In this section we explore and uncover the limitless world of art, craft and design.
One Thousand Museum residential tower in Miami has won The Plan Award 2021, in the housing category. The Plan Awards were established to promote discourse and debate on global design and planning themes. One Thousand Museum’s 62-storey concrete exoskeleton – … Continue reading Zaha Hadid’s One Thousand Museum Wins the 2021 Plan Award
Watch as a small french company fabbrick turns old and rejected textiles to bricks that can be used for facads and interior finishing. Most of the textile used are made of cotton, which is a good insulation material this type … Continue reading An Architect Turns Recycled textile to brick
In 1937, a harbor bath was built on Knubben, a 750 square meter skerry just outside of Arendal city center. The public facility boasted a ten-meter diving platform, a children’s pool, changing rooms and a kiosk, and is known as … Continue reading Knubben: Snøhetta’s visualisation of an ultra modern Norwegian public bath.
Exquisite pieces of artwork are sculpted by Australian based artist Ben Young. Clear float glass on hand bent steel frames is used to depict vibrant water bodies juxtaposed with mountains made of raw concrete, all illustrating a beautiful landscape. Ben … Continue reading Vibrant landscapes are captured in Glass and concrete by Ben Young
Listen to audio instead The Montreal-based artist Myriam Dion puts old newspapers into artistic figures that clearly illustrate the meanings as intended by her. She cuts newspapers into laces and then weaves them with intricately cut pieces that clearly portray … Continue reading Old Newspapers are Put into Better use Artistically by Artist Myriam Dion
For design enthusiasts you’ll love to join the downtown digital design fair; an online showcase that features new and innovative designs ranging from furnishing to lighting fixtures, art pieces and more. These designs represent the diversity of creative thought and … Continue reading Downtown Designs Digital Fair: Discover the Latest in Contemporary Design
Artist Uli Kirchler see’s an opportunity to create art in burl, a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. An unusual place for art. He carves intricate castles with window openings that pop out of … Continue reading Artist Carves Intricate Kinetic Castles into Burled wood
Greg Olijnyk a Melbourne-based artist uses cardboard paper to model buildings, robots, and other sculptures. The delicately crafted buildings show lots of details including lighting, textures and other smaller models like a pigeon to add a great effect of realism … Continue reading These cardboard crafted models by Greg Olijnyk are amazing
Making architectural drawings by hand is gradually becoming a thing of the past as there are now many software(CAD) that offer probably a much more dynamic and efficient way of creating and actualising architectural designs first hand, even before actual … Continue reading The Architecture Drawing Prize
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