A cube is filled with water and fish. Underneath is an array of ultra-violet lights (blacklights) that light up the fish from below. Because of the properties of UV light, the light source itself doesn't glow but only the light bounced off certain surfaces does. The fish are used as light reflectors, glowing as the UV light is bounced off them. An organic lighting system. Exhibited for Cliche ma..
Architects: [N2X] Arquitectos Location: Azores Island, Portugal Project Leader: Pedro Furtado Project Team: Bruno Pinto, Isabel Ourique, Pedro Furtado Graphical Design: Raquel Fernandes Structural Engineering: Joao Serpa Area: 265,00 sqm Project Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Isabel Ourique The restaurant and bakery is located in a farm composed of different arborean species of a certain age. Its ..
Design of dressing area, including custom milled Plexiglas cabinet faces with integral handles. Also opposing mrrored wardrobe with sliding doors. Completed 03/2007. from 4-pli
Tim Fishlock's What Watt? chandelier is a memorial to and a celebration of the humble incandescent lightbulb. By 2011, all forms of incandescent light bulb will have been phased out in favour of greener alternatives. What Watt? marks the passing of a beautiful design that has remained relatively unchanged since its invention 130 years ago. Don't be fooled by the enormous amount of bulbs, the pie..
Architects: LVS Architecture + JC NAME Arquitectos Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México Design team: Luis Othón Villegas, Juan Carlos Name, Alvaro Gutierrez, Juan Luna Construction: PIBOC Constructora Project Area: 700 sqm Project year: 2007 Construction Year: 2008 Photographs: Mito Covarrubias, Luis Othón Villegas The project for the MO House responds to a typical architectural program withou..
Architects: Audrius Ambrasas Architects Location: Konstitucijos Ave. 20, Vilnius, Lithuania Design team: Audrius Ambrasas, Vilma Adomonytė, Tomas Eidukevičius, Donatas Malinauskas Client: UAB “Swedbank valda” Construction: Idea Constructiva Engineering: COWI Baltic Project manager: Saulius Mikaliūnas Total area (above-ground): 23,000 sqm Total area (underground): 19,000 sqm Project Year: 2007-20..
The new 300-room, five-star-rated Sheraton Incheon Hotel recently opened in New Songdo City, Korea, offering a new state-of-the-art facility in the heart of a new urban center. HOK provided architectural design, landscape design and sustainable design services for the new 500,000-square-foot, LEED® certified hotel. Adjacent to the city’s new Convention Center, the Northeast Asia Trade Tower and ..
Developed by Alf Naman and currently in construction, HL23 is a 14 floor condominium tower that responds to a unique and challenging site directly adjacent to the High Line at 23rd street in New York's West Chelsea Arts district. Partially impacted by a spur from the elevated tracks that make up the High Line superstructure, the site is 40' (12.20 m) x 99' (30.20 m) at the ground floor. The site..
'cite du design' by LIN architects was recently inaugurated in loire, france. the project situated on the historic site of the national arms manufacture in saint etienne involved the renovation of several historic buildings, as well as the integration of a new building the 'platine', an observation tower, two gardens and the place d'armes, a public esplanade. the 'platine' is an interclimatic la..
Oil has been the protagonist in the industrial history and transformed our world since the last century. Its role and impact in the world economy and population are huge and the possible consequences of a depletion are under the scientific microscope the last years. This is because the Oil era is about to reach to an end and according to many experts we may have reached the peak oil point; a poi..
