Story Restaurant in Helsinki by Joanna Laajisto Creative Studio

Story Restaurant in Helsinki by Joanna Laajisto Creative Studio
Story Restaurant in Helsinki by Joanna Laajisto Creative Studio

Finnish designer Joanna Laajisto has designed a warm and welcoming interior for the Story restaurant which very recently opened its doors in the spacious main hall of Helsinki’s newly renovated Old Market building.

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Robert Fulford: The surprisingly Semitic roots of modernist design – National Post


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Robert Fulford: The surprisingly Semitic roots of modernist design
National Post
Since then, the Museum of Modern Art's favourite mantra, “Good Design,” has become commonplace whenever products are discussed. This year a little-known aspect of that first good-design generation has been noticed in print for the first time: Almost ...

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Song Qi, Monaco’s First Gourmet Chinese Restaurant

Song Qi, Monaco’s First Gourmet Chinese Restaurant
Song Qi, Monaco’s First Gourmet Chinese Restaurant

Striking in its elegance and Art Deco drama, everyone seems to be talking about Song Qi in Monaco. With Michelin starred Chef Alan Yau at its helm, the food served at the principality’s first gourmet Chinese restaurant is excellent.

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alex trochut’s glow-in-the-dark installation asks visitors to think twice

the binary prints result in two completely separate images shown on a single surface, one which appears in light, and one which appears only in the dark.

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The Chamber of Curiosity: Apartment Design and the New Elegance

The Chamber of Curiosity: Apartment Design and the New Elegance
The Chamber of Curiosity: Apartment Design and the New Elegance

The Chamber of Curiosity by Gestalten is more than a collection of some of the best interiors from around the world. With its added strong focus on the occupants as well as their very essence, the publication also manages to unlock the individual character of the incredible interiors showcased.

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BIM and "the Beautiful Game"

Blogger: Stephan Langella, Strategic BIM Manager, Associate Director | Sydney, NSW, AUS

In the Australian AEC industry, it is largely accepted that the tipping point has passed and the mass adoption of software capable of meaningful contribution to Building Information Modeling (BIM) is indeed here. After many years in the hands of those who inhabit the leading/bleeding edge, closely followed by early adopters, we now see this stage of the Technology Adoption Lifecycle well underway. Within the architecture and engineering, this is largely happening in medium to large practices where implementation will take a number of years.

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Why Apple uses Picassos Bull to teach its minimalist design principles

Picassos series of sketches of a bull gradually strip the animals form down to nothing but a few lines just like Apple wants to do with its products

The farmyard might be the last place you would expect the designers of Apples slick, minimalist products to go for inspiration. But aspiring trainees are being told to look at bulls, according to information leaked from the Apple University, the secret training college where new disciples are inducted in the ways of Jobs.

These arent any old bulls, though, but bulls drawn by Picasso specifically The Bull, his series of 11 lithographs that famously depict the beast in various stages of abstraction. Like a step-by-step guide to How to Draw Like Picasso, he whittles the creature down from a heavy ink drawing to the bare essentials, dissecting the animals great bulk with expressive contours, like a butcher marks out his cuts. In the end, it is pared down to just a handful of wispy lines, which still somehow speak of bullness.

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ARTPHAIRE: Chicago Celebrates Women Building Change

"Women Building Change," an exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, aims to do exactly that by highlighting outstanding works by female architects living and working in the city of Chicago.

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LEED Therapy

Blogger: Jeff Patry, Mechanical Engineer | Omaha, NE, USA

We’ve all met LEED skeptics. They usually start by complaining about the relative significance of bike racks versus industrial wastewater treatment systems. Then they’ll rail against waterless urinals for a while and typically crescendo into a diatribe about how Indoor Environmental Quality credits directly contradict Energy and Atmosphere credits. I mean increased ventilation—seriously? What a waste.

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