WORLD'S FIRST FLOATING ISLAND IN SEOUL KOREA on Mar 12, 2010 in Architecture As big as a football field, a giant steel float may be Seoul's new landmark. Located at the city's Han River, it will serve as an entertainment hub and be will accessible to the public as early as August of this year.These are three artificial islets...
SPACE ENCOUNTERS IN ORTIGAS on Mar 12, 2010 in Philippines Ortigas Stores Space Encounters, located in Ortigas, offers Scandinavian and contemporary Asian inspired furniture and decor. Originally meant to be just a studio to meet clients, owner and interior designer Wilmer Lopez finally decided to open shop. Space Encounte...
SWATCH YEAR OF THE TIGER EXHIBIT on Mar 12, 2010 in Contest We're so happy to find out that a friend made it as a finalist at Swatch's Tiger Art Contest. Irmalyn Raquedan's inspiration for her artwork is the Russian matroshka dolls. She used recycled materials specifically the lid from a fastfood chain's plas...
Vote Zubu Design on Free Green on Mar 11, 2010 in Philippines Please vote for our Cebuano architects on Freegreen.com to win best residential design!Zubu Design Associates is a design studio that is dedicated to creating progressive and modern architecture. It combines innovative and experimental concepts, as w...
INTERIOR DESIGN IN THE PHILIPPINES on Mar 10, 2010 in Philippines Exhibits We haven't been into any furniture shows. We know, pathetic. But for the benefit of our local and foreign readers (if there's any), we will show you a bunch of Philippine Interior Design exibits or orgs to watch out for. As we mentioned in our previo...
TAIPEI TAIWAN: JV's HOSTEL on Mar 10, 2010 in Taiwan Hostels Travel We missed you and our dose of home interior design. We were in Taipei, Taiwan during our short absence. We didn't discover much of Taipei, Taiwan's home interior design but we surely loved our hostel in Taipei named JV's hostel owned by Vanessa Tsai.
MODERN RETAIL STORE BY BUENSALIDO ARCHITECTS on Mar 10, 2010 in Retail For the first store we designed for Via Venetto, a 30-year old shoe retail store, the brief was to give it a new contemporary image to recapture its market. The dilemna that was initially faced was that it has long established a great reputation in t...
BEDROOM DECORATING IDEAS BY ABEA on Mar 10, 2010 in Bedroom Stores Furniture Abea Lifestyle Furniture is the exclusive dealer of SB & Koncept Furniture from Thailand. One of the leading manufacturer of high quality furniture made from MDF. SB exports to many different countries such as Australia, Canada, Bharain, Dubai, Egypt...
DISTINCTLY PINOY HOME FURNISHINGS on Mar 8, 2010 in Philippines Interior Design Snippets 1. You use 'walis tambo' and 'walis ting-ting' as opposed to a conventional broom 2. You own a karaoke machine 3. You own a piano that no one ever plays 4. You have a portrait of the Last Supper hanging on your dining room wall 5. You have a 'tabo' (...
GADGETS ON FURNITURE on Mar 8, 2010 in Gadgets Furniture lazybonecafeSometimes gadgets are an integral part of our home interior. Much like how Apple is very particular on the aesthetics of their products, we want our homes to be hi-tech and stylish at the same time. Sometimes these gadgets make for a comp...
