tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28633437809907450472024-03-13T03:39:55.819-07:00Arhitecture, advertisement & some other staffUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-83906244155367097152011-11-14T12:33:00.000-08:002011-11-14T12:33:59.620-08:0013th Arquine International Architecture and Design ConferenceDisplacements«It’s only when walking, by displacing yourself that you can see the development of ordainments in architecture».
Le Corbusier
Displacements refer to a change in position, the movement of an entity that changes its relative position in space.
The emotional experience that denotes the action of displacing oneself through a building or on the previous path before you Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-43076235589228910142011-10-24T11:16:00.000-07:002011-10-24T11:16:57.128-07:00I.F.A.C is seeking tutorsI.F.A.C is an initiative of the nonprofit association "self-sufficent movement" which seeks to promote the philosophy of self-sufficiency in society, invest aggressive consumer trends, encourage and disseminate self-sufficient practices, investigate and explore ways to self-sufficiency
This project is focused on 200 young artists and architects from across Europe to live together for 10 days inUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-48470417827252434242011-10-21T11:01:00.000-07:002011-10-21T11:01:10.406-07:00Schiavon presents Design Mix by Giulio CappelliniThe silversmith’s art meets with contemporary design in order to create a unique, innovative collection. Design Mix results from the artistic flair of top international designer Giulio Cappellini and the production finesse of Argenteria Schiavon whose quality collections are renowned worldwide.
In this collection Giulio Cappellini translates his design capability into innovative, refined Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-80758132251319766672011-10-11T09:31:00.000-07:002011-10-11T09:31:46.291-07:00Diego grandi: design with care – on nature, people, time and emotionOn the occasion of Moscow Worldwide Fair Diego Grandi has been invited by the organization authority, Cosmit, to hold a master class about “Design with care – on nature, people, time and emotion”.
Starting from the theme indicated, the designer will summarize his own route through a selection of his works showing a particular attention to contemporary time, meant as a careful look to the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-63401266171418282412011-10-07T03:52:00.000-07:002011-10-07T04:35:12.563-07:00The First Architecture Video RouletteThe first Architecture Video Roulette will be played on Sunday October 9 as part of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR).
Marco Brizzi from Image, Florence, will be the roulette dealer. He curates the renowned BEYOND MEDIA film festival , and is interested in the way architects are producing or stimulating the production of film within their design activity. The roulette wheel has 36Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-74488131173144277232011-10-07T03:43:00.000-07:002011-10-07T04:36:04.136-07:00The 3rd Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction Announce the Winners in Region EuropeOn September 15th, 2011 Award ceremony of the 3rd Holcim Awards winners for the European region was held in Milan.
Projects from Germany, Belgium and Italy became the winners in the main Competition category and took gold, silver and bronze respectively. Projects from Finland, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands received Acknowledgement prizes, while students from the AA School of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-90956484577795706012011-09-30T03:12:00.000-07:002011-10-07T04:36:44.564-07:00Velonight NYKAfter Rome, Moscow, Terni, and St. Petersburg, VELONIGHT, the unique project by professor Sergey Nikitin, founding director of Moskultprog, is inviting to explore the postwar cultural and architectural history of New York City on bicycles in the night between October 1 and 2.
World-famous architects and cultural historians, including Rem Koolhaas, Guy Nordenson, Jean-Louis Cohen, Peter Eisenman,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-3594360273708007992011-01-26T06:17:00.000-08:002011-01-26T06:25:34.536-08:00A new concept in furnishing: designed by SybariteTo celebrate the 70th edition of Pitti Uomo (the most important men’s fashion event worldwide held in Florence), Marzorati Ronchetti has entrusted Sybarite with the task of creating a design concept which sits on the borderline between business, leisure, entertainment, and hospitality. All of this is expressed in an organic and free-flowing form with great technological potential.It is called Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-472017862608308292011-01-21T11:12:00.000-08:002011-01-21T11:15:36.223-08:00Spanish Furniture at MAISON & OBJETFrom January 21st to 25th, at MAISON & OBJET, Paris will become the trendiest showcase for Spanish Furniture. Under the brand MUEBLE DE ESPAÑA, more than 20 Spanish companies, the second largest contingent after France, will present their most cutting-edge collections in a wide range of styles, materials and finishes at Paris-Nord Villepinte fairground. Creative, unique and different: these are Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-42580636678695916642011-01-19T10:59:00.000-08:002011-01-19T11:18:27.626-08:00The Sofitel Stephansdom Hotel and Artica chairsThe Sofitel Stephansdom Hotel in Vienna was opened last December 14th - it is the latest project of the French architect Jean Nouvel (2008 Pritzker Prize). This sophisticated hotel is housed in Stilwerk, an 18-story building which also includes 2 restaurants and 30 exclusive shops, and is one of the largest showcases dedicated to design.Undoubtedly, the centrepiece of the project and the most Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-14985972622347583272011-01-13T11:31:00.000-08:002011-01-13T11:38:21.399-08:00Design Academy Eindhoven to introduce expertise-based structureDesign Academy Eindhoven is introducing an expertise-based structure, with the Executive Board consisting of two people starting from the middle of March. Chair of the Board Anne Mieke Eggenkamp will be focusing specifically on education, internationalisation, and external relations. Newcomer Igor van Hooff will be responsible for operational affairs. Directly below Board level, separate from theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-45913235836495140972011-01-11T09:18:00.000-08:002011-01-11T09:25:13.458-08:00The exhibition:“Sensitive Matter: Young Catalan Architects”Between 14th and 16th of January AEDES NETWORK CAMPUS BERLIN (ANCB) (Christinenstr.18-19, 10119 Berlin) displays the exhibition “Sensitive Matter: Young Catalan Architects” on current Catalan architecture. The exhibition is opening the European project for the diffusion of young architecture, “Import /Export”, and shows the work of 10 studios between 30 and 40 years which share a common Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-76132858061849945552011-01-05T11:09:00.000-08:002011-01-05T11:24:33.821-08:00The Hotel in Linz received the accolade as the Building of the YearThe Hotel in Linz by Hohensinn Architektur recently received theaccolade as the "Building of the Year" in the framework of the state culture awards 2010. The hotel is located directly next to Austria's largest church, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and blends in perfectly with the city's redesigned Domplatz that brings together baroque, neo-gothic and ultra-modern architecture.The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-32926101708108696712011-01-05T10:30:00.000-08:002011-01-05T10:35:34.375-08:00Igor van Hooff appointed member of the Executive BoardIgor van Hooff will take up office at Design Academy Eindhoven in mid-March 2011 and will become a member of the Executive Board. He will be the person on the Executive Board in charge of operational affairs. Chair of the Board Anne Mieke Eggenkamp will be focussing more explicitly on education, internationalisation and external relations. Igor van Hooff is currently active as regional director Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-43274278926086789072011-01-05T10:20:00.000-08:002011-01-05T10:26:33.725-08:00Onlyglass Mediafasade – the future of digital facade installationsWorld premiere: BAU, Munich, 19th of January 2011, room 52, 11 am Rio de Janeiro, Maracanã Stadium, July 13, 2014: It’s the World Cup final and the host country Brazil is facing Germany. In Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and other cities, thousands of fans have gathered in front of the major department stores and office buildings to watch the live broadcast of the match on the facades… Rio de Janeiro, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-90558454635068977072010-10-30T07:20:00.000-07:002010-10-30T07:27:15.168-07:00Chandabrabhu - occasional tableChandabrabhu is a grey Savoy marble occasional table, an Indian gothic gargoyle forming the basis of a neo Art Nouveau ‘as if part of a larger architecture’ according to Sylvain Rieu-Piquet. That is a Hindu temple atomized by the anger of a capricious divinity, the great splendour of which ended up in Paris in the 21st century. Sculpted with a digital cutter, ‘Chandabrabhu’ proudly displays the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-70532125988890324572010-10-30T07:07:00.000-07:002010-10-31T00:49:14.779-07:00Premiere for the textile editors at imm cologne in January 2011Left photo - Kinnasand collection 2010 The international furnishing show imm cologne is the new fair platform for the premium textile editors in Germany.The decision has been made: the textile brands Création Baumann, Christian Fischbacher, Kinnasand, Nya Nordiska, Sahco, Zimmer + Rohde and JAB Anstoetz with Chivasso and Wellmann will stand side-by-side once again at a German trade fair in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-90839784723978283482010-10-30T06:58:00.000-07:002010-10-30T07:04:54.499-07:00New lamp by Guillaume DelvigneTo celebrate its launch during Designers Days event in Paris, Specimen was proposing a special co-edition in partnership with Terres Nuages. The O10* lamp designed by Guillaume Delvigne is a piece which is joining the realms of furnishing. The light is reduced to its simplest expression: brightness in space. In the background, the object takes shape in a single precise line. Snaking from one Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-23138806670548782442010-10-30T06:51:00.000-07:002010-10-30T06:55:56.471-07:00new vase called TOURBILLON or VortexA vase evokes the water cycle, snap shot of a subtle natural harmony.The dynamic of the water is accentuated by the rigidity of a glass bubble that surrounds.This vase is the result of a meeting between computer technology and a French high quality craftsmanship. Realized by a glass craftsman who has implemented the necessary technique to realize the vortex.Composed of two parts in borosilicate Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-68814200688974321282010-10-30T06:33:00.000-07:002010-10-30T07:36:14.734-07:00Domestic PondsAt Galerie BSL from 17th September to 27th November 2010, Duende Studio is proposing ‘Domestic Ponds,’ a piece of work about the pond as a domestic water point, with three new pieces by Mathieu Lehanneur, Benjamin Graindorge and Eric Jourdan. A liquid hollow, a matrix swarming with life, the pond is a true open air breeding spot, the antithesis of a vase or an aquarium for Anthony van den BosscheUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-46724498323815199492010-10-30T06:23:00.000-07:002010-10-30T06:30:44.796-07:00Story of a Formula One car and furniture designerJohn Barnard is widely regarded as one of the great technical innovators in Formula One and is credited with the introduction of amongst others the first carbon fibre monocoque chassis.With his immense experience and now working alongside Terence Woodgate, they have been designing an astonishing surface table that spans 4 metres and has a thickness of just 2 mm at the edge = five times thinner Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-39193270149224579442010-10-30T06:07:00.000-07:002010-10-30T06:19:59.059-07:00The pure form of comfort in the sofa designed by Mauro Lipparini Klub inherits and carries on the idea of comfort in the family of soft sofas made in Italy produced by i 4 Mariani, fully declared in its mono-volume. Through a wise effects of full and soft lines, as lied, it answers to the contemporary requirements of a peaceful life free of excess.Behind all, a close selection of materials and attention to details, followed by the continuous research of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-64639323521421017542010-10-30T05:56:00.000-07:002010-10-30T06:05:44.334-07:00SICI 2010, INTERNATIONAL INTEGRAL KITCHEN EXHIBITIONOrganised by IFEMA and promoted by AMC, SICI staged its sixth edition between 5th and 8th October 2010 at FERIA DE MADRID. For the first time, this event coincided with the staging of CONSTRUTEC, the Building Exhibition, with a view to generating a sense of synergy and creating a highly dynamic and attractive presentational showcase for professional groups targeted by both fairs.ExportsFrance, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-50954591786604685522009-07-04T21:03:00.000-07:002009-07-04T21:42:35.128-07:00URBAN VISIONS exhibitionOrganized by Image, and curated by Marco Brizzi, BEYOND MEDIA has been constantly observing, since 1997, the development of the systems of communication in the field of architecture by evaluating their impact on contemporary architectural production and by promoting their understanding and enhancing their quality. The festival offers its visitors an articulate and rich program of events.The themeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863343780990745047.post-2120253042207997772009-06-28T02:59:00.000-07:002009-07-04T02:35:44.636-07:00Wallpaper for hard timesWe aren't surprise to see that interior trends became more hair shirt. New wallpaper presented just last week approve this tendency. The paper based wallpaper created by betontapete looks like real concrete but "still got the advantages of a wallpaper". For now pre-collection is shown at s.wert flagship store, Berlin. In order to promote "new look" s.wert reminded about the benefits of concreteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0