Monthly archives: June 2007

Vitra Campus party

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(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.

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Above: Christian Ouwens and Maarten Baas (nearest table) More »

Comme des Garçons Guerrilla Store +4161

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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 »

Hermitage State Museum masterplan by AMO

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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 »

Zaha Hadid at the Serpentine Gallery

Zaha Hadid at the Serpentine Gallery

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! Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

MyHome at Vitra Campus

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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.

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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 »

Urbantine Project design competition

Urbantine Project design competition

Emerging designers and architects are invited to enter the Urbantine Project – a competition to design a workspace for the 21st Century. More »

The Cloud by Atelier Hapsitus

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The Cloud is a speculative design for a resort city elevated 300 metres in the air above Dubai and supported on slanting legs resembling rain. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

dezeen at Design Miami/Basel

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Live from Basel: we just arrived in Basel, Switzerland for the Design Miami/Basel fair. We’ll be here for the next few days reporting live on the show. Off to the big event at the nearby Vitra Design Museum now, more news and photos soon…