Image Courtesy of lzf We continue to see a push to making products and projects feel and look natural. The white wash absence of color and metal was dominating the lighting market for quite a while and still continues to thrive in certain sectors like healthcare and education but lately, there has been a shift to the warm extension of nature. Perhaps the environments were feeling too cold and ou..
Swedish architects Widjedal Racki Bergerhoff, designed the H-House in Trosa, Sweden. A private residence in the archipelago of Stockholm situated on a beautiful site overlooking the ocean. The setting is scenic but the climate is harsh. Summers are light but short and the wind can often be a problem in these coastal areas. As in many of our projects great emphasis is put on exploring the border ..
The Nogg is a modern chicken coop that has been designed in the shape of an egg. Urban chicken keeping has become a growing trend, and The Nogg is designed to house 2-4 chickens in an aesthetically pleasing coop to compliment any garden. The nogg is a modern chicken coop that has been designed in the shape of an egg. It has been designed to house from 2-4 chickens and is to encourage domestic fa..
The ‘Iris’ inspired leaves are elegantly curved at three sets of angles and distanced to produce a perfectly proportioned pendant feature. The ambient light casts pleasing shadows and glows warmly against the sets of leaves giving them definition and character. from contemporist
Architects: Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners Location: Utriai, Vežaičiai, Klaipėda, Lithuania Partners in Charge: G.Natkevičius, A.Adomaitis, R.Babrauskas Structural Engineering: V.P.Čiras Site Area: 3,000 sqm Project Area: 424 sqm Project Year: 2006 Photographs: R. Urbakavičius The client is an entrepreneur in the agricultural production business (chickens(eggs), pigs rearing). His..
Architects: Supermachine Studio Location: Varinchuprap, Ubonratchathani, Thailand Client: Prakit Chaisongkram Project Area: 500 sqm Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Jaroonrat Vithoosuwan & Pirak Anurakyawachon The villa is built around the exciting core idea of the young couple owner. The husband would like to make his working and living life even more inseparable by placing his working room hove..
London Design Festival 2010: London designer Héctor Serrano will present these reconfigurable wooden figures at 100% Design this week. Mr Cube comprises a set of wooden pieces with hidden magnets that can be attached to form the head, arms and legs of a figure or combined to create a cube. The figures will be on display as part of Ten Plan 23-26 September, which showcases the work of ten designe..
FARO Architects have designed their 2nd residence on Steigereiland in Amsterdam. FARO built on Steigereiland an energy neutral residence according to the principles of cradle to cradle meaning that materials after use either decompose or can be used in another product. This house was the first one in the Netherlands that received the PassiefBouwen certificate for both the design and the executio..
Studio101 Architects have designed a house in Point Lonsdale, Australia. This permanent beachside home, designed for a young family is located in an established, heavily treed native coastal environment. The rectilinear nature of the site and natural typography encouraged a simple yet highly efficient floor plan incorporating three pavilions linked by a continuous circulation spine. The eastern ..
Montreal-based Saia Barbarese Topouzanov Architects designed the Canadian Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China. The will to develop cities that are at the same time inclusive, creative and sustainable is above all the quest for an ideal, an immense societal project that must be ceaselessly nourished and renewed through the efforts of the greater Canadian community nationwide. It is..
