The building is located in the market square of small Dutch town Schijndel, where MVRDVpartner Winy Maas grew up. The town suffered damages during World War II, and Maas has been campaigning since the 1980s to replace a destroyed structure in the space between the church and the town hall. Thirty years and six failed proposals …
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London firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has completed NEO Bankside, a set of six-sided apartment blocks beside the Tate Modern art gallery on the edge of the River Thames. Like the Centre Pompidou and many other buildings designed by studio founder Richard Rogers, the four towers feature external bracing systems that form a steel diagrid …
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The floor itself, a closet, a dining room, a study room, living, the terrace, and the home party that celebrity performs are imagined and designed. The place to which it does not simply go to a disco for a dance, but everybody does a joke, and it comes for pleasure. In order to be dressed …
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LG Hausys partnered with the French designer Patrick Nadeau for their Green Waters exhibit at the IDEO BAIN trade fair in Paris, where they displayed the latest developments in eco-design for bathrooms (savings, recycling and the natural filtration of water). A mix between utopia, fiction and reality, Green waters expanded on the theme of water and greenery. The …
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Commissioned for the 100% Design Show during the London Design Festival 2012, Paul Cocksedge’s ‘Auditorium’ moves away from conventional methods of creating a confined space: blocks, solid planes, edges. Instead, a virtually invisible material is brought on-site to be delicately woven by hand into a system as complex and transparent as a spider’s web. The process only …
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While coffee has increasingly become part of the hipster lifestyle just about anywhere on the planet, strangely the same can’t be said about tea. Perhaps too subtle in taste and less likely a beverage to roaringly kickstart an early morning with, this beverage deserves more credit and could do with a contemporary showcase that demonstrates …
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Penny Black store by Duccio Grassi Architects, Milan
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Thanks to Studio Arthur Casas, São Paulo is the new home to an awesome new wine and champagne bar called Mistral. The wine company has a well respected reputation amongst the locals, being known for having “the best and most complete catalog of wines in the country.” With that sort of reputation, it only seemed fitting …
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Larger then life candy canes, a merry go round with baroque style chairs, mushrooms and a lilac/white interior with the brands signature Medusa head on the walls and carpet. Versace opens her first Young Versace boutique in Milan. The glamorous, but small boutique ( 50m² – 538ft² ) is located right next to Versace Home …
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