A Design News

A Design News

A Design News featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Hubertus

The Hotel Hubertus is located in Valdaora, at the foot of the famous ski and hiking area Kronplatz in the Puster Valley (Italy) at an altitude of about 1350 m. The family establishment was generously enhanced and enlarged with 16 new suites, a new kitchen with restaurants and -Stuben-, an entrance area with lobby, reception and wine cellar and a fitness and a relaxation room with panoramic terraces. The new 25 m long cantilevering pool, functioning as a connector between old and new, underlines the essence of this comprehensive renovation and renewal project.

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Heaven is a Place on Earth

This curved veil has been completed in 2008 for the Swarovski works in Wattens, Austria. The Veil transforms the Swarovskistrasse in a bright boulevard of magical change. The new pathway marked by the billowing veiled curtain becomes a place of poetic play, of light and shade, of an iridescent dalliance of colors and of magical moments of expression and transformation... Into architecture with divine symmetry. Into color that approaches spirituality. Swarovski

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Tre

Designed by Next Ship, Tre offers designers and architects the ability to easily create intriguing surfaces. 4 different surfaces, 2 levels of thickness, 9 compatible concrete tiles in 24 base and 6 metallic colours – infinite design application possibilities. Manufactured by KAZA Concrete, Tre is a modular concrete tile series that enables one to envision and create pattern combinations from the simplest minimalist applications to the most elaborate kaleidoscopic surfaces. Tre’s design concept is an invitation to imagine, play and create.

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City Lounge, St. Gallen

The granulated rubber flooring unifies every square and spared spot of the Raiffeisen quarter into a homogeneous whole. A particularly identity-building feature is its function as a haptically pleasant, cosy red carpet, that unfolds over the entire furniture. With its soft, pleasing material haptics, the amorphous silhouettes of the furniture present a deliberate contrast to the hard precision of the built surroundings.

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Picglaze Sample Book

Picglaze prints photos, but finishes them with something out of the ordinary. They print on versatile and different materials, with the rigidity of the formats as a main element. The challenge of the design for Estudio Maba was to make the most of these qualities relevant on the result. Since the materials are rigid they can be sustained and form a composition. As such a sculpture with different colors and thicknesses. A product sample book that becomes a piece itself. A decorative object, further than a catalogue, this piece is volumetric design nice to see, touch and feel.

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Horizon

Horizon assembles 102 completely independent ccilucell compound units. Through skive-on technology, this new outsole can be really soft and flexible. It provides a multiple point supportive surface, which is able to offer a variable barefoot adoptions on different terrains. Moreover, the formula of ccilucell makes the sole become light and shock absorbent, yet it still has abrasion resisting ability. With the EVA rim, all compounds form together as a stable foundation, which can go with different upper designs and materials to makeup the Horizon collection.

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Good designs create value for society. Everyday we feature a special design project that demonstrates excellence in design. Today, we are pleased to showcase an award-winning design that makes a positive difference. We will be featuring more great and inspiring designs daily. Make sure to visit us everyday to enjoy new good design products and projects from greatest designers worldwide.

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