From their styling of a brand-new London show apartment, it's clear that design-duo 2LG Studio has eyes on both past and future. With a mix of new design furniture, vintage pieces and unique artworks, the interior comes across as contemporary and fresh. Image Courtesy of BoConcept
Thoughtful, captivating and spectacular; today’s interior designers are boldly demonstrating how to create statements through conceptual interiors. Whether expressing reserved minimalism, flamboyant playfulness or organic naturalness, there tends to be a strong and elaborate idea behind the interior concepts being developed currently. Just take a look at the increase in and popularity of design hotels, as well as the number of distinctive and highly stylized restaurants. The impact that our physical surroundings have on us –the shapes, colors, materials and lighting– plays a central role when new hospitality and retail venues are being developed. Interior design delivers definitive experiences and so can be cleverly implemented to speak to our senses and therefore induce specific emotions and reactions.
Courtesy of Vienna Architecture Summer School 2023.
The Vienna Architecture Summer School (VAS²) aims to provide an open learning space and prototypical infrastructure for the exchange and negotiation of knowledges in architecture, reaching beyond dominating institutions and mainstream discourses. VAS² invites local and international participants to exchange with young architects and established experts all practising in Vienna and beyond.
Solidwool, Hydro, Planq, Goldfinger, Bert Frank and SCP - Material Matters 2023
After a hugely successful inaugural edition, Material Matters returns in 2023. Based on the critically acclaimed podcast of the same name, the fair brings together over 40 world-leading brands, designers, makers, manufacturers and organisations to celebrate the importance of materials and their ability to shape our lives.
Join Hamptons 20th Century Modern on a tour of 6 iconic modernist properties in the Hamptons. All private residences, guests will be granted rare access into these early architectural gems and learn about the history and design of each home from their knowledgeable docents. Hamptons 20th Century Modern is a non-profit organization promoting greater awareness and conservancy of residences designed in the modern American vernacular on Long Island, New York. Through their home tours, the organization hopes to amplify the importance of this American architectural typology.
The exhibition's journey, in itself, is a traversal between languages and serves as a metaphor for the ideological translation of its contents. Throughout the exhibit, imperfect interpretations of the work occur through a series of translucent yet opaque textiles that divide the gallery interior. These textiles separate the viewer from the exhibited material and concurrently serve as corridors through the space. The fabric's optical quality forms ethereal, wispy projections that lie just beyond the grasp of perception. By selectively concealing architectural models, allusions are made to the discovery and realization of an idea during the design process. Ideas with hazy, undefined edges that reside within the realm of consciousness until they are translated into reality. Shadows cast by the concealed models lurk and sway in the exhibition room, like scattered concepts, observed by the visitor as they enter the designer's mind. These ideas float in space as a collection of imagined architecture. Through our installation, the intention is to tear away the boundaries of the built environment, represented physically by Tadao Ando's architecture. How the building and the exhibition interact will serve as an investigation into a situational approach to architecture that revels in distortion and ambiguity.
Hanoi’s development has experienced a turbulent history with more than a thousand years of foreign influence from China, French colonization (1873-1954), and socialism following the model of the USSR (1945-1986). Since 1986, Vietnam’s Đổi Mới economic reforms brought rapid urbanization and growth as well as greater connection to the global capitalist market. All these economic and political transitions had a significant impact on the development of housing in the city.
GAD Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of an international architecture competition that calls on young architects from around the world to envision a new natural environment based on living in a scenic and magical landscape. Re-Imagining Cappadocia as an Eco-District competition seeks to extend design insight into architecture embedded and in harmony with the Cappadocian landscape as the focus of Eco-District design.
Next Sunday, Mariana Bunn will be in conversation with Carlos Leitão.
In her series "Accessibility from North to South: All the Voices of Brazil," Mariana Bunn Architecture and Accessibility will host a conversation with architect Carlos Leitão this coming Sunday, July 9.
To respond to the unique opportunities of each client and site, Bates Masi + Architects has developed an approach rather than a devotion to a particular style. Careful study of the needs of the site and owners uncovers a guiding concept particular to each project. That concept is distilled to its essence so that it can inform the design at all scales, from massing to materials to details. The consistency of the concept is evident in the finished product. The result is an architecture that is cohesive, innovative, contextual, and full of details that delight.
The unprecedented growth faced by the Chinese cities in the last decades entailed seriousconsequences: economic and social disparities, environmental crises, and demographic imbalances between the rural and the urban areas. These issues, together with a growing awareness of the intrinsic unsustainability of Chinese economic model, has stimulat d debate on how redefining the approach to urban development.
The Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Universidad de los Andes presents ARQDIS Pavilion 2023, an international conference taking place from October 11 to 13 in Bogotá, Colombia, which will explore cutting-edge projects and research across the creative disciplines.
"Transcend, Beyond Time" is an international event hosted by the Jorge Montes Chair, aimed at exploring and reflecting on the technological advancements and design trends that have shaped the trajectory of architecture both nationally and internationally. The chair is named in honor of the architect who pioneered modern architecture in Guatemala.
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We are pleased to invite you to an exclusive in-person gathering that will bring together leading professionals and key figures in corporate and commercial architecture, real estate, facilities management, human resources, project management, turnkey solutions, and construction.
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The School of Architecture, Art and Design at Tecnológico de Monterrey, in partnership with Fundación FEMSA, invites you to the book launch of "Ciudades para la Infancia: Campana - Altamira," taking place on Tuesday, July 11, at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus Library Auditorium. This publication stems from the Fundación FEMSA Chair, which is part of the Master of Architecture and Urban Design (MDU) program. It compiles the results from the 2022 cycle: a research and design approach to the Campana-Altamira District, along with a series of reflections on the core themes explored within the Chair.
