Do you dream of a world in which your touch-screen could touch back? Where you can shape digital modals with your hands, physically reach out to friends hundreds of miles away, and once again tangibly interact with the people and objects around you? The Tangible Media Group at MIT’s Media Lab has begun to probe […]
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Arturo Alvarez has created a lighting installation using the TINA collection at the chapel of the
“Hostal dos Reis Católicos” in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Description
Arturo Alvarez has just made a lighting pop-up installation at the chapel of the “Hostal dos Reis Católicos”, in Santiago de Compostela, a one of a kind architectural setting full of history through the centuries, since the middle ages.
This lighting installation symbolizes the happiness after finishing the Way of St. James, argument that has served to present the Nordesia vermouth. Both companies share the same core values: a hand-made, pampered product, full of emotions. Together we welcome the pilgrims that come from the edge of the world.
Design: Arturo Alvarez
Photography: Héctor Santos-Díez
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Pawel Grobelny designed the Monolit Bench for Jardin d’Albertine in Brussels, Belgium.
Design: Pawel Grobelny
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Tcherassi Vilató have designed a collection of tables named Miss Understood.
Description
The Miss Understood tables reflect Tcherassi Vilató’s spirit: young, playful, functional and different. It is one of our personal favorites.
The inspiration twist from the rockabillies tables from the fifties grants this table a certain style unable to be forgotten. An eyecatcher wherever it goes.
Carved MDF. Sprayed in colours. Glossy finish and protective coating. Gold leaf (optional). Iroko timber legs.
Design: Tcherassi Vilató
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Buildings will soon rise to new heights alongManhattan’s Hudson River Park. Governor Cuomo just signed legislation to allow the cash-strapped park to sell 1.6 million square feet in air rights to developers. The bill will enable developers to build new projects one block from the five-mile waterfront park, which can now include commercial tenants, schools, performing […]
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Harvard’s Holyoke Center, designed by renowned Catalan architect and former Dean on the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Josep Lluís Sert, will soon be undergoing major renovations, university President Drew Faust announced last Thursday. London-based Hopkins Architects, the designers of Princeton’s Frick Chemistry Laboratory and Yale’s Kroon Hall, have signed on to transform the 50-year-old, […]
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Renzo Piano’s Nasher Sculpture Center was designed with natural sunlight in mind. A roof covered by pierced aluminum screens allows dappled light to enter its art galleries in subtle warmth. The outdoor sculpture garden is open to the elements and a specifically-planted landscape by Peter Walker reaps the benefits of the Texan sun. Since its […]
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Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for a 40,000-seat soccer stadium to rise in the Arabian kingdom of Qatar. The project is slated to be complete in time for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and is only one of several such facilities that the oil-rich nation plans to build—in addition to miles of roads, […]
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