interiors..lifestyle..architecture..design
Fortunately we at INDIGO architects have been busy producing some exciting new designs, both interior and exterior vise.
(above) Proposal for a CEO office in which luxurious materials such as crocodile leather, pony skin carpets,
Barrisol (innovative translucent material), travertine planters and Philippe Starck designed, Cassina produced, leather seating are introduced.
The Design Institute of Australia (the professional body representing Australian designers) has announced category winners in April this year, and the complete list can be seen here.
For those of you with little or no time, the highlights can be seen in the rest of the article:
Winners of the best Interior Design in Ireland competition have been announced on this site. There are 4 award categories, as follows:
Interior Design 2007 Retail Space Award, winner is Brian Jennings MIDI with Douglas Wallace Architects, for the interior design of Peter Mark store (below)
On July 26, 2007 six finalists for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize, were unveiled. The winning architect receives a cash prize of £20,000. The prize is named after the great British architect Sir James Stirling (1926-1992). The winner will be announced in october.
The list was announced as:
America’s Cup Building, Valencia designed by David Chipperfield Architects
Casa da Musica, Porto designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (pictured above)
Dresden Station Redevelopment, Dresden designed by Foster + Partners
Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar designed by David Chipperfield Architects
The Savill Building, Windsor designed by Glenn Howells Architects
Young Vic Theatre, London designed by Haworth Tompkins
Daniel Liebskind has designed “The Crystal” as part of the expansion of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the whole thing is called the ROM Renaissance. With a budget of over 154 Million USD, what the Canadians got is a bit eerie, a fascinating, twinkling… icicle. If my high school teacher was right saying that true art moves you and makes you shiver with emotions, than the ROM crystal does relate to it: it does make one shiver, but with cold.
See what the interior looks like:
Lumaglass™ makes use of Electroluminescent (EL) light in a film form which is fixed onto the inside of the profiled glass panels. This EL Lamp works by using an alternating current that excites phosphor crystals, which in turn emit light. Lumaglass™ is an environmental friendly light that requires low energy consumption and little to no maintenance. LumaglassTM has been launched by Westcrowns Contracting Services group. This light will never burn out completely!
via materia
Pictured above: The Golden Cage bookcase, design Vincenzo De Cotiis, in brushed natural brass
The Italian furniture producer Ceccotti has come up at the salone in Milan with 12 new designs for home furniture. Our favourite is surely the ephemeral Golden cage bookcase (one has to try it out to believe it), but we wouldn`t mind the rest of the lot, which you can see here
The Sunao Kuwahara store
With very clean and architectonic, but elegant and witty designs for fashion stores, Steve Lidbury has climbed the top of our list of favourite designers. Forget your expensive carpets and wallpaper, Steve does magic with the simplest of materials
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