Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Editor's Picks,Green Project,Hotel,INTERIORs SPACE,SCALE & SIZE,Shipping Container,SOLUTION,Steel,SUSTAINABILITY,TravelFebruary 22, 2013
Sleeping Around is a village of 4 hotel rooms, a breakfast/lounge container and a sauna container. The hotel rooms provide a superior and comfortable night’s stay and include: floating box-spring bed with high quality linen, XXL Hansgrohe Raindance Shower, Rituals amenities, Dyson air conditioning system, If you fancy staying in the Sleeping Around pop-up hotel, you’ll have to find it first. Built from recycled shipping containers, the hotel moves around the Belgian countryside at will…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Architecture Award,COLOR,DAYLIGHTING,Editor's Picks,FUNCTIONAL,Green Project,NATURAL VENTILATION,Pavilion,Shipping Container,SOLUTION,Steel,SUSTAINABILITYFebruary 12, 2013
San Francisco Architects Zoe Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak (Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects), known for their progressive, modern designs that include new media technologies, discuss their creation of the Presidio Habitats Exhibit Pavilion from repurposed shipping containers arranged at 120 degree angles around a central atrium…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Architecture Award,Exotic Idea,Green Project,LEED,MATERIALS USED,Metal Sheet,OUTDOOR SPACE,Prefabricated elements,Restaurant / Coffee shop / Cafe,Shipping Container,SOLUTION,Steel,SUSTAINABILITY,TravelJanuary 29, 2013
Starbucks “Reclamation Drive-Thru” in Tukwila, Washington, has opened a drive-thru location built out of recycled shipping containers. The store opened in December in Tukwila, Wash., and features four shipping containers. Three of the containers are 40 feet long and one is 20 feet long…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Architecture Award,DAYLIGHTING,Exotic Idea,FACADE / SKIN,FUNCTIONAL,Green Project,Harmony With The Context,INTERIORs SPACE,LIGHTING EFFECTIVE,MATERIALS USED,NATURAL VENTILATION,Prefabricated elements,Restaurant / Coffee shop / Cafe,Shipping Container,SOLUTION,Steel,STRUCTURAL,SUSTAINABILITY,TravelAugust 3, 2012
The studio 1024 architects from Paris have created a temporary building on the Seine isle of Île Seguin, which is actually too beautiful to be demolished. Still, Les Grandes Tables is a placeholder, while architect Jean Nouvel turns an old car factory into a museum within the scope of a large-scale project…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Attractive,Editor's Picks,Exotic Idea,Featured,Friendly / social,Fun / Playful,HIP,Hotel Interior,Interior Award,Modern Retro Style,Shipping Container,TravelJanuary 30, 2012
When dreaming up the HafenCity project, 25hours CEO Christoph Hoffmann explains, “We didn’t want to involve an interior architect, who creates too mathematically, too structurally, who creates rooms but not an atmosphere…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Architecture Award,COLOR,Editor's Picks,Featured,FUNCTIONAL,glass facade,GREEN AREA,Harmony With The Context,LIGHTING EFFECTIVE,MATERIALS USED,OUTDOOR SPACE,Shipping Container,Shop / Store / Showroom,SOLUTION,SUSTAINABILITY,TranslucentDecember 13, 2011
The showroom of the Decameron furniture store is located on a rented site in the furniture commercial alley in São Paulo.To make the quick and economic construction viable, the project worked with the premise of a light occupation of the lot…
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