“This sculpture has brains!”

By Beverly Pereira

Photography: Courtesy v2com & matthewmohr.com

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 photo credit: Tom Bergeron, courtesy of DCL Boston

Is an interactive art piece a genuine opportunity to connect with yourself or another? Artist-designer and information architect Matthew Mohr believes so… 

Will luxury yachting go green?

By Beverly Pereira

Photography: Courtesy Tjep

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Driven by electric propulsion and a radical aesthetic, the EAU concept electric luxury yacht by Tjep, reimagines a cleaner future for the luxury yacht industry…

Sustainability at the core!

Compiled by TeamIAnD

Photography: Courtesy Foster+Partners

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Clad in traditional stone and bronze, the building is sympathetic to its context.The site features three public plazas and a pedestrian dining arcade.

Bloomberg’s new European headquarters is rated world’s most sustainable office building!

An ultra-thin projection into the future!

By Annie Aggarwal

Photography: courtesy the designer

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Marc Fornes/Theverymany design studio creates innovative curves of Minima/Maxima – the tallest-ever installation from material as thin as a coin, to challenge our understanding of structure and space…

When nature heals!

Info & Images: Courtesy V2com

Photography: Heliphoto

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AHBE Landscape Architects chisel Healing Gardens for Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre to promote healing, health and well-being…

Nurturing through design!

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Lesley Unruh; courtesy v2com

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Brooklyn’s Maple Street preschool is designed by the concepts that embody the institute, in a fitting example of system integration strategies as generative tools in design…

Micro Libraries of Indonesia

By Rutvi Ashar

Photography: Sanrok Studio; courtesy SHAU

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A floating library constructed out of 2000 ice-cream buckets as part of the ‘100 Micro-libraries’ program in Indonesia is a source of pride for its low-income populace.

Garden of Four Seasons!

Info & Images: Courtesy Carlo Ratti Associates

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Garden of Four Seasons

International design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati, together with property developer Citylife, unveils “Garden of the Four Seasons”, an enclosed garden in Milan, where all four seasons coexist with each other, concurrently, throughout the year.

Monochrome whimsy!

Information: Courtesy v2com

Photography: Maxime Brouillet; courtesy v2com

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In his second installation that combines art, architecture, and domesticity, Ar. Jean Verville presents a domestic architectural installation designed for two lovers of contemporary arts…

Art, Architecture, Domesticity!

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Photography: Maxime Brouillet; courtesy v2com

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Ar. Jean Verville realises IN 1 2 3, three installations combining art, architecture, and domesticity; intimate portraits that present universes in themselves…

Free energy tremor LED

Info & Images: Margot Krasojević; courtesy v2com

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Commissioned for the Gao family hotels in Ordos, Inner Mongolia and Beijing, Ar. Margot Krasojević designs seismic lighting using electro-magnetic induction LEDs…

Transforming 3D reality

By Annie Aggarwal

Photography: People’s Industrial Design Office   

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3D Copypod is a 3D scan booth, where a transformable structure combines with photographic equipment to allow instant digitization of varied subjects.

Want a bespoke façade? Get a drone!

Compiled by Avinash Yadav

Photography: Courtesy Carlo Ratti Associati

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Now use real-time data to customize a bespoke façade using a drone. Tech-wizards, Carlo Ratti Associati show you the way…

From ‘take-make-waste’ to sustainability!

Compiled by Beverly Pereira

Photography: Simon Kennedy;courtesy Arup Associates

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The Circular Building, intelligently constructed out of re-usable components, seeks to explore how the construction industry can work towards zero waste. 

The large-hearted roof!

By Avinash Yadav

Photography: Courtesy the design office

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To have a roof over your head has a deeper meaning. It does not just bring people together under a given space and time, but instils a sense of deep security...

Active Villa

Compiled by Avinash Yadav

Photography: Luca Morandini; courtesy the architect

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Statutory warning! Never judge still water. If you judge it by the scale and its facade, then you’re mistaken. Come close, closer, and you will know its depth.

Applying art to education

By Rita Roy Choudhury

Photography: Courtesy Cégep Marie-Victorin

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This early education classroom is a flexible smart space that promises to stimulate the youngest minds to nurture the lifelong gift of learning…

Responsible architecture: New seismic hotel in Napoli!

Compiled by Savitha Hira

Photography: Margot Krasojević

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Margot Krasojević Architects’ ongoing dynamic seismic hotel in Napoli, Italy purports to minimize disaster during earthquakes…

Experiments in architecture: the mobile home!

Compiled by Teresa Simon

Photography: Hannah Wu; People’s Architecture Office; courtesy the architects

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How would you like to own a mobile home and add on to it at will, without spending huge sums of money on associated mandates? People's Architecture Office designs a modular home to fulfil this very need...

Reconnecting with our dear departed

By Savitha Hira with inputs from Sonal Mamoowala

Photography: Masao Nishikawa; courtesy the architect

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The Charnel House in Ryusenji Temple, Japan is an ossuary designed to keep pace with contemporary mindsets; without blurring the boundaries of religious sentiments…