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..
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..
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..
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..
Eine außergewöhnliche Holzkonstruktion charakterisiert das neue Centre Pompidou in Metz, entworfen von Shigeru Ban und Jean de Gastines. Fotos des Tragwerks und Impressionen der Ausstellungsräume sehen Sie hier. Architekten: Shigeru Ban Architects Europe, Paris und Jean de Gastines, Paris Centre Pompidou-Metz, Foto: Didier Boy de la Tour Das neue Centre Pompidou-Metz fällt schon von weitem durch..
The Cul is Cool Tour made its way to Valencia this year. First premiered in NYC last year, the Cul is Cool seat and photographic exhibition at Hat Gallery, curated by Ramon Ubeda and Pepa Reverter exposes the sensuality, provocativeness and sculptural qualities of the buttock shaped seat designed by Ramon Ubeda and Otto Canalda for ABR. The collection of seats was fully exhibited during Valencia..
A collective of Colombian architects have designed a memorial museum for Medellín, Colombia, to commemorate victims of conflict. Architects on the project include Juan David Botero, Maria Fernanda Vasco, Carla Cristina Gil, Jorge Adrian Gaviria, Catalina Jaramillo, Daniel Santiago Herrera, Elías José Gomez, Víctor Hugo Rodriguez, Alejandro Naranjo and Oscar Santana. Separated into three floors, ..
No matter how stylish, bicycle helmets have the nasty habit of mussing up hair while making you look like a dork. That often keeps cyclists from wearing helmets altogether--a habit that prompted Swedish designers Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin to design Hövding ("Chieftain"), a bike helmet that doesn't look much like a helmet at all. Chieftain, which has been in development for the past six years,..
The city council of Slovenian capitol Ljubljana approved the project Shopping Pillow Terraces designed by OFIS Arhitekti. Construction for this new mixed-use building on Ljubljana's main pedestrian street is scheduled to start in mid-2011. Shopping Pillow Terraces is the result of an invited competition from 2009. Related news: * Ljubljana’s Rose Garden Islands by OFIS Arhitekti * OFIS Arhitekti..
