With a history that dates all the way back to 1834, manufacturer of luxury cases and safes WOLF knows all about the importance of protecting not only treasured possessions, but legacy, too.
In recent years, there has been an increased focus on indoor lighting, especially in the context of the growing numbers of open-plan offices. In large parts of the world—and especially in Nordic countries—people can spend up to 80-90% of their time indoors. The light we are surrounded by affects both our circadian rhythm and hormones, making our indoor environment and its light an important factor of our well-being. Opinions on the optimal indoor lighting solution—and if one exists at all—are numerous and divided. To gain some more insight into this, the Danish lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen set out to test the effects of various artificial lighting conditions in their own head office in Copenhagen.
Parametric design render by Oneistox graduate Alab Adviento. Image Courtesy of Oneistox
Although computational design as a technique applied in the architectural field has been around for two decades, the infinite possibilities it presents are only just being discovered. The horizons of designing using programming software are expanding alongside the growing popularity of tools like Rhino 3D and Revit. What aspiring architects will hereon have to be mindful of as they train themselves for the industry is that computational design software is not to be treated as a ‘to-do item’ to be ticked off for only adding to one’s résumé. Rather, it’s an opportunity to delve deeper into one’s creative instincts.
Chongqing GREENTOWN COLLECTION Sales Center. Image Courtesy of goa
The registration for the international ICONIC AWARDS 2022: Innovative Architecture is on. The awards of the German Design Council honour the best achievements in architecture, pioneering interior and product design, outstanding communication concepts and particularly innovative materials. The winners will be honoured at a festive awards ceremony on 4 October 2022 at the Pinakothek der Moderne and will have the opportunity to network internationally.
In the VIP lounge at Hamburg Airport, BoConcept’s swivel function Ogi chairs are used to create comfortable grouped seating areas under acoustic-friendly lamps. Image Courtesy of BoConcept
When it comes to the shaping of public spaces, an airport lounge provides glorious scope for the flexing of design muscles. When a space serves a broad spectrum of tastes and types, what guides the aesthetic? When hundreds of people tread its floors daily, what materials will withstand the wear and tear? And what furnishing and effects does the space require in the first place? Are people using it to fuel up on food before a flight, or as a temporary office? Are they making a library of the space or a crêche; are they catching 40 winks or drinking towards an airborne stupor?
As part of a major initiative to modernise schools and educational facilities in the city of Düsseldorf, the Friedrich-Rückert grammar school renovation represents a first step towards the future. In addition to renovating the interior of the school, much work was done to make the exterior of the aging building look more modern, inspiring and inviting. The new 3,000 m2 facade made of glassfibre reinforced concrete panels from Rieder bridges the architectural gap to the here and now. The innovative concrete is a symbolic step towards sustainability, fit for a modern school building. The new texture twine was also used for the first time in this project for the colour-matched formed parts, skilfully highlighting the building envelope.
Our Emerging Leaders Program is designed to educate and support young scholars and professionals working in the emerging field of Urban Artificial Intelligence. This program also aims to bring together a multidisciplinary group of participants and foster collaborations between different fields to propose a new approach to urban technologies.
The NYCxDESIGN Festival returns this May 10-20, 2022 for its tenth anniversary edition. As the city’s official celebration of design, the Festival has attracted thousands of visitors to New York City each year to celebrate global creative accomplishments, share new ideas, and inspire through design. The Festival also encompasses renowned trade shows including WantedDesign and ICFF, as well as immersive public design experiences like Design Pavilion, and hundreds of additional partner events across the five boroughs of New York City.
Following the success of last year’s competition, the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) is delighted to launch the second edition of Showroom Showcase competition, which will see a series of innovative paper installations by emerging architects and designers displayed in some of London’s leading design showrooms. International showrooms Gaggenau and VitrA will be taking part in the 2022 edition of Showroom Showcase. More showrooms will be announced at a later date.
The school offers 13 (thirteen) international scholarships in Design, Fashion, Visual Arts, and Management 2022/2023 academic year for its university degree (Bachelor's Degrees, Ba (Hons) and Diplomas Courses - English and Spanish) in Barcelona.
Micro Housing 2022 Architecture Competition invites you to come up with an innovative housing modle that can cater to our ever growing need for shelter.
“HOME” is a space that is intimate to all living beings on the planet. It has a broader, deeper and personal connection with its user apart from being a physical shelter for humans and their daily lives, a home forms a distinct, intimate connection with its users. The ultimate goal for a home is to ignite “the idea of belonging” within its sphere and amongst all those sharing the space.
After an amazing response to the first Virtual World Tour, during the peak of the pandemic in late 2020 early 2021, "AnA" has decided to continue the global digital approach to connect the architectural community on a personal level.
Salon d'Art XR wants you to build in virtual space showing the sense of architecture and the gains for the artists in your Salon d'Art.
Please take a look at what www.nf-architecture.io launches. Architectural competition for a Salon d'Art XR. Extended reality needs to become more than nice renderings and simple copy of reality in virtuality. What is the sense of architecture in virtual worlds and what can architects produce and implement that goes beyond game design? I am sure we will get super interesting ideas from our students and that architecture and it's meaning and power goes far beyond what we see with classical architects going viral. Virtual reality is not a marketing hub. And architects therefor should not abuse it as such but implement basic ideas of architecture adapted to the gained freedom of not being bound to real life. Shelter, expression of ideas, form defined by use, all these criteria still exist and these are the challenges in any world.
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“HASTAHANA” PUBLIC SPACE FOR EVERYONE - CALL FOR IDEAS
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, together with the Municipality Centar Sarajevo, invites national and international architects, urban designers, landscape architects, as well as students of architecture and design to participate in an open, two-stage, international, anonymous competition (innovation challenge) for the conceptual design of “Hastahana” Park in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Participants are invited to submit innovative, nature-inspired, and community-led solutions for urban regeneration and activation of the public space known as “Hastahana” – an emblematic location in the very heart of Sarajevo, where significant historical periods of the city overlap.
Tubądzin Design Awards 2022 The 4th edition of the Tubądzin Design Awards is an international competition for architects, designers and students. #life #culture #human At TDA, we make sure that the rules of the competition are transparent, the jury criteria are objective and the benefits offered to the winners are valuable. Our goal is to build a community that follows the challenges imposed by modern world and at the same time is able to meet global challenges. For this reason, the 4th edition of the TDA competition is guided by three hashtags: #life - Technological and urban developments and a changing climate continually present us with challenges that we want to face up to. Because life is a series of superimposed and interdependent processes, our goal is to design spaces for communities that meet these needs. The role of architects and designers is to change the world by creating everyday life - that's what #life is for us.
The Land Art Generator Initiative and BUGA 23 are pleased to announce the launch of LAGI 2022 on March 14th, closing for submissions on September 4, 2022. The design competition is free to enter and has a top prize of $30,000 USD.
SPACE10 Mexico City Pop-up - Visual by Francisco Cortés
SPACE10, IKEA’s independent research and design lab, introduces the first look at its two-week design program in Mexico City. Held in the exhibition space, LOOT, the pop-up explores the theme ‘Beyond Human-Centered Design’ to rethink design that embraces both people and the planet. Featuring over 45 speakers, the pop-up includes daily panels and keynotes, exhibitions, multiple workshops, a live radio show, and immersive food and drink experiences. Taking place from 26 March-9 April 2022, the program promises a comprehensive and jubilant exploration of how design and technology can be a powerful force to reimagine and create a better everyday life.
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