Interior Urbanism Workshop: Florence 2012

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Conference Hall by SelgasCano

Madrid-based architects selgascano designed an 18,500-square-metre seaside auditorium and conference hall in the port city of Cartagena, Murcia. The double facade of translucent extruded polycarb panels exposes the building's metallic structure and adds to the game of transparencies and tonalities created by injecting tiny dabs of neon paint into each piece, with different colours and intensities.

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Issey Miyake Turns Plastic Bottles Into Glowing Origami

In collaboration with Italian lighting brand Artemide, Miyake’s Reality Lab researched and developed a translucent fiber made from recycled PET plastic bottles (which likely held water or soda in their previous incarnations). The seven 3-D geometric shapes in the series were created using mathematic programs, but the effect is less technical than ethereal--no surprise considering IN-EI is Japanese for “shadow, shadiness, nuance.” Convenience isn’t on that list, but it could have been--each piece can be collapsed, but will retain its shape without the need for an interior frame when expanded again.


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