Like Design by Patrice Bideau When the project for this house started in Auray, Brittany year 2010, it was supposed to be a simple house renovation. However it was decided that it had to be demolished. The owners wanted an ecological ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Osram wins order in Germany's financial hub Just in time for its stock market debut, Osram will create a lighting highlight in the financial district of Frankfurt by equipping the new TaunusTurm high-rise tower with more than 12,000 ...
Coinciding with its stock market debut, Osram will light up the financial district of Frankfurt with the new TaunusTurm high-rise tower consisting of more than 12,000 indoor luminaires. Osram is offering a variety of LED luminaries on ...
Tags: Indoor Luminaires, Osram, Lighting
Mongolia started the project of lighting up the Sukhbaatar Square with LED lights on this Jun 22th. The work was commissioned by Sentino, a value added reseller of Philips Lighting products for Mongolia. This project cost 3.5 billion MNT in ...
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Fancy window dressing doesn't matter if beyond the curtains lies an atrocity masked by colorful draperies. Over the years, Griffith learned this lesson with the massive 900-plus-unit, 3,000-resident Mansards Apartments complex. "Learned" ...
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Covering a roof or a facade with standard solar cells to generate electricity will change a building’s original appearance—and not always for the better (this idea to coat buildings with graphene kicks the problem up another ...
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The FLARE modular system was designed to create a dynamic exterior framework for buildings or wall surfaces. FLARE was designed to act like a living skin that allows buildings to show a type of emotional building animation through moving ...
The newly completed 62 Buckingham Gate building, hailed by Land Securities as the jewel of its extensive transformation of London's Victoria district, owes its striking glazed facade to Saint-Gobain Glass. Conceived by architects ...
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Bork's new flagship store in Moscow displays the brand's premium segment. The design is made by Ippolito Fleitz Group. Bork pursues a boutique concept borrowed from the fashion industry, in which spacious presentation areas are used. The ...
In the protection of plants and buildings in the public, military or institutional area like embassies, government buildings or prisons, composite safety glasses are used which are shatterproof and impede bullets. STADIP ULTIMAX satisfies ...
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Architecture studio Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has designed the “Optical Glass House” in Hiroshima, Japan, that aims to acoustically protect residents from the main road outside, whilst providing light and views for the residents ...
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Award for museum project Neue Galerie Kassel The prizes of the German Lichtdesign-Preis 2013 were awarded. OSRAM received together with the Licht Kunst Licht AG an award for the project Neue Galerie Kassel. The Neue Galerie Kassel has ...
Tags: LED, LED Lighting, Lighting
A lighting installation by French artist Antonin Fourneau has highlighted how the manipulation of modern LED technology means that it doesn't necessarily matter if lighting gets wet. We are brought up to believe that water and ...
Tags: Beautiful Lighting, Lighting
A corner fireplace is perfect for rooms where space is minimal and a lot has to be accommodated in there apart from the fireplace. It is also ideal in bedrooms to create a cozy corner with a rug and some floor cushions around, where you can ...
Refacing fireplace can be done by various ways through different options ranging from simply cleaning it up to painting and even going to the extent of refacing it with a facade. Be it any kind of fireplace, as we will see in the following ...
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