Images: Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter A/S
Havneholmen is situated on an island next to Copenhagen’s classic harbour entrance, near the city centre. Both of the new urban edifices are U-shaped, creating inner courtyards while opening onto the harbour fairway with elegant, white forms.▪

Images: Tobias Grau
At this year‘s furniture and lighting fair in Milan, Tobias Grau has presented a comprehensive range of home and office lamps, which are the result of a special approach to design: instead of regarding individual items in isolation, everything is understood as part of the space as a whole.

Images: Tom Carey & Sean Chilvers

“In the dark” is a life size camera obscura by Tom Carey and Sean Chilvers. The two blackened out an entire bedroom, leaving just a small hole open - a pinhole camera within a room.▪

Images: Dada and Partners
The B-99 house located in Gurgaon, India was designed by architects DADA and Partners. The main design idea for this sub- urban home was to serve as an exemplar of fusion between traditional and modern architecture.▪

Rising above the skyline of San Jose in Costa Rica, this mixed-use tower will be a new landmark, providing crucial amenities for the city, sheltered from the tropical local climate. The concept is driven by a progressive environmental strategy that is expected to establish new benchmarks for the region. Set right in front the Sabana Park, the new “Central Park” of the city, a recreational area in continuous construction development.▪

Petr Kubik wins MID Design 2008 Professional Jury Award. “Really, why would I want this MID (Mobile Internet Device) over the current iPhone I use? On the flip side, this MID is merely a concept, but is pompous enough to include a clip-like anti-theft mechanism! I’m not going to get into the tech-specs, coz any dandy designer can pump out just about anything they like these days. So my focus stays on the screen.“▪

Images: Yoshiharu Matsumura

Suga Tadashi Architects presented us their project House In Nagata. This house is located on the foot of mountains in Nagata, Kobe. This location indicates a typical landform of this city, which is surrounded by mountains on the north and coastlines on the south. The landowner requested two things. One is to ride up the relief by car, so the spiral slope was made towards high-located entrance on 4800mm.▪

Images: Rhea Jeong
Korean designer Rhea Jeong has designed a concept of a vinyl player of the future, spinning records in mid-air. According to the young designer gramophones are endangered by the digital media and a design change is necessary.▪

Images: Asymptote

The Strata Tower, a forty-story, luxury residential building designed by architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture of Asymptote, has been designed for a prominent location on Al Raha Beach. At a height of 160 meters, the tower will be the tallest building in the Al Dana precinct, the centerpiece of Abu Dhabi’s prestigious Al Raha Beach development. The landmark Strata Tower is designed to signify a dignified and important future for Abu Dhabi and the region.▪

Images: Kartell
The Kartell catalogue welcomes yet another family of furnishings to swell its ranks – commodes and night tables. Revisited by Starck, the Kartell style commode called Ghost Buster brings to mind the classic piece of furniture brought up to date by the use of the plastic material of which it is made and by its transparency.