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Jan 22

Book Review – Chroma: Design, Architecture and Art in Color

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Designers and architects have to make decisions regarding color every day. But how does one find the necessary inspiration? The appropriate color? How do other designers and artists deal with the issue? With “Chroma,” the Greek word for color, as its title, this illustrated book provides answers to these questions and makes it clear that color is much more than mere decoration – it is one of the central problems of creative work continue

Jan 20

Winners of Europan Norway – the Vardø site

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Each of the winning projects for Vardø, a city swept in darkness 2 months of the year, is fascinating in its own way. Taken together they form a truly thought-provoking perspective on what young architects can bring to local urban challenges continue

Jan 19

W Hotels Starwood

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Le groupe Starwood Hotels poursuit son développement avec près de 40 hôtels en exploitation à travers le monde. Un exemple concret de leur décoration moderne, avec ce mélange créatif et luxueux, entre architecture et design. Un tour d’horizon à découvrir dans la suite.

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Jan 12

Book Review – Interactive Architecture

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Interactive Architecture includes contributions from the worlds of architecture, industrial design, computer programming, engineering, and physical computing. The book examines the vanguard movement from all sides, including its sociological and psychological implications as well as its potentially beneficial environmental impact continue

Jan 07

The Third and The Seventh

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I can’t stress enough that you need to watch this.

A beautiful encounter between Architecture and poestry, and probably one of the most moving and amazing videos I’ve seen lately.

Most incredibly. It’s all made in CGI.

via: @hugoandmarie

Jan 03

Open City: Designing Coexistence – Part 3, Reciprocity

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The exhibition explores the key role that bartering is fulfilling in developing countries. This kind of informal economy is not only often more important than the official economy, but its importance will increase dramatically in the coming years as the cities in poor countries undergo explosive population growth. Reciprocity examines how this system of barter and returning of favors affects the infrastructure and vitality of Jakarta where a large majority of the population receives its wages in kind, and creates its own alternative chain of supply and demand continue

Dec 24

Open City: Designing Coexistence – Part 1, Community

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It seems that, given a choice, most Americans choose to live in a homogenous community over an heterogenous one. However, the suburban landscape of semi-public spaces that exist in between these homogenous communities reveal, here and there, what Interboro calls “spaces of encounter” where diverse social and ethnic groups coexist, interact and generate complex relationships and networks continue

Dec 22

Coastal House Design

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Coup de coeur pour le travail du cabinet d’architecture Swiss Fine Line avec cette superbe maison, située le long d’un rivage. Elle dispose d’un mur de verre glacé et d’une façade de pierre. Un design contemporain avec des longues pièces et un intérieur minimaliste et réussi.

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Dec 09

Rien Ne Va Plus at Bureau Europa in Maastricht

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Whether they take the Skyscraper Index seriously or not, people agree that Architecture is conditioned by the economical climate. Architectural projects were the first casualties of the current financial crash, and architects, along with bankers, were the first who suffered collective layoffs. Rien ne va Plus, an exhibition taking place at Bureau Europa in Maastricht, delves into the economic crisis and its intricate relation with architecture continue

Nov 24

Bas Princen, Mokattam Ridge (Garbage city)

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I first thought Princen’s photograph was fake. How could this be real? Looking online for the location of the photo, Mokattam, i discovered the image is authentic. It’s a suburb of Cairo, called Garbage City. A community of mainly Coptic Christians were allowed to collect and dispose of Cairo’s waste by feeding it to their pigs continue

Oct 28

Book Review – Installations by Architects: Experiments in Building and Design

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Like paper projects designed in the absence of “real” architecture, installations offer architects another way to engage in issues critical to their practice. Direct experimentation with architecture’s material and social dimensions engages the public around issues in the built environment that concern them and expands the ways that architecture can participate in and impact people’s everyday lives continue

Oct 22

SweatShoppe

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Une mélange entre le concept de “live video painting” et le graffiti électronique, avec ces rouleaux de peintures lumineuses développés par le collectif SweatShoppe. Le rouleau n’applique aucune peinture sur le mur, car il est constitué de LED vertes. A découvrir dans la suite.

Une belle vidéo sans post-production réalisée au Queens et à Manhattan, grâce à l’utilisation d’un projecteur qui suit la position du rouleau.

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Sep 24

Book Review – Digital Fabrications : Architectural and Material Techniques

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Digital Fabrications explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs with physical forms. The book is organized according to five types of digital fabrication techniques: tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring, and forming. Projects are shown both in their finished forms and in working drawings, templates, and prototypes, allowing the reader to watch the process of each fantastic construction unfold continue

Sep 23

Real Life Hobbit Havens – The Habitable Polyhedron is a Family Retreat Playhouse (GALLERY)

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(TrendHunter.com) A haven created with new parents in mind, the Habitable Polyhedron is a geometric ball of calm. Despite intentions, however, it looks more like a Hobbit home than anything else and can probably better…

Sep 19

Modern Montreal Homes – Henri Cleinge Updates a Historic 200-Year-Old Residence (GALLERY)

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(TrendHunter.com) Architect Henri Cleinge recently renovated the Montréal home of Stéphane Dion and Éloïse Corbeil. With a projected area of 279 sqm and a budget of $800,000 Henri Cleinge was able to morph the home located…

Sep 08

Abridged Abodes – Bridge Homes, Like those by H3ar, Let You Live on the Water (GALLERY)

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(TrendHunter.com) The thousands, maybe millions, of travel photographs of bridges are a testament to the magnetic appeal of structures built over water, no matter how simple. These homes are right out of a fairy tale, with…

Sep 07

Disco Ball Architecture – Ricardo Barragão Creates Multi-Layered Work of Art (GALLERY)

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(TrendHunter.com) As if the aesthetics weren’t enough to impress onlookers, it should be noted that Portuguese artist Ricardo Barragão’s ‘Cidades Invisiveis’ was inspired by a classic novel that was even more groundbreaking…

Aug 29

Hotels on Stilts – Angsana’s InOcean Villas are Island-Free Vacations in the Maldives (GALLERY)

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(TrendHunter.com) The Maldives’ newly-opened Angsana Velavaru InOcean Villas are swanky hotel rooms on stilts. The luxurious collection of 33 two-story vacation homes are joined by a boardwalk but are completely isolated…

Aug 29

Triangular Jungle Shelters – V-Houses by Heinz Legler Offer Stunning Views Without Damaging the Land (GALLERY)

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(TrendHunter.com) Eco-adventurers visiting the jungles for Yelapa, Mexico will soon be able to find refuge in these precarious looking V-Houses designed by Heinz Legler. Securely planted in the ground, the inverted metal…

Aug 28

Hallucinogenic Cafeterias – Designer Tobias Rehberger Wins With Trippy Lunch Space (GALLERY)

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(TrendHunter.com) It’s lunch time at work, and you decide to visit the company-run cafeteria downstairs. Only when you get there, it seems as though you took the red pill, and went down the rabbit hole. Fret not, it is…

Hasta La Creative!

Book Review – Chroma: Design, Architecture and Art in Color

Winners of Europan Norway – the Vardø site

W Hotels Starwood

Previously on Fubiz

Book Review – Interactive Architecture

The Third and The Seventh

Open City: Designing Coexistence – Part 3, Reciprocity

Open City: Designing Coexistence – Part 1, Community

Coastal House Design

Previously on Fubiz

Rien Ne Va Plus at Bureau Europa in Maastricht

Bas Princen, Mokattam Ridge (Garbage city)

Book Review – Installations by Architects: Experiments in Building and Design

SweatShoppe

Previously on Fubiz

Book Review – Digital Fabrications : Architectural and Material Techniques

Real Life Hobbit Havens – The Habitable Polyhedron is a Family Retreat Playhouse (GALLERY)

Modern Montreal Homes – Henri Cleinge Updates a Historic 200-Year-Old Residence (GALLERY)

Abridged Abodes – Bridge Homes, Like those by H3ar, Let You Live on the Water (GALLERY)

Disco Ball Architecture – Ricardo Barragão Creates Multi-Layered Work of Art (GALLERY)

Hotels on Stilts – Angsana’s InOcean Villas are Island-Free Vacations in the Maldives (GALLERY)

Triangular Jungle Shelters – V-Houses by Heinz Legler Offer Stunning Views Without Damaging the Land (GALLERY)

Hallucinogenic Cafeterias – Designer Tobias Rehberger Wins With Trippy Lunch Space (GALLERY)

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