The Traveller, an installation by Belgian artist/designer Arne Quinze, opened in Munich, Germany last month. The installation marked the opening of a new Louis Vuitton store within the Oberpollinger department store in the city. Here’s some text from Louis Vuitton: – Louis Vuitton pays tribute to famous artist Arne Quinze and collaborate with him to celebrate the opening of its new store at Ober..
PROJECT Northshore Hamilton Parkland CLIENT Port of Brisbane Corporation LOCATION Brisbane, Australia ARTISTS Fiona Foley, Jennifer Marchant, Daniel Tobin DESIGNER Kylie Bickle ARCHITECT PDT Architects LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Conics, Place In 2008 Urban Art Projects’ collaborated with Landscape Architects Conics and PDT Architects for the development of the Northshore Hamilton Riverside Park located..
Bone, Bridge and Together, are three coffee tables created by Austrian designer Daniel Meise. Meise creates the sculptural pieces by using a special concrete that hardens quickly and remains strong despite their thin walls. The pieces appear to be quite heavy, but looks can be deceiving. Meise’s T-shaped “bone” table with only 8 to 10 millimeters wall thickness weighs only 25kg. The Bone Table: ..
PROJECT 53 Albert Street CLIENT Nettleton Tribe Architects LOCATION Brisbane, QLD, Australia ARTIST Jennifer Marchant ARTWORK TITLE Landlines ART MANAGEMENT Urban Art Projects YEAR 2008 Jennifer Marchant's map installation of Cunningham's Gap and the Main Range veils three elevations of a car park, creating a pedestrian viewpoint of the view to the south. They wrap counter clockwise around the s..
We have some inspirational sofa photos today from the Danish manufacturer Eilersen. from contemporist
In 2006, with its centennial approaching, St. Albans School, a private boys’ school founded in 1909, decided to embark upon its first new construction project in nearly 30 years. The institution hired Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) to complete a 25,000-square-foot expansion and 30,00-square-foot of renovations to provide a student center, new classrooms, faculty offices, library and auditorium..
C. F. Møller Architects' design for a 60 residence passive housing scheme has been said by judges in a concept competition to raise, 'important issues about how existing and future masterplans can or should enable on-site renewable energy generation'. The firm was one of 5 consortia to generate a proposal for the pilot-project Housing+, designed for the Aalborg waterfront in Denmark. C. F. Mølle..
Last weekend saw the spectacular launch of the UK’s first Restaurant and Bar Awards dedicated exclusively to design. To celebrate the occasion, Dominic Harris of Cinimod Studio was commissioned to create an outdoor interactive lighting installation. Conceived as an exploded blank canvas, the huge "exploded globe of light" was suspended from the trees over London’s famed Hoxton Square and was int..
When mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he wanted to make New York the foremost eco city in the USA his announcement was met with a certain amount of incredulity. At first glance supplying the major energy needs of a city with a population of ten million by wind power sounds like a rather foolhardy dream. However, it shouldn't be forgotten that this is the United States, a place where the 'A..