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January 15, 2010, NEW YORK, NY. FIGMENT, one of Governors Island’s key cultural partners, has joined forces with The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) to sponsor a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion for [...]

Karim Rashid is a name that appears everywhere, in fashion, interior design, furniture …and to prove that he is everywhere he designed these modern decorative metal tiles made in collaboration with Australian company Alloy Design. The cool collection comes in eight decorative designs, each a variation of recurring cells. In repetition, these cell tiles merge [...]

Muhahaha and enter. This place in Warsaw, Poland, was once a fluorescent light factory. The plant was called many things but is known as “Polam” aka “Rosa Luxemburg.”  Rosa was born in Poland in 1871, and was a philosopher, activist, and ideologist of the Polish and German worker’s movement. She was shot with a pistol [...]

Intimate and cosy, this beautiful white house only measures an area of 75 square meters and is just 5 meters wide. A project by architects Elding Oscarson, the small townhouse is located in in Landskrona, Sweden, on a very narrow space between two buildings with a very different architecture. Even though its design definitely stands [...]

Sometimes private homes have such an impressive exterior design and such dimensions that you might as well mistake them for company headquarters or important institutions. We think this is the case with the House in “A Zapateira”, from A.F. Abeijón-Fernandez Arquitectos. Located in A Coruña, Spain, what is truly striking about this residence is its [...]

“Armon Choros Architektonikis” is an architecture firm founded in Larnaca, Cyprus in 1995.  Today we would like to present an interesting residence from their portfolio. The project is called Chalkidos Street Residence and is also winner of some important awards in the field. The main thing that the developers had to respect was the owner’s [...]

From Gudmundur Jonsson,  this vacation home is located in a country area in Iceland. Pretty unusual exterior for such environment, wouldn’t you say? However, its architecture plans was based on thorough research of the landscape. its position beween the sea, the mountains, a glacier and a canyon. Apparently, these were the elements that helped coming [...]