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Product Of The Week: The Giraffe Measuring Tape

August 2, 2020 HD Staff 0

It is not everyday that you can meet the tall order of making something as mundane as a measuring tape interesting. But the folks at OTOTO seems to have managed just that with the cute and beautiful Giraffe measuring tape. Get it on Amazon. Recommended Reading:  Cute Animal Shaped Multi-Tools

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Universal Design Quarter in Hamburg / Sauerbruch Hutton

August 2, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

Currently the world’s largest residential building in modular timber construction “Woodie” offers micro-appartments for 371 students. The building is part of a new residential district in the Wilhelmsburg area of Hamburg, which builds on the experimental character of the 2013 International Building Exhibition and embodies the principles of Universal Design: sustainable, simple and inclusive.

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Burberry and Tencent collaborate on interactive WeChat shop in Shenzhen

August 2, 2020 India Block 0

Visitors to Shenzhen’s Burberry flagship store can use Tencent’s WeChat app to interact with the window display and play their own music in fitting rooms. The British fashion brand and China’s largest social media company collaborated to design a shop that suited Shenzhen’s growing reputation for technology. Shoppers use WeChat, a Chinese messaging and social

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Naturalis Biodiversity Center / Hollandse Nieuwe

August 2, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

After many years, the renovation of the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre is finally complete. Located in the city of Leiden, the Netherlands, the museum and research institute has been dramatically expanded and transformed, with Hollandse Nieuwe responsible for the interior transformation of the employee areas and research offices. Hollandse Nieuwe was involved in workplace strategy, support, and the complete interior design of the new working environments. Together with Naturalis, a workplace strategy and design were developed through a combination of workshops, analysis, and department shadowing by the design team. The central issue in the Naturalis project was in creating an appropriate design solution that catered for its diverse workforce, as researchers, museum staff, and support staff all had different requirements and activity patterns. Alongside these considerations, the building’s technical and installation constraints also played a significant role in the development and definition of the final design.

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Documenting Fifty Modernist Churches in Toronto by Photographer Amanda Large

August 2, 2020 Kaley Overstreet 0

Between the late 1940s to the 1980s, Toronto, Canada, experienced a high rate of growth and development, resulting in a wealth of modernist-style buildings. Due to an increasing population, parishes were also outgrowing their spaces and found themselves in need of new facilities. Consequently, many well-designed modernist churches began to pop up throughout Toronto. This black and white photography series, titled Fifty/50 by Amanda Large, is an ode to these churches, and a celebration of their enduring importance to the city more than fifty years after their construction.