The Seville-based architecture studio Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos is behind the spectacular transformation of a 19th C building to a modern 21st C museum. The new Rijksmuseum has received a new wide and light-filled entrance, a new pavilion and splendid renovated galleries. © Pedro Pegenaute (Image courtesy of Rijksmuseum) The original architect of this richly decorated […]
El tema de la segunda convocatoria de este concurso internacional Lexus Design, abierto a jóvenes diseñadores y arquitectos, es “la curiosidad”. Se pueden presentar proyectos hasta el 15 de octubre. El objetivo es generar productos innovadores e inesperados de manera creativa a través de la curiosidad. Los dos finalistas tendrán la oportunidad de crear un prototipo en […]
Design always arises at a particular time, it’s not out of space and time. The activity of projecting and creating objects can not lack of contemporaneity. And the times we are living require of honesty, austerity, simplicity and sustainability, among many other things. This is the reason why the jury of the prestigious Delta Industrial […]
The Madrid-based architecture studio MYCC is behind JP House – a weekend and holiday home situated in Tragacete, a small village in the province of Cuenca. The studio, which specialises in prefab systems, is headed by Carmina Casajuana, Beatriz G. Casares and Marcos González. For the project, they have taken tradItional, vernacular architecture and given it a highly original […]
The abstract painter Felice Varini has just carried out one of his visually impressive installations in King’s Cross, an old run down area in London which lately has been rapidly developed. Occupying a distance of 2.5 kms across two edifices, the work is called Across the Buildings. This Paris-based artist of Swiss origin is a genius […]
Here are the answers from the Q&A with Benedetta Tagliabue, director of estudio EMBT – whom she founded in the 1990s with her then partner the late Enric Miralles – one the most prestigious architects in Spain. She has just launched her first piece of furniture; the Tina chair chair for Expormim. This occasion has afforded us the […]
Twig Creative es la pareja creativa formada por Steve y Michelle, dos americanos que un día decidieron hacer realidad sus sueños: crear «juguetes con naturaleza«. Empezando siempre por la idea, la «ramita» (twig en inglés), pasan al boceto, al diseño, y de éste a la creación que esperan acabe en manos de los usuarios apelando […]
A resolute character and feelings of lightness, a new pragmatism and a flash of eccentricity. These are the new traits of Living Divani’s 2013 collection, which expands to include articles with a multiform look and a multiple identity, generating a new “family” of furniture with a playful spirit; furniture to be reinvented each day, giving free rein to […]
Ett Hem es vuestra casa en Estocolmo. Una casa a precio de hotel. Literalmente, pues su objetivo es que los huéspedes se sientan en su propio hogar. “Pueden encender la televisión del salón, coger prestado nuestro coche o sacar a pasear al perro”, asegura Jeanette Mix, la dueña del negocio. Con el valor añadido de […]
Recycle bins Berna by Stone Designs and Zurich Plus by Joan Gaspar, modular panels Nara by Hiroshi Tsunoda, mailbox Sendai by Joan Rojeski and removable stool Toronto by In-tenta are some of the news that Made Design will present at the Salone del Mobile, in Milan. The main idea of the Berna bins is to create an […]
El estudio madrileño MYCC el autor de la JP House, una casa prefabricada de fin de semana y vacaciones situada en Tragacete, un pequeño pueblo de la provincia de Cuenca. Especializado en sistemas de prefabricación modular, el equipo encabezado por Carmina Casajuana, Beatriz G. Casares y Marcos González ha utilizado este modelo para aportar un […]
El estudio de diseño Raw Edges fue el encargado de diseñar el pabellón de Kvadrat en la pasada edición de la Feria de Estocolmo, para lo que creó The Picnic, una enorme construcción de madera sobre la que se creó una instalación con 1500 cintas de 20 tejidos diferentes de la marca.