Design is all around. It is in the toothbrush, in the taps and in the glass
of water. In those comfy sneakers, the bag over the shoulder and the good
old jeans. In the street plates, the bench on the sidewalk and the
newspaper’s font. In the yoghurt packa
The deal will be financed by the Hungarian bank OTP and the Bulgarian DSK,
although once the purchase goes through, the mall will continue to be
managed by Avestus Capital Partners, the report said.
DesignByMany and media partner ArchDaily are pleased to announce the “Low
Cost, Low Energy House” by sustainable.TO as the winning design for the
Passive House for New Orleans competition. The competition challenged both
students and professionals to desi
BalREc investments and real estate market conference gathers experts from
the most active companies in the field of the investment projects in
Bulgaria:
The Neues Museum in Berlin is the winner of the 2011 European Union Prize
for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award, the European
Commission announced today. The building is a reconstruction, blending old
and new, by UK architect Sir David C
A 6-century-old plane tree that grows in the center of the village of
Garmen, Blagoevgrad district won the second place at the European Tree of
the Year contest, organized by the Czech Environmental Partnership
Foundation.
Under the auspices of the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works
of Bulgaria from 8th to 12th of March 2011 at Inter Expo Center – Sofia
will host the most prestigious International Specialized Exhibition in the
country and the Balkans BULGARIA
A high technology line for the production of powerful LEDs has started work
in the town of Godech, some 40 kilometers northwest of Sofia. The facility
is the first one in Bulgaria and in the EU, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko
Borissov said at the opening
The Furnishing Industry Trust (FIT) is calling for entries for the 2011
Women in Furnishing awards, which includes a brand new category. Sponsored
by Manchester Furniture Show and Willis and Gambier, 3rd June will see the
second year of the Women in Furni
In a Songlines (World Music Magazine) feature, pop star Bryan Adams has
revealed his exclusive playlist of Top 5 World Music Tracks, which
includes two Bulgarian performers.
imm cologne and LivingKitchen drew to a close on Sunday. Including
estimates for the final day of the fair, the dual event drew around
138,000 visitors to Cologne, reports organiser Koelnmesse – an increase of
38%.
Residential property prices in Bulgaria's capital Sofia declined 10.6%
year-on-year on average in the last three months of 2010 and by 1.3%
against the previous quarter, according to an analysis of Raiffeisen Real
Estate.
Ignatov Architects completes 'active green home' in Bulgaria
The Conservatory House (a.k.a. Home Tree House) is designed for the
enjoyment of nature and music. The client asked for a residence with a
space for hosting small music events and a large conse
In a display of some 100 sq m, Bulgaria will show the best of its
traditional foods, herbs and drinks at the 76th International Green Week
exhibition for the food, agricultural and horticultural industries
(January 21-30).
Leading design and engineering practice Arup have announced they are to cut
670 jobs within the UK following a major restructuring scheme. Employees
were warned of possible redundancies in September, when Arup confirmed
rumours that it may be forced to lo
Roca presented the 4th edition of the International Design Contest Jump the
Gap and opened the registration process for entries to the competition. The
prime objective of this Roca initiative is to support young talent
throughout the world and offer the w
About a quarter of Sofia's office space is still vacant despite the
market's slight improvement in 2010, according to a study by business real
estate company MBL, part of property consultancy group CB Richard Ellis.
Bulgaria's imports increased on an annual basis to 3.639 billion leva in
November 2010, the largest increase since the global financial crisis
started, according to National Statistical Institute data.
English rock musician John Lawton, who is former Uriah Heep vocalist, has
arrived to the southern Bulgarian town of Chepelare to continue filming
his documentary movies about Bulgarian cities and towns, the local
administration announced.
Swedish furniture maker IKEA has started recruiting employees a few months
before the launch of its flagship store in Bulgaria, which will be in
Sofia.
The northern part of the underpass in downtown Sofia near the shopping
mall, known as Central Department Store (CUM) will be taken down before
New Year's Eve.
Morocco and Bulgaria signed an agreement aimed at strengthening bilateral
industrial cooperation at the institutional level and in terms of research
and innovation Monday.
All foreigners who bought land, a house or possibly an apartment in
Bulgaria and registered a company in the country before 2008 must
re-register it as soon as possible – or face losing their property.
Foreigners cannot buy land, or property with land, in
Bulgaria's Kristalina Georgieva has triumphed with the "European of the
Year" and "EU Commissioner of the Year" awards of the prestigious
newspaper European Voice.
The European Commission expects the absorption of the 6,900 million euro
allocated to Bulgaria under the cohesion policy programmes in the EU to
increase the country's gross domestic product to 51 per cent of the EU
average level by 2013,
Bulgaria has time until the spring to decide on its participation in the
Belene Nuclear Power Plant and sign a contract with Russia for the
creation of a project campaign, Sergey Kiriyenko, CEO of the Russian state
nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, said
A prototype of the first electric vehicle charger for green power will be
ready by March 2011. The project is a brainchild of the Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences (BAS), CEZ Bulgaria and Diane Systems – a member of the
Industrial Cluster Electric Vehicles an
With belief in new talents, for the forth time, the world leader in
bathroom furnishing Roca, together with foundation BCD (Barcelona Design
Center) organizes the international contest for young designers Jump the
Gap. It provides stage for manifestation
The man who changed the way many of us live and work by designing the
world's first laptop computer - Bill Moggridge RDI - has been named the
winner of the 2010 Prince Philip Designers Prize by HRH The Duke of
Edinburgh at a ceremony at the Design Council
As the sun set over BD HQ, judges continued to debate the merits and
pitfalls of the five shortlisted contenders for this year’s Young
Architect of the Year Awards, in what turned out to be the closest-run
competition in some years, writes Oliver Wainwrig
Housing prices in the Bulgarian capital Sofia have stabilised, with
declines observed for small dwellings, according to real estate agency
Bulgarian Properties and credit company Creditex & Hypocredit.
The section of Trakia motorway between the cities of Stara Zagora and
Yambol could be completed at the beginning of 2012, announced Minister of
Regional Development and Public Works Rosen Plevneliev after inspecting
the construction works at the three mot
The globally renowned travel guide Lonely Planet's has ranked Bulgaria
fifth among the top 10 countries for 2011.
The first four spots are taken by Albania, Brazil, Cape Verde and Panama,
while Vanuatu, Italy, Tanzania, Syria and Japan are behind Bulgari
Bulgaria's lumber industry has started to overcome the effects of the
economic crisis but the furniture manufacturing is still declining,
according to participants in the "World of Furniture" expo in Sofia.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named Professor Dean
Hawkes as the winner of the RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in
Architectural Education.
WAN Sector Awards showcase the best of built and unbuilt design
After the largest submissions in any single category of the WAN AWARDS so
far, the winning projects in the Urban Sector are Beijing International
Airport by Foster and Partners and Nordhavne
Kettal has received the National Design Prize 2010 from the Ministry of
Science and Innovation.
This is the highest accolade awarded in Spain to companies that
successfully use design as part of their innovation strategy.
The internationally-acclaimed British architect Sir David Chipperfield CBE
has been named today as the recipient of one of the world's most
prestigious architecture prizes, the Royal Gold Medal.
The Liquid Wall is the winner of an open competition. The prototype is on
view at the Center for Architecture during the Innovate:Integrate
exhibition.
Sofia Architecture Week is an international architecture festival,
organized by the independent medium One Magazine. It is a platform for
dialogue and exchange of ideas between people who are actively engaged in
the problems of their environment.
STROIKO 2000 is the biggest trading fare for architecture, construction and
furnishing in Bulgaria. It takes place in Sofia in the National Palace of
Culture - a luxurious building in the very hearth of the city. The fair
area covers 5000 square meters. E
The AutoCAD WS mobile application enables AutoCAD users to edit and share
AutoCAD files on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch so they can have real-time
collaboration even while on the go.
Disclosing its financial results for the first time, Swedish home
furnishings retailer Ikea said today that its earnings rose 11.3% in the
2009 fiscal year as sales inched up 1.4% from 2008.
Workers building the Lyulin highway near Bulgaria's capital Sofia excavated
a unique find Wednesday – a fish fossil whose age is estimated at 200
million years.
The Bourgas Regional Inspectorate for Environment and Waters (RIOSV) has
allowed an investor to build a luxury resort complex in the Karadere
nature reserve area, Stroi Media said on September 27 2010.
The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) has signed a loan agreement
with Raiffeisenbank (Bulgaria) EAD (or “the Bank”), providing the Bank
with EUR 20 million to be used for on-lending to lower income private
households in Bulgaria to finance housin
The relics of St. John the Baptist, which were found in July near the
Bulgarian Black Sea town of Sozopol, might be lying in state in Sofia on
November 21.
The Reid furniture group has closed another three stores in Ireland – two
in Dublin and one in Newry – taking the total closures there to seven
since June.
Bulgarian architect Yanko Apostolov has been named as the architect for a
new museum complex in the heart of Sofia. Several months ago Culture
Minister Vezhdi Rashidov announced that the architect Vladislav Nikolov
would be designing the project affection
Bulgaria's competitiveness slightly improved from last year but continues
to lag behind most Central and Eastern European countries and EU member
states, an annual ranking by the Switzerland-based World Economic Forum
showed.
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.
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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
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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
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