Los Angeles architects Stefan Rutzinger and Kristina Schinegger have designed Synaesthetic Filter, a proposed mobile pavilion for experimental music that can change shape to alter acoustic qualities during a performance. The demountable pavilion can be dismantled for transport and assembled in public interior spaces. Rotating acoustic elements open and close the pavilion and produce changing pat..
Architects: Vallo & Sadovsky Architects Location: Pekná Cesta, Bratislava-Rača, Slovakia Construction Year: 2006 End section house constructed area: 162 sqm Terraced house constructed area: 138 sqm Photographs: Pato Safko, Vallo Sadovsky Architects Our client’s requirement was to create a hybrid between a larger more comfortable dwelling with 4 parking places and a family house with a small gard..
Amsterdam designers UXUS have completed a bar for beer brand Heineken at Newark International Airport, New Jersey, USA. The bar opened last month. The interior uses custom designed leather sofas, Heineken green anodized aluminum tables and atmospheric lighting. Below is some more information from UXUS: – Amsterdam, 16 December 2008 – First Heineken Lounge opens at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Int..
Architects: Oyler Wu Collaborative Location: Los Angeles, USA Project Team: Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu, Chris Eskew, Brad Goldpaint Lighting Design: Thomas Paterson, Luxpopuli Photographs: Art Gray Photography Located approximately 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, this backyard intervention sits within a community of traditional suburban homes. Some of our initial interests grew out of looking..
A group of graduate students called Team 01Para, from the MArch Design Research Laboratory course at the Architectural Association in London have sent us these images of a conceptual design called Snap! - Bistable Structure. The team consists of Stella Nikolakaki, Sevil Yazici, Jesse Chima and Eugene Leung. According to Leung, the project proposes a workspace that can be reconfigured using “the ..
Synaesthetic filter - a mobile pavilion for experimental music Synaesthetic filter is a mobile instrument for experimental music that can stage performances from scenic plays to sound installations and is supposed to be temporarily assembled in public interior spaces. The pavilion acts like a visual and acoustic filter that allows a flexible positioning of the musicians and audience, and a playf..
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Los Angeles-based architects Studio Shift have designed Miyi Tower as part of a new town south of Miyi County in China. According to the architects, the tower is “designed as an educational building for residents and the multitude of tourists that visit every year,” and will comprise an auditorium, exhibition spaces and restaurants. These enclosed elements will make up half of the building, alte..
The fifth of our Design Miami Chat Shows filmed in Miami last month features British designer Ross Lovegrove. The fifth of our Design Miami Chat Shows filmed in Miami last month features British designer Ross Lovegrove. Filmed at Design Miami in front of a live audience, Lovegrove talks about the five images (which all happen to be of his own work) he selected in response to the Design Miami Cha..
The Dedar Collections: A Summary 90 fabrics for sheers in 450 colours - 130 fabrics for decoration in 1300 colours - 70 fabrics for upholstery in 820 colours 1000 extra-wide fabrics from 300 to 330 cm: of which 263 used for curtains - 365 taffetas; plains, stripes and matelasse 125 cottons: plains and stripes - 125 silks: plains, large patterns and stripes - 418 fabrics on permanently fire retar..
