Bee’ah Headquarters – Giving back to Society!

Info & Images: Courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects

Renders by MIR © Zaha Hadid Architects

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In its efforts to give back to society a wee bit of what we take from it, Bee’ah, the Middle East’s leading fully-integrated environmental and waste management company, uses ace architect, Zaha Hadid’s contextual design for its new Headquarters building in Sharjah, UAE…

1930’s-Inspired Paris Bistro

Compiled by Pari Syal

Photography: Julien Lanoo; courtesy C comme C

  

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C comme C, the architecture and design bureau of Carole Chuffart, architect, and Carole Vermont, interior designer/ architect, with headquarters in Paris, design yet another atypical interior for the restaurant Jeanne B at the foot of Montmartre in Paris…

Orange County’s New Transit Hub - Extroverted Building on the go!

Info & Images: Courtesy HOK

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Opened on Dec.13.’14, HOK-designed iconic transportation hub, Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Centre (ARTIC) will serve as new gateway for Orange County...

Chic Interiors

Compiled by Pari Syal

Photography: Courtesy Act Design

 

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Designer Alain Thibodeau of Act Design chisels an old loft into an inclusive yet private lair for an art collector.

Ultra-thin Installation!

By Zoya

Photography: Daisuke Shima / Nacasa & Partners; courtesy Emmanuelle Moureaux

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The thickness of merino wool is about one-fifth of the human hair, giving it a smooth and delicate texture. Emmanuelle Moureaux created “thin-thin-thin” a narrative and simultaneous global art installation for UNIQLO’s flagship stores in six countries for their special autumn item, ‘extra-fine merino’…

Rhythmic & Contextual Architecture

Info & Images: gmp architects

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The Gyula Trebitsch school in the urban district of Tonndorf, Hamburg is set for a new extension and replacement building as per the winning design of gmp architects… 

Bustle in a Glass Box!

Info & Images: Grinshaw Architects

 

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New York City’s newest transit hub, the Fulton Centre sports a dynamic environment that proposes to streamline connectivity and enhance user experience for 300,000 daily transit passengers... 

Ethos of Reverence: From materiality to immateriality!

Compiled by Pari Syal

Photography: Courtesy Bureau Architecture Méditerranée

 

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Integrating into its surroundings by respecting the urban fabric and existing historic monuments, Bureau Architecture Méditerranée design the Marseille Grand Mosque as a monument of cultural tolerance and social cohesion.

Interactive Design – the crowd-puller!

By Team IAnD

Photography: © BMD/Kossmann.dejong; courtesy Kossmann.dejong

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Assimilating volumes of information and history into an interactive, intriguing environment, exhibition architects Kossmann.dejong combine a range of disciplines and media to relate intriguing spatial stories at the newly designed Dutch National Military Museum in Soesterberg, opening tomorrow – Dec.11, 2014.

Looking about-Looking within - Luminothérapie Event

By Anuradha K. R.

Photography: Courtesy the designers

Prismatica - night perspective & Fascinoscope                                                                 ©Raw Design & Lüz Studio

The Luminothérapie Event is all set to enthral its citizens and visitors  between Dec. 10, 2014 and Feb. 2, 2015, with two winning entries from this year’s competition: Prismatica by RAW Design, Toronto and Fascinoscope by Lüz Studio, Montreal...

Broadening Human-to-Space Ratio

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Shu He; courtesy the architects

 

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Human scale predominates and spatial transitions encourage voluntary discovery at Vanke-Shoukai mixed-use development - the epicentre of a larger master plan for the Daxing district in southern Beijing.

Spectacular & Stimulating – Art meets Fashion

By PariSyal

Photography: Pierre Bélanger; courtesy Philippe Dubuc

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The notion that art is largely viewed as an aesthetic component, an add-on is fast changing. The new Philippe Dubuc retail in Montreal has a life-size art installation closely nuancing his signature style…

An Underground Daylight Museum: The Extension of the Städel Gallery

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Photography: Norbert Miguletz Fotografie; courtesy LichtKunstLicht

  

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In the awake of its most recent accolade for the best lighting design in 2014, IAnD revisits the Städel Gallery in Frankfurt to study and appreciate its creative use of daylight and artificial light combined.

Nuanced transitions – from art to architecture @Van Gogh Foundation

Info & Images: Courtesy Fluor Architecture

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Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2015 by the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the rehabilitation of the Vincent van Gogh Foundation at Arles, France is a beautiful exercise that transcends the fine boundaries between art and architecture.