NHow Hotel by Matteo Thun & Partners
NHow Hotel Milan by Matteo Thun is a new concept in hotel design combining comfort, design, elegance and technology to provide the perfect accommodation. The style is a mixture of pure Italian glamour and incredible design & elegance. Nhow hotel goes beyond the realms of imagination, combining comfort with minimalism, technology and the latest innovations in architecture, a blend of highly technological style with the most sophisticated comfort.
June 20, 2007 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Laurie Beckerman’s Tete-a-Tete Rocker two-seater
The Tete-a-Tete Rocker is two-seater designed by Laurie Beckerm that allows you to share the pleasure. Read a paper together and trade sections without having to interrupt your rhythm. Available in natural wood or the color of your choice from Laurie Beckerman Design . Read More…
Toon Boom Storyboard
Toon Boom Storyboard is the leading storyboarding system for visual storytelling, perfectly suited to traditional and paperless methods. Truly completing the production pipeline, Storyboard helps you take an idea and translate it into a visual story that will become a complete production, whether animated or live-action. Developed in conjunction with expert storyboard artists, Toon Boom Storyboard speeds up production planning and enables studios to reach new heights with increased production integration. Its advanced features make it the tool of choice to create an entirely digital storyboard.
Hollywood Lamps by Viso
Viso Hollywood is a dramatic series of pendant, table and floor lamps. The series features a pc mirror finished diffuser with a crystal chandelier in the inside. When the lamps are off, the shades become a mirror and reflect there environment. When lit it produces a glitter of crystals which reflect beams of light while the inside of the lamp becomes visible. There is a wall, table and floor model and you can also order custom sizes with custom crystal colors.
The Modular Transitional Growth by Philippe Barriere Collective
The Modular Transitional Growth housing unit created by PB+Co intends to offer multiple expansion steps according to an individual’s needs and means; and, strengthens the permanency of community life as it expands through life cycle of housing needs. MTG construction system offers sustainability within its own growth by recycling its modular system, and utilizing bioclimatic technologies. The unique self-recycling feature entails re-using existing parts-a process of organic shading-as MTG evolves toward a more mature expression and a more complete appropriation and identification of housing which is tailored to the individual’s life need and span, in tandem with their socio-economic resources.
June 18, 2007 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 0
Behind the Wall by Jordi Canudas
Behind the Wall is a two sided piece of furniture designed by Jordi Canudas that is both wall and sofa. It offers a comfortable sitting area that becomes playful when users interact from both sides of the wall. Movement, sound and touch hint at what might be happening on the other side.
VinUno by Lars Erdman
VinUno from Denmark is designed by Lars Erdman.The new and stylish way to serve the wine from your bag-in-box is available in dark red, white and black. Made in polished steel and five time lacquered wood.
Put a cooling element in your VinUno to keep the white wine cold.
Soviet Arcade Games Museum
Forgotten and broken down Soviet-era arcade games are being restored for Moscow’s newest museum.
Around 20 of the 50 machines are now in working order. They operate with old Soviet 15 kopek coins, the hammer-and-sickle emblem of which itself conjures up a bygone time.
Manchester Civil Justice Centre by DCM
Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall have nearly completed the Manchester Civil Justice Centre in Manchester, England.
The building officially opens in October. We’re waiting for more info on the project from DCM but here are some photos for now.
June 15, 2007 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Cibola Pendant Light by Dominic Bromley
The Cibola Pendant light has been designed by Dominic Bromley and made in England.The Cibola Pendant light is a striking ceiling light, comprised of two suspended bone china pieces. Each bone china shade has a carved pattern of concentric rings, inspired by the many layers of an onion. During the day, the Cibola looks beautiful as a sculptural white form, but in the evening, it takes on a different quality as the translucent bone china glows, emphasising the surface detail.
Wall Lamps by Janne Kyttänen
Janne Kyttänen was inspired by the connections between mathematics and the laws of nature in his design, and Rapid Prototyping was the only technology which could create this stunningly beautiful light with its perfect spirals of softly illuminated petals.
Kissing Jim by Modern Convenience
Modeled after the Victorian courting chair, this piece created by Modern Convenience allows two people to sit face to face comfortably. Promotes conversation, meaningful gazing, and relaxing cheek-to-cheek.
Powder coated aluminum, suitable for indoor and outdoor fun.
Foot-Dustpan by Matthias Lange
While sweeping with a broom, the Foot-Dustpan can be easily fixed or moved with the foot. Due to that dust and dirt can be collected without permanently bending down. The shape of the dustpan is designed to be easily injected moulded.
Now we only need to learn a safe and elegant way to pour the dust in the bin with an acrobatic movement, and we’re ready to sweep.
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Hope Table by Raphael Morgan
Rafael Morgan is an Industrial Designer form Belo Horizonte,Brazil. Mr. Morgan has created a truly stunning physical form that compels the viewer to ask what’s behind it all.
“Antilla” by Perkins+Will, The 60-Story House for Just One Family
Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, is building a new home in Mumbai city. The buzz around town is that the home-in-the-making is a glass mansion on Altamound Road called “Antilla.”
The plan for the palatial building in India’s economic capital is drawn up by “Perkins and Will“. And the mansion will have everything from a swimming pool to a personal car-servicing center for the Ambani family’s 168 imported cars.
In actuality, it is about 60 floors, but since it has been reduced to 27 stories to make the ceilings a bit higher.
June 13, 2007 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 2
Reed Danziger Paintings
Reed Danziger constructs densely patterned, highly ornamental paintings that are a veritable bombardment of visual information and rhythmic patterns which mutate and regenerate across their surfaces. Obsessive and labor intensive, they are painted with a clarity and lightness of touch which belies their complexity and unpredictability.
Villa Näckros by Strindberg Arkitekter
With the vision and an old dream of a different way of living nearby the sea, Staffan Strindberg and Thorbjörn Svensson started to work together with the floating villa project. The villa, named Villa Näckros, is now a reality and can be seen in Kalmar, Sweden. The Villa Näckros offers the special conditions and qualities living nearby the see. It is designed to give an interesting and exciting way of living, close to, and even “on”, water!
June 12, 2007 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Ripa Hotel-Rome by King Rosseli Architects
Since its conception the Ripa Hotel Rome has strived to stand apart from the status quo of Roman hotels. This boutique hotel has always chosen to make a cultural and artistic statement daring to use a modern minimalist style in a classical city. Breathtaking in its simplicity the hotel provides an atmosphere of functional luxury in the suggestive and picturesque Trastevere district.
All rooms are equipped with satellite tv, minibar, working desk with sofa, highspeed internet access telephone.
June 12, 2007 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 1