Slovak designer Zuzana Serbak is a brand new blood in the fashion industry. Her curriculum vitae reads Shoe Designer freshly graduated from the Prague Academy of Arts in Architecture and Design. Serbak’s diploma designs are edgy, futuristic, stylish and bold. They are examples of thinking outside the box and looking forward to a collection with no barriers and no restrictions. We always love loo..
Glen Irani Architects have designed the third in their series of Hover Houses located on the Venice Canals of Los Angeles, California. Situated on the Venice Canals of Los Angeles, California, Hover House 3 represents the third in the architects’ Hover House series. This series focuses on maximizing outdoor living on small lots by ‘hovering’ the building envelope above the grade level in order t..
Created by “fishing for compliments“, ”Nemore” is a garden, consiting of 36 bendable graphite poles. “Nemore” senses the visitor. Each pole has a behavior and reacts to it’s neighbours and to the visitor, the “alien neighbour”. Does a system arise from the poles behaviour, that we (the observers and the visitor) perceive as angst, curiosity, nervousness, etc.? Each pole has a distinct sound, tha..
Vienna Design Week 2010: Austrian designer Rainer Mutsch has created a range of outdoor seating moulded from sheets of fiber cement. The recyclable composite is more normally used in the construction industry, and is made from natural materials including cellulose fibres. Called Dune, the seats comprise loops of the material and can be used as individual pieces or a modular system. Mutsch develo..
Architects: Suters Architects Location: Churchill, Victoria, Australia Project Team: Joshua McAlister, Ian Prior, Graeme Christianson, Scott Francis, Rebecca Brewer Building Contractor: W. Parnall Constructions Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Emma Cross The Churchill Community Hub is a contemporary community centre that co-locates services within a larger building; it allows crossover of these s..
Essentia Designs have completed an office interior for Dentsu London. The Brief We were approached through project managers Interactive Space to work on the offices for Dentsu London, one of the most exciting creative agencies in the UK. The building is an award winning development by Amanda Levete which the Dentsu team have already christened the “spaceship” (Tokyo HQ is the mothership!). Our b..
Alexander Lotersztain has designed the HAUS series of conversation pods. These three little houses have been based on the fairy tale ‘the three little pigs’ – with each space being a unique creation, identified by materiality, texture and structure. HAUS were originally conceived as spaces to gather, talk and exchange ideas during the Unlimited Asia Pacific Design Triennial in Brisbane, Australi..
Last year we featured the Brochstein Pavilion designed by Thomas Phifer & Partners and The Office of James Burnett. Since then, the pavilion has received a National AIA Award, a National ASLA Honor Award and the ASU Architectural Citation. Today, we’d like to share with you a video that The Office of James Burnett made about the pavilion. Enjoy! from archdaily
EGM Architects designed a new office for the Verkerk Group in Hoevelaken, The Netherlands. The new branch of Verkerk Group, an electrical installation company with 375 employees, located in the industrial area in the Eastern Hogebrink Entry into Hoevelaken. The terrain is characterized by a motley collection of rectangular buildings, interspersed here and there with a house. To stand out from th..
Concrete Architectural Associates have recently completed the interior design of the Mazzo restaurant in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mazzo, the eight member of the IQ creative family in Amsterdam, is the Italian sister of Brasserie Witteveen – both in hospitality concept and in the interior there is an obvious connection. As with Witteveen the name and location of Mazzo share a history in the ci..
