Here is NAP’s Winning Project for the Europan 11 Competition

NAP is the winning team for the Europan 11 competition. This is their concept. Continue

GLOW: New Competition, Can You Make Copley One of the Greatest Squares in the World Using Light?

Can you make Copley one of the greatest squares in the world using light? This is the main challenge presented in SHIFTboston's new international competition called GLOW. Continue

New High-Speed Rail Station in Spain: To be Designed by Foster + Partners

Architecture and design studio, Foster + Partners, has won an international competition to design Ourense AVE Station in Spain. Here's their concept. Continue

EASTERN Design Office’s New Creative Project: The Keyhole House

EASTERN design office has once again accomplished a creative architecture based on a simple concept. This time they have designed a house that symbolizes a key. Continue

SHH’s Branding Process when Creating the Deluxe Airport Lounge for Rizon Jet

Architecture/interior practice and branding design consultancy, SHH, has finished the design of a £3m, 2-storey VIP passenger lounge at Biggin Hill airport, for client Rizon Jet. This is how they established a deluxe design with the company's brand in mind. Continue

Photo Contest by CityVision “Our Lady Sustainability”: Open to All

A photo competition called Our Lady Sustainability is open to all. "Each participant may only submit one image which portrays their concept of sustainability through the use of an architectural scenario and one or more living beings." Continue

Experiencing the City: An opportunity to Think About the Present Condition of Urban Spaces

SUN.LAB 2011 will gather the production of Italian and foreign designers who are capable to create experimental scenarios, brand new concepts, and projects not yet in production. Continue

Here is MET Studio’s Exciting Design Approach for a Science Exploration Centre

Award-winning master planners and exhibition designers at MET Studio have been commissioned to create three galleries for China’s new Ningbo Science Exploration Centre, due to open in Spring 2012. Their colorful concept images are here! Continue

Stairscraper: Focusing on Individual Needs in a Collective Whole

Nabito’s ongoing project, the Stairscraper, will be built in Abu Dhabi, EAU, as it is the 2010 project winner of the Total Housing Competition. Below you will find the idea and description of their winning concept. Continue

Giancarlo Zema on How the Future of Architecture will Change Our Living into a “Floating Experience”

Architect Giancarlo Zema shares his vision on how the future’s design will evolve and why we are approaching a “floating experience”. In this interview with Zema, he shares his ideas and explains what his field, semi-submerged architecture, is all about. Continue

Paolo Cappello Shares his Ideas on Design Through Creative Process

Designer Paolo Cappello, talks here about the creative process he goes through when designing his products, and also shares how he knows that a design is ready to hit the market. Continue

Here are Studio GreenBlue’s Design Techniques to Manipulate Space with Visual Effects

Mitsuharu Kojima and Wataru Kobayashi from the architecture office Studio Green Blue have created a new architecture project which they've called the "Distance of Fog", situated in the suburbs of Tokyo. Continue

This is ArtBACKUP’s Lifestyle Design

T3CID (Those Three Crazy Italian Designers) is a new design company who have submitted their Art BACKUP. Their product idea came from wanting to crop an image with the help of multiple CDs. Continue

New Furniture Collection TWISTED is Exhibiting in Milano

TWISTED is a new eclectic furniture collection, designed by Philip Michael Wolfson and will be presented by LG Hausys at the Nhow Hotel during the Milano design week. Continue

How Two Different Design Experiences Can Work Great Together

The vision for the AG café in Nagoya City Aichi, Japan, was to mix the concept of a gallery and a café. Kidosaki Architects Studio, with Satoshi Itasaka as the principal, aimed to offer a place where people could meet and look at art at the same time. Continue

Inori: This Name Describes the Purpose of the Product

Setsu & Shinobu Ito has sent in their previews for the Milano Salone 2010. This is the Inori libreria componibile, which is created for FIAM Italia. Continue

51 Ways to Explode Your Creativity

Creativity is the ability to find solutions to problems differently and with added value. Creativity is thinking about perception, its using thought as a tool to be more fluid and flexible. The purpose of creativity is to change or to flow with change. Creativity is therefore heretic, it's disruptive, it changes assumptions, it kicks in doors, it faces fear and it destroys conformity. Continue

Mind Your Behaviour: Introducing Insights into 3XN’s Vision

By putting much focus on the experience of their architecture, and the way in which people behave, 3XN has developed a unique position in the Danish market, and are also growing into the international field. Continue

I Won’t give you My Ideas

People can easily take your idea and copy your strategic positioning if you let them. Now, if your strategy is well performed in action, it'll be much more difficult to copy your concept. Continue

Extreme Design Strategy and Biomimicry Solution

Extreme Housing by Singapore-based LOOK Architects Pte Ltd. Extreme housing call for extreme design strategies and ecological sensitive solutions. It can be learnt from Nature which is intrinsically vital for species survival. Continue

5 Weird Ideas That Became Successful

There are immense opportunities out there that are just waiting for you. Lets say that you have an idea that you believe in, although it might be slightly risky as the concept is somewhat "weird". Are you still ready to go for it? Continue

Re-interpreting an Ordinary Item into a “UFO” Set of Lights

V Lighting by Héctor Serrano Studio. The concept was born after experimenting with a very common object, namely a hair band. The project arises from an interest in its geometric shape and the possibilities it offers. This is simply an ordinary object which has been transformed into an extraordinary item by re-interpreting it. Continue

NISSAN Y150′s Fun Pavilion

Y150 NISSAN PAVILION by TORAFU ARCHITECTS, Using Air as a Material. The NISSAN Y150 Dream Front pavilion was designed as part of the EXPO Y150 initiative commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the Port of Yokohama. Continue

Whatcom Museum: An Invitation to Engage in Art

Lightcatcher at the Whatcom Museum, by Olson Kundig Architects, with Jim Olson as the Principal Design Architect, opened to the public on November 14, 2009. Continue