(TrendHunter.com) The Metal Shutter Houses created by the Japanese Architect Shigaru Ban (in partnership with Dean Maltz Architects) stands 11 floors tall in the heart of West Chelsea, New York, and has brought Japanese simplicity and modern architectual lines to a sweeter big apple. Ban, known as the ‘poet’ architec…
(TrendHunter.com) Officially, they’re calling it the “Full Moon” – everyone else is calling it the Death Star. Yep, in our very own galaxy (specifically, Baku, Azerbaijan), the construction of Star War’s most famous man-made planet is being planned. The Death Moon is going to be a 521-feet high hotel with 382 rooms, …
(TrendHunter.com) The centerpiece of the world’s first zero-carbon city, Masdar City, has been designed by a Chicago area firm, Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill.
Its 1.4 million square feet will generate more energy than it consumes. It will cost $300,000,000 and will use the world’s largest integrated solar power statio…
(TrendHunter.com) When “Susan” and “Robeert” at the call center in Mumbai, India gets done dealing with Vista problems, they want solitude and serenity. No problems. Please hold. The Blue Frog can provide all that.
Just looking at the circular motif with the soft blue lighting can release the tension in shoulders. …
(TrendHunter.com) We’ve heard of pop up boutiques and pop up restaurants, but now Architect Tim Pyne has designed a temporary hotel is London’s trendy Hoxton. Pyne aims to start building works this summer and intends to fill the disused site for 8 years (which will be long enough to cash in on the Olympics boom). …
(TrendHunter.com) On 28 February, the new Chanel ‘Mobile Art Container’ will be unveiled in Hong Kong, designed by Zaha Hadid, as a transient art pavilion that will roam Tokyo, NYC, London, Moscow and Paris until 2010. According to Hadid, the design is “a celebration of the iconic work of Chanel, unmistakeable for i…
(TrendHunter.com) Given the choice of posting another amazing white apartment (which was truly lush) and this one was indeed a hard choice but in the end it was the Quetzacoatl Nest with its playful appeal, child-like innocence and supreme textured design that one the battle. Dark forces may have had some influence i…
(TrendHunter.com) The Surface Design Show 2008, from 4-8 March in Islington, London is an exhibition of innovative materials and surfaces for applications in architecture and inteiors. Among the products on show are : Surface 1 Resin Walls by Efepimarmi that feature marble pebbles cast in transparent resin that ca…
(TrendHunter.com) The ROC professional training school in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands wanted an interior design for the reception area that truely reflects the spirit of their Care & Health department. Designers Janneke Hooymans and Frank Tjepkema from Tjep took it to heart and came up with an innovative non-traditi…
(TrendHunter.com) It will be the largest, tallest skyscraper in the known universe and no, I’m not referring to the 2,655-foot-tall Burj Dubai, an unfinished, wanna-be world-record-holder.
I’m talking about the unnamed, mile-high behemoth that Hyder Consulting plans on building. They’re not sure (or at least, they’…
(TrendHunter.com) An underground city. It sounds like something out of The Matrix. But Architect Moshé Zwarts says, “There has always been a lack of space in the city, so what we are doing is building a city under the city by using a new construction technique, which will not interfere with street traffic” he said. …
(TrendHunter.com) The old Mediodia power plant in Madrid has been transformed into a striking new cultural centre by Pritzker Prize winning Herzog and de Meuron Architects who have taken an entirely unexpected approach to a monumental, brick landmark.
The Basel based architects are known for their diverse portfolio…
(TrendHunter.com) Super scale neon veins and arteries illuminate a glazed office lobby in central London, flicking on and off to promote debate and awareness of the UK’s biggest Medical Charity, Wellcome Trust. London based Paul Cocksedge is the lighting designer behind the commission, which will be on show until No…
(TrendHunter.com) Designers Andrea Fino and Samanta Snidaro of the Italian Sand & Birch Design Studio have created the OFT house to answer the varying demands of modern lifestyles; the OFT design system is based around a fixed core base that can have live-in modules added to it as your requirements change with time -…
(TrendHunter.com) London will soon open the Silvertown Quays Venture Xtreme – a gigantic sports complex that will feature 30 adventure activities. Phase one of this £1.5 billion facility will include an outdoor wave machine. Current plans have the surfing machine next to the aquarium Biota! and will produce London’…
(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen all sorts of cool homes on Trend Hunter, like tree houses and shipping container homes. We’ve also seen a rising obsession with aqua culture, so it’s neat to feature something that combines the two with this extreme house boat concept, the Trilobis 65.
Similar to the Jelly-Fish 45 Habit…
(TrendHunter.com) Climbing the picturesque in the Austrian mountains, and crossing the River Inn, the stunning new cable railway in Innsbruck (opened December 1st) features doubly curved glass, sweeping, fluid forms and designer Hadid’s signature ‘fluid’ expression. Architect Zaha Hadid explains “we wanted each stati…
(TrendHunter.com) London is one of the most expensive cities when it comes to apartments and houses. Limited by space, the architect designing the apartment for an Austrian couple living in London came up with the idea of a ‘library staircase’ to meet the client’s desire for a large library. English oak stair treads …
(TrendHunter.com) The owners of Martin House-To-Go lost everything after Katrina, then came up with the Fresh Start, a 2008 moving post-disaster house which retails for about $30,000. They describe it as a ‘fully equipped house-on-wheels that can go where you go, with no special permit or license required. All you ne…
(TrendHunter.com) Why should you hire an architect to design public toilets? The answer can be found in the work of trendy, young designers Plastik Architects in London have completed their first public commission: a building for toilets next to a car park in Gravesend Kent.
The up-and-coming designers, who were …
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