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Contemporist 2013-05-21 08:06:23
San Francisco-based Jonathan Rowell has designed Applejack, a family of stackable wooden stools. Designer: Jonathan Rowell


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Contemporist 2013-05-21 04:56:13
Paul de Ruiter Architects have designed Villa V in Bloemendaal, The Netherlands. From the architect From the very start it was clear that the landscape around the villa should be preserved as much as possible. A basement was created for the house and the ground floor is semi-positioned in the slope of the hill. The first floor towers above the partially glazed ground …


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Contemporist 2013-05-20 19:22:40
Barcelona-based Martín Azúa has designed a planter named Wellspring. Description Wellspring is an invitation to investigate and understand the natural processes to restore the relationship with the environment. It simulates an ecosystem through soil, rocks and plants, able to recover its natural balance. Like raindrops falling on the inside of a cave, purified and enriched by the water lifecycle. Designer: Martín Azúa Photography: Martín Azúa …


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Contemporist 2013-05-20 08:27:21
British designer Steuart Padwick has created the Belly Desk. From the designer The Belly Desk is an elegantly understated design. Featuring a curvaceous and full figured top with a storage underbelly, this desk maintains a deceptively slender silhouette with subtly sloping lines and smooth tapered legs. Its painted tabletop is perfectly balanced on solid oak legs, highlighting the purity of its form and providing rich …


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Contemporist 2013-05-19 18:32:36
London-based designer Stephanie Hornig has created the Camp Daybed. From the designer The excessive upholstery and therefore required hard shells of a sofa make it a very bulky piece of furniture. The camp daybed is a sleeping bag with legs, on which we can relax during the day and sleep at night. It has a very deep seat to provide ample space for sleeping. A …


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Contemporist 2013-05-18 22:49:50
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created the Cloudy, a glass-blown lamp for Fabbian. From Fabbian Normally, when we look at clouds, we seek organic shapes, similar to objects of living beings. In this case, the creative process has been reversed: this is a special object which, during its creation, revealed all its potential. ?Cloudy is a paradox! ? explains young designer, Mathieu Lehanneur ? …


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Contemporist 2013-05-18 18:17:02
Boora Architects have completed the office renovation for the FINE Design Group in Portland, Oregon. From the architects This new work environment for FINE Design Group embodies the creative agency?s energy and collaborative nature. To create the new space, Boora Architects capitalized on the exposed steel structure, concrete floors, and abundance of natural light of a 5,475-square foot raw shell space. The result is a …


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Contemporist 2013-05-17 02:00:37
Shaun Lockyer Architects have designed 105 Villiers, a house located in Queensland, Australia. From the architects 105 Villiers involved a very contemporary conversion of a pre-war cottage into a light, modern and minimal family home. The house explores dramatic volumes and lightwells to enhance the living experience in a heavily constrained inner-city site. Architect: Shaun Lockyer Architects Photography: Scott Burrows


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Contemporist 2013-05-16 10:31:38
Zaha Hadid Architects have designed the new King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that is expected to be built over the next 4 years. From the architects The ArRiyadh Development Authority has announced that Zaha Hadid Architects will build the new King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) Metro Station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. With over 5 million residents, Riyadh?s population …


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Contemporist 2013-05-16 10:19:39
Architects Two in a Box have designed the KS House in Stein, Austria. Architects: Two in a Box Photography: Dietmar Tollerian


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Contemporist 2013-05-15 20:38:37
Barcelona-based architect Daniel Isern has designed Meriterrani 32, a house located in Sant Pol de Mar, Spain. From the architect ?For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life ? the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which …


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Contemporist 2013-05-15 19:01:44
Interior architecture firm Antoni Associates have designed Pearl Valley 276 in Cape Town. From Antoni Associates A young family re-locating to the Western Cape was looking to change from city living to a more relaxed country lifestyle in which to bring up their young family and settled for the exclusive Pearl Valley Golf Estate located near Paarl, just 30 minutes away from the …


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Contemporist 2013-05-15 18:16:38
ATELIERII have designed the interior of Residence Chang, located in Taipei City, Taiwan. Description The original house was simply rebuilt. The only thing that was left after the demolition was the structure. New large windows and a small balcony were added to the house to extend the interior views. The design included a series of modern white spaces including a new master bedroom, …


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Contemporist 2013-05-15 09:40:45
Bates Masi Architects have designed the Sagaponack House in Sagaponack, New York. From the architects Located between the Atlantic Ocean and a freshwater pond, this residence is for an adventurous couple and their four sons. They wanted a house for their large family and numerous guests with a lawn, swimming pool, pool house, garage, and sports courts on a site with a limited …


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Contemporist 2013-05-14 19:00:31
AR Design Studio have completed a glass extension on a house in Winchester, England. From the architects It is not every day that a body is found buried on your building site, but on a summer?s morning in 2012 this is exactly what happened while builders were laying foundations for RIBA award-winning architects AR Design Studio?s latest project. By 6pm they had found …


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Contemporist 2013-05-14 18:40:49
Using windmills, designer Merel Karhof has created a series of furniture called Windworks. You can watch a ‘making of’ video – here Description The design studio of Merel Karhof, colour mill ?De Kat? and sawmill ?Het Jonge Schaap? proudly present Windworks, an event that will take place at colour mill ?De Kat?, at the Zaanse Schans in the Netherlands from the 12th ? 19th …


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Contemporist 2013-05-13 23:00:16
Innarch have designed the Don Café House in Pristina, Kosovo. From Innarch The idea / inspiration for the design derives from sack filled with coffee grains. The walls of the bar are organically shaped and colored like coffee sack made up of ?Plywood? type of wood, whereby the pillars in between are coated with textile coffee sacks. Tables and hanging chandeliers represent the coffee …


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Contemporist 2013-05-13 21:38:20
VOA have recently designed the headquarters for Infor in New York City. Description: Infor, the third largest business software provider in the world (right behind Oracle and SAP) recently relocated its headquarters from Alpharetta, Georgia, to the Flatiron district in New York City, the new hotbed of tech companies. Enlisting the help of design firm VOA, Infor CEO Charles Phillips had a very …


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Contemporist 2013-05-13 10:10:01
ISSHO Architects have designed the Yufutoku Restaurant in Tokyo, Japan. From the architects Located in central Tokyo, right around the corner from the major thoroughfare Meguro Street, is a ?soba? noodle shop, the owner?s residence situated above. The building has Machiya-style wooden louvers, invoking a traditional Japanese townhouse, but the depth of each louver is varied sequentially across the face. Regionally different patterns …


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Contemporist 2013-05-12 21:19:47
Stephen Dynia Architects have designed the Gros Ventre Residence in Jackson, Wyoming. Architect: Stephen Dynia Architects Photography: David Agnello


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