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• Rural Medical Practice Showcasing Healing Design
• Small Swedish Apartment Securing The Inhabitant’s Every Need
• Odd, yet Practical: Recycled PET Bottles Stuffed with Human Hair
• Company Headquarters Displaying Interesting Architecture Details: Jansen Campus
• Hand Crafted Typographic Comic Book-Inspired Shazam Table

Rural Medical Practice Showcasing Healing Design Posted: 13 Jun 2012 06:25 AM PDT ParkPraxis is a unique medical clinic welcoming patients with a warm, confident interior design. Located on the outskirts of the Sankt Pölten-Land park, its surprising stainless steel facade mirrors the green surroundings, proving once again that nature and architecture go hand in hand. The medical clinic equipped with an in-house pharmacy was designed by X Architekten for Dr. Regina Fehrmann – a family physician for the residents of three small towns in southern Austria. Occupying 224 square meters, the medical practice successfully showcases a welcoming design, that has nothing to do with cold, inhumane clinics where your body might be healed, but your mind will forever remember the inhospitable environment. This totally different clinic is based on a central glass patio surrounded by offices, laboratories and waiting spaces. A tree rises in the middle of the glass enclosure only to remind patients that nature is close by and its healing power will not be overlooked. Vividly colored details and natural light compose an idyllic space, where medicine is practiced in a comforting, welcoming environment. You're reading Rural Medical Practice Showcasing Healing Design originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

Small Swedish Apartment Securing The Inhabitant’s Every Need Posted: 13 Jun 2012 04:27 AM PDT Naturally bright and showcasing a space composition that constructs the setting for a comfortable, modern lifestyle, this apartment found on Stadshem keeps the most important features of the old arrangement, while displaying lavish colors and textures in an up-to-date interior design. This small but cozy apartment in Gothenburg’s Lorensberg district show that even a small space can become an open floor crib adapted to our modern society. Three tall windows flood the living, dining and kitchen with natural light which bounces off the original spruce wood floors. Leading up to the bedroom space, a varnished walnut staircase breaks the monotony of white walls while hiding storage spaces underneath. A built-in bookcase reaching to the ceiling adorns the living room and connects it to the mezzanine bedroom area. This open floor living space sums up to 38 square meters of living space, including a recently renovated bathroom. Glossy white cabinet doors and a solid black granite countertop in the kitchen create a modern background for cooking at home and impose a feeling of contemporary habitable space on the whole apartment. You're reading Small Swedish Apartment Securing The Inhabitant’s Every Need originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

Odd, yet Practical: Recycled PET Bottles Stuffed with Human Hair Posted: 13 Jun 2012 03:20 AM PDT We recently received photos and information about The Bare Hair Project, a design that managed to capture our undivided attention. Sure, it was weird reading about it at first, but it definitely managed to intrigue us and we are curious about your reactions. Designed by Ola Giertz, these two unusual poufs in the photos below were created using recycled PET bottles and human hair: “Bare Hair was developed for Studio Västra Sandgatan, a swedish hair studio in Helsingborg, Sweden. Collecting hair waste, using it to fill poufs, made the custumers part of the process of making furniture. The project is essentially about finding possibilities and functionality in that which would otherwise be considered ugly. The transparent poufs, highlighting the originality of the stuffing, makes the product dynamic: its colour and shape can be changed depending on the stuffing, lending uniqueness to each pouf.” So…captivating or a little to out there? You're reading Odd, yet Practical: Recycled PET Bottles Stuffed with Human Hair originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

Company Headquarters Displaying Interesting Architecture Details: Jansen Campus Posted: 13 Jun 2012 02:07 AM PDT Jansen Campus is the new headquarters of a Swiss steel and plastics company located in Oberriet, Switzerland and designed by Lugano-based practice Davide Macullo Architects. Discovered on designboom, the building complex consists of inclined panels of different sizes, having an overall interesting visual effect. Here are some descriptive details from the architects, concerning the interiors of the project: “The internal landscape is articulated as a fluid zone, acting as an extension of the urban streets of the village. A system of solids and voids expand in all directions. The apparent mass of the building is dematerialized internally, flooded with natural light. The public functions are distributed from a reception space on the ground floor. Rooms for meetings, business lunches and a restaurant all lead off this area. Beside the reception is the 'mission control' representing the operational heart of the company and acts almost like the stock market, where all information regarding the inner workings of the company is processed here in real time“. The building complex is structured on three levels, as follows: on the first floor there is a workplace, an informal meeting space and the meeting rooms, the second level accommoadates an open plan office for the communications section and the upper floor is where the boardroom and a panoramic terrace are located. You're reading Company Headquarters Displaying Interesting Architecture Details: Jansen Campus originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

Hand Crafted Typographic Comic Book-Inspired Shazam Table Posted: 13 Jun 2012 12:48 AM PDT Displaying a striking typographic design, this coffee table embodies the love for comic books and their wonderful other-worldly feeling – the Shazam Table composes an appealing atmosphere tinted with a little bit of of magic. Imagined by EViL ED and Dan Robotic of Evil Robot Designs – an artistic duo creating spectacular furniture pieces that sit at the border between geek and cool – the Shazam Table was hand crafted in solid American Walnut and finished with a light gloss oil. Resting on stained black oak feet, the table was inspired by comic book sound effects and beautifully integrated within contemporary settings. Hollow on the inside, the walnut coffee table filters light and casts shadow through its 40 cm high carefully cut body – a modern interpretation of our culture seen through the eyes of its creators. The bespoke coffee table measures 100 cm in length and is 40 cm wide – why now take a tape measure and see where it would fit in your home? You're reading Hand Crafted Typographic Comic Book-Inspired Shazam Table originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

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