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The office space is absolutely stunning. From the bold and very elegant choice in wallpaper to the monochrome theme (with a touch of peach blossoms), we’re just loving everything about this space.
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They’re Snapshots from the office of Tocquigny, an advertising and measurement agency based in Austin. Tocquigny (toe-kee-nyee, if you feel like saying it out loud) actually started out as a design studio, and moved into running interactive ad campaigns and then reporting the results. Today, they work with some pretty big companies, including IBM, AMD, and Seagate.
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Creative Time presents Playing the building, a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
More: DavidByrne.com
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The Israeli cafe chain Aroma Espresso Bar recently opened its second location in New York, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. With vibrant colors, playful wall graphics and designer chairs styled for lingering, the two-level coffeehouse translates the concept for the company’s original New York venue—a long, narrow Soho space with a huge window facade—to a completely different neighborhood vibe. The material template starts with red wall tiles that arch down from the ceiling and extend the brand’s modern-yet-homey ambiance. “We took the colors that are characteristic of Aroma in Israel, and created a more comfortable feel, like a kitchen at home,” said Ilan Waisbrod, president of Studio Gaia, which designed New York restaurants Republic, Cafeteria, and BondSt, and now has a busy international practice. The distinctive rhythmic arches, separated by niches that contain indirect lighting fixtures, are just one of many strong visual statements that give the space its dynamic, theatrical look, while also giving this dowdy stretch of 72nd Street some much-needed pizzazz. The firm has designed a third Manhattan Aroma location, soon to open in the Financial District, where a more muted material palette and earth-toned color scheme seem in keeping with a buttoned-down Wall Street audience.
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Benthem Crouwel designed a new visitor and research center for the Heimbach Group in Düren, Germany. The new building of the Research and Visitor Center is an ‘in-house-designed house’. Two new building will be added to two existing buildings and a lightweight roof will be placed over them.
The design concept looks very familiar. The dutch architectural firm also applied this white, lightweight rooftop in their design for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, currently under development. This museum was also partly renovated and a new open glass structure was added, just like the visitor and research centre of the Heimbach Group. It makes one wonder what Benthem Crouwel Architects will come up with next.
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Calling all designers with a penchant for office screens: Office furniture manufacturer Kimball Office is currently accepting submissions for the next See Me Screen. Intended for Kimball’s award-winning office system Hum. Minds at Work, screen designs are due February 28. Submissions are welcome from all over the world. The grand prize winner will receive a paid trip to Chicago during the week of NeoCon World’s Trade Fair, June 15-17, as well as $5,000 and an opportunity to see the design showcased in Kimball Office’s Chicago showroom.
Designed with four flexible components, Hum. Minds at Work can serve as both an individual and group office system.
Screen entries should address five basic parts, according to an official Kimball Office release: “the immediate periphery, the transition area, the lower screen, the sweet spot, and the base.”
For complete submission information and to submit entries, visit Kimball Office.
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