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the London EDITION

The recently refurbished London EDITION Hotel marks the next chapter in the lifestyle hotels. The new Brand is conceived by American hotelier and real estate developer Ian Schrager whom was also co-owner of the legendary Studio 54 nightclub. Partnering with Marriott International they combine the personal, intimate, individualized  lodging experience that Ian Schrager is known for. Located in a historic building in Fitzrovia, a leafy neighborhood...

Mia Wasikowska Vogue … fashion meets art

On the cover of Vogue Australia March 2014 is Mia Wasikowska, the perfect painterly subject for an exciting collaboration between Jillian Davison, Del Kathryn Barton, Emma Summerton and Alice Babidge. The resulting images were nothing short of extraordinary and Vogue talks to Wasikowska about starring in the highly anticipated Australian film Tracks and her less than standard route to Hollywood. (scroll down to watch the...

White Out. A modernist reincarnation

Renovating an existing home can be challenging at the best of times. Add to the mix facade design limitations and design approval from the neighbours and council, these were some of the challenges faced on this modernist renovation. Located on the outskirts of Brussels, is Wemmel, which is well known for its green areas with their luxury villas and not for crisp white modern buildings. dmvA was...

Pedra da Gávea in Rio de Janeiro

Located on Pedra da Gávea, in Rio de Janeiro, is the home of...

The green edge house

Wedged between three large residential buildings one of the main design aims was consideration in creating privacy from the neighboring buildings. "mA style Architects" set out to create a home that offered privacy whist allowing ventilation, sunlight and a green belt , hence the name, “the green edge house”. An outer wall of 2,435mm in height with glazing 800mm from the ground offers up privacy, whist...

Following the natural contours …

Designed for a family of four with anticipation of a fifth addition located near the Norwegian village of Geilo, a popular skiing destination in the valley Hallingdal. Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter designed the mountain cabin by reinterpreting the local architectural language and building techniques. The house consists of a main body, housing mostly bedrooms, which follow the natural contours of the landscape and splits into two living...

Grand Designs Australia could be looking for you!

Listen up designers, architects and home builders, Grand Designs Australia Series 6 is about to commence production.  Freemantle Media is looking for projects which are about to start and which will be finished by mid-2015.  Filming can take up to 18 months. Grand Designs Australia magazine, editor-in-chief, Kate St James believes, Freemantle Media are looking for unique, interesting, not necessarily...

Setting fire to the rain

Ak47 develop designs that shun the obvious, venturing into questions that are still unexplored. The aim is to qualify simple objects; to enhance them and characterise them with the quest for a particular process, the innovative use of materials and a care for detail. And we couldn’t agree more; AK47 pushes the boundaries and the way we think escaping the bonds of fleeting fashion to...

in full flight

The Muybridge series is a digital approach to transporting classic dynamics onto standalone jersey garments created by the T Shirt Issue. For their second study on temporal change in 3D, a bird in full flight is rigged, animated and exported into T-shirts. The T-shirts represent three frozen frames from the animated flight, displaying a different position of the...

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