Designer Ilse Crawford has completed the interiors for two new restaurants at Grand Hotel Stockholm in Sweden. More »
Archive for June, 2007
June 21st, 2007
June 21st, 2007
Basel update: Milanese gallery Nilufar presented a limited edition series of Bookcase by Martino Gamper at Design Miami/Basel last week. More »
June 21st, 2007
We’ve finally got hold of a photo of the interior of Thomas Heatherwick’s just-opened East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton, England. Just the one though. See our earlier post for more images and links.
June 21st, 2007
David Chipperfield Architects have presented new designs for the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, England. More »
June 20th, 2007
Spanish architects Estudio Barozzi Veiga have won first prize in a competition to design the new Szczecin Philharmonie concert hall in Szczecin, Poland. More »
June 19th, 2007
Basel update: Galerie Kreo of Paris showed new furniture by Hella Jongerius (above) and the Bouroullec brothers (below) plus work by Front and Fernando Brizio, among others, at the Design Miami/Basel fair last week.
Top image: Backpack Sofa by Hella Jongerius. Above: Rice Field table by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
Above: Painting with Giotto #3 by Fernando Brizio More »
June 19th, 2007
Developer Urban Splash has completed the first phase of Chimney Pot Park, a project to revitalise streets of unwanted century-old terraced housing in Salford, England.
June 19th, 2007
Here are some more photos of East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton, England, designed by Thomas Heatherwick. More »
June 18th, 2007
Basel update: British artist/designer Barnaby Barford presented a new range of porcelain figurines with David Gill Galleries at the Design Miami/Basel collectors’ fair that ended on Saturday. More »
June 18th, 2007
SANAA Houses is a new book about the cult Japanese architectural practice headed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. More »
June 17th, 2007
London architects Waugh Thistleton have designed a timber residential tower they say will be the tallest wooden housing block in the world. More »
June 16th, 2007
(Almost) live from Basel: the opening party for the MyHome and Vitra Edition 2007 exhibitions at Weil am Rhein on Wednesday night saw every building on the Vitra Campus open to guests, and open-air lounges set up beneath cherry trees in a meadow.
Above: Christian Ouwens and Maarten Baas (nearest table) More »
June 16th, 2007
Live from Basel: here are some photos we took at Comme des Garçons Guerrilla Store +4161, which has been temporarily set up in an old industrial building in Basel, Switzerland. More »
June 15th, 2007
AMO, the think-tank arm of Office for Metropolitan Architecture, has announced a collaboration with the Hermitage State Museum (above) in St Petersburg, Russia, to develop a new museum typology for the 21st Century. More »
June 15th, 2007
Design London, a new contemporary design fair aimed at the collectors’ market, will take place in Hanover Square, London this October. More »
June 15th, 2007
Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall have nearly completed the Manchester Civil Justice Centre in Manchester, England. More »
June 15th, 2007
Message to the people who are moaning about the amount of Zaha Hadid stuff on dezeen: nobody is forcing you to visit this site! Give us a break! More »
June 15th, 2007
Live from Basel: here are a few snaps we took at the opening of the MyHome exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum on the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein on Wednesday.
The exhibition, subtitled “Seven experiments for contemporary living,” presents installations by designers Jurgen Bey (below), Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the Campana Brothers (top image), Hella Jongerius, Greg Lynn, Jurgen Mayer H, and Jerszy Seymour (above). More »
June 15th, 2007
Emerging designers and architects are invited to enter the Urbantine Project – a competition to design a workspace for the 21st Century. More »
June 14th, 2007
Live from Basel: over the last two days, designers have been creating objects live at the Design Miami/Basel fair in Switzerland.
