News 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 […]

News 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, […]

Videos July 4, 2019

SUMER is a 3D Animation Short-Film by Alvaro García

Since it started screening internationally in October 2014, SUMER has won 14 festivals including Irvine Film Festival and Phoenix Comicon, among others. For unknown reasons, the Earth's ionosphere has weakened dramatically during the course of the last century, resulting in the collapse of the entire ecosystem. Earth has become an increasingly hostile and uninhabitable place […]

News 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 […]

News July 4, 2019

Zara Larsson performs new song in a video recorded on Gothenburg’s electric bus route

Unsuspecting passengers could hardly believe their eyes when they boarded the bus on 7 September and stepped right into a Zara Larsson concert. During the Silent Bus Sessions, the Swedish artist performed unique versions of two songs on board one of Gothenburg’s new electric buses. Music videos of the performance are now being released. The […]

News July 4, 2019

MATTER OF STUFF at the London Hospital Club Gallery

The Hospital Club and Matter of Stuff, architecture studio and online design gallery to present an exhibition works by European designers during London Design Festival 2015. Open from Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th September, the exhibition will show the concept and stories as well as the processes and methodologies explored by the designers in their […]

News July 4, 2019

Vancouver building is featuring a Janice Wright Cheney bear in its garden

Janice Wright Cheney examines the historical and cultural ideas that shape western understandings of the natural world. Using variety of techniques and materials, her works may be embroidered, knit, hand-dyed, felted, or sewn from recycled materials. The results range from museum boxes with pinned insect specimens to an installation of bears made from red roses. […]

News July 4, 2019

Pokémon Go might be the most unusual Pokémon title to come out on mobile devices

The Pokémon Company decided to hold a press conference in Tokyo this month to explain the concept. The game idea is for players to collect and battle Pokémon by exploring the real world. So far, so Ingress, but the weirdest aspect of the whole affair is Pokémon Go Plus. It's basically a Nintendo-built Bluetooth smartwatch-a-like […]

News July 4, 2019

Oggetti Razionalisti - trays collection by La Lattoneria

Oggetti Razionalisti trays collection, designed by La Lattoneria, comes from the inspiring challenge of re-thinking the insights of representatives personalities of Rationalism. La Lattoneria, formed by Martina Salvato and Sara Ricciardi, is the encounter between two different but complementary souls, Nordic accuracy and Southern explosiveness, mixed with the foresight of the businessman Maurizio Di Bernardo. […]

News November 22, 2019

OOPEAA wins Finlandia Prize for Architecture for their Puukuokka high-rise residential building

OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture based in Seinäjoki, Finland won this year Finlandia Prize for Architecture for their Puukuokka Housing Block. The building is energy-efficient trio of multi-story timber-framed flats. It includes three 6-8 story blocks and 150 flats with a combined floor area of aprox. 10,000 m2. The project is phased in three parts, […]