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31 Dec ’10

A Toast to You , Happy New Year !!

Filed under: From a Designer's Journal — Tags: , — Sahar @ 10:00 am

It’s that time of the year where most of us look back and evaluate our actions, reactions, and whether we could have done any better given the circumstances. I look back to remember if anything significant happened and its tough because every event was part of a sequence, part of a series of mini events that seemed only natural at the time. Many of which I would not have ever anticipated of when the year started.

This is the reason we all check out our horoscopes at the beginning of each year in search of what may happen. Most of us don’t keep a log of the “events to take place” and we barely remember if any of them were true, yet we still read them. Its part of human nature I guess to look for hope everywhere. This hope is the fuel for the engine that keeps us striving and living for tomorrow.

I do not usually keep any resolutions, but I know I want to be better in every way, everyday. I look back and see what I have achieved then directly look forward and move on. During 2010 I started this blog and I love it more and more everyday. The ability to share information, to get feedback, to engage with everyone around me, and most importantly make friends from all over the world is a gem. Through this blog and twitter I have managed to enter a world I would have never dreamed of entering. Whoever criticizes social media negatively, is probably doing it all wrong.

I am glad to have met you, during the coming year I plan on enlarging my circle of friends and getting to know you better. There is nothing better than learning from others and yet teaching and sharing what you acquire.

I look forward to 2011, as I look forward to the course of every year. I look forward to getting to know you more and sharing more.

I am blessed to have this space to wish you a safe year, that’s all you need from anyone, the rest is up to you and how you turn each day to your advantage.

 

Happy 2011!

29 Dec ’10

Reimagining the Public Pool | Les Bains des Docks

Filed under: Architecture — Tags: , , , , — Sahar @ 10:00 am

The $29 million Les Bains des Docks aquatic center, reimagines the concept of a public pool. The overall design was inspired by the Roman thermal baths as people can go to congregate in most of the various pools year round. Located in Le Havre, France, it is the brain child of designer Jean Nouvel. On the exterior, the boxy precast-concrete shell, painted gun-metal gray, echoes the scale and simple massing of surrounding warehouses. Only the playful composition of rectangular apertures hints at an interior transcending the ordinary or functional.

 

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22 Dec ’10

Stair-Scraper Wins Abu Dhabi Housing Competition

Barcelona-based ‘Nabito Architects proposal ‘a desert green’, has won the total housing competition in Abu Dhabi. The stairscraper is a superposition of individual singular garden houses with the same characteristic of  horizontal sprawl, but liberating the land and concentrating the uses and the energy. It is a social collective of individualities.

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8 Dec ’10

Zayed National Museum Abu Dhabi | Architecture

Foster + Partners has released new images of its designs for the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi, after they were officially unveiled by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.

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7 Dec ’10

007 Suite at Seven Hotel Paris | Hotel Design

Filed under: Interiors — Sahar @ 11:00 am

Among the Seven Hotel’s variety of themed rooms in Paris, one in particular, stands out, the 007 suite.One of 28 themed rooms in the hotel, it features Bond inspired  furniture and images, in addition to the decor, all of the 007 films can be watched on the screen in the suite.

 

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6 Dec ’10

Beirut Exhibition Center for Contemporary Art

Beirut Exhibition Center (BEC), is the first structure dedicated to contemporary art in the new waterfront development area. Designed by L.E.FT, the BEC responds to its location, a constantly shifting context, and contributes to a new skyline for the city. Simultaneously the interior is in constant motion with the shifting of exhibitions and as L.E.FT described, “the architecture is trapped in a dynamic state of limbo.”

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5 Dec ’10

Cappellini Introduces Chair for Walt Disney’s TRON

Filed under: Furniture — Sahar @ 9:00 am

Cappellini introduces a special range of unique arm chairs, inspired by the soon to-be-released Walt Disney Pictures film TRON: Legacy. These armchairs will be individually hand-finished – each uniquely designed- by Dror Benshetrit who pays homage to the digital landscape of the Outlands terrain in TRON: Legacy. These collectible works of art will be presented in the Cappellini/Poltrona Frau Miami… showroom during Design Miami 2010, as an official satellite show of Design Miami from December 2 through Dec. 10, 2010.

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4 Dec ’10

Evoking Romance Designs by Nika Zupanc| Furniture

 

 

In last April’s Fuori Saloni (Milan Fair) in Milan, Nika Zupanc released her 2010 collection in a creative and fun pavilion designed as a tiny house with toy like  windmills. Her exhibition was titled “ Gone with the Wind” . The objects she designed are characterized with total femininity, there is no way you can just ignore them, they are very delicately designed. Zupanc has  designed for the famous brands MOOOI and Moroso. The first few photos are from her 2010 collection, you can scroll down to see her other designs.

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