The bright and the bold of colour!

Colour Special

By Leah Linhares

Photography: courtesy www.rougeabsolu.com

Read Time: 2 mins

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The thought of modernizing our spaces is always exciting and choosing the colour adds a different thrill to this experience; so why is it that we always choose the usual palette…?

Colour sets the mood!

Colour Special

By Emmanuelle Moureaux

Read Time: 2 mins

  

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Colour Expert Ar. Emmanuelle Moureaux brings you some tips and tricks on how to use colour to energise your spaces and fill them with joie de vivre!

Play Yet: Create your personal domestic landscape!

By Udita Chaturvedi

Photography: Courtesy Smarin

  

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Play Yet is a real-time, fully functional furniture game that is a reflection of a child’s imagination and design…

The school of tomorrow

Compiled by Leah Linhares

Photography: Maxime Brouillet; courtesy V2com

  

Relaxation Space cum Library

Sainte-Anne Academy in Dorval, Canada is more a blank canvas for the students’ creativity than an interpretation of the designers’ imagination! IAnD explores…

Lift-Bit: the world’s first Internet-of-Things sofa!

Info & Images: Courtesy Carlo Ratti Associati studio

   

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World’s first Internet-of-Things (IoT) sofa debuts at Milan Design Week 2016…

Real-life fantasy living

By Rutvi Ashar

Photography: Courtesy Steven Rude

 

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Have you ever imagined living in your own Bat cave? Special effects and 3-D animation designer Steven Rude makes every sci-fi movie lover’s dreams come true with his unique fantasy-inspired homes...

Tech Style: Kinematic Petals Dress

Compiled by Leah Linhares

Photography: Courtesy Nervous System

Kinematic Textile Petals

Marrying art with technology, Nervous System brings forth a fresh look in fashion with its new project: Kinematic Petals Dress, using a fold strategy, which reduces the size of the dress by 85%, making it printable as a single piece… 

Of Brass Ribbons and Radial Geometry!

By Nitika Agarwal

Photography: Courtesy the architects

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Bureau de Change chisels a fascinating office space in Central London to cultivate a distinct brand identity, creating an environment that has a stimulating impact on its users and visitors both, from inside and outside…

The Rebirth of a Living Space

Complied by Leah Linhares

Photography: Rudy Bouchebel; courtesy V2com

  

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Beirut-based interior architecture and multidisciplinary Roland Helou Design’s (ROHD) latest residential project showcases deliberate artistic novelty in a renovation exercise...

Technological excellence - world’s largest waste-to-energy plant in Shenzhen, China

By SHL Architects

Visuals: Beauty & the Bit, Madrid and Ginsun, Shanghai

 Models: JR Models, Shanghai; courtesy SHL Architects

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects win international competition to design world's largest waste-to-energy plant in Shenzhen, China.

Boat-huts: seeking freedom through architecture!

By Team IAnD

Photography: Quangdam; courtesy a21studio

  

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a 21 studio from Vietnam play with the idea of conserving memories through their design of temporary field-shelters...

Award-winning interactive healthcare design for children

By Udita Chaturvedi

Photography: Courtesy V2com

Graphic Design in the Treatment Room                                                                                                                                ©Fred Ernst

Juliana’s Children Hospital in The Hague, Netherlands treads the innovative interactive path to good health, taking the fear out of children and facilitating healthcare design with creative technology and storytelling…

Contextual Installation in Nantes, France

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy of Galerie Patricia Dorfmann - Paris

 

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Baptiste Debombourg’s large aerial sculpture - public art statement in Nantes, France, is yet another instance of unorthodox musings, such as placing work in unexpected contexts or using destructive techniques...

Celebrity-inspired Design

By Savitha Hira

Photography: Jairo Trimeloni; courtesy AlbertoApostoli

The Ferrari suite: custom artwork based on original sketches and automotive furniture and fittings 

Ar. Alberto Apostoli’s design of Hotel Consolini on the shores of Lake Garda in northern Italy has him translating idiosyncratic features of 10 Italian public figures into suite themes.

Temporary Architecture: PortHole Pavillion

Compiled by TeamIAnD

Photography: Courtesy TOMA

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The winning pavilion at the Lively Architecture Festival at La Grande Motte, France dwells on the concept of ‘self-reflection’ epitomized through the pure geometry of a circle…

Interactive Gardens: Highlight of 16th International Garden Festival

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy IGF;v2com

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The annual International Garden Festival held in Quebec aims at intriguing and exciting visitors with the unknown and the unfamiliar…

Whimsical Street Furniture

Compiled by TeamIAnD

Photography: Cesar Rubio; courtesy the architects

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INTERSTICE Architects' “Sunset Parklet” – compact street furniture - is a highly durable, low-tech construction, whimsical and engaging concept, acclimatized to different utilities...

Moulding steel the fun way!

By Savitha Hira

Photography: Julio Barreno Gutierrez

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Applying the basic tenets of origami, Ar. Julio Barreno Gutierrez infuses colour and fun into a functionally requisite shelter in Spain...

Of nostalgic images and fond recreations…

By Anuradha K R

Photography: Francois Laliberté, Imagicom; courtesy the architect

  

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Némeau Fish Store in Lévis, Québec City, designed by Ar. Jean de Lessard attempts to recreate the imagery presented by legendary Jules Verne in his novel, ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ (1870 A.D).

Furniture like Melting Ice!

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy ZHA

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Ar. Zaha Hadid adds on to her 2012 Liquid Glacial furniture collection for an ongoing show at David Gill Gallery, London.