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November 9, 2020
November 9, 2020 As part of the design of the ‘Ohana Floor’ at the top of Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, Habitat Horticulture transformed 24 columns that surround the circular floor and created eye-catching vertical gardens. Aiming to create a tropical atmosphere, the vertical gardens are 13 feet high and use approximately 25,000 plants to […]
November 3, 2020
Canadian design firm NÓS has created Moving Dunes, a large mural for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts that covers Avenue du Musée in Montreal. The painted street seems to swell into ripples, an effect designed to recall the features of a body or a face. The studio is at n-o-s.ca. A street that seems […]
August 18, 2020
Architect Carlos Castanheira of CC&CB Architects designed the Canopy Walkway in Serralves Park in Porto, Portugal. The timber path lifts visitors off the ground and leads them through the treetops, offering an unusual view of the park and an easy way to enjoy a walk among the trees. The architect’s work is at carloscastanheira.pt. A […]
July 18, 2020
K11 Art House is a cinema complex at K11 MUSEA on Victoria Dockside, Hong Kong. It is operated by UA Cinemas and was designed by the Hong Kong-based firm Oft Interiors. The flagship of K11 MUSEA The cinema covers 6,034 square metres (65,000 sq ft) and is the flagship theatre of K11 MUSEA, a retail […]
June 28, 2020
Yuntai Mountain Ice Chrysanthemum showroom, Xiuwu County, Henan Province, China With smart design, basic local craft skills and a flexible experimental attitude, even the most ordinary warehouse-like space can become an appealing selling environment. This… Source: The Cool Hunter
June 26, 2020
June 26, 2020 Aidlin Darling Design created a sculptural ceiling accent for Wexler’s, a barbeque restaurant located in San Francisco, California. The striking black sculptural detail travels from the interior of the restaurant out to the facade, where it covers the entryway and adds a contemporary element to the historic building. Inside, the ceiling installation […]
June 16, 2020
The Amalfi coast print has been delicately captured in this photo by UK photographer Chris Ngu with warm golden pink morning light gently illuminating the small picturesque city clinging onto its steep rocky platform. This stretch of sun-kissed coast in Italy’s Campania region has understandably enchanted visitors for centuries with its sublime natural beauty enhanced […]
May 26, 2020
Last year, after having been in business for more than 50 years, the New Zealand fitness powerhouse Les Mills completed the design of an additional facility across from its flagship location on Victoria Street in Auckland City. The addition is a thoroughly re-configured industrial building that now houses three new Les Mills studios. These studios […]
April 28, 2020
The Flying Nest is a nomadic concept hotel designed by Ora ïto for the hotel group Accor. Its rooms are built from shipping containers, so the hotel can be set up wherever it is needed. A hotel that travels Because each room is a recycled transport module, the whole hotel can be shipped around the […]
April 13, 2020
In his Brutalist Pool Series, digital artist Massimo Colonna, who is based in Italy, returns to the swimming pool, a motif from his earlier work, and builds it entirely from raw concrete. The series is a tribute to the principles of Brutalism and treats concrete as a material worth looking at for its own sake. […]
February 3, 2020
Designed by Alexis Dornier, the Lift Treetop Boutique Hotel located in Penestanan, Indonesia, started out as a testing ground for ideas on how to lift structures off the ground, to have a less invasive footprint and impact, and be more cost-effective and faster to build. Alexis mentions, “Many developments here on this island use high […]
December 14, 2019
Chicago-based Luftwerk is an artistic collaboration of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero founded in 2007. The duo explores light, colour and sound in immersive temporary installations that are often based on the topography and history of the site. Earlier this year, they created installations within two of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s famous installations, the Barcelona […]
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