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Riken Yamamoto Wins 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Azure Magazine

The inviting serpentine entrance evokes the surrounding Tokyo Bay and nearby mountains, while many of the galleries are underground, providing those who approach with a clear, undisturbed visual experience of the natural geography. It is an ethos served by varying, context-specific and rigorous design strategies.

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Bala’s New York Store Is an Exercise in Bold Geometry

Azure Magazine

By highlighting the visual appeal of Bala’s products, Ringo underscores the clever logic behind Bala’s overall design strategy. While it could easily pass for a modern sculpture gallery, the store is also a functional gym, creating space for shoppers to test-drive Bala’s equipment in group “Balacize” fitness classes.

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20 Weird and Wacky Websites To Inspire Creative UX Strategies

Inkbot Design

Utilising the studio’s actual walls and art features to greet site visitors, the gallery website has an ‘exhibition mode’ that allows all consumers to sift through a compelling video showreel before embarking on a click-based gallery tour. Both Ray and Charles were WW2 designers of furniture that were used within the military force.

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Top Web Design Blogs in 2024

Noupe

From assisting freelancers with securing clients and project management, advising aspiring designers on establishing a strong portfolio and personal brand to furnishing information about industry trends along with job prospects- Vandelay Design proves advantageous for guiding professionals through their respective career paths.

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Keilhauer’s New Toronto Showroom is a Journey Through Design

Azure Magazine

The design strategy was to replicate an art gallery approach, to keep the space clean and minimal to highlight Keilhauer’s products and not distract the eye,” says Najafi. The post Keilhauer’s New Toronto Showroom is a Journey Through Design appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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“Architects Should Claim the Role to Bring Beauty into People’s Lives”: A Conversation with Alison Brooks

Azure Magazine

We also are using ceramic pottery as a reference for an art gallery project; and the checkerboard roof of the Cohen Quad in Oxford was inspired by the neo-gothic metalwork of the College’s chapel. That’s one way that I try to break the boundaries and conventions around housing design, in particular. It is refreshing.

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“We Want Our Work to Endure.” An Interview with Didi and Sandi Pei

Azure Magazine

They founded their practice , formerly Pei Partnership, in 1992, two years after their father retired from a full-time practice from his office, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, where the brothers had worked since graduating from Harvard GSD, with Didi contributing to the design of the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.