Tuesday, July 19, 2011

thor desk


From studio dror. great design!
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desert house



Articulating defined spaces in retrofitting a 20-year-old residence through a punctuation of natural daylight, exterior spatial relationships and a reduction in use of finishes. Desert House is a modern, sustainable intervention in the desert. The single-family residence renovation represents a forward thinking approach to desert life. The one-acre site is within a single-family residential neighborhood, surrounded by textured desert mountains to the south, west, and northeast. The pure structure cuts a clean sharp edge through the revegetative desert landscape.
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interactive sound sculpture


Who doesn’t remember makeshift telephones made of wire and cans? The Invoxicated interactive play sculpture is a bit like that, but a bit more complex, a lot cooler looking, and it actually works! Children can explore the playful qualities of sound by talking into one end of the sculpture to produce sound for the listener on the other end. By bending parts of the sculpture and pressing its various buttons, a multitude of sound effects can be achieved in real time.

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a villa without walls


Walk ing through the rooms of House O like liq uid sap. With out walls, flow ing over its tree-​​shaped floor plan on a jut ting rock over look ing the ocean. And feel ing part of a whole.
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mocha – mojo


designed by the indian studio mancini enterprises, mocha – mojo is a coffeehouse in chennai with seating for 110.
adopting the early modernists' philosophy of creating beauty through purity, the interior refers to the era's
reduction of functionalist objects as well as the intensity of its color field paintings.
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Monday, July 18, 2011

Adamos Residence



A new masterpiece by Varda studio.
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house in gunma


tokyo-based office archiplace (ishii masahiro, kondo tamiko) has sent us images of 'house in gunma', 
a two-level private residence in the central prefecture of japan. located on a generous plot measuring 
over 1650 m2, the l-shaped design was conceived to respect and work around a large mature tree on site. 
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