Recently, Mozilla Japan’s new office’s ground floor was designed by NOSIGNER. They designed all furnitures based on the idea of Open Source. They used general products and uploaded all drawings to the website. Therefore, these designs might also be able to call the “open source furniture” so to speak. Because these designs enable everyone to make functional office furnitures inexpensively
This project spanned the challenging economic circumstances of the 2000 decade, and was subjected to a long development gestation and intermittent periods of prolonged inactivity. It challenged our perception of enduring architectural and aesthetic values in many ways.
Project Team: Tony Caro, Louise Chapman, Blair Young, Alex Koll, Jason Fraser, Katja Hempel, Nick Mittens, Simon Mather, Tony Camilleri, Rebecca Donoghue.
The office space design for spicebox, a comprehensive digital agency that works across strategic planning, interactive promotion and creative digital marketing, and is part of the Hakuhodo stable. The firm’s name symbolises the ability to deliver surprises and delight, like a variety of stimuli that come tumbling out of a box, so we placed seven box-shaped meeting rooms of differing sizes and finishes around the office, all of which are entered by a wall that has been ‘flipping open’.
In one of the main entrances to Mexico City we found a dilapidated building that needed a new life. Located in an area of traffic chaos and visual saturation, the intervention had to be simple, honest and discreet to stand out in that environment.
The Iron Market in Port-au-Prince is a cultural, historic and architectural landmark and has been an iconic symbol of Haitian community aspiration for over 120 years. Its location in the centre of the city means it is a significant commercial and social hub.
Vietnamese architectural firm Green Idea Architecture studio has completed the Cu Chi Villa. Completed in 2013, this contemporary villa is located in Dalat Town, Lamdong city, Vietnam.
Canadian architecture firm ARK has [won the/been highly commended …. by the International Academy for Design & Health…] in three separate categories: Mental Health Design and Interior Design, for the Centre for Addition and Mental Health’s (CAMH) Village Family Health Team, and International Salutogenic Design for the UJA Federation Community Complex.
The proposal intends to create a new identity for a traditional and classic product, religious, which unifies the several bookshops from the publisher. Innovating and updating without neglect the message of the editorial project, through clear and bright spaces, which communicate with the public, with flexibility to receive different products – books and religious articles – and different activities – book launches, conferences and movies.
The project involves the construction of 66 flats in a collective house in Bordeaux. The project is divided into two buildings : The first is located on the borderline with the Avenue Emile Counord. This building is marked by the game between the screens glazed colorated in green and the boxes in white aluminium which animate the façade on street.
This project answers to the necessity of build cheaply, offering individual housings in wood environmentally. Wood allows thermal and acoustics comfort, and gives an original and contemporary side to the project. It proposes a new image of social housing.