All Blog Posts Tagged 'facade' (5)

One of the hardest things to accomplish in the design process is to limit design elements. It's often surprising how fast the design can get far too busy and out of control. This project by L&A Design Group is a good example of what you might do…

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Have media facades become mainly an element

for urban branding or should they be regarded

as city beautification?

Brands strive worldwide for distinctive visual identities in the urban landscape. At night they rely on luminous messages ranging from conventionally illuminated signs and billboards up to…

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I had a professor say to me once that an entrance isn't merely a door. I hadn't really thought about it before, but looking at many of the great buildings that I admired the entrance door was not a prominent feature. The entrance, instead was more implicit in the…

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This facade by the creative New York based design firm Axis Mundi is a retrofit for the ambitious bottled water company H2O. H2O Headquarters is a six story building on a busy intersection in Barcelona, located near Gaudi's Casa Mila. The facade is… Continue