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The resulting 390 sq. meter residence, “returning hut” uses materials that reflect the composition and color of rocks and trees on its hillside location outside Xiamen, China. The two-story house features bluestone, slate and solid wood walls and flooring with minimal decoration. Abundant glass outer walls invite the outdoors in, visually opening the bedrooms, bathroo...

Its suspended LED ring lights up a translucent fiberglass shade. The slogan for TOOaPICNIC by TootheZoo, “Work was never so beautiful,” is honest marketing as the product received runner-up. The picnic-style desk was Designed by Jules Vreeswijk (TOOtheZOO) and Joost Waltjen (Waltjen Design). Voters selected their favorites and ARCIPELAGO by NARBUTAS received the ultim...

Bringing together architects and lighting designers, Light Space will feature more than 40 exhibitors, including top Italian lighting brand Reggiani with their Lux Award-shortlisted Cells range, Indian lighting frontrunner Corvi and industrial design company Lumenpulse. More artificial skylight innovation from CoeLux will also be on display. A full schedule of Expert ...

ArchiExpo caught up with some of them in Moscow and St. Petersburg to chat about their latest projects and the trends they follow or shun. Talk to any designer or design school professor in Russia, and you will be reminded that the word “design” was banned in Soviet Russia until the very end of 1980s. Before that, it was called artistic engineering or technical aesthe...

The company’s director, Kotaro Watanabe, began the talk by describing how his team employs “pendulum thinking” to switch between the perspective of designer and user, “learning about the boundary between the two sides and how those borders change.” One Title at a Time Founder Kinya Tagawa elaborated on that idea, presenting a project for an organization that employ...

Kennedy began his career as an architect, but then shifted his focus to photography, with now more than 15 years of experience. He has been commissioned to photograph works for architectural firms, networks and publications including The BBC, Sheppard Robson Architects, Rivington Street Studio, Haptic Architects, Coup de Ville Architects, Architecture Today, Building Des...

Dubai Design Week’s popular exhibition Abwab showcased entirely new work from designers and studios from Algeria, Bahrain, India, Iraq, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates; an excellent starting point. Rawan Kashkoush, Creative Director of Abwab stated in a press release: “The Abwab pavilions are a microcosm of diversity each year, showcasing design in a format tha...

We began our first week walking through the tree-lined pathways of Nicanor Garcia Street in the busy district of Makati City, where we met budding designer Joseph Rastrullo at Le Coude Rouge and veteran designer Vito Selma. A further walk down the street brought us to the sprawling white modern showroom of internationally renowned interior design expert, Ito Kish, whe...

The annual celebration of the best, brightest and future of contemporary Japanese art, architecture, and design—was struck by tragedy this year, when a fire at one of the exhibitions on the penultimate day of the two-week event sadly claimed the life of a five-year-old boy and injured several others. Naturally, the final day of the event, which was planned as two six-d...

“Where design today focuses on physical products, design of the future will be about data-driven products and experience. Where innovation today is about creating new products, innovation of the future will be focused around designing adaptive products that are constantly delighting the customer. And where technology today might be core to a company but an afterthought t...

At home she was used to controlling the lights with her voice using Amazon Echo so she shouted: “Alexa, lights off!” The waiter was perplexed as to why a girl would talk to the lights, but it made Taylor and his wife laugh. To their daughter, all lights inherently would respond to her voice commands. “It made me realize that the connected home is already here,” ...

Among some of the major highlights of this year’s fair, Italian company Scavolini participated, for the first time, by unveiling its bathroom and kitchen Ki collection, designed by Studio Nendo. Visitors also gathered for an inspiring talk from both architects Norman Foster and Solano Benitez. Brain-cozy Creative Power The 85-year-old Lord Norman Robert Foster took...

Expo organizers aim to make it the most inclusive world exhibition of all time, inviting people and organizations of diverse backgrounds to take part. The theme “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future” reflects the importance in today’s world of extreme connectedness to work together towards architectural, technological and scientific innovation. From October 20, 2020 ...

ArchiExpo highlights two of the Gold Winners in the single house category: Haus in Riehen and House R. Haus in Riehen by Switzerland-based Reuter Raeber is a contemporary house built in glass, concrete, wood and metal, showcasing unique contrasting interplays between heavy and light, load and support. House R. by Berlin-based architecture firm Modersohn & Freiesleb...

Inspiration, innovation and human connection all play a part in the system here. We later phoned Alexandre Peutin, head of the materials library, to better understand how they work and what’s coming up. ArchiExpo e-Mag: How would you describe the materials library? Alexandre Peutin: It’s a place for research and study dedicated to materials and a link between profe...

You can see it in the obsession with glass shower stalls and in the eschewal of ornamentation, and the emphasis on function in domestic spaces. Indeed, after 50 years, designers still are finding more to say on the matter. Case in point is the Infinity Kitchen, a glass assemblage of kitchen cabinets, stove and disposal pipes that debuted at the 2016 Venice Architectur...

According to Atema, more than 700 cities have “major poop problems” because they depend upon antiquated combined sewer systems, which mix sewage with storm water. Atema’s topic was apt for a conference about the future of cities, because combined sewer overflows (CSOs) constitute one of the biggest environmental threats to metropolitan areas like New York. As little a...

The Rehberger-Weg is a 5-kilometer cross-border path linking one of the world’s finest modern art museums Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland and the equally inspiring design mecca Vitra Campus in Germany. Listen to the sounds of the bell at Fondation Beyeler, the running water of the fountain behind and the tram pulling away. This is the first or the last stop depending...

In a 2013 Ted Talk, Wikihouses founder Alastair Parvin asks, “Who are the people that make cities?” Around the same time, resourceful citizens began DIYing unique projects such as Jono Williams’ Skysphere, entirely self-crafted and solar-powered, and Kodasema’s movable concrete house Koda. Architects across the globe are taking the future of shelter into their own han...

The open-plan scheme from the 2000s, with rows upon rows of workstations and never enough social and meeting spaces, is officially, according to Gensler’s research, being transformed into a new trend: the hybrid office. “It’s not going too far out on a limb to say these findings put us at the beginning of a new era in workplace strategy and design,” Diane Hoskins, exe...

During the Museum Shops conference on Friday, September 2, 2016, he explained that he hunts down the best to present to the art director at the museum, who makes the ultimate decision of what to sell in the store. Whether visitors were looking to fill their museum shop or interior design boutique, this September’s fair brought its own collection of goodies. ArchiExpo ...

ArchiExpo decided to check it out. We began the morning walking along historic corridors of the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), visiting the design office of Gunadi Lamere Design, founded by designers Joel Lamere and Cynthia Gunadi. We interviewed them and found out about their upcoming furniture solo exhibition, continuing the success of their out...

The Shaper Origin breaks free from the usual physical restraints required of a dedicated CNC system using Wi-Fi connectivity between the tool and the computer to upload design files directly to the dual grip router. The system includes a built-in camera and ShaperTape, a special domino-style graphic tape for guidance. A touchscreen displays an augmented reality view o...

The reception area leads to a window gaze of the Temple of Dawn, reminding visitors of the cultural beauty that no modernity wishes to exclude. Thai architecture and interior design firm Onion accomplished the transformation of seven shop houses into the Sala Rattanakosin hotel in 2013, with the intention of guiding the visitor’s eye outward, beyond the space. Moving ...

It was an expressive room to inspire and showcase today’s design generation, not meant to be an interactive space. A few objects found in the game room were Open Dome Chair by POLaRT (bright blue), Guéridon Bas, Saint Martin stools by Hamilton Conte Paris design, Rometti limited edition, Zig Zag pink by Pols Patterns, pieces from Christian Lacroix, L’OBJET’s tic-tac-t...

Today his award-winning portfolio includes tables, chairs, lights, art objects and installations. While a rising profile has brought a burgeoning workload, the Montreal native still imbues his creations with a sense of handcrafted solidity and permanence. ArchiExpo caught up with Malouin for a quick chat in his Hackney-based studio. ArchiExpo: When it comes to desi...

“We wanted to break the mold of a traditional trade show,” deputy director Will Sorrell told ArchiExpo. He explained that a key idea this year was challenging exhibitors “to engage visitors on different levels, not just showing,” by creating the monopoly houses, which offered interactive experiences including a virtual reality installation. The central exhibition area...

Hands in his dad’s hair, he was taken around the rest of the museum space of the House of Games exhibition at Maison&Objet’s September show in Paris. Three wildly fun rooms made up the House of Games: the game room, the salon and the museum. Exiting the museum, visitors could enjoy looking through the various works dedicated to games and gaming at the House of Games b...

Companies like Nike iD, which originally just wanted an online retail service, got the ball rolling with its bespoke athletic shoes. Here in the third wave of mass customization, according to “The Customization 500,” the first global benchmarking study on mass customization and personalization in consumer e-commerce (2012), companies are offering design, manufacturing...

How the Craftsman Turns a Profit In taking a stand against reprobate behaviors such as overconsumption, waste and the exploitation of labor, many people are turning their attention towards avant-garde start-ups and small enterprises, enticed by their affability, authenticity and individuality. Of course valuing craftsmanship for these positive virtues is all well and go...

The highlights were: Acrylic Day: A series of lectures about acrylic demonstrated the properties of acrylic sheets, bonding techniques and how furniture can be made more varied and desirable when using this material. Among the speakers were representatives of entities like the National Institute for the Development of Acrylic, manufacturers CastCril and Sinteglas and ...

Growing up in manufacturing capital Santa Catarina and working in a furniture company from the age of 16 taught him about properties of materials and size of supply. ArchiExpo spoke with Almeida about his Clad chair and Twist table, both of which are part of his collection released for the international market in December 2015 at Artefacto in Miami and manufactured by SO...

Among the more than a hundred individual events incorporated in the fifth Design Weekend in São Paulo between August 10 and 14, a new exhibition, High Design Home & Office Expo, was included for the first time with the aim of becoming the main event of the whole program. High Design was created by the Furniture Industry Association of Bento Gonçalves in the south of Braz...

These childhood encounters, combined with the influences of his father, José Zanine Caldas—a world-famous landscape designer, model maker, sculptor, furniture maker and self-taught architect—showed him his life and career path. With a master’s degree in industrial design behind him, Zanini de Zanine has already received 21 national and international awards and was chosen...

They responded to the responsibility of representing national identity through design by creating a torch that exemplifies Brazil’s diversity. The torch is made up of several pieces of recycled aluminum, and its polished look can be attributed to the layer of opalescent epoxy resin coating the surface. The object, manufactured in Barcelona, remains unique due to a par...

In 1992 he opened São Paulo’s YCON Engenharia studio, where he serves as technical director and teaches a variety of engineering and construction courses. Rebello speaks to ArchiExpo about the latest tools and materials in Brazil for constructing safe structures. Q&A with Yopanan Rebello ArchiExpo: What are the biggest challenges for structural engineers in Brazil?...