historic La Brea Tar Pits. Weiss Manfredi's design will occupy the active paleontological research centre situated on the eastern portion of...
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The new multi-cinema project takes place in the future site of the “Jardin de la Culture” close to the historical city center of Riom. Once this cultural enclosure, was the “Redemptoristine convent’s garden”. Nowadays, this new program offers: a multimedia library project, a music school...
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Since its inception in 2013 as an online retailer in cosmetics, HARMAY‘s operations have gone leaps and bounds. The company’s exponential growth in recent years gained momentum with its foray into brick and mortar retail two years ago by setting up shop in Shanghai, and...
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On the former campus of Manchester Metropolitan University, Mecanoo have designed a residential district of brick and new urban connection points. Inspired by the archetype of Dutch canal houses, Mecanoo have designed brick apartment buildings on the old campus of Manchester Metropolitan University. Together, the...
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Crosby Studios' founder Harry Nuriev has teamed up with Balenciaga to create a transparent vinyl couch filled with worn and discarded clothing from the French fashion brand. Architect and designer Nuriev and Balenciaga unveiled the oblong couch at this year's Design Miami 2019. It is...
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A house designed by K2Ld architects in a quiet residential street that reflects no particular historical period, but has fine examples of the various housing styles built throughout the last 100 years. Also, like many streets in Melbourne’s inner eastern suburbs, it is lined with...
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Architecture for London has designed the interiors of this north London extension to appear "like a neatly ruled grid in a notebook", hinting at the professions of its two inhabitants. Set on a terrace of Victorian properties in Islington, House for a Stationer has been designed...
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Since the somewhat unexpected arrival of Daniel Lee as Bottega Veneta‘s new creative director in Summer of last year, the top luxury brand has seen a renaissance hailed by global fashion crowds, and not unimportantly, steeply rising sales. But Lee’s badly needed brand rejuvenation has...
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The Chinese Architecture Studio Vector Architects, a realization a seafront chapel on the Bohai Coast in China. This building that mixes traditional with futurism offers an exceptional view of the sea. The faithful can feel like on a drifting boat that face the immensity of the...
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