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Lana mirror

August 12, 2021|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2021 – Winner, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Wood, Wooden products|

The Lana mirror is inspired by the perfection of closed curved shapes and traditional round mirror. The idea was to design an elegant and minimalistic solid wood mirror. Asimetric frame shows the craftsmanship and woodworking skills and also reflects the beauty of the wood. The Lana mirror is available in 7 different types of wood (oak, American and European walnut, maple, elm, ash, cherry), with various natural finishes (oils
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Naru chair

August 12, 2021|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2021 – Winner, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Furniture, Wood|

The Naru Chair carries the signature Artisan curves and tactility with detailing options to personalise your look. The seat can be upholstered in high-grade leathers, fabric or it can remain in its natural wooden state. There are also metal accents which can be a choice of inox, brass or powder coated steel. The Naru chair is available in 7 different types of wood (oak, American and European walnut, maple,
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Afternoon child care centre at the Löwenfeldschule

August 11, 2021|Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2021 – Winner, City and community, Wood|

600 kids from 25 nations-the Löwenfeldschule is a place of cultural diversity. This variety and openness were one of the main inspirations for creating an open place. First of all, the situation of the building creates a public space in between the old and the new building. This so-called play-street is reserved for pedestrians only. The light shade of the trees in combination with the flowerbeds offer a colourful
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Kindergarten Am Schlatt, Lustenau

August 11, 2021|Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2021 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

The extension of the existing building by Swiss architects Burkhalter-Sumi from the 1990s continues the kindergarten as a single-storey structure. The three groups and the movement room are docked to the corridor. The dining room, as a prelude to the aforementioned sequence of rooms, faces the courtyard-like outdoor space between the new and the existing structure to create the social centre of the kindergarten. The three new groups are individually
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Leva modular system

August 9, 2021|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2021 – Winner, Czech Republic, Furniture, Wood|

The Leva modular system was designed by Egoé studio to meet the growing need to spend time outdoors in a comfortable environment. The basic space is defined by four perpendiculars which form a cubic structure that can be customized through the use of accessories (roofs, walls, floors but also integrated or suspended furniture, climbing walls etc). Furthermore, the basic modules can be connected to form various spatial configurations. Leva works
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Q Residence, Roseto degli Aabruzzi

August 3, 2021|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2021 – Winner, Italy, Wood, Wooden houses|

A villa surrounded by olive trees on the hills of Abruzzo, a project with minimal architecture, Scandinavian style and a solid eco-sustainable foundation, which has an area of 120 square meters. The letter Q represents a closed nucleus, symbol of the house, with a descending curve which simulates the incline that leads to the coast, since the house was built on a soft hill facing the Adriatic Sea. Q has
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Collection center for recyclable materials, Schweinern

July 28, 2021|Austria, BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2021 – Winner, Wood, Wooden houses|

This center for recycling and waste management is a project of the community association for environmental protection of St. Pölten in Lower Austria, with one objective: to turn former rubbish-disposal areas into a user-friendly infrastructure for the collection and separation of recyclable materials in the local community, space that keeps our cities, towns and lives functioning like they should. The project consists of two structures: wood and concrete service building
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House on 12 Legs, Zebegény

July 28, 2021|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2021 – Winner, Hungary, Wood, Wooden houses|

The House on twelve legs, a vacation house that can also be used as a workshop space / studio, is located in the north-western part of Zebegény. It stands in a dense forest of young oaks and acacias with an especially steep terrain as a result of a nearby rainwash. The gable-roofed mass, opened on its shorter side, is facing the Danube. The building effects the terrain and the environment
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Slanted House, Ipolytarnóc

July 28, 2021|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2021 – Winner, Hungary, Wood, Wooden houses|

Kenneth Frampton’s 1983 essay, ‘Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance’, published in the architectural periodical of Yale University, Perspecta, stood sharply against the universality characterising the late modern permeating architecture at the time, and the post-modern's response to it. The third way of approaches led to the definition of an architecture free of signs, symbols, and irony. Frampton himself called this approach as architecture stemming
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Ground Fold, Capo Milazzo

July 28, 2021|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2021 – Winner, City and community, Italy, Wood|

The submitted project is part of a larger redevelopment operation of Capo Milazzo, promoted by Lucifero Foundation and by "Il Giglio" Association. It consists of an open equipment system free to use which, by expanding the educational-didactic offer of the Foundation, enhances an asset considered "collective": the intervention is on the edge of a valuable natural reserve area that stands out on the skyline of the Aeolian Islands: at the
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Country House Valtidone, Piozzano

July 28, 2021|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2021 – Winner, City and community, Italy, Wood|

The house, built on the Piacenza Hills, is a contemporary interpretation of the stable. In this typical agricultural area, the authentic form of a stable has a long facade and is an example of vernacular architecture. Although the house includes formal references to regional traditions, the character of its exterior and interior is still consistently modern. The house is built in a sequence of longitudinally I interconnected spaces. The long
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Changing Architecture, Italy

July 28, 2021|BIG SEE Wood Design Award 2021 – Winner, City and community, Italy, Wood|

The main value which moved towards the realization of this exhibition was to bring Architecture to the town and its citizens and not just to insiders: setting the exhibition in an urban scenery made Architecture be the witness and the actor of its own value. The setting chosen, a public square, could have given a sense of rhetorical self-praise, but the participation, the success, the emotional involvement of the
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