The 1890-built Lodge which still houses the cellars of the venerable port wine producer Graham’s near Porto, Portugal, has been recently renovated by architect Luis Loureiro in collaboration with Lisbon-based design studio P-06 Atelier. Now officially called the ‘Graham’s 1890 Lodge’, the building occupies a privileged location atop a hill in the city of Vila…
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The studio practice of Bernardi Roig speaks of society at the edges, caught in a time tainted by the loss of historical memory and identity. The Artist works in a wide variety of media, but always focuses on the conflicts that arise from the lack of communication between us. In a mass mediaaddled world, Roig’s…
Who says introductory classes in Architecture have to be dull? Not now that architect Andrea Stinga and visual artist Frederico Gonzalez have composed an animated alphabetical index of the most important architects. From Alvar Aaltoto Zaha Hadid, The ABC of Architects rounds up 26 architects with their best known buildings, turning architectural history into a Technicolor-inspired nursery rhyme, where jolly buildings now…
Photographer Patrícia Almeida recently shot these great photos of a wonderfully whimsical umbrella art installation in Portugal. Like something out of a fairy tale, the umbrellas look almost like they’re magically floating in mid-air. As she writes, “In July, in Águeda (Portugal), some streets are decorated with colorful umbrellas. I felt like a kid, amazed by all…
The annual harvesting of cranberries has to be one of the most ingenius methods of fruit farming there is. Every fall after the berries ripen on the vine, instead of being picked by people or machine the fields are flooded with water from a nearby reservoir. Because the berries are filled with air, all it…
With the festive season nearing, the flurry of celebration is palpable and designboom is receiving work from all over world honoring the spirit of the holiday. inge vanluyd an stefan vanbergen from belgian company mooz have sent designboom images of their ‘taste tree’ adorning hasselt’s main square in belgium. the 9 metre-high sculpture is made up of…
Artist Kevin Champeny recently designed this crazy chandelier made of 3,000 hand-cast acrylic gummy bears called the Candelier for home furnishings company Jellio. The light comes in two sizes, the largest of which actually uses 5,000 bears, is 31″ in diameter, and weighs in at about 50 lbs. Source: www.thisiscolossal.com
“You’ve finally made it, after a breathless climb up the winding marble staircase, to the upper terrace of the Duomo di Milano — the famed Cathedral of Milan, Italy, and the fourth largest in the world. You flip through your guide book. A towering forest of ornate spires, the same ones that enchanted the literary…
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