Making the right choice when it comes to a modern Dining Room can be a complex task, as there is a fine balance between comfort, aesthetic and practicality. If you’re a lover of comfortable modern decor we invite you to take a look at the following curated selection of 60 modern Dining Room design ideas. Download for free: https://bit.ly/2JGV7ue
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The pool is the place for relaxation and fun, it's a way of life. Around new garden furniture similar to the pool, inflatable or rigid spas. Why not sip a cocktail while dipping your feet in the water and choosing a program of colors infinite, thanks to the DMX box integrated with our floodlights? This is the time to do live his night lighting to impress family and f...
The Challenge The challenge was to improve the quality of lighting in two substantial office buildings, with an extremely fast turnaround required. Boasting over 160,000 square foot of office space across 19 floors the Telford Plaza is a landmark office development consisting of two Grade A office buildings in the heart of Telford Town Centre. As part of major refu...
It’s hard not to take part in the current FIFA World Cup frenzy, especially when you happen to be a football (soccer) fan. Portuguese architect and illustrator André Chiote found an artistic and creative way to expel the fever provoked by the international event. Specialized in illustrating famous buildings that are representative of modern architecture, Chiote had the ...
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The Metropole series – which is currently on show at the Bear Free House in south London – depicts structures that have been abstracted through the use of double exposures and high-contrast black and white prints, creating images the photographer describes as both dream-like and nightmarish. In this essay, Bush explains how the photographs were intended to highlight h...
it is home to 2,500 pedigree bovines that each day produce around 30,000 liters of milk – and 100,000 kilos of dung. as a way to benefit from this most natural of resources, farm-owner gianantonio locatelli has transformed the site into a futuristic ecological and industrial project, known as ‘the shit museum’. from the waste, locatelli obtains methane, fertilizer for t...
Following the Climate Energy Plan of Paris aimed at reducing 75% of the greenhouse gas emissionswithin 2050, the « 2050 PARIS SMART CITY » project is a research and development work on theintegration of high-rise buildings with plus-energy (BEPOS) producing by solidarity all together energy for the surrounding areas. In order to fight against the urban heat-island phenom...
The inclusion of older people in community activities to better meet their needs has been acknowledged by the World Health Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities which was established to foster the exchange of experience and mutual learning between cities and communities worldwide. Read the blog from our website! https://goo.gl/VoMep2
Discover our article on bread fermentation to understand the factors influencing fermentation. Discover also the various techniques illustrated by pictures : direct fermentation, indirect fermentation, delayed pointing, mass proving, slow proving, frozen controlled proving and frozen pre-proved.
The Rafael Uribe Uribe Existe series shows the famous New York art museum slotted amongst the ramshackle houses and industrial buildings of a community south of Bogotá, which Enrich said had become alienated in the wake of mass immigration and drug feuds. By collaging two sets of images, the digital artist – who often distorts architectural photographs to create impos...
A concrete industrial space converted into studios and a restaurant in one of Berlin’s periphery neighbourhoods – we've heard it all before, right? Wrong. With its snail-pace attitude to development, an ever-evolving architecture and a genuine social commitment to its surroundings, ExRotaprint is the antithesis of “maker space” gentrification hype. Following the recent p...
After forty-five years of service in training Sweden’s architects-to-be, the infamous KTH Royal Institute of Technology School of Architecture has been vacated, making way for a second life as creative incubator. Ugly is now rebranded as bold, while brutalist is sold as authentic. But what is a school without its pedagogy? Björn Ehrlemark, curator of a 2015 exhibition on...
Now that borders and boundaries are increasingly under question and advanced spatial analysis can reveal as much about social landscapes than physical ones, the infographic and the map have taken on a renewed significance. Wall Street Journal columnist Anthony Paletta takes a look at the website radicalcartography.net for uncube and explores a digital landscape that take...
In March 2016, over the course of three nights, twelve hundred people turned up at a decommissioned power station in Berlin, pillows and sleeping bags in hand, to attend a concert which would quite literally send them to sleep. Now an events and exhibition space and the home of the Tresor nightclub, the vast hall of Kraftwerk Berlin hosted the first ever full-length, eig...
After three years and a 20 million euro investment, the renovation of Richard Wagner’s Haus Wahnfried in Bayreuth, in southern Germany was completed in July 2015. As part of the refurbishment, a new extension was constructed by the prolific, Berlin-based Staab Architects which provides a striking modernist counterpoint to the original villa’s neoclassical grandeur. uncub...
Vilified as a symptom of social breakdown on one hand, co-opted as a tool for gentrification and fashion marketing on the other, graffiti continue to exist on the fringes of social acceptance and legality – and can attract either high prices or high fines depending on which side of the fence you are sitting. Approved by Pablo (A(by)P) is a collaborative arts curation and...
The expansion of Jerusalem in the years following the 1967 Six Day War brought with it a period of conflict in architectural aesthetics; between a historicised image of an ideal Israeli past and the experimental geometrics of the European avant-garde. Like Zvi Hecker, to whose work we dedicated uncube issue no. 41, Eldar Sharon formed part of the latter group, utilising ...
“I would like you, Lorenzo, to give this book a place of honor in your library, read it carefully yourself, and make sure that it is widely published,” the scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano wrote to his patron, Lorenzo de’ Medici, the virtual ruler of Florence, in 1486. The book in question was none other than Leon Battista Alberti’s On the Art of Building in Ten Books, the...
Quite unusual for a Briton nine-to-fiver, one might think. But this is a man who, at a young age, presented himself with an important question: “What is the force driving us, in our quest for meaning?” The great outdoors, nature, the glorious womb of life, became for him a clear answer, a source of inspiration, and a journey he wished to share through The Great Wide Open...
Set on the outskirts of London, the film presents the events that follow the opening of the first of five concrete towers, which are laid out like curled fingers of a hand. Wheatley, who admitted that he is "slightly prejudiced against tower blocks", collaborated with production designer Mark Tildesley to create the building and its setting. Described by the Architec...
The research, contained in a white paper produced by the US office furniture giant, found that organisational culture is a more important consideration than efficiency and performance when it comes to office design. "The critical achievement of workspace design is to integrate the various – and sometimes competing – cultures, values and behaviours of people to meet co...
“I always focus on the existence of harmony and ask myself ‘Why?’ I’m making something.” And it is this surprisingly simple question that perfectly encompasses the celebrated goldsmith’s recognisable and impressive life’s work. As we sat on a carved bench beside a large, smooth wooden table (which he designed), Minas shared how, as a child, he was always creative. He ...
Le Corbusier famously said that architecture was a game of ‘forms assembled in light’. The use of artificial lighting to enhance architectural form has grown increasingly popular in parallel with the rapid development of LED technologies. Four recent projects stand out for their innovative use of lighting; projects where lighting is used in a sophisticated way to enrich ...
The world is changing fast, and all good architects know they must stay in tune with its evolution, constantly adapting their thinking to respond to new social, technological, and environmental conditions at every scale. These complex issues demand increasingly innovative solutions from designers in order to assure that the built environment is economical, sustainable, a...
Spending a summer in southern climes, one learns quickly how the holiday house can be kept comfortable despite high daytime temperatures: closed shutters shield the rooms from overheating during the day, and cross-ventilation cools them at night. This simple principle of cooling by means of natural ventilation and protection from the sun can be incorporated at the archit...
The structural use of textiles in architecture has a rich pedigree, stretching back (no pun intended) to Bedouin tents and 3,000-year-old Central Asian yurts. Today, structures with membrane roofs are highly sought-after and, not surprisingly, have associations of transience and nomadism. Baku Crystal Hall in Azerbaijan, a 25,000-seater stadium, which hosted the 2012 Eur...
It wasn’t until I was 17 that I first had the pleasure of negotiating a guy rope. You see, I didn’t come from one of those happy-camping families who took off into the great outdoors with regularity and gusto, regardless of climatic conditions. My folks favoured bricks-and-mortar architecture for their temporary holiday abodes. No tents or other textile structures for u...
If luxury is to possess and enjoy rare pleasures, then in today’s high-paced, urban societies a simple lifestyle in connection with nature may very well be the rarest luxury of them all. This is the conclusion of the introductory essay found in the book Rock the Shack: The Architecture of Cabins, Cocoons and Hide-Outs, written by the book’s co-editor, Sofia Borges. Fille...
There are some spaces that are a part of our daily life but that don’t impress our perception and our memory. Those spaces are something familiar, that we habitually hang out: a subway station, an underground square, a bathroom. Visited but unspoiled spaces, places that you don’t really look at. Entrance halls (Androni in Italian) are places that have been designed...
“Potential Architecture” fuses art and architecture in four site-specific commissions for Ambika P3 by artists and architects Alexander Brodsky, Sean Griffiths, Joar Nango and Apolonija Šušterŝič. Utilising recycling, craft, and low-tech processes as well as performance, video, sculpture and installation, the works explore the social and material aspects of living envi...
We met Michele Mole’, founder of Nemesi&Partners, to tell us about the project of the Italian Pavilion, comprising Palazzo Italia and temporary constructions along the Cardo. The result is also a reflection on the theme of collaboration between architects and constructors, needed to “make culture” in the contemporary world. Domus: What is the difference, in terms o...
Together with photographer Inga Powilleit, Studio Aandacht presents 15 (inter)national designers from the new generation portrayed in their studios in the Netherlands. A peek behind the scenes, the book will also be accompanied by an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum‘s-Hertogenbosch from January 24 to May 26, 2015, giving visitors an additional insight as to how thes...
Founded in 2009 by the School of Arts, Culture and Environment at the University of Edinburgh the Journal Architecture & provides a platform for innovative ideas in design and research practices. 'Architecture &' is a themed publication, edited by Dr. Cary Siress, with each issue featuring a select topic set in conjunction with that of architecture. The aim is to unde...
