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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 »

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 »

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 »

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.

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.

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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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

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

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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 »

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 »

Here is Gitta Gschwendtner’s second exhibition space at the Wellcome Collection in London (see previous post). More »

Here is the first of two permanent exhibition spaces designed by Gitta Gschwendtner at the newly opened Wellcome Collection centre for medical science and art in London. More »

Starting this September, Parisian design gallery Galerie Kreo presents an exhibition of specially commissioned stools by designers including Julia Lohmann (above), François Azambourg (below), Andrée Putman and Alessandro Mendidi. More »

Stitch Room is Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec’s contribution to MyHome, an exhibition of experimental room sets at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany (via dezain.net). More »

Here is a selection of photos of Tom Dixon’s new collection of furniture and lighting. The designer presented the collection in Milan in April but photographs have only just been released (the images we used first time around are computer renderings).

Shown here are the Stout pendant light (top image and below), Link table and Base table light (above). More »