Amsterdam based designers Jair Straschnow and Gitte Nygaard approach public spaces through the wondrous curiosity of a child.  Why be confined to rigid seating designs when you can swing? In their public installation Off-ground on view this summer at DAC, Danish Architecture Centre and at Carlsberg City in Copenhagen the duo present a new approach […]

For designers Mieke Meijer and her partner Roy Letterlé of the Netherlands based Studio Mieke Meijer, architecture and design can yield unexpected creations. Studio Mieke Meijer combines the form of a chair and function of a bed into a single new object simply called the Bed Blend.     Featured Image:  the Bed Blend All images […]

Forgot your laptop at the office? With the Coworking Table you can rest assured that your valuables are locked and secure.   Designed by Zaarchitects, an architectural practice founded in 2009 by Dmitriy Zhuykov and Arina Agieieva, the Coworking Table optimizes the functionality of the office space.  The top cover conceals and locks your gadgets inside. […]

The city of Los Angeles is 503 square miles.  The landscape is vast but when considering Los Angeles from a plan descending into LAX, the city is a giant square divided into grids.  Freeways, boulevards and avenues intersect at points and break the grid into even smaller fragments.   Los Angeles has long been a source […]

SCI-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, turns 40 this month, celebrating April 19 and 20th.  Located within a quarter-mile long former freight depot in the heart of the artist’s district of Los Angeles, the school has played an integral role in fostering architectural experimentation and invigorates the shape of Los Angeles.  The institute began […]

Edward Cella’s Los Angeles gallery demonstrates an unwavering commitment to the art of architecture.  Cella revels in the architect’s two-dimensional renderings as they offer a glimpse into the complex and creative processes of those visionaries behind Southern California’s greatest landmarks.  As Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. approaches, Cella offers Installation a roadmap: […]