While most of us see a slice of bread as a base for our breakfast toast in the morning, the featured designers and artists create delightful bread-based artworks by combing the essential product with their pantry stocks, embroidery, or burning it with a blow torch. All this is meant to recall the significance of bread in different cultures around the globe.
The rise of co-working spaces in cities is showing no signs of slowing. More than a trend, this phenomenon is fueled by the changes in work culture, with remote and flexible working becoming more common. Today, these shared offices are no longer the realm of freelancers. They’re a thriving ecosystem involving remote enterprise teams, established companies in private offices, startups and a variety of creatives.
When artists and designers attempt to reconsider such conventional domestic objects as tableware, the result is a bizarre mutation that contains common elements of cutlery and crockery, while the function is no longer obvious. Defying usability, this tabelware encourages the viewer to use their imagination to the full.
Fabulous and spectacular, modern tableware offers table decor ideas for every taste and style. Modern tableware designers not only create beautiful and innovative pieces, they also employ a wide variety of production techniques and a range of unconventional material applications to enrich our dining experience.
At once futuristic and timeless, a perfectly round building is a feat of engineering that instantly becomes an icon by virtue of its sublime geometry. Architects have created variations of spherical structures around the world. Museum, venue, office, garden – there is hardly an application a spherical building can’t accommodate.
Today, when global positioning systems diminish the role of lighthouses, the former navigation structures are becoming nostalgic objects from a past, in which the sea was a mystery and the lighthouses were the guides to return home. Having lost their primary function, the lighthouse typology is reimagined by architects who seek to innovate its function and expand its possibilities of use.
You seldom think of a metro station as a place of comfort or inspiration. However, excellent examples of the beautiful architecture can be found even underground. Keeping track of the structural integrity of the walls, air circulation, excessive moisture, and a million other concerns, architects manage to create transient spaces enhanced through art, lighting, and unique design.
Going to a dentist’s is probably not your idea of a pleasant pastime. Architects and designers aim to challenge this mindset as they create friendly dental offices in bright and welcoming hues with no place for anxiety or fear.
To create more sustainable fashion products and shift collective behaviours around our consumption-oriented habits towards forming a sustainable future, designers collaborate with researchers and look to plant-based materials. Algae, which is abundant, is one of the options.
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