Villa Bio by Enric Ruiz Geli

Thursday, February 4th 2010
Villa Bio by Enric Ruiz Geli

Contemporary architecture is THE PLATFORM on which culture and contemporary art rest. Living in an exciting platform can become an art form: THE ART OF LIVING. We conceived this platform as a LANDSCAPE OF LINEAR EVENTS. The landscape folds itself within the site and forms a growing SPIRAL. The platform is a LINEAR STRUCTURE made of concrete of constant section in the shape of a “C”. The longitudinal blind FAÇADES function as BEAMS and... 

BMW Art Cars

Thursday, February 4th 2010
BMW Art Cars

Since 1975, artists from around the world have turned BMW cars into art, signifying a particular period, through the Art Car program. In 2007, the last installment was revealed with Olafur Eliasson’s “Your Mobile Expectations: BMW H2R project.” Across the globe many BMW Art Cars have been exhibited in renowned museums throughout the world including the Louvre, the Guggenheim Museums, and the Shanghai Art Museum. They have been displayed... 

Arezzo Park Hotel Interior Design by Simone Micheli

Saturday, January 30th 2010
Arezzo Park Hotel Interior Design by Simone Micheli

The work of interior architecture I designed for Claudio and Cinzia Alliata bears the anticanonical message expressing ethics, beauty and contemporaneity. The day I met the two brilliant entrepreneurs from Rome as for designing the interiors of the hotel facility which was about to become a milestone of accomodation in the Arezzo area, we get in tune at once. The aim of my customers was creating a tridimensional symbol capable of integrating with... 

Nat. Fine Bio Food Restaurant Interior by eins:eins Architects

Saturday, January 30th 2010
Nat. Fine Bio Food Restaurant Interior by eins:eins Architects

The purpose of the newly-founded chain, nat. fine bio food, is to make fast food healthy, to offer delicious organic food in a timely manner – and this in a contemporary environment. nat. brings together Organic and Lifestyle, and with this follows the increasingly-important LOHAS-Trend (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability). The main contradiction of a “natural” restaurant in an artificial urban environment becomes the core of the design.... 

Youth Center in Rivas Vaciamadrid by Mi5 Arquitectos

Saturday, January 30th 2010
Youth Center in Rivas Vaciamadrid by Mi5 Arquitectos

From the beginning, the project was conceived as the possibility of making the “underground” visible, a construction devised as a radical manifestation of Madrid’s outskirts youthful spirit in general, and of Rivas’ youth groups in particular. The project aspires to become an explicit “teen” communication vehicle by appropriating their language and their voices as the ingredients of the project. In this way, the project’s... 

Fifth Avenue Apartment Interior Design

Friday, January 29th 2010
Fifth Avenue Apartment Interior Design

This four-bedroom rental apartment renovation was commissioned by a contemporary art and furniture collector. The more-public areas are organized around the collection. Vinyl flooring in several colors was created with large white circles to “spotlight” particular pieces. The entrance is monochrome with a custom designed wallpaper. The Living room, dominated by a large Bourellec Brother “cabana” is red. The dining room is in yellow and lined... 

Charleston Museum – Entry by Dow Jones Architects

Thursday, January 28th 2010
Charleston Museum - Entry by Dow Jones Architects

Charleston has existed as a group of agricultural buildings for at least the last 500 years. Its inhabitation by the Bloomsbury Group for most of the last 100 years has marked it as an extraordinary place, telling the story of the lives of a group of artists in the most direct and intimate way. Our proposal adapts the buildings surrounding the farmhouse to make new spaces for the creation and display of art, continuing the pattern of use started by...