Architecture and Design Magazine

One Prize 2011:Water as the Sixth Borough

archilover — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:47:37 +0000

ONE PRIZE is an annual design and science award to promote green design in cities. ONE PRIZE 2011 turned its focus to New York and its waterways, re-imagining recreational space, public transportation, local industry, and native environment in the city. The One Prize 2011: Water as the Sixth Borough competition received submissions from 256 people from 18 countries and 5 continents entered the competition.

Entrants drew inspiring proposals for the NYC BLUE NETWORK by expanding waterborne transportation and linking the five boroughs with a series of green transit hubs incorporating electric passenger ferries, water taxis, bike shares, electric car-share and electric shuttle buses as well as providing in-water recreation, water-oriented educational and cultural activities and climate resilience. The winning teams further submitted proposals for New York City to host the world’s largest cleantech event, E3NYC and establish the city as the ultimate green capital on the world.

Contemporary Architecture and Engineering in the Middle East

archilover — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:35:19 +0000

In the spring of 2012 the Center for Architecture will host the U.S. debut of the exhibition City of Mirage: Baghdad, 1952-1982, from Wright to Venturi and mount a related exhibition Contemporary Architecture and Engineering in the Middle East (working title), which will be on view from February 22 – June 23, 2012. Enter NYC’s first exhibition on contemporary architecture and engineering in the Middle East and support the presentation of City of Mirage: Baghdad, 1952-1982, from Wright to Venturi.

WTC: Street Installation and Exhibition

Architects and Designers — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:17:14 +0000

WTC: Street Installation and Exhibition is a 4×28 foot montage comprised of closeups of the facades of the former Twin Towers- located on East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue. There will also be nine accompanying prints exhibited in the FAB Cafe across the street. Opening reception is Wednesday, September 28th from 7-9pm, FAB Cafe 75 East 4th Street.

eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition

archilover — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:17:04 +0000

eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture. It recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. It is a forum that examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.

‘La Fabrique Sonore’ Exhibition / Hyoung-Gul Kook, Ali Momeni and Robin Meier

Architects and Designers — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:58:17 +0000

Taking place at the Vranken Pommery Monopole in Reims, France, La Fabrique Sonore combines ancient paper folding techniques with contemporary computer-aided-design and manufacturing processes. Curated by Charles Carcopino and Claire Staebler and designed by Hyoung-Gul Kook, Ali Momeni and Robin Meier, the form is inspired by mathematician and origami expert Taketoshi Nojima, especially his work reproducing organic forms from folded paper. More images and information on the exhibition after the break. Their collaboration with architect Hyoung-Gul Kook allowed them to design, fabricate and assemble this suspended 345 cubic-meter structure from 285 flat sheets of aluminum/polyethylene composite, precisely folded 2,535 times. This structure acoustically amplifies the sound from a single speaker-driver in order to create an enclosed space that bathes the listener in its center in sound. The fold, as a multi-layered metaphor for the relationship between mind and matter, inspires plis/replis. The installation is made up of a highly geometric, folded and suspended structure that amplifies the experiences and metaphors of champagne. The primary structure, a 10 x 10 x 12m cone suspended in a pyramid, underground cave (a “crayères”) – one of the largest crayères of Vranken-Pommery’s 18km long underground system of corridors and caves dating back to Roman times. This architectural augmentation of the space also serves as a functional loud speaker. A glass platform suspended at the focal point within the cone holds a vessel filled with champagne. Using the actual sounds of effervescence picked up by a special microphone immersed in the champagne vessel, a real-time analysis/synthesis audio system creates a continually evolving sound environment, diffused downward from above.

‘Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment’ Exhibition

Architects and Designers — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:07:40 +0000

Pritzker Prize-winner Kevin Roche is one of America’s most influential and prolific architects, acclaimed for his skillful integration of man-made and natural environments. Drawing on material originally presented at the Yale School of Architecture, Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment, which runs from September 27nd-January 22nd, has been expanded to highlight Roche’s contributions to the fabric of New York City, including the Ford Foundation building and more than four decades of master planning, design, renovations, and new additions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition features original drawings, models, photographs, and ephemera documenting Roche’s career, along with extensive video presentations of projects and interviews with the architect.

How to Decorate Good Outdoor Dining Room Ideas

Architects and Designers — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:57:06 +0000

If you are bored to indoor dining room, maybe you can change the arrangement without buying new stuff. Take all your furniture and then move them to the outside. The result, you will get the beautiful outdoor dining room with fresh air and good view. To help you get the inspiration, here will be some ideas to concept your outdoor dining room.

Mix and match the furniture just like you would indoors. The matching furniture is so old fashion. Now, you can choose to mix and match the furniture, but remember, it should have same concept or elements. For the roof, you can use a porch roof that gives protection for years.

If space is limited, treat one corner of the porch like a small breakfast nook. Do not worry if you just small space. The small round table with two to four chairs can give you the cozy place to dine.

On a screened in porch, place around table in an outer corner. Then, all people are in table can enjoy the view as possible.

Treat your porch table like your formal dining table. Fresh flower and candleholders will make your dining look so classy.

Take cues from your formal dining room when it comes to hanging lighting. Maybe you have seen this onion lantern outside house. But now, you can hang this lantern in the centre of your dining area. For addition, if you have long table, you can put two lanterns.

Let your rustic flag fly. It will create a cozy atmosphere and a relaxation feeling.

Add an outdoor kitchen. Move the kitchen to the outside with the dining furniture. So you can get perfect combination in creating the outside dining room.

Integrate your grill with built ins. It will help you in creating a barbeque party. The stone stands give the European style to your dining room.

Modern Bedroom Design Ideas 2012 from Roche Bobois

Architects and Designers — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:08:23 +0000

French Furniture Collection Company Roche Bobois launched some high end bedroom sets look modern, beautiful and elegant. Based on story Roche Bobois begun from two families, the roches and the Chouchans. Roche bought the old Alexander Dumas theater and built two stores. And then this business continued by his sons and now to be advanced company in French.

Roche Bobois Furniture has a unique character for every furniture design and inspired multiple personalities from designer all furniture collection customize in any detail, choice of shapes, colors, leathers, woods and finishes. Therefore create for every furniture look unique, exclusive and elegant. All material collection from eco-friendly and valuable material. It’s can be look at first outdoor bedroom make from natural wood and precious. This outdoor bedroom designed very simple and minimalist for another pictures available style and design of these modern bedrooms using contemporary style, natural and suitable with your necessary.

In the pictures of modern bedroom 2012 available one bedroom designed with vintage style but still look contemporary. Roche Bobois created this bedroom close to fireplace for spoil the homeowner to get warm, relaxing and good resting. Floor of the bedroom also look natural and main hanging lamp look more classic.

How to Decorate Comfortable Bedroom Design Ideas

Architects and Designers — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:57:09 +0000

Before we have told you about how to decorate beautiful bedroom design, today we want to give you tips to decorate comfortable bedroom. When we start to decorate a bedroom we don’t only think about beautiful of the bedroom but we have to think also about comfortable side. We will spend much time in the bedroom and we must create our bedroom more comfortable. Functionally, bedroom used for relaxing and resting but if we want to improve our decoration we can make a bedroom as work station, playing room for our kids and another activity can be done in bedroom. Probably you ever seen a king or princes who live in palace when they woke up form sleeping their maid will serve their meal in bedroom. Therefore the bedroom room also has similar function as dining room we able to create it also as reading place or library. Check out all these pictures above you will find purple bedroom with elegant design. In the purple bedroom founded an amazing hanging lamp as main lamp and another lamp founded inside this bedroom to highlight purple wall decorating with flower painting to create this bedroom more comfortable to use.

Another comfortable bedroom founded in futuristic style to create this decoration we demand to spend much money for designing. In these pictures also provided a classic bedroom with huge space. In the decoration of bedroom the designer placing also a large cupboard inside bedroom because the homeowners love to collect some precious clothes. But all of these decorations as shown at pictures available having great attention on comfortable value. We hope all these pictures sample can help you to find a best solution to solve your problems to create a comfortable bedroom design for your home.

How to Decorate Fantastic and Modern Kids Bedroom Design Ideas

Architects and Designers — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:14:07 +0000

Every family home decoration has kid’s bedroom. There are several types of bedroom and each bedroom has different style and design. Every homeowner want to apply a best bedroom design in their home and apply their dream come true. Today we want to discuss about how to decorate a fantastic kid’s bedroom design in our home. As parent we present a best way to decorate our kid’s bedroom base on their expression. The bedroom mode eventually depend on your kid’s gender, we create a little girl room with pink and yellow theme color like presented in BARBIE ROOM. For little boy we will make the bedroom with warm and bright color combination and accessorize with stuffs they love like skateboard, maps, and some adventure stuff such as presented in IAN’S BEDROOM which has a cool map mural. The kid’s bedroom design with adventure theme displayed like ENFILA’T with two bedrooms, for one bedroom placing on top surface of the cupboard with small home tree as a headboard this design has a lot of challenges for little kids and this theme suitable for them. SHABBY CHIC DELIGHT has a large space with huge white cupboard. The designer choose natural wooden floor and gray color combination for wall aimed to achieve an elegant overall effect. For additional, the designer placing some stuffs loved by the girl into the bedroom such as bear, cat and dog puppet.