The Holcim Foundation has recently announced the jury members for the 2015 Global Holcim Awards, an international competition that encourages architects, planners, engineers, project owners and students to share their projects and vision that go beyond conventional notions of sustainable construction. The Foundation promotes sustainable responses to the technological, environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural issues affecting… [Read More]
Make submits new Tower Hamlets scheme for planning
Award winning architecture firm Make submitted last week its proposal for a residential-led tower at Meridian Gate on the Isle of Dogs. The scheme was prepared for Meridian Property Holdings Limited and LBS Properties, and aims to provide high quality, residential-led, mixed-use development consisting of approximately 400 one, two and three-bed apartments. The site will… [Read More]
Morpholio Introduces Frame: A DJ Booth for your photos
The always innovative team from Morpholio Project has turned toward research on the possibilities of filtering and other transformations of imagery. Their newest app Frame, radically uses a ‘matrix’ approach to rethink photo filters as ‘recipe’ as opposed to ‘menu’. The creative tool plays on the ‘iPhone as darkroom’ idea, and really taking it to… [Read More]
World’s smallest 3D Pen lets you doodle in the air
Three London based designers (Delphine Eloise Wood, Anton Suvorov and Ismail Baran) have created the LIX 3D, the smallest 3D printing pen in the world, that allows users to doodle in the air. The small pen does not require the use of paper, and can be used in writings, accessories, decoration pieces, art and crafts… [Read More]
David Trubridge launches new designs at Wanted Design NYC
World renowned, and New Zealand based designer David Trubridge will be launching new designs at the New York Wanted Design (May 16 – 19, 2014). Among the new products, he will also re-launch three designs from his collection that are now sent as kitsets. The kitset method, named Seed System by the company, has various… [Read More]
schmidt hammer lassen designs Ningo Cultural Home
schmidt hammer lassen architects has completely the design for a new cultural home for the city Labour Union in Ningbo, China. Known as the Home of Staff, the 100,000 m² project was the winner entry in an international competition in 2013. The proposed project features an eclectic mix of functions, split across two separate buildings…. [Read More]
Morpholio R&D: Technology Transfer
The Morpholio team seems to always be ahead of the game when it comes to reinventing how we interact with technology. After presenting us with highly successful iPhone apps such as Trace, the team turned to the medical profession to understand the physical impact of an image on the human body. Morpholio presents a new application… [Read More]
Make’s first legacy building opens at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Make has helped transform the former Olympic Park site in Stratford into an exciting new riverside destination with the opening of its first legacy building, the Podium. The opening of the hub building makes the award-winning architecture firm the only architect to date to have delivered an Olympic venue (the Copper Box Arena), as well… [Read More]
Make creates a 902 hexagonal module facade for the Wanda Reign Hotel
Award-winning international architecture firm Make Architects, created a unique facade for the luxurious Wanda Reign Hotel in Wuhan, China. Commissioned by the Wanda Group, the architects designed a 902 hexagonal module facade that creates the “effect of multiple windows as ‘eyes’ looking our over the city from the guest rooms”. Wuhan, which is sometimes referred to… [Read More]
Moriyama RAIC International Prize Aims to Raise Stature of Canada
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Foundation announces the launch of one of the largest architectural prizes in the world — the Moriyama RAIC International Prize. Distinguished Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama established the prize together with the Foundation. To be awarded every two years, the prize consists of CAD $100,000 and a sculpture designed… [Read More]
