Architects: ARX PORTUGAL - José Mateus y Nuno Mateus Location: Ilhavo, Portugal Project team: Paulo Rocha, Stefano Riva, Andreia Tomé, Gonçalo Manteigas, João Rodrigues, Marco Roque Antunes, Nuno Grancho, Pedro Sousa, Sónia Luz Project year: 2002-2004 Construction year: 2004-2005 Constructed area: 3,200 sqm Landscape: ARX PORTUGAL, Arquitectos Lda. Structure: SAFRE, Estudos e Projectos de Engenh..
Young, Paris-based designers Trust in Design have completed the interior of a beauty parlour called B.institut in Vannes, France. They furnished the interior with beech units and coated the floor in green resin. Computer-cut stickers decorate the walls. “We created a welcoming place while keeping the identity of the brand, with an organic design for the furniture and the lighting,” say the desig..
Swedish furniture giant IKEA has converted the Kobe Portliner Monorail into a moving showroom before the April 14 opening of a new retail outlet at Port Island. The redecorated train, which features a colorful exterior, bright upholstery and fancy curtains, will carry passengers in style until May 6. from pinktentacle
Five Nobel-winning scientists have been paired with five textile designers as part of a two-year project between Central Saint Martins College and the Medical Research Council, and the result is Nobel Textiles: a brilliant week of exhibitions and events at the ICA and in St James’s Park, London. Theres an introduction film to the project here Five greenhouses in St James’s Park will contain self..
In the sophisticated popular culture of the Edo period (1603-1868), much attention was devoted to Japan’s rich pantheon of traditional monsters and apparitions, known as yokai. Sometimes frightening, sometimes humorous, these compelling Japanese folk creatures were the subject of numerous artistic and literary works. One such work was Hyakkai Zukkan, a collection of picture scrolls completed in ..
exhibition at bitforms gallery nyc, 6 March to 12 April 2008. from reas
Architects: wHY Architecture Location: Culver City, California, USA Area: 929 sqm Project Year: 2008 Program: Art Gallery, Cafe and Retail Shop Photographs: wHY Architecture Royal/T is a playful collision of art gallery, cafe and retail shop within a 10,000 sf warehouse in Culver City, California. wHY Architecture designed the space unlike any other, playing upon traditional rules of gallery, re..
Architects: at103 / Julio Amezcua + Francisco Pardo Location: Acapulco, Mexico Project Team: Jorge Vazquez, Aida Hurtado Constructed Area: 600 sqm Project year: 2006 Construction year: 2007 Photographs: Frida Escobedo, Adolfo Pardo The Project consists on a restoration and addition of an existing house in the old part of the city of Acapulco, Mexico. Acapulco in the 50’s and 60’s was a Hollywood..
Architects: Studio Paralelo Location: Bento Golçalves, RS – Brazil Project team: Luciano Andrades, Rochelle Castro e Valéria Bertolini Contractor: Icon Incorporadora Structural Engineering: Pasquali e Associados Lighting: Potencial Engenharia Landscape: Samuel Seben Site Area: 930 sqm Constructed Area: 360 sqm Project year: 2006 Construction year: 2008 Photographs: Eduardo Aigner The house is lo..
Ficha técnica Proyecto: Casa Hemeroscopium Localización: Las Rozas- Madrid Fecha del proyecto: Diciembre 2005 Fecha de finalización de la obra: Junio 2008 Autor del proyecto: Antón García- Abril Arquitectos colaboradores: Elena Pérez, Débora Mesa - Ensamble Studio: Jorge Consuegra, Marina Otero, Ricardo Sanz Arquitecto técnico: Javier Cuesta Promotor: Hemeroscopium Empresa constructora: Materia ..
