Archive for July, 2007

July 22nd, 2007

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RCA summer show 07: Design Products graduate Jordi Canudas has sent some new images of Wallfa, a screen-cum-sofa he exhibited at the Royal College of Art summer show last month.

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July 22nd, 2007

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OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture have sent us some new renderings, plans and sections of Porsche Design Towers I and II, which they are jointly designing with Porsche Design. More »

July 22nd, 2007

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Phillips de Pury & Company will present an exhibition of 16 lights by American designer-artist Marcus Tremonto in New York this December. More »

July 22nd, 2007

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Carmaker BMW has published the results of a UK-based study into the way people behave and feel while travelling in cars, both as drivers and passengers. The findings come in a report called “The Secret Life of Cars and What They Reveal About Us”, which was commissioned to help BMW understand drivers’ current and future needs. More »

July 21st, 2007

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Typographic designer Pippo Lionni presents an installation called Everlastingblast as part of the Material Culture: Contemporary American Design exhibition at Max Lang Gallery in New York. More »

July 20th, 2007

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Tonight (Friday) saw the opening of an installation by Brazilian designers the Campana Brothers in the John Majedski Garden at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. More »

July 20th, 2007

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We’ve updated our blog for the Design Museum’s Zaha Hadid exhibition with new content, including photos and movie footage of Metapolis II, a ballet featuring stage designs by Hadid that opens at the Lincoln Center in New York next week (above and below).

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There’s also a movie of Hadid’s speech at the private dinner following the opening of her exhibition at the Design Museum, and an acerbic essay by Times architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff.

July 20th, 2007

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Furniture designer Matthew Hilton (below) will launch a new range of furniture under his own brand for the first at the 100% Design show in London this September. More »

July 19th, 2007

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Slovenian architects Ofis have completed two apartment projects, including a block in a mountain village near Ljubljana that is based on local Alpine hayracks (above). More »

July 19th, 2007

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OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture have designed a new international airport for Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

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Located between Jeddah and Mecca, the airport will cater for the two million pilgrims who make the journey to Mecca during the holy Hajj period and features a special terminal for the Saudi Royal Family (top two images). More »

July 18th, 2007

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OMA in the Middle East: RAK Gateway is a masterplan by Office for Metropolitan Architecture for a large urban development at Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost of the United Arab Emirates. More »

July 18th, 2007

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Studioilse, the design studio of Ilse Crawford, has designed the Club Room at the Wellcome Collection centre for medical science and art in London. More »

July 18th, 2007

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Here are some snaps taken at Things I have Learned in My Life So Far - an exhibition of the work of legendary graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister at the SuperSpace gallery in Belgrade. More »

July 17th, 2007

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OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture has sent images and text of its Kuwait Al-Rai Development Masterplan - a study for a major mixed development in Kuwait City.

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The masterplan features a central open-air pedestrian mall called The Avenues, which aims to reintroduce the idea of promenading to the car-dependent city.

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Over the next few days we’ll be publishing more OMA projects in the Middle East and providing links to those we’ve already published, to present a comprehensive directory of the firm’s activities in the region. More »

July 17th, 2007

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Nobody Chair by Danish design company Komplot is made out of recycled plastic water bottles using a manufacturing technique borrowed from the car industry. More »

July 17th, 2007

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4D Glass is a project that uses a computer-generated wireframe model as decoration on a physical object. More »

July 17th, 2007

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Bar Code is a low-energy bar and night club in London that runs on “about the same amount of energy it takes to make a cup of tea”, according to its designers, architects Woods Bagot. More »

July 16th, 2007

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J Mayer H architects have completed an extension to the Danfoss Universe science park in Nordburg, Denmark.

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The extension consists of two new buildings: a Curiosity Center (top two images) and a cafe (below, foreground).

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July 16th, 2007

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Shoreditch House, the latest private members’ club in the Soho House group, has opened in Shoreditch in east London, with interiors by Tom Dixon. More »

July 16th, 2007

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New Designers 07: Ty-bihan is a combined dining table and storage system designed by Gaël Horsfall, a graduate from the contemporary design course at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in England. More »