Daylight Design with Archicad 15 and Velux Daylight Visualizer

VELUX Daylight Visulaizer - rendering

Designing with daylight in mind not only allows for a more comfortable interior space, but it can also give you substantial savings in energy consumption. By integrating ArchiCAD’s BIM technology with Velux’s Daylight Visualizer, architects can now precisely simulate daylighting in buildings as early as the very first steps of preliminary design.

Fuorisalone Milano 2012: Wrap Spaces – our favorite find!

IMG_3172a. Wrap Spaces in Zona Tortona

My favorite Fuorisalone find was definitely Wrap Spaces from the Netherlands. They have a little show room located on Via Tortona – just follow the neon orange arrows to find it. The concept is one piece of furniture, from which you can open up a kitchen, an office, or a living room set. Aside from [...]

Fuorisalone Milano 2012: the Brera Design District – Miyazaki Chairs, HomeLess Design Network, and the Austrian Design Expo

IMG_3136a. Brera design district flags

While I did not by any means get to see the entire Brera district during my short stay in Milan, I did run into the following interesting displays which I would recommend to anyone heading in that direction: The Miyazaki Chair Factory from Japan has their first exhibition at Milan’s Design Week, tucked away on [...]

Fuorisalone Milano 2012: temporary street art – The Pothole Gardener and more

IMG_3134a. paper hand in metro

These were only three of the many examples of fun street art that I noticed popping up around Milan during Design Week: The first is a paper cut-out hand grasping onto a pole in the metro car. The second is the only one I can attribute to anyone in particular. It is a mini installation [...]

2011 TED Prize awarded to artist, JR

ted prize

Anonymous artist, JR, recently won the TED Prize of $100,000 for his eye-catching public artwork that involves large scale photo installations. On March 2nd, he will reveal to the world what his “One Wish to Change the World” is… and you can watch it live on the TED website. I particularly like the project he recently finished, entitled ‘Women are Heroes’.

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