Summer house by Judith Benzer
Architech Judith Benzer has made a striking summer house situated in the Southern Burgenland region of Austria. The architecture is oriented by the style of the Kellerstöckel (wine house) which are typical in the region and the summer house is designed to fit perfectly in the surrounding environment. You will find a wine cellar in the basement and...
Widlund vacation house on Öland
The Widlund vacation house by Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune is like a funnel of light, space and sea views. The location is the west coast of the Baltic island of Öland. The white concrete box is “corsetted” in the middle, creating slightly sheared wall and roof angles. This gives the house both its direction...
Signature suites by Lagranja Design at the Madera hotel in Hong Kong
Barcelona based design studio Lagranja has just finished the signature suites at the top four floors of a new hotel in Kowloon, a district in Hong Kong and probably the place with the highest population density in the planet. It’s called Hotel Madera, a Spanish name that leaves little room for doubt. An oasis of...
New monograph about Bouroullec brothers
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have just announced the upcoming launch of their new book that sets out the result of almost fifteen years of mutual collaboration. Works is a comprehensive monograph featuring a lot of images of their projects, models and drawings. It documents what Ronan and Erwan do by proposing an intuitive understanding, a flowing journey from...
The psychology of Design Attraction 1: Familiarization – Design for Flow & Imprint
Kristine Harper has written about comfort zone breaking aesthetic experiences as a human need. Within visual semiotics and design rhetorics this notion is referred to as “Defamiliarization” and it´s counter phenomena “Familiarization”. This idea, framed in the notion of “Flow” (Mihály Csíkszentmihályi), forms a theory that is useful when analyzing design and style. This theory...
Your Rainbow Panorama – a space without boundaries
Ever wondered what it would be like walking through a rainbow? I imagine this is exactly what Olafur Eliasson has made possible with his work titled “Your Rainbow Panorama” on permanent exhibition at Aros, a modern and contemporary art museum in Aarhus, Denmark. Olafur Eliasson describes his vision like this: “Your rainbow panorama enters into...
Acne Studio in Paris by BozarthFornell
Swedish architect Andreas Fornell from BozarthFornell has designed the new Studio in Paris for fashion house and creative collective Acne. The studio is situated in a former metal shop built as a garage in the old Marais area of Paris. ACNE’s second Parisian Store at 3 Rue Froissart combines raw industrial rough industrial walls of this...
Exhibition setting by Fabio Novembre for Steve McCurry at MACRO museum
Italian designer Fabio Novembre has created an exhibition setting for the solo exhibition dedicated to Steve McCurry at the MACRO Museum in Rome, Italy. The setting is inspired by the nomads’ village with structures that merge with the aim to restore that sense of solidarity that you can breathe in McCurry’s photos. The exhibition setting...
Ski Resort in Finland by Bjarke Ingels’ BIG
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG, has been announced winner of the competition for a 47.000 m2 ski resort and recreational area in Levi, Finland. It will transform the existing Levi ski resort into a world class destination, offering top quality accommodation and leisure services for skiers of all levels and demands. The Koutalaki...
BOXPARK retail revolution
BOXPARK is a retail revolution – a pop-up mall and home to more than sixty carefully chosen fashion, arts and lifestyle brands. BOXPARK aims to become part of the fabric of local life, wherever it pops up, it fits in, joins in and contributes to the community. BOXPARK offer innovative retailers space at affordable rates – and...
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