Built in a defunct arms manufacturing facility, this structure was designed by LIN. Christened Cité du Design, this design center is a unique facility that hopes to inspire many of its kind in the future. On a budget of about Rs.278 Crores (€41.5 million), the design center houses auditoriums, meeting rooms, exhibition space, a media . . .
Category: Non-Residential
Pictures and articles about non residential buildings including creative offices and prisons!
Wonderfactory Office
The interwebz is buzzing with news about an unannounced Apple Tablet that is rumoured to hit us sometime in 2010. The word around is that Apple has tied up with a number of content publishers to push content to users through this new device. Branding and interaction firm Wonderfactory recently published a video that envisions . . .
Apple Store In Paris
Located in the Carrousel du Louvre, Apple’s first store in Paris was inaugurated after much anticipation. Mac enthusiasts waited days in advance to get a glimpse of their favorite brand opening close to them. Blame it on the products inside or the chic interiors, the buzz this store generated surpassed other store openings from around . . .
Macakizi Beach Club, Turkey
Touring Turkey and the surrounding areas can be an exhilarating experience. With spices and incense stick aromas wafting through shops and streets, one is bound to stop over and take a peek. Local visits here can be a little overwhelming for first time tourists but a thorough read on the practices and customs can help . . .
Twitter’s *New* Office Interiors
Remember that Twitter office we featured a while back at Home-Designing? We just received news that Twitter folks have moved office again. The new office is at a location just around the corner from the old one but the interiors are way swankier! Bright coloured walls, Twitter graphics, Arne Jacobsen egg chairs and a heavy . . .
Retail Design: Showroom In Wood
Natural, inter-twining, flowing and aesthetically pleasing blend of shades is sparsely seen in any other element / material other than wood. Though one has fewer options to play around with and modify the substance, there is not much that needs to be done to make it more appealing. Then, it comes as no surprise that . . .
Amazing Chao Phraya River Memorial
From the confluence of four tributaries, Ping, Wang,Yom and Naan River rises the Chao Phraya River in Thailand. With water being green on one side and red on the other, the river carries with itself historical significance and touristic phenomenons that have great potential. To tap into the possibilities and expansions, the Nakorn Sawan Municipality . . .
Google’s offices from around Europe
Google work places are known to be fun! These pictures below, are from different offices around Europe. The work places in Milan, Madrid and Munich were designed by DEGW, a company that usually designs for various Fortune 500 companies, while the one in Zurich was designed by the swiss firm Camenzind Evolution. Google Madrid The . . .
Rotating Sea Side Hotel in Croatia
Ever wondered how it would be to be enveloped by nature on all sides? Wake up with the sunlight in your eyes and end the day nestled in the trees? If you did, it’s time you stopped because this rotating sea side hotel in Croatia lets you do just that. This is a three storey . . .
Super Car Museums
These may not be ideas that inspire home designs, but they are breath-taking none the less! A post different from all others, these super car museums situated in different parts of the world all achieve the ultimate goal of bringing together machines that have left a mark in the auto-world, either for their designs or . . .
Architectural Vision of Rio De Janeiro, Olympic City 2016
If you haven’t been under a rock the past one week or so, you are probably aware that Rio De Janeiro has been chosen to play the host city for the 2016 Olympic games. It competed against Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid for the final run before being chosen as the winner. The fact that Rio . . .
Long Barn Studio: Another Cool Architect’s Office
You got to hand it to these architects. Maybe it is the absence of the normal you-design-clients-approve process that inspires them while they design spaces for themselves. Whatever be the reason, as we have seen before, the results usually turn out really good. Check our this office by Nicolas Tye Architects that they designed for . . .
Facebook’s New Cool Office!
Studio o+a was responsible for redesigning Facebook’s new 150,000-square-foot office at Palo Alto, California, USA. During the design process, the design firm consulted employees to find out their expectations about the work environment and they designed the space for each department with a different twist. There is another interesting point here. Some of the walls . . .
Hotel de Glace: Ice Hotel, Canada
We have featured sets of some fairly bizarre hotel rooms before. But ever heard of a hotel made entirely of ice? Or one with with a stipulated lifespan? Hotel de Glace near Quebec City, Canada happens to be the first ice hotel of North America. The hotel has been described as a tourist hotspot (coldspot . . .
Amazing balconies of Willis Tower (Formerly Sears Tower)
Willis Tower, formerly named Sears Tower, is a 108-story 1,450 feet (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. This tallest skyscraper in the United States has four glass box viewing platforms. These balconies are suspended 1,353 feet (412 m) in the air on the 103rd floor. As per reports, the inspiration for The Ledge came from . . .
citizenM Hotel Interiors, Amsterdam
A trip or travel is said to be perfect only when we find a home away from home. Any tourist destination would boast of hotels and resorts that cater to the needs of its tourists. Here we cover one such magnificent hotel by the name citizenM, located at Amsterdam. With the opening of this hotel . . .
World’s Largest Barbie Store
Barbies and young girls. We will probably never understand the connection between them but that doesn’t make us not appreciate the creativity involved in this structure that is devoted to the world’s most famous and loved doll. Mattel, the parent company that own some of the world’s top toy brands, (including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fischer . . .
Office Meeting Room Designs
We have had a few requests asking us to do a post on office meeting rooms. So here is one, finally! We will start off with a few conventional meeting rooms and gradually move into more ‘revolutionary’ ones. Meeting Room Design by Burak Office meeting room by Pangmen Meeting Room With Wall Art by Nemanja . . .
An Office In The Woods: Selgas Cano Architecture
Wouldn’t you just love to work in this office? Spanish Architect firm Selgas Cano thrills us with their spectacularly vibrant yet low-impact office that just merges into the landscape. It is sleek with minimalistic furniture but creates quite a visual impact with it colours and use of environment. Working here would surely make you will . . .
Guess What Building This Is?
Okay, here is a small challenge to our readers. We will provide snaps of a large building. You take a guess at what it is. The answer is somewhere down this page. Keep scrolling. :) So what were your guesses? A super cool accomodation for students in some college in Dubai? Google’s new office? What . . .
Twitter Office Interiors
UPDATE: Twitter has moved to a new office now. Here is the post covering the New Twitter Office. Office interiors can provide excellent inspiration for designing workplaces at home and if you have been a long time follower of Home-Designing you will remember we have featured some really creative offices now and again. This time . . .