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The colourful apartment in Tokyo was designed by New York-based architects Arakawa & Gins.

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Coroflot presents 7 photos of Hollywood Hills, modern house in Los Angeles, designed by Zekio Dawson in New York.

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House N was designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects. Located in Oyta, Japan, House N is a modern house for a couple. The one story white concrete add elegance to the design. The House N has the potential to be the residence of the future.

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The Egg-Shaped Lomme Bed, the winner of 2008 Reddot Design Award, was designed by Cycle13 in Lichtenstein. LOMME (Light Over Matter Mind Evolution) Bed is a unique sleep experience and rejuvenation environment, it is a bed, which unites: art, furniture and life improvement natural therapy.

In its sophisticated simplicity it evokes the feelings of unity and takes one to the seed level of their being. It creates the environment which enhances all the senses forming a place to rejuvenate, meditate and above all it is providing a perfect space for sleep which enables the soul to access the source of its power.

Lomme has a light system installed all around the matters, which includes different colours from the spectrum. This is navigated through colours wheel. Depends on the need, the light can be set to a specific colour and strength. This light colour therapy is know as enhancing body’s energy centres and stimulating healing process, colour has a profound effect on all levels: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. In addition Lomme has and alarm clock installed which awakens one by simulation of the sunrise which make the waking up in the morning a pleasant start to the day.

Lomme mattress is characterized by high degree of functionality, quality and durability. It comes with a massage system with different options to choose from. Within the shell of Lomme there is a special system which blocks harmful electromagnetic waves and radiation.

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This railway and bus station was designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects in New York. Locate in the heart of the Flon Valley at the Place de l’Europe, this station is  the beginning of a new infrastructure network of transportation systems that will link Lausanne’s center to its suburban peripheries.

Four different lines of commuter services converge on the group of rectilinear glass. The first phase, inaugurated and put in service in early spring 2001, consists of the regional train and bus stations, elevators, a glass-enclosed bridge, and a new traffic circle.

Phase 2 will include a subway station, escalators with a glass envelope, and an oblique plaza.

Part of a master plan won in competition in 1988, the project develops from the distinctive hilly topography of Lausanne, where streets appear as if suspended, buildings seem either buried in the ground or like vertical passageways, and bridges serve as multi-story crossings.

The station consists of 85,000 square feet of above-ground construction and 35,000 square feet on the underground level. The vertical distance traversed by users between the two levels is 65 feet. The new tunnel for train access is 1,300 feet long.

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This temporary installation was created by French architects O-S.  Located at Hotel Saint-Côme’s courtyard in Montpellier as part of the Festival des Architectures Vives 08, the installation is made of 40×40cm packaging boxes.

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Located in Brooklyn, New York, this 4000 square foot facility provides professional services within intimate surroundings with no need to source multiple vendors for props, set construction and equipment, ISC in house scenic production workshop can provide solutions for all scenic needs.

In Square Circle Design Concepts (ISC) is a full service creative development company specializing in the design and production of Scenic Elements and Custom Furniture.  We are creative problem solvers who consider the art and science in every solution.

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This house was designed by Amsterdam and Fukuoka, architects who has professional experience in Tokyo.  It was completed in 2004. A collective house for three sisters and their individual families. The design issue was how to combine the three protected private rooms and a widely open common space.

To keep clear to the south garden, the three story volume is situated at the north side of the site. Within the simple rectangular shape building of the thin concrete frame, there are three private rooms of tube like structure.

They define the rest as the common space, in which there are several different conditions according to the floor level, ceiling hight, and the relationship to outside. While each private room has its own door to the common space, two of them on the ground level has its own entrance also for thier private use. The hanging room designed for the single person might be used for the kids room in the future.

photo: kouji okamoto

The ever shifting lifestyle of the contemporary extended family is unpredictable. However, the three dimensional common space will house the simultaneous activities. It will foster the identity of the family.

Every single piece of building should be working for the city, while gigantic city planning has to be formatted from each building. Whatever the size of the building, good design extends the value of the buildings and modify the city environment.

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For her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin’s 201 Chrystie Street gallery, Jennifer Steinkamp will present a new series of work entitled Daisy Bell.  The Los Angeles-based artist utilizes state-of-the-art equipment to wed her projections to the dramatic architecture of the gallery, dematerializing the space and creating an eerie environment.

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Facing the Caspian Sea, Korean firm Heerim Architects & Planners are planning to bring the hotel to Baku, Azerbaijan. defining the look with two futuristic buildings to act as markers of the gateway of one of the world’s fastest growing economies and will mark out an area appropriately named Full Moon Bay.

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