Office complexes come in all shapes and sizes, lending itself well to the exploration of architecture and how to deal with light. The EIGHT Office Complex in Marousi, Greece is designed by PEOPLE and has a bold look using white elements surrounding the building to ensure the protection of users from the run. It consists [...]

Coming in second place for the 2015 Milano World Expol, this Italian pavilion proposal was submitted by architects Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue of EMBT. The concept for the pavilion is ‘tree of life’ that draws from the Italian culture itself in order to produce a significant representation, with its rooted history and its ever [...]

A “factory”for the city … A space to do things …. anything! Simply do things …Communicate. Communicate with the World … Know … Learn in a fun way! A building that needs to dialogue with the city. An organic block, which gently lands on a square … A kind of constant sensory challenge that appeals [...]

‘Swimming Pool Feng Shui’ is the winning proposal for a competition staged by the French city of Issy les Moulineaux for- you guessed it- a new swimming pool for the city. The architects Mikou Design Studio have created a structure which features the pool without making it the sole and only contributing factor. The place [...]

Designed by Fred Mafra, and located in Savassi the busiest region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the club JOSEFINE / ROXY has been a reference in the city since 2007. The original design from four years ago was also designed by the Architect Fred Mafra. “Reforming your own project brings you a special freedom that comes from [...]

The AA_02: Planks + Pixels is a project that was submitted by Jon Bailey and Erick Katzenstein while they were in their first year as junior designers at HKS, Inc in Washington DC. Both designers share interests in digital fabrication and architectural theory–pursuing projects that reach beyond traditional architectural service. This project became a precedent not only [...]

From the architect, Pierluigi Piu: “OLIVOMARE is the last born belonging to the well known London brand OLIVO, and is a restaurant serving seafood. Apart from his name, such peculiarity is highlighted by the formal and decorative language adopted here to focus on its aspect using more or less clear references to the sea world [...]

Earlier this year, the British automaker Aston Martin kicked off its 100-year anniversary celebration by introducing the a bespoke of the Aston Martin CC100 Speedster Concept. The car made its world debut today by lapping the Nordschleife at Germany’s ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nürburgring race. Built to celebrate a century of Aston Martin sports cars, the CC100 [...]

“Tearing Shadows” is a multi-media installation by German based artist Robert Seidel. The installation is composed of suspended molded plastic, and using projected imagery to continually alter the presence of his physically constructed sculpture. The combination between the sculptural form and the video sequence unfolds the shadow and gives it an autonomous existence.  401contemporary, the gallery in Berlin [...]

New York based artist, Marela Zacarias, is a contemporary visual artist who creates a variety of wall and free standing sculptures which are characterized by an interest in site specificity, the history contained in objects, and current events. Zacarias’s wall and free standing sculptures are constructed from window screens and joint compound and painted with original patterns and geometric [...]

Some times nature is stranger than fiction. These photographs certainly slot into that category. Taken of ice caves on the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka, they record strange and beautiful natural monuments. Courtesy of Dennis Budko, Marc Szeglat, Michael Zelensky, and xflo The subject caves are created be a mixture of vulcanism and deep freeze, carved [...]

Impressive wood sculptures by Italian artist Gehard Demetz, Demetz born in 1972, Bolzano , and lives and works in Selva di Val Gardena. Demetz renders the human form in wood and juxtaposes it with digital, grid like voids Courtesy of Gehard Demetz “His sculptures of children are at the same time attractive and disquieting and rendered with an amazing perfection [...]