Project: Seaside Resort Location: Shekvetili, Ajara, Georgia. Architect: Giorgi Khmaladze Team: Dimitri Jobadze, Nanuka Zaalishvili, Elene Beradze. Georgian architect Giorgi Khmaladze, famous with Batumi McDonalds building, is working on a new project. The new health and recreation center will be built in Shekvetili, along the Black Sea shoreline. The project consists of one […]
Imi Knoebel’s Every Colour
“When there’s two of you, you only need half the courage” Imi Knoebel is a German artist, who creates his works in a minimalist and reductionist perspective. His concept involves re-evaluation of color and shape in a given space. Imi Knoebel is surrounded by so many colours he has lost count. “I have 600, […]
60watt by Giorgi Maghradze
Series: concretelamps | polypropylene Material: polypropylene | concrete Year: 2015 Photo by: Nanu Giglemiani | Sandro Losaberidze 60watt and other works by Giorgi Magradze are not just a design products, their majority is a sculptural item. Though the latest products are more geometrical, each of them has its own individual nature. It can be said, that 60watt is […]
New Product By Anuka Tavartqiladze – White Cupboard
Designer Anuka Tavartqiladze offers us another new product. This time we’ll introduce her cupboard. White bulk in round forms stands on wooden legs, it’s very comfortable and crimson inside. We need to point out black buckles which normally are used for clothes, but designer adjusted it to furniture and this way made it more […]
ROOMS designed “JUNGLE” interior for the Anouki Fashion house
ROOMS’s jungle interior was designed for Anouki Fashion House on Tarkhnishvili street in Tbilisi. The deign was completed a few days ago. If you look at the shop windows from the street, it seems like a dense jungle and this greenery is definitely worth seeing among the concrete buildings. Colorful clothes are exhibited in […]
EISENBERG – Beauty Is Our Universe
On December 4, Chain of perfume shops Lutecia introduced a new brand to its customers – “Eisenberg”. At a press conference and then an after-party in the Funicular hall, the guests were able to have a close look at “Eisenberg” products, fragrances and beauty line, which brings together some of the flavors in different […]
Public Restrooms ARE IMPORTANT!
I decided to write this article while surfing the net; I came across the designs of public WC and liked them; I’m not talking about ones in Georgia, of course. Each one of them brings something new and different in architect and design. A couple of days ago, while walking in the streets of […]
Paris Has Approved Its First Skyscraper In Over 40 Years
Paris has approved its first tower in over 40 years. The Triangle Tower belongs to Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. The city council has finally agreed to construct a 180-meters-high 42-story building in Paris. In 2010 the height limitations were removed in Paris, which prohibited the construction of buildings over 36 meters. […]
Yakutia 71.2 °C – The World’s Coldest Inhabited Place
Federal subject of Russia Capital: Yakutsk Area: 3.083.523 km2 Minimal officially recorded temperature -71.2°C The architecture of any place is always in the tight relation with the geography and climate. These two factors give the main direction to the development of the shapes, palette and all the other specifics of architecture together with religion and […]
The World’s Tallest Skyscraper To Be Built In Iraq
As if euphoria about Dubai’s Burj Khalifa was not enough, first Saudi Arabia presented its 828-meter Royal Tower project and now Iraq also expressed a wish to build the highest skyscraper in Europe. Yes, Basra is that one city in Asia, which will lead a trio of the world’s highest buildings. The city of […]
Shirin Abedinirad From Contemporary art Scene of Iran
Shirin Abedinirad is an Iranian female artist and mostly creates installations. Her very popular work is called Mirrored Ziggurat. It rested in Sydney, Australia as a part of Art Festival. Sheis fascinated bystitching the sky to the ground to create unusual optical illusions. From her statement about the piece: ‘In this installation I have been […]
Architecture, As a Metaphor In Movies
Since 70’s, XX century architecture is trying to get rid of the regulations established by the modernist paradigms and is seeking inspiration in painting, music, sculpture and other art fields. Composite structure of Cubist paintings, literary fragments of Heraclitus, Bach Preludes are inspiring architectural projects, however this heightened interest in the arts and other […]
ROOMS – Design For Inspiration
Friendship, made while studying at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, took heroes of this article to international industry of product design. NataJanberidze and KetiToloraia are founders of Interior and Product Design Company Rooms. They were born in Tbilisi, 1981 and after graduating Academy of Arts in 2003, they founded the studio “Rooms”.At first they […]
Alexander Kartveli – Aircraft Engineer And Design Genius
“It is possible with reasonable advancement of our knowledge to go beyond the moon to Venus and Mars. Provided we retain enthusiasm, enterprise and daring.”- Alexander Kartveli , 1958. On November 17th, Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia hosted an exhibition entirely dedicated to the biggest aircraft engineer, Alexander Kartveli. The exhibition presented life and works of the […]
Ceramics by Lia Bagrationi
Lia Bagrationi is the famous Georgian ceramic artist, who has very impressive career. She calls herself a “Clay Artist”. Lia was born on September 5th 1957. She became ceramics student at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, which she successfully graduated in year 1980. Nowadays she’s associate professor at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, also […]
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