The Extrusion Competition: Go from a 2D Sketch to a 3D Model

The Designated Sketcher has set up a competition where they are asking you to showcase your transition from a two dimensional sketch to a three dimensional model. Continue

The Generative Space Award: Improve Health & Health Care with Design

The Generative Space Award recognizes break-through designs that improve health and healthcare. Your mission for the competition is to clearly demonstrate the integration of the physical and social environments to make your community "a Place to Flourish". Continue

Deceptive Design

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another", William Shakespeare.
Our social behaviours seem to be full of "deceptive" intentions, yet most people are quite unaware of the process we take to give ourselves duplicated confidence. Imagination and creativity can be found in quite unexpected occurrences. Continue

Secrets of a Commercial Photographer, Break Your Expectations: Kazuha Matsumoto

As a commercial photographer, Kazuha Matsumoto, describes that he seizes the value of peoples’ everyday lives by seeing “love, relationships, connections and interactions with human beings…” Continue

Announcing the 11 Winners of this Year’s JEC Innovation Awards Programme

JEC Composites is announcing the new winners of the JEC Innovation Awards Programme 2010. Continue

The Power of One Shot: Hirano Aichi

Hirano Aichi was inspired to become a photographer at the age of twenty, when he snapped a shot with his father's camera of a Shinto shrine. To him the scenery looked more realistic in the finder shone than it did in reality. Continue

Hironao Tsuboi’s evolving Perception of Design

Growing up as a child, designer Hironao Tsuboi, explains that he always had a curiosity devoted to discovering the unknown, in particular the mysterious circumstances of the world. Continue

Discover New Ideas for Projects: Tomoko Murata

Tomoko Murata was born 1973, in Osaka, Japan. She was impressed by history and the possibilities that are involved in architectural space. Therefore, early in life, she began to study architecure by visiting old and contemporary buildings. Continue

Optimize Knowledge and Experiences for Creation

Seeing and looking for connections helps you with the creative process. Continue

Finding Balance: Setsu Ito

Architect and designer Setsu Ito was introduced to his current profession as his father who is a sculpture artist constantly told him about how great architecture was and brought home architecture and design books. Continue

Designed for the Environment of Itakura Town

In the past 60 years, as information technology progressively have changed in Japan, our housing industry has rapidly become adjusted to it." Continue

Architecture of Dancing Shadows and Light

The form of this architecture was constructed to make light and shadows dance, by Anna Nakamura+Taiyo Jinno EASTERN design office. Continue

15 Years of Existence Left

Architecture: José Marini Bragança, Helena Veludo. Armona is an island in RIA Formosa, Algarve. It is a place in a nature conservation area. This old fishermen’s island has had a savage urban occupation for 40 years and is designated, by government policy, to disappear within the next 15 years. Continue

Santo Amaro: How a Residence can be United with Nature

This year, the Isay Weinfeld architecture firm constructed the Santo Amaro residence in São Paulo, Brazil. This deluxe residence consists of a 1275 m2 area and is surrounded with green nature. Nature can't be bypassed in the Santo Amaro residence as the green life is exposed in virtually all corners of the house. Continue

Overlapping Reality and Imagination: Art Museum of Yue Minjun

About the Art Museum of Yue Minjun. On one hand, there are fantastic landscapes for Qingcheng Mountain, with continuous brooks and wreathed mist, on the other hand, there are private art galleries, with extremely personal art attitudes and contemporary features. Continue

The Exterior Giving the Interior its Appearance: Garden House in Tokyo

Kochi Architects Studio has constructed the Garden House in Tokyo. Their strategy here was to not seperate the interior with exterior. Continue

Yael & Avner: Founders of Lightexture

Architect Yael Erel and lighting designer Avner Ben Natan, are a collaborating couple and creators of Lightexture. The lighting they create are fitted and assembled by hand in their own studio. Continue

The Berg, Urbanized Nature in Berlin

While big and wealthy cities in many part of the world challenge the limits of possibility by building gigantic hotels with fancy shapes, erecting sky-high office towers or constructing hovering philharmonic temples, Berlin sets up a decent mountain. Continue

Residence Ladoumegue: 190 Student Rooms

Parisian architects Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec have designed the Residence Ladoumegue. The project was seen as a way to rethink the relationship between sub-peripheral territories, hybridizing parallel landscapes into an articulation of successive strata. Continue

Milla Rezanova: “For Myself I Have Opened Two Sources of Inspiration”

Milla Rezanova is a Russian designer born in 1978. She's involved with innovative and creative design, that kind of design where experimentation is required. Continue

Art Deco in New York: When a Design Style Lives On

Having an understanding of the Art Deco style is crucial not just for designers, but for anyone who is into creating experiences in branding and marketing. Historical styles and events always stay with us and live on forever: this style is a perfect example. Here're are some Art Deco designs you can find in New York City. Continue

Water Lily by Andreas Wenning

The strategy behind this design is nature, as trees, water and earth are the determining elements. Continue

Start Fresh on Each New Project: Bart Prince

Bart Prince is an American architect who was born June 24, 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He toke an interest in architecture at a very early age, before he knew what the name for “architecture” meant, he began making drawings and building models. Continue