Four Principles, the Middle Eastern leading Lean Management Experts has upgraded its offices into a collaborative working environment that is tailor-made to fit the employees’ Lean mindset. Founded in 2010 by managing partners Seif Shieshakly and Patrick Wiebusch, Four Principles was created to bring the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen to a new and wider audience in a way that made it more accessible and more easily implemented than had been done before. With its philosophy, the Lean company...
The Tianjin Binhai Library in Tianjin, China, was designed by the Dutch architectural firm MVRDV to look like a giant eye. “The Eye is the center of the library. It ‘hollows out’ the building and creates, out of bookshelves, an environment to sit, to read, to hang out, to climb and to access, to create an organic social space.” The futuristic library sits within a sheltered gallery, topped with cathedral-like vaulted arches, which winds its way throughout the scheme. It is located on...
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa is considered to be the world’s tubiest building and is set to become the world’s most important exhibition space for African Art. Located inside a grain silo built on Cape Town's waterfront in the 1920s, which was once the city's tallest building. Heatherwick's team have carved huge sections out of the building's tubular interior to create a complex network of 80 gallery spaces. Designed by Thomas Heatherwick
This beautiful church conversion project was carried out by interior architecture firm Linc Thelen Design, located in Chicago, Illinois. The open plan living, kitchen and dining area features a dramatic floor-to-ceiling double-sided fireplace with built-in niches for wood storage and soaring ceilings with skylights that bathes the interiors with natural light. Design finishes that have been incorporated into the interiors gives off a hip and eclectic vibe, which is coupled with visually...
Charles O. Perry sculpted this piece, titled "Eclipse," for the Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero in San Francisco in 1973. His large scale and monumental sculptures celebrate and question the laws of nature. Believing that sculpture must stand on its own merit without need of explanation, Perry's work has an elegance of form that masks the mathematical and scientific complexity of its genesis.
This Spiral Staircase plays a leading and structural role in the organisation of the minimal design that surrounds the Boston house designed by Steven Harris Architecs on a high-end residential design. The stairs are caught beautifully in between a traditional and contemporary design, basking in a cathedral-dose of natural light.
This 135m2 apartment in Paris, France, is incredibly elegant thanks to its architectural details and superb finishes. The large living room has a stunning parquet de Versailles floor, refined wall moldings and high ceilings. Designed by A + B Kasha.
This townhouse from 1931 located in Copenhagen, Denmark, is decorated with a mix of old (vintage furniture pieces and original features) and new (modern furniture & accessories). The old herringbone parquet floor in the living room is stunning. This type of floor is perfect for such an elegant building from the 1930’s. The result is a simple yet elegant decor with warmth and character.
In a 2012 TEDxTalk, Paul Gilding, a writer, activist and adviser on sustainable economy points out an important statement, that shall make us all reflect: "The Earth is full. It's full of us, it's full of our stuff, full of our waste, full of our demands. Yes, we are a brilliant and creative species, but we've created a little too much stuff -- so much that our economy is now bigger than its host, our planet." We do have only one planet. Coming so far, we continue to invent new technology,...
The "Metropol Parasol“ scheme with its impressive timber structures offers an archaeological museum, a farmers market, an elevated plaza, multiple bars and restaurants underneath and inside the parasols, as well as a panorama terrace on the very top of the parasols. Realized as one of the largest and most innovative bonded timber-constructions with a polyurethane coating, the parasols grow out of the archaeological excavation site into a contemporary landmark, defining a unique relationship...

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