Unique LED lighting aids surface inspection

Info & Images: Courtesy V2com

Photography: Eisenmann

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Integrating engineering and design, Eisenmann has received the prestigious Red Dot Award 2016 for Product Design in the industry, machinery and robotics category…

Techno-ready urban design!

By Leah Linhares

Photography: Margot Krasojevic; courtesy v2com

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View over helix terminal shell and conductive wire mesh which connects to existing overhead trolley lines

With China already being the first country to test its Straddling Buses, Ar. Margot Krasojevic is one step closer to introducing the world to another futuristic urban mechanism…

‘Left Out’ or ‘Trapped Inside’?!

By Neehar Mishra

Photography: Courtesy the artist

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Artist Maxwell Rushton’s unconventional and thought-provoking installation has confronted people all over the world with a pertinent question: Would you help or move on?

Tidal House: Terry.Terry Architecture’s coastal home of the future

Complied by Leah Linhares

Photography: Terry & Terry Architecture

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Ever dreamed of living out by the sea under the blue skies and a breath-taking view of the big blue? Terry.Terry Architecture’s Tidal House brings us a step close to this vision…

Children learn from surrounding nature at Amanenomori Nursery School, Japan

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Photography: Shigeo Ogawa; courtesy Aisaka Architects’ Atelier

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Ar. Kensuke Aisaka designs a nursery school in Funabashi city, Japan, where children get to observe and learn from nature; nourish their responsiveness and ability to think…

Let’s play with coloured sand!!

Colour Special

By Team IAnD

Info & Photography: Adam Kalinowski

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Polish artist and prolific writer, Adam Kalinowski works with coloured sand to make participatory art installations that sensitize people to simple actions of touch and sight in a profound introspective process…

Virtual Reality and Architecture

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User Looking Up - Project stakeholders can provide immediate feedback to designers via their mobile device.

Making headway in implementing emerging technologies with processes of design, NBBJ architects work on using virtual reality for effective and inclusive communication and decision-making... 

Glifo – empowering the neurologically challenged!

By Leah Linhares

Photography: Courtesy Sarah Monacchi &Andrea Pelino

 

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A team of designers collaborate to give children suffering from neurological impairments a second chance at life...

Manchester’s Maggie Cancer Centre: where built form fosters healing!

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Photography: Nigel Young;courtesy Foster + Partners

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Cancer patients across the UK will now have one more support system in terms of free practical, emotional and social support at the new Maggie’s Cancer Centre that has opened its doors in Manchester earlier today...

New York Horizon – will “sidescraper” be the new skyscraper?

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Photography: Jianshi Wu, Yitan Sun; courtesy V2com

 

New York Horizon - aerial rendering

Try envisioning a sunken Central Park surrounded by a horizontal "sidescraper"? The winner of 2016 eVolo Skyscraper Competition re-imagines the future of New York City's skyline…

Out-of-box product display!

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Photography: Eliot Postma; courtesy the designers

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Bureau de Change Architects transform an old run-down book store into the crisp, spacious and inviting MADE.com’s flagship store in central London… 

The archive studio: an exercise in plausibility!

By Ar. Jonathan Tuckey

Photography: Dirk Lindner; courtesy the architect

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The Archive Studio located within Grade I listed Royal Festival Hall building (1951), may well set a precedent to facilitating exciting, live encounters with one’s archives. Ar. Jonathan Tuckey, the brain behind the project, enlightens...

Are hybrid typologies the answer to contemporary lifestyles?

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Architects rethink typologies and inspire varied versions based on individualistic design. Here is yet another hybrid typology by LAN architecture, challenging the typical housing idiom…

The Time Stairs at Markthal - winning historical beats!

Complied by Leah Linhares

Photography: Bas Czerwinski; courtesy Kossmann.Dejong 

 

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Take a trip through time on The Time Stairs at the Markthal and experience the birth of Rotterdam - the Gateway to Europe!

Retirement Housing: Adopting a healthier lifestyle!

By Nitika Agarwal

Renderings & Infographics: Courtesy Spark

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Spark Architects’ striking approach to ‘Retirement Housing’ for the next generation wins the best future-experimental project at the 2015 World Architecture Festival, held in Singapore earlier this year.

The humane touch!

Compiled by Pari Syal

Photography: Adrien Williams; courtesy the architect

 

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Designed by Jean de Lessard creative designers, the Uniprix pharmacy on the outskirts of Montreal, challenges accepted notions of generic pharmacy typology… 

Intangibility of Time wins Jury Award at Festival of Lively Architecture!

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Photography: Courtesy V2com

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Jury Winners of the tenth edition of the Festival des Architectures Vives at Montpellier, France, architects Mickaël Martin, Margaux Rodot, Benoît Tastet narrated a balloon story to vivify the transient essence of time…

Temporary housing for Nepal earthquake victims

Compiled by Savitha Hira

Photography: Courtesy Shigeru Ban Architects

  

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IAnD traces Ar. Shigeru Ban’s project in disaster-affected Nepal and his solution for lack of supply in temporary housing that could be adapted to in developing countries, including India… 

Fluid as Creative Juices

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Photography: Courtesy LAN

  

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Deeply rooted within contemporary creation and at the crossing point of performing arts, Le Maillon theatre aims to reach outside of its walls and extract the performing arts world from its occasional elitist position...

Urban Farming System.

By Beverly Pereira

Photography: Courtesy Architect Kidd

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Holcim Silver Awards 2011 Asia Pacific winner - Urban Farm Urban Barn is a concept that integrates agricultural beds, commercial area and community market to rejuvenate a deteriorated urban environment.