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Design - Events - Giving - InspirationMAD Architects’ Poetic and Fluid-formed Harbin Opera House Opens in China
Along the Songhua River and surrounded by the wetland landscape of Harbin, Beijing-based MAD Architects have revealed their design of the dynamic opera house in the northern Chinese city. The completion marks the end of the five year construction which sees the building becoming a focal point of the cultural island ...
Read MoreSculpture by the Sea exhibition in Australia is the largest public sculpture exhibition in the World
Sculpture by the Sea exhibition, an annually outdoor event held in Australia makes the largest free to the public sculpture exhibitions in the world. The exhibition began in 1996 at Bondi beach in Sydney and in 2005 Western Australia established its own in Perth. More than hundred of abstract sculptures ...
Read MoreDesign In The Desert - Palm Springs Modernism Week 2016
The warm ‘winter’ winds greeted us as we approached our favorite desert retreat for the whirl of delicious design, invigorating art, midcentury madness – and just the right amount of tropical cocktails and topical conversation with a few hundred of our closest design friends and colleagues ...
Read MoreAaesop’s First Store in São Paulo
Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Metro Associated Architects teamed up to design Aesop's first outpost in Latin America store, pairing exposed concrete with handmade tiles. The interior of the Aesop store in São Paulo was designed in a collaborative effort between Brazilian architect and winner of both the Pritzker and Mies van der Rohe prizes, Paulo Mendes da Rocha and local studio ...
Read MoreFrank Lloyd Wright’s Sturges House – A Los Angeles Architectural Icon
We were thrilled to have the chance to explore this iconic building last weekend during an open house – the property is up for auction, the first time on the market in almost 50 years. Commissioned by a young engineer who saw Wright’s work in a magazine, the property has been called ‘the redwood stealth bomber’ and ‘a symbolic abstraction of the machine ...
Read MoreThe LA Art Show 2016
Art, Design, Music, Architecture - these are part of the Lusive culture. We love to get our team involved in field trips, gallery visits, concerts - to see, feel, listen and take part in experiences that are inspirational, educational and support creative people within (and outside of) Los Angeles - interior and product designers, artists, architects, fashion designers ...
Read MoreShadowplay Clock by Breaded Escalopes displays time in response to touch
A Vienna-based design studio Breaded Escalope launched a prototype of a wall clock that uses shadows to display the time. The clock works as an ambient light and does not show numbers or hands on its face until someone touches it, at which point two shadows that ...
Read MoreMulticolored Artistic Porches Line in Midtown Vancouver
The City of Vancouver’s VIVA cultural program recently displayed the ‘Porch Parade’ as a temporary pedestrian plaza at the historical 800 block of Robson Street. ‘Porch Parade’ featured a mid-street vibrantly colored “party wall” as the most visually defining aspect of the entire functional art piece. Porches straddled the wall to create a ...
Read MoreBattersea Power Station will Feature Hotel Rooftop Infinity Pool with the Panoramic Views of London
The Skyline, a wavy structure designed by Foster + Partners as a part of the third phase of Battersea Power Station redevelopment plan will feature a rooftop infinity pool overviewing the historic Battersea Power Station and the River Thames. The swimming pool will be a part of a 160-room hotel located in ...
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