
The Danish study Bayarch, specializing in design and architecture, has proposed a fairly revolutionary concept furniture for an imaginary places of worship and not just American. The famous Hollywood sign on the hills in front of the homonymous city that hosts the world’s most famous studios. The idea aims to transform...

Open to the public last Saturday, the long-awaited Shanghai Expo has been a boom in visitors. Nothing too surprising, in fact, the most populous city in China, consistent host an exhibition entirely devoted to the theme of the implementation of quality of life in urban areas, “Better City, Better Life”. No wonder...

The Boscolo Hotel Exedra of Milan, whose project was designed by Italo Rota, Alessandro Pedretti, Thijs Pulles Diego Terna, and Simone Micheli for 600 sq.m. of Spa, was defined by the Director General an “urban hotel”, a where, contrary to what one would expect, was given greater importance to the common areas,...

Starbucks out of fashion? They say the data. If in the 90 chain of coffee break is grown at a dizzying pace, opening up a bar a day, the expansion seems now ended. Blame, or most, of the store layout, now far from the taste and the sensitivity of consumers. Here, then, that managers of Seattle have announced the renewal...

That’s something the experts are waiting anxiously. We are talking about the charts that the British design and lifestyle magazine Wallpaper has just published about the best projects in 2010. Sure, you know, every list has something of questionable, but regardless remains a benchmark, especially if the opinion was...

The Eskimos are a strange people. First they get upset if you call them so. Seriously. It’s a term that derives from a dialect indigenous to North America and means “manufacturer of snowshoes”. I got angry. As if an inhabitant of Varese was called “shoe manufacturer” in fact is not nice. I...

A campaign tent, a shelter suspended in time will welcome visitors who wish to venture into the world of the unreal and ethereal British duo Hannah Plumb and James Russell, Synthetic JamesPlumb or more in their first solo exhibition outside the United Kingdom. From This Day Forward, edited by Diana Brown, starring the objects...

The idea is so simple that it seems impossible that someone there had still thought a wristwatch capable of marking the passage of the lunar phases. They designed the Spanish and Emotion Lab is called Moonwatch. Simple in design monochrome, Moonwatch accompany the wearer on a journey of rediscovery of an ancestral aspect...

Still missing two years since the Helsinki becomes capital of design, but the students of the Aalto University have already begun to propose projects that the city can accommodate more visitors and enthusiasts. One of those who have already been presented is that “Urban Play”, yet another variation on the theme...

Whatever your religion or your secular spirit, you will probably agree to see that this has arcihtettura its ability to inspire a sense of contemplation. Called with the name suggestive of Rainbow Church, the installation created by Korean designer Tokujin (already on Designerblog for its installation for Hermès) plays...