Theurel & Thomas, Maison du Macaron

December 1, 2010 in Design with 1 Comment


via We Heart
 

sunglasses required in this intensely elegant Mexican pâtisserie…

There’s certainly somewhat of a renaissance in the world’s cosmopolitan cities right now, for France’s most famous confectionery – the macaron. Theurel & Thomas, located in San Pedro, Mexico – Latin America’s most affluent suburb – is the first pâtisserie of its kind in the South American country, and has one of the most beautifully complementing brand identity and shop interiors we’ve seen in some time.
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Making the Invisible Visible

December 1, 2010 in Design with 0 Comments


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Amnesty’s guerrila campaign makes the invisible visible

No, you’re not hallucinating. This eerie glowing face peering out from street railings in central London is, in fact, a new Amnesty International campaign entitled, Making The Invisible Visible….
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Icons: Les Bains Des Docks, Le Havre

November 30, 2010 in Architecture with 1 Comment


Photo © Clément Guillaume
 

Roman baths inspired aquatic centre is a true modern icon…

Icons usually become as such over many years, probably decades, but occasionally there’s design that is so blisteringly captivating that it can achieve that status pretty much overnight, Les Bains Des Docks – Jean Nouvel’s Roman thermal baths inspired aquatic centre in Le Havre, France – is very much an example of such a thing, a true modern icon.
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A Single Story Dwelling in Avila

November 30, 2010 in Architecture with 0 Comments


Photo © Xurxo Lobato
 
Nice house. Nice setting.

A Second Act

November 28, 2010 in Architecture with 1 Comment


Photo © Lawrence K. Ho
 

When the architect is Frank Gehry, renovation suddenly becomes more complicated. How a Broadway producer writes his house’s second act with one question foremost on his mind.

To some design aficionados, altering landmark architecture can be as perverse as painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa; any departure from the original tampers with its integrity.

Frank Gehry, not surprisingly, takes a contrarian view.

“I don’t have a compulsion to preserve things like that,” the architect said. “People have to live in buildings. You have to roll with the changes. To get locked into a straitjacket of design seems to me counterproductive to one’s life.”
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Washington DC Subway Architecture

November 26, 2010 in Architecture, Design with 0 Comments

Chicago architect Harry Weese designed the metro stations that used exposed concrete in repeating geometric patterns.  The vaulted-ceiling design of the stations made the 2007 America’s Favorite Architecture list compiled by the AIA.

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