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5 design-friendly smart thermostats combining form and function

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Launched in 2013, the Hive Active Heating thermostat and app system allowed customers to control heating and hot water in their homes via the company’s website or app. Instead of a screen, the second phase is minimal and features an LED display that only lights up when the user touches the controls. Hive Active Heating Phase 2.

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Linehouse creates greenhouse-informed food market in Shanghai

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Read: Overlapping concrete arches frame Bangkok shopping centre by Linehouse Various typologies of food vendors are arranged in the open atrium on the ground floor, some of which are designed to be retractable, allowing flexibility for different types of vendors as well as a large open event space to be formed at the centre.

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Linehouse uses typically urban materials inside Xiamen's JNBY store

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Each one is bordered by bright-white LED strip lights. Panels of fluted glass form a screen around the edge of the store. The urban materiality of the store is interrupted by a couple of ceramic display stands, which Linehouse formed by wrapping convex tiles around steel poles that extend from the floor to the ceiling.

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Biophilic Design Is Part Of The New Normal (And We’re Not Just Talking Office Plants)

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Our working day would revolve around natural light – as it still does for some workers in the farming industry. “It’s about bringing nature in all its forms – including patterns, materials, shapes, spaces, smells, sights and sounds – into urban design on varying scales” Jana Söderlund.

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Home Influencer: A lifestyle-driven design for a fashionable family

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Light-filled and minimalistic surfaces form the monochrome backdrop of “Instagrammable” interiors by ??Hong Architects Lorène Faure and Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui moved to Hong Kong to set up their practice in 2013. Hong Kong-based architecture practice Bean Buro.

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Five highlights from the 5Vie district at Milan Design Week 2021

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Since 2013, 5VIE has organized impeccable exhibits focusing on art-design and unique and collectible pieces. Crafting lights , chairs and tables, among other objects, a group of nine renowned designers presented their take on Altentejo marble. Line of Marble @ SIAM. Honesta makes its’ debut.

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How To Design Workplaces For Neurodivergent Employees

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How can workspaces better meet the needs of neurodivergent people – such as those with hypersensitivity to sound, light, or smell? 2013 ), meaning that it can be a real challenge to find the right balance, and mismatches of reactivity and environment are common. One contributing factor is the way workspaces are designed.

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