Artist and designer Jessica Kay Bodner creates unique chandeliers, sconces ceiling lights and pendants. Jessica Kay Bodner , is an award winning artist from Ventura, California, whose work often references nature. Her creations are more like sculptures than simple lighting fixtures, representing a series of suspended galaxy forms.
Design
Tangga House Singapore by Guz Architects
Tangga House in Singapore is a project of Guz Architects, who seek to produce refreshing architecture that is tranquil, inspired by nature, yet human in scale. The house designed in 2007 is a contemporary interpretation of a traditional courtyard house, laid out around a central green courtyard with a double height stair and entry area forming the focal point of the project.
Lolita Infrastructure for events and meals Zaragoza
Located on highway A-2, a strategic area at the intersection of trade routes Madrid-Barcelona-Bilbao and Valencia, the restaurant Lolita is a few miles from several towns and one campus. The project addresses several categories of people from students to corporations that rent it all for events. “The project took on the challenge to change this trend and think about building a structure to administer a constant reorganization in the presence of a heterogeneous and diverse expectations of use.
Bubble Sofa by Yiidesign
Yii is an initiative of the Taiwan Craft Reasearch Institute, an institution that tries to encourage respect for traditional crafts in Taiwan. Works presented at the Milan furniture fair reflect the cooperation between designers and craftsmen, each of the works being performed in traditional techniques.
TIP TON Chair
At this year’s Milan furniture fair, Vitra presented new products stemming from collaborations with Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby. Dedicated to developing healthy, intelligent, inspiring and durable solutions for the office, the home and for public spaces, Vitra furniture company create products with a high functional and aesthetic life expectancy.
Tip Ton is a great product which defines a whole new chair typology.
Horace Walpole’s Gothic Castle Strawberry Hill
One of the most spectacular examples of neogothic architecture from England is the gleaming white castle of Strawberry Hill. Elegant and eccentric, Strawberry Hill begins its history in the mid-18th century as the residence of Horace Walpole, one of the last remaining sites available on the banks of the Thames in fashionable Twickenham. The castle became a tourist attraction even from Walpole’s life-time.
Bioclimatic architecture Fuji House by Luca Lancini
Pilot project built by the company Fujy Arquitectura por naturaleza and designed by Luca Lancini, Fuji House is a detached house in a village about 40 km from Madrid, near El Escorial. The construction was made according to the criteria of bio climatic architecture using the latest advanced technologies that allow high energy performance.
Reusing the space for new cultural facilities -Zagred Dance Center
Since 2009, Zagreb city has a new and modern dance center instead of the Lika old cinema. The transformation process, designed by architects from 3LHD Studio, wasn’t easy at all especially because the old building had a serious degradation. The new building’s identity involved major changes to both exterior and interior.