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Although we visited Urban Outfitter’s garden center last year, we were so charmed with the experience there that we had to pay a visit when we were in the neighborhood last weekend. Garden center doesn’t describe the Terrain store well. It’s a home and garden wonderland.
Suburbia is often written off as a wasteland of MacHomes [...]
On a slope near the village of Karjat, India, an international team of architects has begun to envision a modern, 3-story building that will use bamboo as a primary supporting material. Intending to spur eco-friendly changes within the Indian construction industry, the ambitious Dutch architect Robert Verrijt and Indian architect Shefali Balwani of Architecture [...]
PATACHROMO, a brilliant installation by French artists Superbien, was based on the principles of CHROMOtherapy seen through the lense of PATAphysics . Presented as a succession of animated light frames lasting about 2 minutes each, the PATACHROMO program is provided as a tool for passers-by to face the grey Parisian winter weather with more serenity. [...]
Looking for a good source of architectural inspiration? The all things architecture website Archinect just launched a new site called SpaceInvading. Its basically like an image-focused RSS feed compiling all the most interesting architecture and design projects, reported by bloggers and the designers themselves. For now the site is curated by Archinect founder Paul [...]
Opening last week at the Design Museum in London was their annual review of the most innovative, interesting and forward-looking new work in design of all kinds, from around the world. The exhibition, called the ‘Brit Insurance Designs of the Year’, presents around 100 projects divided into seven categories - architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, [...]
MUMUTH, the Haus für Musik und Musiktheater in Graz, Austria, designed by UNStudio, opens on 1 March.
As a cultural complex, Kring in Seoul, Korea, hosts public performances, events, and exhibitions. From the architect’s perspective, the building also serves to brand and emphasize the city’s cultural side, while also differentiating itself from other buildings.
[via Design Boom]
London firm Sarah Wigglesworth Architects have completed a bike store in Bermondsey, London.
The building is constructed from 13 Douglas Fir portal frames, clad externally with triangular, stainless-steel panels and internally with translucent, glass-reinforced plastic sheeting.
The enclosure can store 76 bikes using a double-decker system designed by bicycle rack producers Josta.
Photos are © Mark Hadden Photography.
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Nest Architects are a Melbourne based architecture and design practice and the minds behind this bright and resourceful shipping container conversion.
So, what is it?
“The Gorman Ship-Shop is exactly what it’s called. A shop that can be shipped, moved or planted anywhere there’s space…”
Designed for client Lisa Gorman of Gorman Industries this amazingly portable design uses [...]
An eight-storey cocoon-shaped extension has now been completed for the Natural History Museum in London. C. F. Møller Architects was responsible for the design of this expressive building, which will open to the public in September 2009.
The new Darwin Centre will house the museum’s unique collection of 17 million insects and three million plants, as [...]
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