Brazilian architecture has produced interesting works in the business/retail area, often limited to just interior design. Recent works by Marcio Kogan, Marcelo Alvarango or Tao Arquitetura are good examples of a tradition that, in my personal opinion, has a peak at Mendes da Rocha’s Forma store in Sao Paulo. If you ever go to Sao Paulo to visit local architecture, don´t be afraid of your girlfri..
On July 27, Bustler reported about the big night at Calgary’s Grand Theatre where the five competition finalists presented their designs for the Cantos National Music Center competition. Presenting firms that night were Diller Scofidio and Renfro, New York, NY, Jean Nouvel Workshop, Paris, France, Allied Works Architecture/BKDI, Portland, OR, Saucier + Perrotte, Montreal, Quebec, and Studio Pali..
autor/autor mathias klotz, edgardo minond mandante/client Turner Internationational, Argentina colaboradores/colaborators rafael hevia, francisco reyes, hernán araujo calculist alberto fernstein superficie construida/built surface 2700 m² superficie de terreno/terrain surface n.d. año concurso/proyect year 2006 ubicación/location buenos aires, argentina The Turner Studios project started as a pr..
Pluk by Tjep Dutch designers Tjep. created the identity and interior of Pluk, a shop serving healthy take-away food in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The counters are filled with fake vegetables arranged according to colour. 기분이 좋아지는 컬러입니다. 눈으로 먹는 재미도 좋네요~
The architects wanted the building to seem like a large beach house or coastal hotel rather than a hospital. The following information is from Lyons Architects: – The building contests the conventional paradigm of a nursing home. Through its spatial arrangements and normalising environment, it shifts from a medico-centric model of care to one where family and carers work with staff to deliver ca..
Nearly 4 years after the competition for a new administration building of the Schwandorf Incineration Plant in Bavaria, Germany was won by Stuttgart-based archimedialab, this unique ensemble of building and landscape has now been officially inaugurated. Here is how archimedialab describe their project: The task to design a new administration building, reorganize the power station compound and cr..
유명한 세계적인 프랑스 디자이너 크리스찬 라크로와(Christian Lacroix)가 디자인한 부틱 호텔 Hotel du Petit Moulin 입니다.
It is quite rare to see a successful collaboration of two great designers each from a different firm that has been tested through time, and keeps going with great outcomes. This recipe is a success that has been working since the 80’s for Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz and Brian E. Boyle. Their latest creation is a 6.700 sqf private residence at Hamptons, Long Island, (NY), which has been designed to ac..
Kate Moss, 2008 / 2009 What do Kate Moss, Barack Obama, Madonna, Michael Jackson, David Beckham and Audrey Hepburn, amongst other famous people, share in common? They have all been text-portrayed by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer. Ralph Ueltzhoeffer was born in 1966 in Mannheim, Germany and since 1984 he has been working as a photographer. His works range from installations, such as the web-art-project “Tex..
REX and Principal in Charge Joshua Prince-Ramus have been named the winner of the BibLLLiotheek competition to build a “Library of the Future” for the city of Kortrijk, Belgium. New York-based REX partnered with landscape architects Bureau Bas Smets in entering the competition, which included both a building and master plan. In making its decision, the BibLLLiotheek jury noted that the REX desig..
