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The Dornbirn, Austria based architectural firm of DI Bernardo Bader, designed the Metzgerstüble bar and café, located in the small Austrian town of Mellau. . Photography by Adolf Bereuter Visit the website of DI Bernardo Bader – here. . .

It is always interesting to see where big companies, known worldwide, come up with their major ideas. Most of you probably heard of Skype and we do not doubt the fact that a lot of our readers use the program in order to make internet calls. Today we would like to present the Skype Offices in London. We had a nice surprise when seeing the pool table- who wouldn’t enjoy taking a break in that “office” room? We also like the abundance of colorful furniture items and the unconven

Transportation has always been a problem in the field of industry. Carrying goods from one place to another requires a massive storage system, usually in the form of a giant vehicle and not to mention ski-high prices. Cargoshell is an innovative and sustainable transportation method that comes as a great alternative to classical transportation. The device is easy to use and especially easy to store. It is also equipped with a closing system that prevents the carried products from falling. Cargo

Architect: Atelier Archiplein Location: Montagne Tianzhushan 天柱山炼丹湖, Anhui province, China Client: Anhui local government Project year: 2009 Construction Phase: April 2010 Project Area: 850sqm Budget: 300,000 US Program: Tourist Facilities, Tea House, Restaurant, Hotel It is located in Anhui province, in one of the 5 sacred Taoist mountain of china, beautiful and very famous that’s why the government want to develop as well as possible the touristic infrastructure so as to preserve this na

The duo of Ryszard Rychlicki and Agnieszka Nowak, of H3AR, was awarded a special mention for their proposal in the 2010 eVolo skyscraper competition (see the winners on our previous article). The eVolo competition attracts innovative designers and receives hundreds of eccentric proposals. For this project, designed by 4th year student, the skyscraper is comprised of a system of gutters to catch as much rainfall as possible. The water captured and processed by the building may be used for flushi

This residence designed by Andrés Jaque Arquitectos in Ibiza, Spain is an environmental project aimed at preserving the beauty of its natural surroundings while the use of an aquamarine color keeps the continuity between the inside and the outside. The house consists of three parts: a main house and two huts. These three elements have distant views of the sea and their separation allows an easy division of the garden. Photography by Miguel de Guzmán. [via Designerblog] ©2010 Design Milk |

Bjarko | Serra Architects have designed a home on Hat Island, which is near Seattle, Washington. Full description after the photos…. . Hat Island Residence by Bjarko | Serra Architects This vacation retreat, located on an extraordinary beachfront setting, was designed as two separate buildings—one for living and eating, and the other for sleeping. The separate bedroom wing provides extra privacy, so late-night entertaining does not disturb sleeping children or weary parents,

Jonas Forsman is a designer from Göteborg, Sweden who works in the field of product design, creating “ingenious solutions with simplified shape”. Today we would like to share with you one of his latest projects. “Window” is a sound absorbing magazine display which is a great solution for noisy interiors. Jonas noticed that the need for such devices is growing faster than ever before, which is the reason for creating such an original design. Public spaces like libraries o

Studioart is a company in Italy specialized in leather design. Their works are truly impressive and we would like to present a few of their latest collections today. It is hard to imagine that these amazing wall ideas in the pictures below are soft and cuddly. When we first saw them we thought that these were tiles like any others, made from sand stone. We were wrong. Pieces of leather are combined with other types of shiny or mate materials in order to create beautiful and innovative patterns.

© Ulrich Schwarz Architects: UTArchitects / Tim Bauerfeind, Henning von Wedemeyer Location: Berlin, Germany Collaborators: Matthias Lötscher, Ralf Grubert Client: RZB e.V. Engineering: Pichler Ingenieure Berlin Project Area: 1,000 sqm Project Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Ulrich Schwarz A farm estate was converted into a training centre for carpenters and restorers run by the Restoration Center Berlin. The estate, located in the southern part of Berlin, was founded as a plantation in the 1

From Poland, Spain, China, Austria and France. Here’s our third selection of previously featured green roof projects. Check them all after the break. OUTrial House / KWK PROMES A green clearing surrounded by forest was the only context for the proposed small house. Hence the idea to “carve out” a piece of the grass-covered site, move it up and treat it as the roofing to arrange all the required functions underneath. When the whole was ready, the client came up with another request, to cre

Spanish architects A-cero have sent us their latest completed project, a house in the “La Finca” development in Pozuelo de Alarcon (Madrid). . Description from A-cero: The structure of this new house is made of clear volumes, straight lines and simples shapes. The house’s front is made of marble travertino and there are many windows in it. Both elements give a lot of lightness to the house. It has a 1.600 m2 surface and three floors (basement, ground and high floor). The structure adapts its