HUG is a perfect armchair designed by Ilian Milinov and it’s the winner of red dot award: design concept. The idea of creating an unique piece of furniture which it is as a transition and connection between design quality, clarity and simplified gestures, this chair increase relationships between people, such as a hug from a loved person. This complex leads to a chair that is designed specifically for you. In this chair, a couple can stay together without feel the weight of the other one. Shaped seat makes little closer to the other one person. Hug chair is very comfortable and a perfect way to make video-chat, being a perfect host for the time spent with your pet.
It’s not a UFO, it’s the Apple’s gigantic new headquarters. “Campus 2”, as it is known, will be the Apple’s new home in the near future-2015. The company has recently published new details and spectacular images with their amazing project to be built in Cupertino, California. The impressive building which resembling a UFO planted in a serene forest, can be described as the coolest office building ever seen in the City of Cupertino. Apple Campus 2′ plans which has fascinated everyone, was unveiled by Steve Jobs in his last public appearance.
To create the new spaceship-like headquarters for Apple, the development proposal will replace the existing office and research buildings and will ocupy a campus formerly owned by Hewlett-Packard. According to the plans, the structure itself will have a circumference roughly the size of the U.S. Pentagon, the world’s largest office building. Although the company that produces the best-designed consumer products of our time hasn’t officialy released the design, it seems that the architect of this outstanding structure is the London-based firm Foster +Partners, known for its super-sleek, elegant, exquisitely detailed buildings.
Sleek and impeccably detailed, the absolutely huge glass-and-metal ring will be four stories high, with a hole in the middle a third of a mile wide. In fact, it’s so huge that we are able to perceive its shape only from the air. It will be built on a 175 acre area near the 280 highway. It’s useless to say that the Apple 2 will be an eco-friendly and energy-efficient campus, encouraging a culture of innovation and productivity for Apple’s employee. Rendered images show solar panels covering the roof of the building. Apple says that it will provide most of its own power and will require very little from the grid. Take a closer look at Apple’s new home from these amazing new renderings below.
“Apple Campus 2” will have space for:
An office, research and development building comprising approximately 2.8 million square feet
Approximately 13,000 employee
A 1,000 seat corporate auditorium (perfect for all Apple’s biggest events)
A two-story corporate fitness center
A 58,000 square foot dining area
A central plant
Research facilities comprising approximately 300,000 square feet located on the east side of Tantau Avenue; and
Associated Parking.
Photos source: The City of Cupertino.
Project details:
Owner: APPLE, INC.
Architect: FOSTER+PARTNERS
Engineer: ARUP
Landscape architect: THE OLIN STUDIO
Planning consultant: KIER & WRIGH
Stylish, functional and at affordable prices, Massive lighting products came into an extensive variety of styles and designs for every taste and for any specific areas in our home. Founded in 1926, the brand has a long-lasting experience, evolving through the years and becoming Europe’s number one in consumer lighting. Today, we’ll show you their beautiful lighting collection especially suited for kids’ room.
Unique, playful and outright fun, Massive lighting for kids’ room make your children love their room and stimulate them to play and explore. Table lamps, chandeliers, ceiling light, wall lighting or spot lighting, each type you’ll choose is made of child-friendly and eco-friendly materials, and meets all safety standards. They include Philips light bulbs, which ensures high quality and reliable light for a long time.
Mobile workplace is one of the innovative solutions that takes forward the concept of working environment, which is rapidly changing, replacing the traditional workplaces. Modern workplaces nowadays focus more and more on interactivity between employees, increasing productivity and lower costs, so environments should be open and flexible, balancing the need of working individually in a quiet place with the need of interaction. Designed in this manner, they’re becoming increasingly productive having also other significant benefits including knowledge, teamwork, creativity and coordination. Taking into consideration the emerging technologies and the fact that things evolves rapidly, designing office spaces will be more challenging for architects and designers.
Outstanding office furniture settings are one of the most important things in an workspace and can definitely make the difference between a mediore and great office. Mobile workstations from Swedish brand Abstracta are designed to make life easier in working environments that require a high degree of flexibility and mobility.
Abstracta brand’s mobile workstations charactestics:
Modern and appealing design
Customizable and easy to assemble allowing to reconfigure the workspace on demand
Sound-absorbing partition on locking wheels, so it can be easily moved by one person
Joined by complementary products
Ideal for open office landscapes, for public spaces such as hottel lobbies, reception areas, hospitals, business centers, conference areas, etc.
Round coffee tables are a great alternative to classic square or rectangular ones and a trendy choice nowadays for a modern living room. Whatever their style is, the size, the material, the color or finishings, the coffee tables with round corners have gained even more popularity these days since every new item today that looks good have few sharp edges and angles. If in the past there were few living rooms without coffee tables, nowadays are as omnipresent in our home decor as they were before.
Their beautiful curved shapes make them an extremely chic piece of furniture that will last in time and a great center point of any living room. Small round coffee tables, wooden, with glass top, any of them are also a great and safest choice for families with small children. In today’s post, we show you some gorgeous designs for round coffee tables from Italian company Jesse, designs that reflect a strong contemporary style and really stand out in a room. Original, stylish and very appealing, their collection of contemporary coffee tables in rounded shape are available in darkish oak, walnut, matt and glossy lacquers finish to fit different tastes and affinities.
Who could thought that you can keep important notes, reminders and even your creative sketches and ideas on a post-it table? We all know the famous post-it sticky notes pads which make our life easier at work, school or home, but a post-it table is something really cool. The ingenious idea belongs to a group of italian designers from Soup Studio who created it for the 2008 International Designer’s Workstation Competition.
The “Post-Itable” design concept focuses on simplicity and functionality: a table with a top made of super large post-it notes that can be used both as a table and as a notepad. Highly practical and easy to move around, this post-it note desk is a great support for anything you have in mind and want to write down. Once finished sheets, simply replace them with a new block to get a new table. This table would be ideal for anyone who works in a creative domain, for brainstorm sessions and not only. We find it the perfect tool for kids for drawing too. What do you think of “Post-Itable”?
How to recycle, how to reuse different products that we use everyday is certainly a matter of great interest nowadays. Increasingly more people are informed and involved in finding solutions to preserve environmental resources. Nevertheless there are still many others who are not informed or are careless or do not realize that it depends only on us to protect the environment and its natural resources. We should be aware that everything starts with us and every little gesture made for this purpose will lead to better living for all of us.
For example, how many of you have thought to recycle or reuse the already used aluminum beverage cans? Because aluminum cans recycling is among problems that needs solutions in order to reduce litter, landfills and greenhouse gas emissions, knowing the fact that for example in United States are produced 131 billion cans and only just over 50% of them are recycled. On the other side, tossing away an aluminum can waste as much energy as pouring out half of that can’s volume of gasoline. The question is what can we do with millions of empty beverage cans? Well, it’s seems that Turkish design consultancy Designnobis, who offers solutions by developing visionary and ecofriendly designs, have come up last year with an innovative idea which shows how easy is to recycle by reusing aluminum beverage cans. So forget about throwing them away!
Designed by Hakan Gürsu, “Cans’n Caps” , as it was named, is an eco-friendly product design which helps us give other various functionalities to our used aluminum beverage cans. With “Cans’n Caps” we “revive” aluminum can, making functional and fun objects of everyday life while being earth-friendly as well. The caps have different creative and attractive designs depending on what purpose it’s used: for salt, cheese, pepper; or vinegar, oil, lemon; sugar or anything else, even as a pet feeder or as a candle. Interesting isn’t it? Raising environmental conscience among people, encouraging recycling and reducing aluminum can waste are the main design goals of this project, who has already won not more than 4 design awards in 2011 and 2012.
If you look to improve your office design, a white desk chair can be a very attractive addition to consider. White furniture in general brings out the best in any space and it’s a great choice whatever your design style is. Although many of us are afraid to make a statement with white, because it requires more attention than usual, using white in the office can be quite interesting. Versatile and contemporary, white goes perfectly with any color scheme, so a white desk chair can be a fresh and appealing visual touch to your workspace. The Nelson Swag Leg Chair is one of the iconic designs created by American industrial designer George Nelson, who was one of the founders of the American Modernism.
Although 50 years old, this white great looking chair is completely contemporary and is more functional than ever. This stylish and elegant chair has a unique and innovative sculptural shape that fits the body and makes it very comfortable: shell-shaped seat separated from the back but glued together, flat arms to provide a comfortable place to rest forearms and curved chrome legs which were a Nelson innovation. With 21st century innovations in technology and material, today’s shells are fully authentic and made of recyclable polypropylene.
Nelson Swag Leg Chair is that kind of piece of furniture that through its amazing aesthetic design which have already become a classic one, transform a dull office area into a modern one. It perfectly fits today’s needs just as it did when it was first introduced, in 1958. Manufactured by Herman Miller, the chair can also be ordered in different options, making it a versatile choice.
