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This may be the digital age when everything has gone paperless and people digest literature through tablet readers and audiobooks, yet the love affair with a beautifully or cleverly integrated bookcase continues to endure in design, today. Here are some recent projects that have titillated us with their solutions — and product suggestions for creating…
Architectural Jewelry by Zaha HadidThis isn’t the first time that Hadid has designed jewelry (you ma y recall that she created a line for Lebanese jewelry brand Aziz and Walid Mouzannar), but, whereas those earlier pieces were ornate and full of bling, the pieces she’s designed for Georg Jensen are slightly less flashy yet still elegant.…
Following its announcement of a major expansion to the Asian continent, the WeWork team is setting s tandards across the globe for efficient and comfortable co-working spaces, all the while adapting to its multicultural clientele. With close to 30 locations in New York City alone, WeWork’s growth in the past six years is telling of a…
Artists and craftworkers at the original Bauhaus school, like first female master Gunta Stölzl,helpe d turn the weaving workshop into one of the most successful and renowned departments. Stölzl was famous for combining traditional techniques with new art forms to make innovations, and today’s textile students at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle have continued those practices…
Drywall is all around us, but it is often misperceived as a building material that doesn’t demand th e skillful manipulation of a traditional construction material. Anybody who has worked with drywall knows, instead, that the product is not so cooperative. Getting that perfect cut of drywall tape demands an expert eye, and embedding the tape…
Austin’s SXSW (aka South by Southwest) may be best known for its music and film festivals, but its i nteractive component is fast becoming a hot ticket, too. The SXSW Interactive Festival showcases digital creativity and emerging technology — and, in a panel by IA Interior Architects this afternoon, how they factor into the design of…
You’d be hard pressed to find an architect that didn’t begin exploring the realms of building design and construction with the help of those little plastic bricks in blue, red, yellow and white. However, there are only a handful of master builders who have turned their love of LEGO into a fully fledged career —…
From a customizable system that channels arachnids to a minimalist glass lamp that melds modern desi gn with traditional technique, there’s something for everyone in this showcase of seven handsome pendant lights. Studio Italia Design BuzziSpace: BuzziLight Alhambra and RoyalThe felt furnishings brand recently unveiled (at Design Shanghai) these luminaires sporting shades of perforated felt that…
In his introduction to the new Audain Art Museum in Whistler, British Columbia, architect John Patka u described the project as “a simple building, which to me is a desirable thing.” John, Patricia Patkau and project architect David Shone designed the building in order to create “a quiet space where the art is allowed to shine”…