Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter (founded June 1999) in Copenhagen, Denmark, works on a wide range of commisions including master- and urban planning, cultural institutions, housing, office buildings and conversions.
Their most recent projects include a new indoor sports facility in Holmbladsgade, Copenhagen, where a large translucent membrane stretches over the sports and culture centre arena, offering excellent daylight conditions and by night, appearing as a glowing crystal.
They also recently converted the Jægersborg Water Tower into a mix-use building with a youth centre and residences, where common balconies add new sculptural layers that enhance the distinctive character of the tower.
More: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter ApS; Denmark

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Valvomo Architects is a design and architecture studio based in Helsinki founded by eight architects / designers working together as equal partners. The studio works on all areas of design, from architecture and interiors to objects, and their designs are included in many permanent international collections including MoMA New York.
Clients vary from restaurants, bars and clubs, to ad agencies and museums, and foreign design manufacturers include Nightingale Corp (Canada), Peter Pepper Products (USA), Offecct (Sweden), David Design (Sweden), and Idée (Japan).
Recently completed is the interior design for Krogerus Attorneys Ltd in Helsinki, shifting their brand identity from a traditional “law firm-look” to a new, young, cool, clear and “aggressive” one, complete with epoxy-flooring, laminate wall panels and white glass walls with graphics.
more: Valvomo / Ilkka Terho, Director; Helsinki, Finland

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Founded in 1998 by four partners, JKMM is currently designing several important public buildings in Finland. Their goal is to create buildings with exceptional architectural and technical quality, putting traditional wooden oar locks alongside BIM – Building Information Modeling – as exemplar models and tools in the design process. For them, buildings are designed for people, and should be at their best even after decades of use.
Recently completed are the new, light and spacious Turku Library, and the expansive Verkkatehdäs Culture and Congress Centre in Hämeenlinna, a massive conversion of an old factory complex boasting a number of venue-spaces and highly-advanced acoustics.
more: JKMM / Teemu Kurkela, CEO; Helsinki, Finland

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JDS is a multidisciplinary office founded and directed by Julien de Smedt, co-founder of Plot, that focuses on architecture and design, from large scale planning to furniture, with a wide portfolio of international work. Their use of complementing teams ensures that projects don’t suffer from being too conventional nor too naïve.
Their recent Sjakket Youth House is a base camp for immigrant youth that occupies a former factory building, which gutted one of the vaulted buildings to make it a vast sports hall. And their recent flagship and concession stores for Bruunz Bazaar Scandinavian sets out to focus on the basic aspects of architecture and fashion, leaving space for essential representation: the clothes.
More: JDS, Copenhagen, Denmark
photo: copyright Nikolaj Moller

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OlssonLyckefors Architects (Johan Olsson and Andreas Lyckefors, 2004) develops a wide range of projects, from furniture and interior design, to housing and city planning.
Here the risks of preconceived notions that easily arise when repeatedly involved in similar kinds of projects are eliminated by swapping between different scales and types of challenges.
Recent projects include the dream-like Peacock dinner and dance club in Stockhom – complete with LED-light behind perforated wooden panels and chain curtains; and the Taste International restaurant-lounge in Gothenburg, complete with green flocking, corrugated walls black terrazzo.
On the more socially-responsible side, they just completed an exhibiton called ‘Homeless’, for the Gothenburg City Museum.
More: www.olssonlyckefors.se

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a-lab’s recent and current projects include the extensive, ongoing Barcode development in Oslo (housing, shopping, restaurants), an extension and addition to the municipality building of Sogne, and the Oslo City urban centre shopping complex.
more: a-lab / Adnan Harambasic , Oslo, Norway: Joining Forces

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Chain lamp and bowl were for MGX by Materialise made by One & Co. MORE…

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11. 4. 2008 Hise Urban living were published

An urban architectural display unit (which opens up for special application purposes) in the centre of Ljubljana to preview, showcase and review various current events and developments in architecture, design and urban and building culture and creativity.
Pictured here: promotional poster materials for May’s ‘Big Architecture 08′ Conference Event

Photo: nada zgank /memento and Zavod Big Archive

Tall&Tiny are two Vinyl sticker-lamps by Alice Rosignoli. The shape of Tall remind of a large living-room lamp and the shape of Tiny of a small bedside lamp. MORE…

d. lab™ presented in Paris on Maison Object fair its first accessories collection — Objects Around the Tablescape. Here are selected objects from collection. MORE…