Bionic Arch is a pioneering building design concept that has been specially created with a goal to symbolize the dynamics of economic, social, political and cultural achievements of new eco-friendly green city of Taiwan as a part of the new master plan “Taichung Gateway – Active Gateway City”. This groundbreaking design combines the nine major indicators that require a building to be called as Green by law, planting green, water conservation, daily energy efficiency, carbon dioxide reducti...
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Bifurcating Ecologies is a developmental master planning proposal which traces through humanizing the accessibility of the Hong Kong Wanchai District Waterfront through proposing new branching open landscapes and bifurcation of programs, which introduces new innovative topological energy creation that regenerates and reconnects the community.
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At first impression, this Logitech LS21 2.1 stereo speaker system looks really cool. The modern design will brighten your desktop, and not only that, the full balanced acoustics offer nice full sound. The main volume control is accessible a long with a nice knob on the sub woofer to allow you to adjust the bass.
LaFenice is the winning sculpture for the “Piazza della Memoria” in the form of highly polished stainless steel sculpture. This public art is dedicated to the people of the city of Messina, Sicily. It’s 4,1m high with three and a half highly reflective, slightly shifted double pyramids where each pyramid has transparent blue glass base, reflective at day and light-emitting at night. LaFenice generates a tension between gravity and the reminiscent feeling of growth as well as the upheaving ...
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James Law Cybertecture has shared us their design proposal for New Taipei Art Museum. This museum is an urban building or space for the expression and exhibition of art. The main idea was to design a unique architecture that allows the building becomes an art piece itself. The brief is clear, to create space that’s unique and flexible, a seamless fluidity and formless space to promote movement and interaction.
James Law Cybertecture is proudly present their design perspective with our reade...
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Tokyoflash Kisai Maru LCD watch is the latest futuristic watch design from Tokyoflash. It features simple interface, a combination of edges and circles, pretty intuitive time display in mirrored LCD.
This Busan Opera House design proposal features a synthetic mountain architecture that stands in contrast to the horizontality of the Marine Culture District but still relates to the mountainous topography of the city. The opera house can be seen from all over the bay as a beautiful and strong silhouette that bounds to the characteristic of the city.
The opera house will be housing two main areas that contain 2000-seat opera and 1300-seat multifunctional theater. These volumes are loosely con...
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Aguas de Marco is a residential building designed by XP& Architecture in Venice, Southern California. This project employs advance technology and sustainable measure to build a cutting edge residential design. The main idea of this project is to combine the transparency of modern style case study houses with a second layer of adjustable exterior shading system and cantilevered balconies that control the interior climate and serve as circulation measure. The building design is inspired by the...
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Laurentius library is a ring-shaped space-frame structure that houses more than 10,000 collection of books. Designed by Anton Markus Pasing, this library has its own background story. It was based on a clergyman who lived on a lonely highway near small community. This man loved reading books, however the loneliness became more and more depressing by days, therefore, he decided to build a library that contains books of religion, ethic, and philosophy accessible to everyone who is interested.
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Larchmont Lotus, a medical center in Los Angeles has been competed with a wrapper designed by XP& Architecture. The architect designs a cover that servers 2 design purposes at once, first would be cooling the building and the second would be image improvement of the medical center. As the sun moves throughout the day, the façade adjust its metal leaves to regulate the internal temperature of the building. If preferred, the users can override the movement of the system.
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“FioredelCielo” the winner of “La Macchina di Santa Rosa” competition is getting ready for the night of September 3rd, 2011 to celebrate Viterbo’s patron Santa Rosa in unique and extraordinary event. For you who are not familiar with this event, each year in the beginning of September, Viterbo, a city in Italy, carries 100-feet high structure through narrow streets of medieval town and stops at each major square. The allowed maximum weight of the structure is 5000kg and can only be car...
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Futuristic House Biomorphism expresses sensitive architectural approach to build a future house. If you take a look at the concept here, you’ll see that the architecture company decided to free itself from the usual technical and geometrical constraints.
Designer : Ephraim Henry Pavie Architects and Design
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Jakub Szczęsny from Centrala has designed possibly the thinnest house in the world, Keret House. This art installation will be built in the crack between the buildings on 22 Chłodna St. and 74 Żelazna St. and shall become the narrowest house in Warsaw, Poland. The interior will vary between 122 to 72 centimeters on the narrowest spot.
Designer : Jakub Szczęsny
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From the outside, you wouldn’t guess how visually amazing inside nhow hotel in Berlin. Designed by Karim Rashid, this hotel reflects German’s modern culture connecting with the rest of the world through its artistic and sensual design. The vision of Karim Rashid is to engage technology, visuals, textures, colors, as well as the needs to live in a simple and less cluttered, yet sensual environment.
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Living Roof is a futuristic compact and self-sustaining capsule for urban rooftops. It’s been designed to cover essential elements such as a refuge to recover, plan excursions into the city, or just simply stare into the stars. The minimalist interior design allows its user to focus and concentrate along with the highly efficient enclosure provide the answer to one of the impossibility in modern lifestyle: the contemporary citizen seeks mobility but also wants to tread softly on the environmen...
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Philip Pauley has designed a survival room that offers complete protection from extraordinary natural or manmade disaster conditions. Each survival room has been designed with 70 seats, wheelchair access, and a limited amount of standing room. Once the door is sealed shut, this room will automatically switch on the light and life support system. Emergency food and water will be available for every one and last for up to 2 weeks. For basic personal hygiene, there’s a toilet and a hand basin.
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The local building regulations have rejected the new dmvA made primarily for the office of XfactorAgencies. Hence, dmvA designed a new mobile unit named, blob. AD&C worked for nearly 18 months to complete this project and the result was a smooth looking egg. The project was initiated by constructing a timber frame and covered up using a stretching material plus plastered with polyester. The inside of blog was lighted with LEDs and built using niches. PUR insulation has been filled up amid th...
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