The Free Range Art & Design Show is opening in June to showcase some of the work created by graduating students from art and design universities in the UK. It is considered to be one of Europe’s largest graduate show that includes work from all creative disciplines, from art, graphic design, product design, furniture, photography, [...]

The season has arrived again this year and artists and designers from around the world have participed in creating the 20th season of ICE HOTEL in Sweeden Lapland. Their official website as a lot of content including images of the new 09 season to their ICEHOTEL magazine that can be downloaded for free.

The new academic building for the The Cooper Union has been completed by architects from Morphosis.
41 Cooper Square, the new academic building for The Cooper Union, aspires to manifest the character, culture and vibrancy of both the 150 year-old institution and of the city in which it was founded. The institution remains committed to Peter [...]

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream.
The film has won:
Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Austin Film Festival, the [...]

Above is a clinic designed by Japanese architects at Suppose Design Office.
“Instead of keeping places normally used for movement such as an elevator shaft or stair wells closed, we wanted to open them up to collect light, using them as lightwells to maintain the lighting coming in from above. As light travels downward through [...]

The above image is Dutch architects UNStudio’s design for the Dalian Football Stadium in China.
The design for the 40,000 spectator, 38,500 m2 football stadium – inspired by the colourful layering and overlapping of the ancient Chinese cuju football – weaves together the collective spirit of the spectators with the public realm and the urban context of [...]

Tatiana Bilbao, a Mexican architecture firm, have designed a university building, ‘Biotechnological Park Building,’ a six-storey sructure that will house academic study and research into new technologies in the field of agriculture in Sinaloa, Mexico.

Designed by Mikou Design Studio, the ‘House of Arts and Culture’ is inspired by the diversity of cultures; stimulating the imagination by integrating the sensitivities of various artistic domains. This overlapping of cultural layers is a characteristic feature of the program, which creates a strong identity for the future House of Arts and Culture and [...]

The building above was designed by architects ‘Group A‘ from Rotterdam. ‘Blok 1′ is a student housing tower in the Netherlands, containing nine floors of dormitories and a communal roof terrace. More images of the building can be viewed on their website along with additional information about Blok 1.

A convention centre by Beijing architects MAD to be built in Taichung, Taiwan. The design consists of a series of mountain-like buildings with pleated exterior surfaces, allowing natural ventilation and accommodating photovoltaic panels.
More info and images can be found here.