designer and director mikiya kobayashi has designed a walnut furniture collection for japanese manufacturing giant, masterwal. ‘yu’, meaning thoughtful in japanese, is thought to be masterwal’s brand concept. although the company has never had experience manufacturing chairs with complex structures, kobayashi led the team to create an elegant walnut-based armchair collection, as well as some ent..
Design firm Mili Mlodzi Ludzie have recently completed the interiors for this apartment in Poznan, Poland, and as part of the design of the living room and dining area, they created a wall of cabinets that have geometric cut-outs in the doors. Some of the cut-outs allow for direct access to whatever is stored within the cabinets, and other cut-outs have a mesh protecting the items. from contempo..
Invisible Studio was commissioned to build two new buildings for a new tree management centre in the Gloucestershire, UK. Architects wanted to use the timber from the arboretum – as the client had an extraordinary resource which they hadn’t previously exploited. As a result, all the timber was grown and milled on site, and used for the construction with no further processing.Program: mixed useAr..
A team of architects and designers located in Varna, Bulgaria, decided to build a street library after seeing that many young people’s lives are almost entirely based around the digital era and therefore the popularity of books among this generation has decreased. The open library provides easy access for the readers to browse books, plus there are sitting spaces and a tiny stage for street arti..
situated in the old village of ormône, this house was built in 1860, and then altered over the years. it stands in the middle of an area of the village that has tremendous character, and consists of a masonry base of natural stone whose upstream part rises up to form the backbone of the building and whose downstream part is surmounted by a timber structure. situated in the old village of ormône,..
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London designer Rio Kobayashi has reinterpreted the colourful markings found on Mikado pick-up sticks as a pattern for his new East West furniture collection. Kobayashi, a London-based Japanese-Austrian designer, presented his East West collection during this year's London Design Festival. Inspired by his experience of both far-eastern and western countries, the designer wanted to bring the both..
Mr. Plocq’s Caballon gives the opportunity to rediscover an almost-forgotten side of the Loire river estuary: that of the naturalists, those adventurous explorers from another time whose rich and unbelievable stories blend the taste of faraway travels to the land’s memory. The project is inspired by real-life Émile Plocq, aka the bird charmer, a local from the Vendée region who supposedly built ..
훗카이도는 겨울의 강설로 유명하다. 이러한 눈이 거주자에게 큰 문제가 될 수도 있다. 이를 대비하기 위해 주택의 작은 지붕에는 눈으로부터 보호받기 위해 돌출부를 거의 갖지 않았다. 큰 지붕은 그 아래 사용할 공간을 극대화 한다. 눈덮인 땅에서의 생활은 건물 면적을 줄이기 보단 그로부터 멀리 떨어지게 하는 것으로 개선될 수 있다. Jun Igarashi Architects found a work-around in Japanese building code to create this house on Hokkaido's southwest coast, which features a larger than average roof to protect a pair of patios from snowfall. Winter..
내외부 소통을 위한 중정This house is located along old streetscape in “Minakuchi-juku”, which is one of Fifty-three stages of the Tokaido. Although, it was consolidated during the Edo Period. The community road and the space are narrow, so it’s impossible to make large space between the road and the house, and it’s difficult to build a house in the southeast in spite of the corner location in the northeas..
