Earth Day Pledge to Switch
In this Earth Day weekend, join “Project Switch“. Save energy by switching your inefficient incandescent light bulbs! This weekend Discovery Channel aired New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman’s documentary Green is the New Red, White, and Blue.
La Philharmonie de Paris
One of this month’s earlier posts, ArkitecTrue announced French architect Jean Nouvel had won a competition to design the new Philharmonie de Paris building at Parc de La Villette in the French capital. The aluminum-clad building — which in a model, drawings and
Revision Cloud
After the detail target incident, here is another one. This is also unbelievable. Think twice next time you locate your detail targets! I still think it can’t be true, it should be Photoshop!!! Do you think this could be real? I want to hear your take on it…
Famia Cutlery
It is not easy to find a modern and elegant looking cutlery if you are designing a table top for a restaurant, or even for your home. A cutlery should look beautiful on the dining table. The outlines of Famia, designed by Mutlu+Milano Design Studio, are so soft, smooth, curvy and feminine. The “famia” name [...]
Let’s be green
Finally people realized the real danger to the planet earth and now everyone is talking about “green” and “environment” and “energy-efficiency”?. Architects around the world are competing to design the most environmental friendly and energy-efficient homes. We should all do our parts.
Shade Hotel
Last week, my colleague, Larry Drasin, showed me an article in the Hospitality Design magazine about one of his designs “Shade Hotel” in Manhattan Beach, California. Shade is the first luxury boutique hotel in Manhattan Beach that is synonymous with casual California beach culture. The hotel has the residential feeling which is a very popular [...]
Does design = control?
Logic+Emotion published a fictional story called “A Tale of Two Architects” by Ed Lee. The story is about two architects who design kid-friendly playgrounds and their reaction when kids start playing and reinterpreting the playgrounds. I believe it will apply to all designers regardless of the area of interest. I hope you enjoy it as [...]
Jean Nouvel to Design New Hall in Paris
French architect Jean Nouvel has been tapped to design a new orchestra hall for Paris, the prime minister’s office said Thursday April 5, 2007. The 2,400-seat hall, called the Philharmonie de Paris, will be home base for the Orchestre de Paris and other groups, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s office said in a statement. Nouvel’s [...]
Quietest Cooker Head
From now on you can also listen to your favorite music in the kitchen. Forget that the hood is on and you are carrying on with your excellent work. Elica has patented an innovative system of noise reduction called Elica Deep Silence (EDS³) that allows the decorative hood to function extremely silently, indeed up to [...]
Ren Building, Shanghai
Ren Building is an interesting design by PLOT that has since split up into BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) and JDS (Julien De Smedt). As we all know, Chinese characters evolved from pictures, this one “人” in particular from a picture of a man walking. There are lots of discussions going on about the building such [...]
