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none July 4, 2019

Call for Entries - Sixth annual SEED Awards for excellence in public interest design

Design Corps and the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Network are pleased to announce the Sixth Annual SEED Awards. Recognizing excellence in social, economic, and environmental design, the SEED Awards represent the confluence of forces needed to create truly sustainable projects and change in the world. Six projects will be selected through a competitive jury […]

Painting July 4, 2019

Here why Renoir does not 'suck at painting'

The Guardian gathers the paintings that prove what daft philistines the ‘Renoir sucks at painting’ protesters truly are It has happened. The gates have fallen. Artistic civilisation has collapsed. A mob has gathered outside the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, demanding that Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s paintings be removed from its walls because they “suck”. This is […]

Homeware| Kitchen July 4, 2019

INSPIRA is the first publicly available kitchen design by CetraRuddy

Rooted in the notion that the kitchen is the heart of today’s home, CetraRuddy has designed their first publicly available kitchen design to be called INSPIRA. INSPIRA is designed to elevate the kitchen into a central living space in the home with attention to scale, proportion and exceptional handcrafted quality. Made in Italy, INSPIRA creates […]

none November 22, 2019

Construction starts in Singapore on Early Years International School

This milestone scheme in the field of pre-school education will deliver a multicultural educational facility for over 2,000 pupils and 400 support staff Bogle Architects have developed an architectural and educational vision that will provide a rich learning environment for pupils, parents, and staff. The design responds to the challenge of making a very large […]

Lighting July 24, 2020

Big data-powered chandelier reveals how world’s greenest building is performing

Conceived and created by design firm ESI Design, The Beacon is a first-of-its-kind, light-and-sound installation soaring 30-feet-high in the lobby of The Tower at PNC Plaza in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The transparent, sculptural structure interprets and visualizes data from the building’s advanced green systems and current environmental conditions like weather and sunlight. Through ever-changing light, color, […]

none July 4, 2019

Real-time co-authoring - a perk of the new Office 2016

Microsoft launched their new Office 2016 which includes Word, Excel and Powerpoint and it lets co-authoring on Word documents in real time. They also launched a private preview of GigJam, a tool that promises to let workgroups collaborate across devices and applications, which Microsoft will add that to the Office 365 mix next year. The […]