The objective of the contest is the creation of an Olympic museum in
Athens, dedicated to protect and remember all those historical moments.
The site is in a very particular area of the city, surrounded by
representative work of the ancient Greek culture
The Kingdom of Bahrain has won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale
for the best national pavilion.
Curated by Bahrainian architects and academics Moura Al-Sayeh and Dr Fuad
Al-Ansari, the pavilion focuses on an exploration of the country’s cul
Japanese consumer electronics maker Toshiba Corp said it plans to launch
solar power projects in Europe and the United States, including Bulgaria,
Reuters reported.
Arquitectum with the Universidad Finis Terrae and the Chilean Association
of Vineyards have launched the International Architecture Competition
“Santiago de Chile 2010″.
The challenge for this architecture competition is to design a Museum that
ha
A new agent-run fair is taking place in Somerset in September. The South
West Furniture Show has been organised by the SWFMARF (South West
Furniture Manufacturer’s Agent & Representatives Federation).
The new 15 projects received confirmation. The approved investments are
total 6.3 million levs. The subsidy, which will be pay on the candidates
if they successfully execute the projects, is more than 3.8 million levs.
According to agreement between Bulgaria and Morocco, during 27-30 September
2010 will be held The Nine session of Bulgarian-Morocco governmental
commission. The co-chairman on the Bulgarian hand is Minister Traicho
Traikov, minister of economic, energetic
The Spanish architect Agapit Boras made a historic parallel between Spain
and Bulgaria in the exhibition, called ARTEFACT. This event is part of the
Seventh Biennale AUGUST IN THE ART, which is holding in Varna, Bulgaria.
The project Bamboo Kitchen won in the first edition of the Whirlpool
Glamour Kitchen Contest. The project is designed from Irina Georgieva and
Michail Klenov, both are students in the UACEG - University of
Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofi
A proposal to build a mosque steps from Ground Zero received the support of
a downtown committee despite some loved ones of 9/11 victims finding it
offensive.
The 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center was unanimously endorsed
by the 12-member Commu
A new Karim Rashid collaboration with Raynor Contract was revealed today at
the NeoCon show; a task chair with a very unusual form factor, one designed
with the body's pressure points in mind. We're guessing the Chakra is the
sort of chair which will spli
29th August > 21st November 2010
The 12th Intl. Architecture Exhibition, directed by Kazuyo Sejima and
titled People meet in architecture, will run 29th August to 21st November
2010.
Archeologist Prof Nikolay Ovcharov and his team returned on the excavation
sites in Perperikon despite the crisis. “We start with only 40 000 levs
provided by Kardjali municipality. The money come to an extent from the
entrance fees to the rock town coll
In general 31 projects submitted in the Government of Culture about Design
of modern museum center in Sofia competition.
The project copies are closed in the special boxes in the room with
limited access in the building of the Government of Culture. T
Productive value of Taiwan’s Machine Tool Industry came to US$5bn in 2008,
ranking it fifth in the world. Taiwan is also the 4th largest exporting
country and also the 5th largest importing country of the world. MT duo –
which combines machines and techno
On February 22 in the Central hall of architect was opened the exhibition
named “Disappear houses”/ “Beauty houses”. The project is realized in
support of the national campaign of the Council of architects in Bulgaria
“Inheritance in risk”.
In the exhibi
The 40th Heimtextil in Frankfurt ended on a highly positive note for the
2010 business year. 72,000 trade visitors from more than 120 countries
took advantage of the leading international trade fair for home and
contract textiles to replenish their stocks
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Year 2010 started with unprecedented cold spell. In spite and just because
of that we started with a temporary vinyl-cardboard shelter for a homeless
person who lives in Sofia center on a coverlet and mattress.
Swedish furniture company IKEA will be step on the Bulgarian market till
the end of the year. This news announced the head architect of Sofia Petar
Dikov.
The famous Italian companies Cassina & Cappellini was awarded with 2010
Wallpaper* Design Awards.
After BOTTLE table in 2007 and LUXOR cabinets in 2008, Cappellini wins
again the Wallpaper Design Award, the annual ceremony promoted in London
by Wallpape
Victoria Beckham is mulling over an offer to help design a luxury hotel for
a jaw-dropping s25million fee.
The ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, personally wrote
to ask her on to the project after Posh, 35, and husband David met senio
What better way to usher in the startof a new era than with a new product –
a product that has been designed by no lesser designer than Philippe
Starck.
Philippe Starck designs objects that accompany us through our everyday
lives. Intelligentdesign wi
From 22nd to 25th of October 2008 Inter Expo and Congress Center – Sofia
will host the fourth International Specialised Exhibition WORLD OF
FURNITURE.
On an area of over 3200 sq. m more than 220 companies – direct exhibitors
and subexhibitiors from 18 c
STROIKO 2000 is the biggest trade fair for architecture, construction and
furnishing in Bulgaria. It takes place in Sofia in the National Palace of
Culture during October 15 – 21 2008. The building has 8 levels. The fair
area covers 5000 square meters.
The Month of Design Conference
Oct. 23-24, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Month of Design Conference, which opens the Zavod Big’s
Ljubljana-based Month of Design event, serves as a venue for
interdisciplinary dialogue on the role of design in the contemporar
On April 25th 2008, Mr.José-Miguel Roca, CEO of Roca Group announced
the acquisition of an
additional 47% equity stake of the company Parryware Roca Private Limited
in Chennai, India.
The yearly contest has two categories: home bathroom and hotel/business
bathroom. The winner in each of the categories will go on a trip to the
Maldives.
The new initiative -to persuade Bulgarian tourists to choose a vacation in
their motherland, is organized by “Travel TV” and the tourist branch
organizations.
On the 14th of November the most prestigious Bulgarian architecture awards
Vizar met the official EU awards for modern architecture presented by the
Mies van der Rohe foundation. The organizer of this event was Roca
Bulgaria which invited the director of
Louis Ortet is coming to Bulgaria on the invitation of Roca Bulgaria to
deliver a lecture especially for the week of the prestigious Bulgarian
Architecture Awards – Vizar. Roca Bulgaria and Vizar Foundation invite you
to visit the lecture.
Don’t miss the chance of subscribing to AT HOME magazine.
Catalogue numbers for subscription via Bulgarian Posts:
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The ceremony of “Computer Space” 2007 will be held on the 26th of October
in “Voenen klub”.
Computer space is a non-commercial international festival of computer arts
with prestigious international participants. This is the biggest computer
arts event
Be informed about the most important in the field of hotels and restaurants
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Thessaloniki in North Greece. Firstly, we are interested in expanding our
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Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway: Northern Europe will speak just one
language in 2005 - that of design. The four Scandinavian countries have
joined forces to attain an ambitious objective - to promote the northern
European tradition of design.
From May 31 to June 3 2005 going to held the specialized exhibition
EXPOLIGHT at Inter Expo Centre, Sofia. The organizers are Bulgarreklama
Agency Ltd. and Ost-West-Partner GmbH, Germany.
The book does not claim to be highly theoretical and that is why one can
learn a lot. The familiar conclusions and arguments are supported by a
number of facts and examples from the most modern history of architecture.
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