Plus House Larvik was today announced the winner of the WAN Sustainable Buildings 2015 Award.
Designed by Fabrizio Simonetti for Formabilio, Marcel is a smart sideboard made of wood and tubular metal inspired by the Modern Cultural Movement developed during the interwar period. Marcel has very simple, linear lines with no fancy details. The chromed tubular metal legs supporting and embracing the wood structure are inspired by Marcel Breuer’s genius, one of…
The Canadian International AutoShow (CIAS) is Canada's largest automotive fair held annually every February in multiple venues around downtown Toronto. All the major manufacturers are there showing off current and upcoming models, but some of the most visionary concept vehicles and tantalizing upgrades belonged to Infiniti, Acura, Mercedes-Benz, and Nissan. Infiniti Q80 Inspiration The…
Given the success of the first small Light Air table lamp by Eugeni Quitllet for Kartell, the range has been expanded with the addition of two new wall and hanging lamps. Light Air is a deceptive table lamp, a pendant luminaire that defies the laws of gravity, “like a ballerina floating in the air, the…
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have selected over 110 new buildings, commercial and institutional developments, landscape architecture, and urban planning projects from 36 nations for The International Architecture Awards for 2014. Hundreds of submissions were received for this year’s annual Global…
Located in Kizilay, city centre of Ankara, Turkey, the Garanti Bank Regional Headquarters has been designed as an ecological green building. The building consists of 15 floors, eight above and seven below the ground. In the basement there are five car-park floors (total of 40 cars), a technical floor and a bank branch floor. Above…
On July 7, the design world came together in Essen to celebrate the winners of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2014. More than 1,200 international guests arrived at the glamorous awards ceremony in the Aalto-Theater. At the subsequent Designers’ Night they celebrated until the small hours of the morning. This year’s competition documented a…
Italian company Poltrona Frau has introduced three new items: the Downtown armchair; the Jobs executive furniture system; and an update to the classic Ginger Ale chair. DOWNTOWN Jean-Marie Massaud created the Downtown office chair, combining ergonomics, technique and timeless elegance. The result is an extremely comfortable chair from both an aesthetic and functional point of view. Downtown…
Colorado-based Housefish is a modular furniture company that allows users to create custom storage units. Founder Scott Bennet's degree in automotive engineering and background in race-car designing and manufacturing can be seen in the advanced digital manufacturing techniques and hands-on craft methods used to create Housefish furniture Housefish makes high quality furniture with 100-per- U.S.-sourced…
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra tonight inaugurates the pipe organ at Maison Symphonique. The 6,489-pipe colossus is a design collaboration between Jack Diamond, principal, Diamond Schmitt Architects, and Quebec-based organ manufacturer Casavant Frères. This is the architect’s first organ commission. His role was to create the organ facade – the configuration of pipes above the stage…