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Monday, April 30th, 2012
Article source: MINIMAL
MINIMAL featured in Transformers 3 Movie: The Bad Guy`s Kitchen
For Transformers 3, released on July 6th 2011, Marvel has chosen MINIMAL for the design of one of the main character’s kitchen
MINIMAL’s cutting edge design featuring a high tech sliding counter top is the perfect fit for Ryan’s contemporary kitchen inTransformers 3 – Dark of the Moon. With unique Italian sense of aesthetics and commitment to custom design, MINIMAL has tailored a kitchen space that perfectly portrays the character’s personality: provocative for its sensual lightness and intimidating for its clean lines.
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- Architects: MINIMAL
- Project: The kitchen for Transformers 3 movie
- Location: Chicago
- Year : 2011
- Model used : Glam SLT
Designed by Stefano Venier, the kitchen stems out as a full-relief sculpture in the middle of Ryan`s enviable apartment. The focal point of the room is the island, a unique example of technology, design and functionality.Through an electronic movement, the hand crafted Thermo Oak top can be either opened up to serve as an entertainment table or closed to hide the brushed stainless steel counter top, the soldered sink and the retractable faucet.
 Image Courtesy MINIMAL. In line with MINIMAL values, the kitchen combines the desire for harmonious proportions, sensual materials and precise craftsmanship. High-end appliances and a scrutinized layout provide efficiency while making this space an inviting center of the home. The kitchen shows how efficiency and comfort, beauty and function are always inseparable for MINIMAL, even when the inspiration is dictated by a subversive charisma.More than custom cabinets, MINIMAL has surpassed any level of personalization creating a dream bespoke space.
 Image Courtesy MINIMAL. MINIMAL shows how to set new standards worldwide, conquering the global market, invading other planets and transforming any kitchen conception.
Technical characteristics:
Model used: GLAM Sliding Top
Doors: White Glossy lacquer, 22mm (3/4”) thick with 30° top edge
Sliding Counter: Thermo Oak with electronic movement (counter thickness 8cm = 3 1/8”)
Counters: Hand crafted brushed stainless steel, 3mm (1/8”) thick with soldered sinks and retractable faucet
Appliances: Miele
Hood: Custom by Minimal
Open Shelving: Thin stainless steel shelving system 6mm (1/4”) thick with Thermo oak back panels
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Article source: cheungvogl
Nunnmps – Brief Description
Nunnmps, Chicago is an information technology system development, security and service office. The site is located in South Chicago, bordering Lake Michigan.
The project consists of a 50,000 square meter design and research studio in addition to surrounding public open space and natural landscape. One third of the building encompasses the design and research studios and support areas. Since the studio projects are of a strategic nature and highly confidential, the building is lifted above ground, high above the crowns of trees, floating like clouds, overlooking the distant skyline. The remaining two thirds of the office space exist within its subterrain. It accommodates a reception area and a large open administration office with mushroom-like cores penetrating the ground to connect both parts of the Nunnmps.
 Image Courtesy cheungvogl
- Architects: cheungvogl
- Project Name: Nunnmps
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, US
- District: South Chicago
- Use: Office
- Site Area: 50,000 ㎡
- Bldg. Area: 16,000 ㎡ (more…)
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
Article source: Zaha Hadid Architects
Architecture’s re-interpretation of modernity; integrating and articulating new levels of organisation complexity. A vibrant interface between residential functions and academic institutions. Through the placement of a ‘nexus’, the Centre becomes a catalyst for cross-disciplinary activity between departments, forging a stronger collective institutional identity for ITT as a whole.
 Rendering
- Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
- Name of Project: New Campus Center
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Client: Illinois Institute of Technology
- Status: Built
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Saturday, February 25th, 2012
Article source: !melk landscape architecture and urban design
Great Pier of the Great Lakes
Chicago is known for its penchant to “make no little plans” as Daniel Burnham memorably pronounced over a century ago. And so today, Chicago’s most popular attraction, Navy Pier is revisiting Burnham’s legacy as it reimagines its potential as a world class cultural destination. To help realize Navy Pier’s ambitious design goals, a team led by !melk, UrbanLab and HOK has proposed a series of dramatic ideas to reconceptualize Chicago’s preeminent exclamation point extending from the Great Lakes to the world.
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Article source: JGMA
The Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy High School (IHSCA) is a charter high school founded by Instituto del Progreso Latino (IDPL) in 2008. This state-of-the-art facility opened in September 2011, and is heralded to pave the way for the next generation of doctors, nurses, informatics professionals and bio-technicians.
 Exterior View (Images Courtesy JGMA)
- Architect: JGMA
- Name of Project: Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy (IHSCA)
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Completion Date: September 2011
- Owner: Instituto del Progreso Latino (IPL)
- Design Team: Juan Gabriel Moreno, Cosmin Vrajitoru, Jason Nuttelman, John Rausch, David Ruffing, Linda Chavez, Michael Cady
- Design Builder: McShane Construction
- Project Area: 100,000 sf
- Photographs and Drawings: Courtesy of JGMA
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Article source: JGMA
Opened in September 2011, this is the first link of a soccer-focused master plan developed by United Neighborhood Organization (UNO). The innovative design and school program take on a new and progressive approach to education.
 Overall view looking Northeast towards the main entry
- Architects: JGMA
- Project: UNO Elementary School Soccer Academy
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Completion Date: September 2011
- Owner:United Neighborhood Organization (UNO)
- Design Team: Juan Gabriel Moreno, Cosmin Vrajitoru, Jason Nuttelman, John Rausch, David Ruffing, Linda Chavez, Michael Cady
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Article source: Ball-Nogues Studio
How do we build something that modulates space and changes the circulation path of an existing architectural environment by using almost no material? What does it mean to fill space with volume that is on the threshold of absence?
 Images Courtesy Michelle Litvin
- Architect: Ball-Nogues Studio
- Name of Project: Unseen Current
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Completed: 2008
- Photographer: Michelle Litvin and Ball-Nogues Studio
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
Article source: Studio IDE
This project mandated the division of an awkwardly-configured bedroom into two distinct sleeping quarters. Because of the open character of the loft space and the existing tall ceilings, we approached the solution with the understanding that the new configuration would ultimately result in relatively small yet tall spaces. In light of this, we chose to bring down one’s visual perception of the spaces and created a separation which allowed for one dedicated (existing) window within each of the new rooms.
 View Towards the Bedroom Entry
- Architects: Studio IDE
- Project: Coupet Enclosure
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Design Team: Vladimir Radutny, Paul Tebben, Joe Signorelli, Lorena Darquea Schettini
- Contractor: Harder Brothers Inc.
- Project Area: 275 sq.ft.
- Project Year: 2011
- Photographs: STUDIO IDE
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Article source: Atelier Zündel & Cristea
GLOBAL OVERVIEW
The socio-cultural development of the past century has compromised the notion of “progress”. Deforestation, topsoil depletion, excesses of industrial and financial globalisation, biodiversity loss and incessant pressures of population growth on the planet’s limited resources have placed the human being in a condition of rupture with his ecological role as species.
 Images Courtesy Atelier Zündel Cristea
- Architect: Atelier Zündel & Cristea
- Name of Project: Urban Food Production
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Competition: 2010
- Client: Terreform
- Consultants: Batiserf
- Project: Parkings, food production, dwellings…
- Photo credit: Atelier Zündel Cristea
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Article source: John Ronan Architects
The Poetry Foundation is comprised of a building in dialogue with a garden created through erosion of an implied volume as described by the L-shaped property boundary. The garden interlocks with the building and is conceived as another “room,” part of the building’s slowly-unfolding spatial sequence revealed space by space, not unlike a poem is revealed line by line.
 Exterior View (Images Courtesy © Steve Hall and © Hedrich Blessing)
- Architect: John Ronan Architects
- Name of Project: Poetry Foundation
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Owner: Poetry Foundation
- Photo Credit: © Steve Hall and © Hedrich Blessing
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