House Twisted by Kentaro Takeguchi + Asako Yamamoto / Alphaville won Hiše Award 09 for Innovative Excellence in Private Housing.
To avoid the adjacent house, the linear volume of twisted house is bent twice to create a courtyard and a front yard. The central volume moves along the north-south axis and slanted roofs create cracks and introduce a sense of flow inside.
The structure consists of 14 steel columns arranged like a birdcage so the walls become thin and flat to make the natural light simple and abstract, made possible by using a brace-less system of small beams at 45 deg. angles between two sheets of structural plywood. MORE…

Architects: Dean Lah, Milan Tomac, Anže Zalaznik
Location: Gorenjska
Year of completion: 2006
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Architect: Niko Tiula
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Year of renovation: 2006
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Architects: François Stekke, Serge Fraas
Location: Villers-la-Ville, Belgium
Year of completion: 2005
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Architects: Maja Tasič Demšar in Gašper Demšar
Associate: Metod Vidic
Location: Ljubljana
Year of completion: 2006
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Architects: prof. Miloš Florjančič, dr. Matej Blenkuš
Location: Čezsoča
Year of completion: 2005
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Architects: Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd
Location: Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia
Year of completion: 2001
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Architects: Oskar Leo Kaufmann, Johannes Kaufmann
Location: Andelsbuch, Austria
Year of completion: 1997
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Architects: id:arhitekti
Location: Ljubljana
Year of completion: 2003
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Architects: Rok Klanjšček, Gašper Zalar
Location: Čezsoča
Year of completion: 2005
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Architect: Antonius Lanzinger
Location: Brixlegg, Tyrol, Austria
Year of completion: 2002
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Architects: Roberto Starec, Paolo Starec
Location: Trieste, Italy
Year of completion: 2006
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Architect: dr. Dominika Batista
Location: Ljubljana
Year of completion: 2004
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Architect: Rudy Ricciotti
Location: Near Rouen, France
Year of completion: 2006
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Architects: Aleš Žnidaršič, Katja Žlajpah
Location: Bohinj
Year of renovation: 2006
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Architects: Matija Bevk, Vasa J. Perović, Bevk Perović arhitekti
Location: Ljubljana
Year of completion: 2006
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Architect: Tanja Barle
Location: Celje
Year of renovation: 2005

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Architect: dr. Dominika Batista
Location: Koseze, Ljubljana
Year of completion: 2005
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Architects: Rok Žnidaršič, Jerneja Fischer Knap
Location: Gorenje Polje
Year of completion: 2006
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Architects: Bernhard Marte, Stefan Marte, Marte.Marte Architekten
Location: Fussach, Vorarlberg, Austria
Year of completion: 2000
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Architects: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
Location: Fournaise, impressionists’ island in Chatou, France
Year of completion: 2006
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Architects: Durbach Block: Neil Durbach, Camilla Block, David Jaggers, Lisa Le Van, Joseph Grech, Adrian Gessner
Location: Dover Heights, NSW, Australia
Year of completion: 2004
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Architects: Rob McBride, Debbie-Lyn Ryan, McBride Charles Ryan
Location: Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia
Year of completion: 2007
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Architects: Johnston Marklee & Associates
Location: Pacific Palisades, USA
Year of completion: 2004
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Architects: BURO II, BURO II Interieur
Location: Roeselare, Belgium
Year of completion: 2005
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Architect: Koen Heijse – CAAN arhitekti
Location: Baarle Drongen, Belgium
Year of completion: 2005
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Architects: Manuel Aires Mateus, Francisko Aires Mateus
Location: Alentejano, Portugal
Year of completion: 2000
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Architect: Maarten Van Severen
Location: Deurle, Belgium
Year of completion: 2005
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Architect: Alberto Campo Baeza
Location: Madrid, Spain
Year of completion: 2000
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Architect: Rudy Ricciotti
Location: Marseille, France
Year of completion: 2000
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Architect: Peter Gabrijelčič with associates
Location: Ljubljana
Year of completion: 2006
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Architect: Jože Peterkoč
Location: Orle, Ljubljana
Year of completion: 2008
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Architects: Bevk Perović Arhitekti: Matija Bevk, Vasa J. Perović, Maja Valič
Location: Ljubljana, Pirniče
Year of completion: 2005 – 2007
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Architects: Sadar Vuga Arhitekti; Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Miha Pešec, Adrian Petrucelli
Location: Velenje
Year of completion: 2007
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Architects: Superform, Anton Žižek, Marjan Poboljšaj
Location: Križevci pri Ljutomeru
Year of completion: 2007
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Architect: dr. Dominika Batista
Location: Prelog pri Domžalah
Year of completion: 2007
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Architects: Vanja Gregorc, Rok Klanjšček, Aleš Vrhovec, Janez Hacin
Location: Ljubljana
Year of completion: 2005
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Architects: dekleva gregorič arhitekti: Aljoša Dekleva, Tina Gregorič
Location: Ljubljana
Year of completion: 2004
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Architect: Nande Korpnik
Location: Griže near Celje
Year of completion: 1999
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LUXO’s Ninety is the world’s most energy-efficient desk and general task lamp. It uses a mere 6W of LEDs, while offering a bright, warm light with excellent (3000 Kelvin) colour. It is dimmable and is designed to last for 25 years in a regular home or office environment.

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Evolution Accelerated

This year has been a big year in technology-driven and related sectors, which in turn has created a big stir in the (largely consumer) marketplace and back again in tech- and design-driven products and services.

Popular consumer electronics got a shot in the arm with Apple’s new iPhone 3G, which launched mid-July and sold one million units inside three days. Apple CEO Steve Jobs pointed out that it took all of 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so things were clearly “off to a good start”. MORE…

Made of 18-8 stainless steel, this ice cream spoon, by Hisakazu Shimizu / Sabo Studio, feels smooth and velvety on the lips, and is meant as an homage to the much loved inconsequential or unnecessary products of the 20th century. In this way – with this sleek bit of culinary hardware –  say the designers, they grant immortality to the marvelllously familiar wooden ice cream spoon. MORE…

The Dutch UNStudio architects recently launched their first chair design, called MYchair. The chairs are upholstered in two colours and were created for the German Walter Knoll company.

The architectural approach to furniture is different from that of the industrial designer: the architect begins with the space and the environment that the chair will become a part of. MORE…

South Africa-born designer Ryan Frank has come up with a scheme to design and build furniture from sawn-up (refuse) desks salvaged by GreenWorks, a charity and social enterprise that reclaims timber from redundant office furniture collected around the UK. MORE…

Twenty-three year-old designer Takumi Yoshida has come up with a phone design that serves the needs of the visually impaired. The “SENS” phone (written SÉNS) features a unique keyboard scheme where all of the keys are slightly different to the touch from one another, making the keys easily recognisable, and allowing the user to know where they are on the keyboard at all times. The waves and contours central to the recognition concept also make for compelling visually engaging design. MORE…