MS café by Wunderteam

Polish design studio Wunderteam have completed a café with a faceted wooden bar, situated on the ground floor of the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland. Called MS Café, the space features mobile wooden booths on wheels. The bar itself is made of wooden triangular planes with back-lit plexiglass panels. Click HERE for article at dezeen.com.

Click HERE for Wunderteam website

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UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by Thomas Heatherwick

Called Seed Cathedral, the wooden structure is pierced by 60,000 fibre-optic rods that each contain plant seeds at their tips.

Click for link to DEZEEN article HERE.

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Trestles Beach footbridge by Dan Brill Architects

Dan Brill Architects of the UK are among 12 international practices shortlisted to design a pedestrian footbridge for Trestles Beach, a surf spot in southern California. Link to DEZEEN article HERE

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Patrick Tighe Architects

LA Loft by Patrick Tighe Architects

Yasmine Mahmoudieh - Hotel Nevai

Hotel Nevai by designer Yasmine Mahmoudieh

Maurice Mentjens - PostPanic Studios

Above is PostPanic Studios by Maurice Mentjens - a cool Netherlands Interior Designer, many of his designs have been featured in FRAME magazine.

Alessi Store - Asymptote

Alessi Flagship store in New York city by Asymptote architects. The site was too big for retail so the space incorporates and Expresso bar (to encourage passing trade). Also look at the Carlos Miele store by the same architects!

Asymptote

ASYMPTOTE Architects

Zaha Hadid

ZAHA HADID

Hadid’s architecture denies its own solidity. Short of creating actual forms that morph and change shape – still the stuff of science fiction – Hadid creates the solid apparatus to make us perceive space as if it morphs and changes as we pass through.

NOX

NOX

Nox architects from Rotterdam. They have been at the forefront of digital design in architecture since its beginnings in the early 1990s. They explore relationships between art and architecture in their work.

Thomas Heatherwick

Heatherwick Studios The practice operates from a studio and workshop in Kings Cross, London. This is an environment in which project management and implementation takes place in parallel with model-making, prototyping and experimentation with ideas, materials and manufacturing processes. Started by Thomas Heatherwick in 1974.

Above are images for Longchamps in New York.

Thom Mayne - Morphosis Architects

THOM MAYNE - MORPHOSIS ARCHITECTS

Founded in 1972, Morphosis is an interdisciplinary practice involved in rigorous design and research that yields innovative, iconic buildings and urban environments.

See Thom Mayne speak on TED Talks

Daniel Libeskind

DANIEL LIBESKIND

Daniel Libeskind is an international figure in architectural practice and urban design. He is well known for introducing a new critical discourse into architecture and for his multidisciplinary approach. His practice extends from building major cultural and commercial institutions - including museums and concert halls- to convention centers, universities, housing, hotels, shopping centers and residential work.

Listen to him here on TED Talks. Above is his extension for the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, USA.

Bjarke Ingels

BJARKE INGELS

Zira Island

Architect from Denmark. Interesting approach to working and some exciting pieces of architecture produced and in the pipeline. Check out the link above for Zira Island and watch Bjarke Ingels talk on TED Talks.

Mathieu Lehanneur

MATHIEU LEHANNEUR

His Blog

Mathieu is a really interesting designer from Paris. The image is his design for Laboshop. His remit extends from Product, Interiors to medical solutions - some really unique and innovative design. See him here on TED Talks.