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Victorian Architecture Medal Awarded to Woods Bagot and NHArchitecture

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Joint Ven­ture Archi­tects Woods Bagot and NHArchitecture’s Mel­bourne Con­ven­tion and Exhi­bi­tion Cen­tre (MCEC) has been hon­oured with four acco­lades at the Aus­tralian Insti­tute of Archi­tects (AIA) Vic­to­ria Archi­tec­ture Awards, in addi­tion to receiv­ing the pres­ti­gious Vic­to­rian Archi­tec­ture Medal as a “unique project which reveals a num­ber of design ideas that make it a lead­ing project in con­tem­po­rary world architecture.”

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Victorian Architecture Medal Awarded to Woods Bagot and NHArchitecture

On June 28, 2010 By

Joint Ven­ture Archi­tects Woods Bagot and NHArchitecture’s Mel­bourne Con­ven­tion and Exhi­bi­tion Cen­tre (MCEC) has been hon­oured with four acco­lades at the Aus­tralian Insti­tute of Archi­tects (AIA) Vic­to­ria Archi­tec­ture Awards, in addi­tion to receiv­ing the pres­ti­gious Vic­to­rian Archi­tec­ture Medal as a “unique project which reveals a num­ber of design ideas that make it a lead­ing project in con­tem­po­rary world architecture.”

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Nike Stadium — New York

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Sports brands, even those that are not offi­cial spon­sors of the World Cup soc­cer tour­na­ment, are tak­ing full advan­tage of the global cel­e­bra­tions and fan enthu­si­asm. In New York City, Nike is mak­ing full cre­ative use of its Nike Sta­dium NYC , a multi-purpose expe­ri­en­tial envi­ron­ment opened at the Brow­ery Sta­dium in May and designed by New York and London-based archi­tec­tural firm Rafael de C?rdenas. In Nike Sta­dium NYC, C?rdenas has cre­ated a soccer-inspired space that feels right in the New York envi­ron­ment — not glossy or overly sleek, but some­what lived-in, hard-edged and will­ing to take some wear and tear.

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Nationwide Homes Unveils Green Eco Cottages

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Nation­wide Homes recently unveiled a new line of environmentally-friendly Eco-Cottages that pro­vide a green alter­na­tive to remod­el­ing or adding on to your home. Their styl­ish and mod­u­lar cot­tages are a new type of multi-functional dwelling that is built at the fac­tory instead of on site, and they can be cus­tomized in a vari­ety of ways to suit dif­fer­ent sce­nar­ios and needs

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Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen

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The Museum of Mod­ern Art annoounced Counter Space: Design and the Mod­ern Kitchen, an exhi­bi­tion that exam­ines the kitchen and its con­tin­ual redesign as a barom­e­ter of chang­ing ide­olo­gies and tech­nolo­gies, and explores the twentieth-century trans­for­ma­tion of the kitchen as a space of huge sym­bolic and prac­ti­cal significance.

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Phase-Changing GlassX Windows Offer Amazing Performance

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A remark­able Swiss win­dow tech­nol­ogy has just recently been intro­duced in North Amer­ica. GlassX win­dows are super high-efficiency win­dows that use sev­eral tech­nolo­gies to make them pos­si­bly the most high-tech win­dows available.

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Letterpool London

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Let­ter­pool Lon­don is look­ing for your pho­tos — names, sig­nage, sig­nals and street art of Lon­don for a new book. Let­ter­pool Lon­don is a mass pub­lic art project, a cel­e­bra­tion of the city’s urban art and archi­tec­ture, looked at through its typog­ra­phy – the brands, graf­fiti, instruc­tions and ide­ol­ogy around us every day and is open to ama­teurs and pro­fes­sion­als, Lon­don­ers and visitors.

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Audi Urban Future Award: Building a Vision for 2030

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The global pop­u­la­tion will con­tinue to grow in the com­ing decades, despite social ten­sions, cli­mate change and increas­ing scarcity of resources.

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JS bach chamber music hall by Zaha Hadid

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More Images HERE Adver­tise with Design You Trust! — DYT on Twit­ter — Facebook

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Hidden Logos: 12 Creative Designs with Secret Symbols

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[ By Steph in Archi­tec­ture & Design , Graf­fiti & Draw­ing . ] A logo is a company’s most vis­i­ble piece of visual brand­ing, stamped on every­thing from bill­boards to pro­mo­tional pens. But some­times, you can stare at a famil­iar design again and again before notic­ing small but delight­ful hid­den sym­bols, mean­ing and even messages.

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