Marina Bay business district in Singapore is about to rise a living standards with the new series of residential building complex proposed by the London-based firm Gustafson Porter. The newest addition to Marina Bay named Marina One, will be distinguished by vertical gardens full of ...
Read MoreSeven Pancras Square has an unrivalled location at the gateway to Kings Cross. Built in 1864 to provide accommodation for Kings Cross workers, there were originally 5 blocks housing 104 families. The remaining building fell into disuse in the 1970s. Now the building has been redesigned by James Wells Architects into a ...
Read MoreA former architecture student and an artist Tracie Cheng creates a unique and recognisable art that combines meticulous precision with distinguished artistic expression in beautiful abstract paintings. Tracie fell in love with watercolors ...
Read MoreA Spanish firm, CRG architecture consultants,with offices in Barcelona, New York, Lagos and Shenzhen, has proposed a solution for the ovepopulated Mumbai Dharavi slum, known as the most crowded ghetto in the world. The project suggests densely stacked recycled shipping containers that form two towers ...
Read MoreIn an ongoing collaboration with Perrier-Jouët champagne, a Vienna based design studio Mischler-Tixler held an extraordinary installation, Curiosity Cloud, in Norfolk House music room of The V&A Museum. The two designers filled a room with glass bulbs each of which contained a hand made insect that fulltered inside the bulb in reaction to visitors’ movements. The 25 different spieces of ...
Read MoreAmsterdam designer Pieke Bergmans used traditional glass-blowing techniques to form these neon lamps with uneven tubes. Bergmans noticed that neon was always encased within tubes with a consistent diameter measurement, so began to create organically-shaped vessels to see how the light was affected when more widely dispersed. The project started with when he wondered why neon is ...
Read MoreThe Biesbosch Museum in Netherlands has reopened its door this summer after eight months of renovation. The Museum is the starting point for Beisbosch National Park, and the old building did not have the capacity to host the growing numbers of visitors.The extension of the original building that houses an organic ...
Read MoreA leading Japanese architect Kengo Kuma renovated a typical tea house in Beijing in a contemporary fashion, but keeping its historical charateritics and a strong relation to Asian heritage. Kengo Kuma and Asssociates have created a translucent plastic blocks in the form of bricks to make new walls for a Beijing Tea house overlooking the Forbidden ...
Read MoreThe British architectural studio Foster+Partners is collaborating with a French museum specialist Studio Adrien Gardere on a construction of the Musee de la Romana Narbonne- a museum and an archeology centre that will house Roman artefacts in Narbonne in the Southern France. Besides the ancient relics uncovered by archeological ...
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