Posts in DESIGN
A look inside the glowing restrooms Chotto Matte 🚽🌈 The new Nikkei restaurant in Miami

The glowing restrooms 🚽🌈 of Chotto Matte have sure been making a statement all over Instagram. It seems that the people of Chotto Matte, Miami, carefully placed the mirrors that reflecting the neon art to serve as the coolest background for a #selfie.

📍1664 Lenox Avenue

Cuisine: Nikkei 🥢🍣

The meaning behind the name: "CHOTTO MATTE KUDASAI" means "Please wait a second" in Japanese

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Salone del Mobile.Milano 2018: 57th edition

President of the Salone del Mobile Claudio Luti had this to say: “When you look at the thousands of people streaming through the pavilions each day, it’s easy to understand why the Salone del Mobile.Milano is not just a simple trade fair but a global experience and an emotion that attracts companies, creatives, communicators and professionals from all over the world. Precisely because of this power of attraction, the Salone del Mobile is a great resource for the Italian system, concentrating the innovative excellence of thought and product in a single moment and in a single place. It is during these few days that the initial, virtuous and fruitful dialogue between productivity and creativity that will inform great projects over the coming months is sparked. This is where extraordinary meetings take place, capable of changing the course of things and triggering meaningful collaborations. This is where the words of the Manifesto come alive and become concrete, with business and cultural opportunities for those who believe in quality and ina future fuelled by internationalisation.”

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The Design District's funky new parking garage is almost ready 🤘; bringing 5 spectacular facades to the neighborhood 🌈

The parking garage’s facade is collaboration between, Work Architecture Company (WORKac), K/R Keenen Riley Architects, Clavel Arquitectos, J. Mayer H.; and Nicolas Buffe. All working under the direction of Terence Riley of K/R Architects 

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Magazzino Gallery comes to Miami bringing a palm tree: Elisabetta Benassi's "Mimetica" sculpture

"Mimetica" is a large-scale sculpture by Italian contemporary artist Elizabetta Benassi depicting an artificial palm tree. Magazzino explains it is like one of those used to camouflage mobile phone masts within urban and natural landscapes. This camouflage uses natural elements to give a feeling of a real tree, like the fiber for the trunk, while being contrasty mixed with obvious fake plant like materials for the leaves and branches, to give ambiguous feel.

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An installation by Charlap Hyman & Herrero White Rain wraps the trees around Miami Design District this Holiday Season

By: Andre Herrero and Adam Charlap Hyman

> NY\la design + architecture firm [ Charlap Hyman & Herrero]

Named White Rain after the first recorded snow storm in Florida in 1774

Material: Reflective Silver Tinsel 

Wrapped around over 300 Trees

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City View Parking garage has two facades that follow the late Morris Lapidus' style. By using a modern kind of Brise-Soleil

Like many other architectural designs in Miami, the use of Brise-Soleil as a building’s facade, serves to cater to our tropical climate. Morris Lapidus was one of the pioneers of this design element in Florida. The recently opened Nike in Lincoln Road has a beautiful Brise-Soleil Facade by Touzet Studio

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