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“As a child, I was a James Bond film, Space: 1999 geek,” Napa Valley-based designer Richard Von Saal tells Architizer. Captivated by the glamour and “complex geometry of futuristic modernism,” of these movies, he developed a certain cinematic flair in his own interior design and fabrication practice, making it only fitting that the Napa Valley…
For the third year running, Architizer is excited to partner with Sunbrella for the Future of Shade Competition to design beautiful spaces using fabric. With the growing interest and increasingly diverse range of entries in the past two editions of the annual competition, this year sees its expansion to three distinct categories — Humanitarian, Wellness…
Cancún, Mexico
What do worms and mirrors have in common? If you’re familiar with Ideas City, the biennial festival that intersperses the area around the New Museum on the Bowery with a series of installations, games, talks, and performances, you might not find this to be an odd question. During its past two iterations, Storefront for Art…
“It is certainly unpleasant and tedious to be confronted day-in, day-out with products which are con fusing, which literally get on our nerves, and with which we cannot relate,” industrial design deity Dieter Rams of Braun once said. In order to steer us away from the creation of such products, he formulated the “10 Principles of…
Minimal USA was the 2014 Popular Choice Award winner in the Products+Kitchen category with the Minim al - M3 collection. This custom-made kitchen hardware is built to last with stainless steel structures and aluminum doors and drawers.
C.T. ARCHITECTS was the 2014 Popular Choice winner and the Jury Award winner in the Architecture+Agi ng category with Loft MM. This storage-space-turned-micro-loft was created with custom-made furniture and design solutions that subtly comply with Belgian disability codes.
In anticipation of the upcoming deadline for the 2015 A+ Awards, we’re featuring facts you did n’t know about some of last year’s winners. These innovative designs don’t just happen overnight. Well, number six sort of did… Find out more about how these unique projects got our attention: 1. Mix Work and Play Supermass Studio was…
A decade ago, when white LEDs began entering the architecture marketplace in force, early adoption c ame with misgivings. The new light source would drastically cut electricity consumption over many more hours of life — but the color temperature was cold, or brightness seemed insufficient. Like most disruptive technologies, LEDs promised to revolutionize the industry. Just…