In the past year, quite a few residential neighborhoods were designed, which strive to improve the living conditions of the community of residents by adding greenery and optimizing room lighting, as well as creating new types of dense construction in compact settlements. The website Designboom recently presented a list of the best neighborhood designs produced in 2014, which you can view in the present article.
Architecture & Interior
The rock-shaped mountain hut "Antoine", located in the heart of the Swiss Alps, is a tribute to the mountaineering experience and the unforgiving winter.
The Chester project, designed by two designers living in Berlin, presents a new revolutionary material - quilted wood.
In September, Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson became obscenely rich. His computer game Minecraft was bought by Microsoft for 1.93 billion. In December, however, he became the owner of a megavilla in Beverly Hills, California, which Beyoncé and Jay Z were able to view. Among the rappers, only Dr. could compete with the Swede. Dre, who, like Persson, made an outrageous fortune selling Beats by Dr Dre headphones.
On the Croatian island of Krk, the local architectural office Turato Architecture completed the upgrade of the modern summer residence Gumno, which, as an exceptional vantage point, is perfect for observing the beautiful surrounding nature.
The museums, which opened in 2014, are the result of long-term cooperation of the best architects, designers and artists. Thanks to them, the world is richer for quite a few exceptional cultural junctions from this year onward, and the Designboom portal has chosen 10 of those that are true excesses - especially in the architectural sense.
A gift idea that will make you jealous. Christmas is approaching at the speed of light and the question that arises is what to buy the person who has everything? Answer: nothing. A big and nicely wrapped box of nothing. You can actually buy a box full of air from youneednothing.com. For everyone who already has everything. Well, at least from a material point of view.
If you are a true fan of the ultimate spa experience, then you will be delighted with the sauna built on a calm lake in Canada.
What if pencil scraps could grow into something delicious, beautiful, and fun instead of filling up with trash? This idea gave birth to Sprout - the world's first growing pencil. Sprout pencils are given away as an innovative eco-gift in a prize draw.
Well-known cult pieces of furniture, such as the Barcelona armchair, the Rex and Ghost chairs, and the Arco lamp, have been seen so many times that we are tired of them and have lost their element of exclusivity. Over the course of the twentieth century, many more beautiful pieces of furniture were designed that could easily compete with these surviving stars. If they hadn't sunk into oblivion for various reasons. In the current trend of reviving nostalgia, however, the popularity of such forgotten pieces is rising again. People appreciate classic quality again, new materials and technologies enable better reproductions, new production facilities are opening. Some interesting life stories of pieces that are just as relevant today as they were at the time of their "birth" are highlighted in the following paragraphs.
The fact is that skateboards and their mutation, longboards, which differ from the classics in terms of size (longer), shape (more pointed) and wheels, are not exactly gentle. But both, and especially longboats, are often real works of art, so they don't deserve to be left where they fall out of our hands after the end of use. At Zanocchi & Starke, they have therefore prepared the Wall Ride shelf, where you can hang it and proudly display it.
Clutter is a source of inspiration for some, and a real nightmare for others. In order to get rid of the chaos around the desk, Heckler Design designed Cliff - a set of beautifully designed office accessories that instantly organize the work surface and ensure that everything is in its place.