Diffusion Vessels by David Sutton
RCA summer show: Diffusion Vessels are a series of bowls designed by digitally recreating the fractal growth patterns of natural phenomena such as lightning and snowflakes. More »
Monthly archives: June 2007
Zaha Hadid blog update
The Zaha Hadid – Architecture and Design exhibition opens at the Design Museum in London this Friday, and we’ve updated the exhibition blog with more material about the show and about Zaha Hadid Architects in general. More »
Domestic wind turbine by Ben Storan
RCA summer show: here is the first of our posts from The Great Exhibition 2007 – the Royal College of Art Summer Show, which is on at the RCA in London and a temporary venue in Kensington Gardens. More »
Casa da Musica wins RIBA European award
The Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto, Portugal, by Office for Metropolitan Architecture has won the European Award at the Royal Institute of British Architects awards, held in London tonight. More »
Ostel communist-style hotel in Berlin
Ostel is a new budget hotel in Berlin that celebrates Communist retro chic. More »
Matsalen and Matbaren by Ilse Crawford
Designer Ilse Crawford has completed the interiors for two new restaurants at Grand Hotel Stockholm in Sweden. More »
Martino Gamper for Nilufar
Basel update: Milanese gallery Nilufar presented a limited edition series of Bookcase by Martino Gamper at Design Miami/Basel last week. More »
East Beach Cafe interior
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.
Turner Contemporary by David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield Architects have presented new designs for the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, England. More »
Szczecin Philharmonie by EBV
Spanish architects Estudio Barozzi Veiga have won first prize in a competition to design the new Szczecin Philharmonie concert hall in Szczecin, Poland. More »
Galerie Kreo at Design Miami/Basel
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 »
Chimney Pot Park by Urban Splash
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.
More images of Heatherwick’s East Beach Cafe
Here are some more photos of East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton, England, designed by Thomas Heatherwick. More »
Noir Collection by Barnaby Barford
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 »
SANAA Houses
SANAA Houses is a new book about the cult Japanese architectural practice headed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. More »