The website of Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) presents a slideshow of Hafjell Mountain Hotel - a design for hotel and apartment complex at a ski resort in Norway. More »
Archive for July, 2007
July 31st, 2007
July 31st, 2007
French architect Jean Nouvel has won the competition to remodel the central port area in Vigo, Spain (actually he won back in May - thanks to eikongraphia via dezain for the tip). More »
July 30th, 2007
New Designers 07: Light Bulb Packaging is a light designed by University of Brighton graduate Olivia Cheung that attempts to avoid waste by converting packaging into product. More »
July 30th, 2007
Matthew Hilton is one of three designers presenting new ranges for British manufacturer Ercol at the new Tent London showcase from 20-23 September. More »
July 30th, 2007
July 29th, 2007
Split series is a design system by Peter Marigold that involves splitting timber logs lengthways into four parts and using the resulting odd angles to generate idiosyncratic shelves, tables and storage towers. More »
July 29th, 2007
OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture have sent over a few more images of Dubai Renaissance, a 300m-tall rotating skyscraper. More »
July 29th, 2007
Here are more images of the six shortlisted designs for the British pavilion at Shanghai World Expo 2010 (see previous story) plus, further down the story, text describing each one. Above: The Pavilion of Ideas by Heatherwick Studio, Casson Mann, Adams Kara Taylor & Atelier Ten
Above: Our Island by draw Architects & dcm studios, Graven Images, Ove Arup & Partners Ltd/Arup International Consultants (Shanghai) Co Ltd, Botanical Society Of Scotland
Ribbon of Culture by EIGHT: John McAslan + Partners, Brisac Gonzalez, Carmody Groarke, Nord Architecture, Project Orange, Surface Architects, Wordsearch, Arup
Above: Sharing Innovations, Engaging Nations by Marks Barfield Architects/Imagination Limited, Price & Myers Consulting Engineers/Arup
The Network Pavilion by Zaha Hadid Architects, Arup, Metstudio and the Architectural Association School of Architecture Curatorial Projects More »
July 27th, 2007
Images of the six designs shortlisted for the British Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 have been released. More »
July 26th, 2007
July 26th, 2007
Architect Amanda Levete of Future Systems has designed an installation using DuPont Corian for the London Design Festival this September. More »
July 26th, 2007
Architects Denton Corker Marshall have won a competition to design a 50-storey office tower in their home town of Melbourne, Australia. More »
July 25th, 2007
Building Design magazine has published the shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize. The six shortlisted buildings are: More »
July 25th, 2007
We’re not making it up: Leeser Architecture of New York have won a competition to design the World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in Yakutsk, Siberia. More »
July 25th, 2007
Finnish design duo Company present an exhibition called Top Secrets of Finland at the Kiasma contemporary art museum in Helsinki.
The show consists of a shop selling products that designers Aamu Song and Johan Olin developed in conjunction with manufacturers of traditional furniture, clothing and household goods across Finland. More »
July 24th, 2007
Office for Metropolitan Architecture has designed what will be the tallest tower in Latin America, to be built in the centre of Mexico City. More »
July 23rd, 2007
Type the Sky by Lisa Rienermann is an alphabet formed of shapes buildings make against the sky when photographed from below. More »
July 23rd, 2007
Here are some photos of the newly opened expansion of the Akron Art Museum in Akron, Ohio, USA designed by Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au. More »
July 23rd, 2007
Italian design brand Tacchini will hold the UK launch of its new furniture collection in London this September.
The collection includes pieces by PearsonLloyd (whose Polar stool is shown above), Claesson Koivisto Rune and Ben Addy of Moxon Architects, whose Mull chair will be presented for the first time (top image). More »
July 23rd, 2007
Board Room is an installation by Atelier van Lieshout at the new Hayward Projects Space at the Hayward Gallery in London. More »
