Tag Archives: Space Design

Abu-Dhabi Energy Tower: Energy efficiency with ecological harmony

Abu-Dhabi Energy Tower: Energy efficiency with ecological harmony

Energy TowerEnergy generating tower proposal

Located on the coast of Abu Dhabi, the Abu Dhabi Energy tower is stated to be constructed for the year 2045, ushering a new era of energy efficiency and ecological balance in high-rise buildings. Based on the principle of increasing efficiency for us [Read More…]

The Tree Museum of Zurich, Switzerland

The Tree Museum of Zurich, Switzerland

A high-design homage to the tree has officially opened in Zurich, Switzerland, namely– the Tree Museum.  This silent and stoic stonehenge sits not far from the banks of Lake Zurich, stocked with nearly 2,000 species of trees as curated by Oppenheim Architecture and Design.

The museum stretche [Read More…]

House Haller by Haller Jürgen and Peter Plattner

House Haller by Haller Jürgen and Peter Plattner

The vision was a customised building, incorporating the impressive panorama at the foot of the Alps with a lifestyle demanding variable solutions. The owner’s specifications were a house combining living and working areas under one roof. The entire design of this [Read More…]

Information Center for Little Tokyo Design Week: Future City

Information Center for Little Tokyo Design Week: Future City

LA architecture office INABA and NYC graphic designers MTWTF have shared with us their design for the information center for Little Tokyo Design Week: Future City. The festival, which opens this Thursday, July 14, celebrates the intersection of Japanese design and technology with experimental archit [Read More…]

ROBERT WARE’S REPOSITORY OF THE ETERNAL NOW

ROBERT WARE’S REPOSITORY OF THE ETERNAL NOW

Another discovery from Justine from Show RCA 2011 is Repository of the Eternal Now by Robert Ware.

Robert Ware’s piece explores techniques where information is translated from digital to physical. The first experiment is constructed from the recycled parts out of old inkjet printers connected up t [Read More…]

Reverse-Engineered Art via OCD-Style Deconstructions

Reverse-Engineered Art via OCD-Style Deconstructions

Everyone who ever took devices apart as a child knows how beautiful deconstructed technology is. Todd McLellan makes an art form out of the destruction of vintage technology by carefully taking apart, arranging and photographing their every little piece.

Have you ever wondered what makes you [Read More…]

Crafty to Crazy: 13 Contemporary Cafes & Coffee Shops

Crafty to Crazy: 13 Contemporary Cafes & Coffee Shops

Why spend your time in any old hole-in-the-wall cafe when you could be surrounded by eye-popping, eccentric and beautiful design? These 13 unusual cafes from Poland to Australia defy expectations with strange sculptural installations, shocking colors and prints, brilliant flooring solutions and o [Read More…]

Wonderful Wine Cellars For Any Room in Your House

Wonderful Wine Cellars For Any Room in Your House

The Spiral Cellar system was developed in 1978 by a Frenchman who saw that few modern houses had wine cellars, but that people still needed a place to store their wine. If a wine-lover has a serious collection it can quickly outgrow wine racks and refrigerator units. It can keep up to 1,600 bottles [Read More…]

Solo Shelter Showcase: New Small-Space Living Exhibition

Solo Shelter Showcase: New Small-Space Living Exhibition

Regular readers may remember that Dornob helped sponsor a certain strange Camper Kart project, and has featured a Camper Bike in the past – well, artist Kevin Cyr is back with a brand new exhibit in San Francisco titled Home In The Weeds at 941 Geary.

He describes this particular series as “ [Read More…]

Laundry Room Layouts: Cabinets, Storage & Shelf Systems

Laundry Room Layouts: Cabinets, Storage & Shelf Systems

Quite possibly the least-addressed interior (but most in need of careful organization), laundry rooms have to meet many needs in often-small, secondary and sometimes-awkward areas of a home.

Laundry activities can, by necessity, be relegated to thin hallways, tiny landings or the extra squar [Read More…]

‘Screen World’ ACMI, Melbourne

‘Screen World’ ACMI, Melbourne

This interior was design by Ab Rogers Design in collaboration with Denton Corker Marshall, DA.studio, Michael Connor, Graphic Thought Facility, Robson & Jones and The Richard Greenwood Partnership.

Here you can find the concept of  this Australian Center for the Moving Image. It is a stun [Read More…]