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the design aims at forming a new urban environment within the city's passageways, creating a three-dimensional alleyway that encourages lingering and social activity in areas that are normally considered places of transition.
the cultural center's main program is a library that is characterized by 'globes' that define reading, resting and study zones.
a shorter stick of graphite is inserted into the pencil, enabling one to sharpen it all the way through to the end.
the bottle-shaped water faucet works in a way that is similar to pouring water from a bottle.
the AUDI urban future initiative brings together two worlds: the car and the city.
the palm-sized identification reader uses a 20 frame per second video capture of your irises to verify your identity for logging into your favorite websites and apps.
as the shadowy, semi-transparent digital forms maneuver in place, visitors to the exhibition are asked to weave around them, investigate their eerie translucence, and visually interact with each evolving silhouette.
carefully positioned and posed, each diminutive model bears its own energy and character; some stagnant and poised, while others contour fluidly and rhythmically.
the concept sports car builds upon toyota's coupe heritage that dates back to the 2000GT, celica, supra, MR2 and FT-86.
the compact SUV puts 355 horsepower and 332 lb-ft of torque on the road with its AMG 2.0-liter four-cylinder turbo engine.
the anthropocentric figures narrate brief, and often private moments in time -- life cycles and different stages of development create generations of figures frozen in time.
the uniformly built volume is clad in larch wood panels, opening onto to the natural landscape in the archipelago of stockholm.
sitting atop a private villa three equal-sized volumes stick out above the existing building.
the proposal is envisaged as an extension of the city, featuring a flexible of program of both internal and external volumes.
this proposal for a mixed-use residence, gallery and atelier intends to regenerate the dashilar district by attracting creative enterprises which introduce a cultural and intellectual exchange within the area.
a mutual love for abraham lincoln spurred an artistic collaboration between stacey lee webber and ceramic artist justin rothshank on a series of eight handcrafted vessels.
saving up her pennies, but not in her bank, the artist uses the copper one cent pieces as the medium for her sculptural works which include handtools and objects which reference american life.
the rustic design fully embraces the region's fondness for outdoor living, featuring a external barbecue area the same size as the dining room.
a new transparent structure of slender ribs merges with an existing structure used for stables, fusing with the historical context while encouraging students to integrate with the social fabric.
the glow that the plumen 002 emits alludes to the warm and patterned light of incandescent style bulbs, yet hulger's design uses just 25% of the energy, and maintains a lifespan of 8 years of normal usage.
using responsible materials and processes, the student collaboration produced a diverse range of ideas and realizations that varied in medium application and technique.
recently shown at art basel miami beach was 'in our dreams we have seen another world', a mixed media inferno of small-scale zombies, nazis, corpses and crucified ronald mcdonalds neatly encased in a glass box.
'brasil' reflects the local south american landscape, haphazardly stacked on something transient and portable, alluding to much of the country's volatile building foundation.
laser-printed gold brooches, over-sized laminated necklaces, and pins punctured by precious stones are just a few of the conceptual jewelry designs by gijs bakker affixed to the wall within the south beach event tent, demonstrating the designer's ironic and unconventional relationship with his discipline.
the collection of interior and domestic designs illustrate an ideal partnership, highlighting the aesthetic values which the italian luxury fashion house and the celebrated representative of the arts décoratifs movement both share -- mastery of materials, dexterity in unifying texture and medium, and devotion to artisanship.
simply by opening up an umbrella, a special space is immediately created below offering a sense of warmth and coziness.
the salon utilizes semi-transparent boundaries, and establishes a strong connection with nature, in order to provide a temporary retreat in the city center.
the unusually large-scale mirrors are extensively wrapped in PVC along all sides, mimicking the construction techniques used for small blow-up boats.
the diversity of the kettle shapes is a response to the mass production. the result is hybrid objects which meet somewhere between mass production and one-off, industry and handicrafts, technical aesthetics and organic forms.
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