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Selva Restaurant: A Design Inspired Dining Experience in Amsterdam

Don Crossland — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:36:08 +0000

Nestled high above the bustling city on the 24th floor of the Nhow Hotel, Selva Restaurant is a haven for design enthusiasts and culinary adventurers alike. This innovative space, designed by the renowned El Equipo Creativo, offers more than just remarkable Latin American cuisine with a tropical twist—it presents an immersive experience that seamlessly blends exquisite design with gastronomic delight. ...

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New Home of Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Art

kontaktmag — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:45:37 +0000

Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) has a new home – an industrial-deco landmark that has over the decades been an aluminum extruder, an auto parts plant, and an incubator for underground graffiti artists and punk bands. The skin and bones of Auto BLDG, a 10-story factory originally designed by architect John Woodman for the Northern Aluminum Co. in 1919, ...

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Nordic Architecture and Sleek Interior Design

kontaktmag — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 18:36:22 +0000

This project began when a couple decided to sell their primary residence in the city to purchase a cottage on the northern point of Archambault Lake in Saint-Donat. It was located on a picturesque, south-facing site with a hundred meters of private beach. They planned to retire in this magnificent place. They decided to call on the interior design firm ...

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Charting a New Course at Compass House

kontaktmag — Fri, 26 May 2017 19:35:54 +0000

Designed by Toronto-based superkül as a weekend home for a family of six, Compass House takes its name from the clients’ desire to chart a new course as they transition from an extended stay in the United Kingdom to life back in Canada. To achieve this, the design of the home transcends ordinary domestic programming, creating a place of spiritual ...

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Community Focused Design Inspires Inner City Youth

kontaktmag — Wed, 24 May 2017 16:58:09 +0000

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture (JPDA) has completed the new Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center (DSPAC) – a community resource that celebrates dance education in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Generous support from Oprah Winfrey allowed dancer Dwana Smallwood to realize her vision to give back to the community she grew up in. The project has garnered top interior design honors from AIA ...

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Skyline House of Wood and Fog

kontaktmag — Mon, 22 May 2017 18:54:11 +0000

The Skyline House, designed by Terry & Terry Architecture, is a rebuild of an existing post-1991 Fire-storm house. Situated high on top of the Eastbay mountain range overlooking the city of Oakland, the site has an unobstructed view towards the southwest Bay and Golden Gate. It was designed for a young family, who desired an open plan home that embraced ...

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Center for Jewish Life at Drexel University

kontaktmag — Fri, 19 May 2017 13:56:07 +0000

The Center for Jewish Life, designed by Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects, won AIA SF design Honor award in 2017. Drexel University’s Hillel House is sheathed in local red brick as textured fabric draped in an abstract menorah that terraces down to the street. Arranged on four interconnected levels, the square building has thickened side walls which contain services, and ...

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Beautifully Modern Public Library Expansion in Staten Island

kontaktmag — Wed, 17 May 2017 15:41:24 +0000

Let’s be real, Staten Island is the red-headed step-child of the five New York City Burroughs. It’s not really a destination for anyone who doesn’t live there. The Staten Island Ferry is full of people who ride to Staten Island only to get on the next ferry back to Manhattan. No one thinks of modern design when you mention Staten ...

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Sustainable Urban-Rural Hybrid Architecture

kontaktmag — Mon, 15 May 2017 15:47:32 +0000

International architecture and design studio based in Brooklyn and Istanbul, Eray Carbajo, has unveiled Urban Rural, a new dwelling typology for a sustainable transformation strategy that will become exemplar for Istanbul’s future redevelopment, with construction completion in 2019. Urban Rural proposes a hybrid unit of habitation where one can be close to the city center and simultaneously enjoy the lifestyle of rural ...

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Quiet House – Serenely Poetic Architecture

kontaktmag — Fri, 12 May 2017 15:33:48 +0000

Located in a village in the south of France, the project of “quiet villa” designed by French architecture firm, Artelabo meets a very particular context. The land on which it fits, of very small size, is located between a vineyard shed in operation to the West, the parking of a neighbor to the East, surrounded by their access road, a main ...

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