by Jiyoung Seo

“My shelves aim to invite the user to interact with its form. They utilize various ‘play signals’ that engage the user to touch, feels, and react to the object”, says Jiyoung Seo, a design student at HDK School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The Catalyst is a little shelf with a flap of silicon to keep books in place. Furthermore, Jiyoung’s creation can also be used as a bookmark by slotting a book over the flap. (mais…)

Water Conservation Meter by Young-Suk Kim

It’s wide known that water consumption is among the most relevant issues of the international agenda. Water security has become as crucial as hunger and environment protection in the world; defined as an absolutely necessary element to the life and health of both humans and ecosystems, and a fundamental condition to countries’ development.

Aware of that, Young-Suk Kim has created the +-Water, which is a digital device that attaches to faucets and displays an accurate feedback about usage. It stands out from other meters by converting the consumed liters into actual cost. (mais…)

BNP Paribas by Zoevox

In order to establish a renewed and more humane connection between individuals and capital, the Paris-based architect, Fabrice Ausset, of Zoevox, has conceived this ground-breaking bank concept store for BNP Paribas; located in the historical building of 2, Place de l’Opéra.

In ten specific zones, all regular banking functions from daily banking to stock-market info, private meetings, staff training can take place with the emphasis on breaking the age-old banking set-up where the client and the teller/banker are on opposite sides. (mais…)

by Malcom Fraser Architects

The Edinburgh-based studio, Malcom Fraser Architects, has just completed this charming off-grid treehouse artist studio and fieldstation in Glen Nevis, Scotland. Outlandia is an artist-led project, built in 2010 to foster links between creativity and the environment; a flexible meeting space in the forest for creative collaboration and research.

Reached via a bridge, the wood-panelled structure sits atop a pillar and a meandering wooden walkway leading out from the hut nestles into the sloping landscape. The structure is made partly of trees that were cut down to clear the site. Outlandia is in line with “The Scottish Forestry Strategy” that aims to create opportunities for more people to enjoy trees, woods and forests in Scotland, and to help communities benefit from nature. (mais…)

by Lorenzo Vitturi

The Venetian artist, Lorenzo Vitturi, lives and works between London, Milan and Venice. Graduated in photography and design at IED in Rome, he makes the most of this interdisciplinarity to set the scenes of thoughts and ideas through the manipulation of space.

This series of images is a site specific project that took place in a palace in Vitturi’s hometown. The main idea of this Neon Intervention was to transform the historic environment of the palace into a metaphysical space playing with the contrast between classic and contemporary. (mais…)

Outdoor Sculpture by Tom Fruin

The NewYork-based artist, Tom Fruin, has intrigued and presented the inhabitants of Copenhagen with his Kolonihavehus. The sculpture placed in the plaza of the Royal Danish Library, in the capital of Denmark, has the appearance of a friendly and colorful stained-glass house, yet it also evokes thoughts of churches as well as inspires the sensation of a design à la Charles Rennie Mackintosh. (mais…)

by Studioprototype

Run by partners Sofia Limpari and Neal Shah, Studioprototype is a Greek and English speaking architectural design practice based in Greece that, according to the duo of designers, focuses on producing intelligent solutions of high quality in a bespoke, adventurous and responsive manner.

That’s exactly what they managed to achieve in the renovation of this charming thirty-five square meter shop, which is part of a chain of family-run bakeries called “Elektra”, located in a strategic corner plot on a main pedestrian high street of Edessa, Greece. (mais…)