i.M.A.D.E is an institute within Ball State University, focusing on digital design and fabrication techniques for both industry and education related to architecture and allied arts. It acts as an effective link between the academy and the manufacturing industry, with all the benefits this alliances bring: the fresh ideas on one side, and the technical capacity on the other. With strategic indus..
World In A Box from Daniel Rossa on Vimeo. Traditional symbols of maritime trade are playfully interpreted and put together in unexpected compositions. Combining moving image, graphic animation and video mapping a big screen projection of two hands aesthetically arranging and abstractly connecting objects, brings the house front to life. This project was realised in the context of "Viertelfest B..
Spanish practice Andres Jaque Arquitectos shared with us this great renovation in Plasencia, transforming an old and abandoned seminary into a residence for former priests and students. Check the diagrams and a great photo set after the break. Catholic Church has defined historically territory superposing two occupation structures: 1. - Ideological structure, tree vertexed at the Vatican. 2. - P..
From dawn til dusk on Saturday, July 25, artists Heather and Ivan Morison led a crew of volunteers to build a remarkable temporary public artwork in Victoria Park in Bristol, UK. The pavilion-like timber structure, The Black Cloud, was commissioned by Situations at the University of the West of England, and designed in collaboration with architect graduate Sash Reading. It will act as a meeting ..
Personal responsibility in the sustainable use of global resources continues to play an increasingly important role in the life of the average consumer. In this context, the offices of J. MAYER H. Architects and Art+Com Berlin were commissioned to develop a permanent exhibition on the topic sustainability for the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany. The exhibition LEVEL GREEN was opened on June 4, 2..
the kitchen area // suggests how the kitchen experience could be an inspiring sensual and tactile encounter DuPont Corian and Amanda Levete_Architects (AL_A) surprised us in an astonishing manner in the 2009 edition of Milan Design Week. Sleek, transparent design with a single concept in mind _ a drop of water hitting the pond and creating ripples. “Corian super-surfaces”, “super-succeeded” its ..
Kuurne, Belgium, 30 June 2009. Barco, a global leader in creative LED technology, is proud to announce the world's first transformable LED screen for U2's latest world tour. With its 360° shape, the LED screen surrounds the band while performing and can change shape in all directions during the concert, For the third time this millennium, the Barco – U2 cooperation resulted in a revolutionary ap..
Designer: MOS (Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith) Location: New York, NY Image Credits: downtownBLUE from flickr
AREZZO LAW COURT 2001-2007 Near the Medici’s Fortress, inside an historical park, the new building houses the main courtrooms and the Hall of Justice President headquarter and is linked to a neoclassical building, once a large hospital, to be restored and used for offices and archives. The design of the New Wing, symbolises its environment: the rich vegetation of the park and the city’s medieval..
Dutch design studio Bloomming have designed a modular system where diamond-shaped components can be individually rotated to vary the amount of light allowed to penetrate. Called Lightfacet, the product can be used as a room divider or window blind. It is produced in the Netherlands and made of an injection-moulded, polycarbonate-ABS blend and stainless steel. Its “smart click” modular constructi..
