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Dec 15, 2011 •
BIG wins an invited competition for a 47,000 m2 ski resort and recreational area in Levi. The future Ski Village will transform the existing Levi ski resort into a world class destination, offering top quality accommodation and leisure services for skiers of all levels and demands. The proximity to the Kittilä airport ensures easy access...
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Dec 11, 2011 •
Intel Visibly Smart Experience is a collaboration between Intel and Visual Drugstore in presenting to public a series of 3D live projection mapping tours in four German cities. This campaign was started to promote the Intel second generation mobile processors i5 & i7. The show started in Dresden on 19 August 2011. Visual...
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Dec 3, 2011 •
BIG + Kollision + Schmidhuber & Partner team up to bring BIG’s vision of future urban mobility to life for AUDI at Design Miami/ 2011, running from November 30th through December 4th adjacent to Art Basel Miami Beach. BIG originally presented the concept as an entry for the 2010 AUDI Urban Future Award introducing a...
There is a sequel to the short documentary ‘Be Linen’ by a French filmmaker Benoit Millot. Earlier, we have published the first part of his work. This film tells us about unique properties of flax fibres and their use in different areas, such as automotive industry, water sports, leisure facilities etc. But most of all...
‘Things Adi found in a drawer of an abandoned hotel room’ is the first collaborative project of experimental musician Muradyan and collagist Dad Adouk being at the same time his debut as a video artist. Mesmerizing track unravels as a riddle to solve; it even leaves us undecided whether this is a music video or a...
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Anton
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Nov 23, 2011 •
‘Drawing is the honesty of art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.’ Salvador Dali This statement has become a basis of work of Martina Ermeti, a young talented Italian painter. Martina graduated from Liceo Artistico Serpieri painting workshop and, over the last years, she has had many exhibitions in...
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Nov 19, 2011 •
BIG + Paris-based architects OFF, engineers Buro Happold, consultants Michel Forgue and environmental engineer Franck Boutte is the winning team to design the new 15.000 m2 research centre for Sorbonne’s Scientific university Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. The new multidisciplinary research centre, Paris PARC, located between Jean Nouvel’s Institut du Monde Arabe and...
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Nov 18, 2011 •
‘Metalmorphosis’ is a giant dynamic sculpture 30 feet high, located by the main façade of the business centre ‘Whitehall’ in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the first permanent public construction in USA by a Czech sculptor David Cerny. The sculpture is composed of several rotating metal plates which form a giant head with a fountain...
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Nov 15, 2011 •
The West Brabant Water Line is a defence-line consisting of a series of fortresses and cities with inundation areas in the south-west of the Netherlands. It dates from the 17th century but fell into disrepair in the 19th century. When the water line was finally restored, an access bridge across the moat of one of...
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Nov 11, 2011 •
We have written about ‘green’ industrial design concepts by Marko Vuckovic earlier. This time we would like to feature two interesting concepts of a clock and a watch that are quite different from his other works. The great source of inspiration for these concepts was the image of Saturn, so Marko titled them The Saturn...
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Nov 9, 2011 •
San Francisco-based architecture and design practice IwamotoScott Architecture have designed a new office space for Obscura Digital, a ten-year old immersive and interactive media company which have planned to relocate from their headquarters in a warehouse on Bryant Street. The project called for innovative strategies regarding construction techniques and material selection, to meet the very strict...
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Nov 7, 2011 •
Matroshka is a transforming multi-functional furniture system that acts as ‘four rooms in one’, providing the functions of the living room, bedroom, dining room and study on fifteen square metres. In Russian, the word Matroshka describes wooden dolls that hide inside each other. The furniture system works the same way – the smaller pieces are...
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