Design Green Architecture
Interior design with a special focus on refurbishment and revitalisation.
Curated by Christiane Burklein
20-10-2021 - Design
Eco-social artist Luca Gnizio at the Italian Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai
Italian eco-social artist Luca Gnizio is one of the ten outstanding individuals selected to represent Italy for a series of ‘Success Stories’ on ecology, beauty and reuse as part of the Italian Pavilion at Expo Dubai. For over ten years, the artist and designer has been transforming waste into an ecological and social opportunity rooted in the principle of the three Rs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - offering a new lease of life to old materials.
15-10-2021 - Design
SET Architects, how to rethink a small flexible home
The Italian SET Architects studio has completed the renovation of a small apartment for a graphic designer in the heart of Rome’s Testaccio district. A carefully conceived project, on minimal but flexible spaces, which enhances the pre-existing elements with a new formal vocabulary.
01-10-2021 - Design
Gonzalez Haase AAS architecture firm designs Aera, a bakery in Berlin-Mitte, in Germany
The Berlin-based Gonzalez Haase AAS architecture firm has designed the second location of Aera, a bakery specialising in gluten-free products that also includes a café area. All in an intense lapis lazuli blue, overlooking the central Rosenthaler Platz square in Berlin.
RECENT PROJECTS
26-11-2019 - Design
YUAN Space by Towodesign, immersive storytelling
The Chinese architecture studio Towodesign is behind the conversion of a commercial space in Shanghai into a spa. Their project has made the most of the existing spatial experience, blending a retro atmosphere with contemporary elements.
19-11-2019 - Design
Park House Food Merchants, Alexander &CO
With the Park House Food Merchants, Australian multidisciplinary studio, Alexander &CO has injected new life into an old, abandoned motel in Mona Vale, on Sydney’s north shore.
06-11-2019 - Design
Golden Pin Design Award 2019 Forum Design & Sustainability
The annual Golden Pin Design Award 2019 Forum will be back on December 5 during its namesake design awards ceremony at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei. Four international design luminaries will be giving talks on this year’s theme: Design & Sustainability.
30-10-2019 - Design
Moving to Mars exhibition at the Design Museum, London
The Design Museum, London launches a new exhibition that explores how sending humans to Mars is not just a new frontier for science but also for design. Moving to Mars raises a lot of questions about our future, not least of which about our planet Earth.
22-10-2019 - Design
Dutch Design Week 2019, If not now, then when?
Dutch Design Week (DDW) takes place in Eindhoven every October. From 19 to 27 October, the biggest design event in Northern Europe presents the work and ideas of more than 2600 designers to more than 350,000 visitors from home and abroad in more than 110 locations across the city. This year’s theme of DDW is a call to action: If not now, then when?
16-10-2019 - Design
Flying Panels - How Concrete Panels Changed the World, exhibition at ArkDes
Flying Panels - How Concrete Panels Changed the World, the new ArkDes exhibition curated by Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola and designed by Note Design Studio, tells the story of the influence that prefabricated concrete panels had on culture and on the construction of a new society, both in Sweden and internationally.
