Archive for September, 2007

September 11th, 2007

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Link is a new modular product designed by PearsonLloyd featuring units made of ARPRO expanded polypropylene that join together to create free-standing partitions and room dividers. More »

September 10th, 2007

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Covent Garden Super Design is an exhibition of one-off and limited edition pieces taking place in Covent Garden, London in October. More »

September 10th, 2007

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Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) will show a LEGO model of their LEGO Towers project for an upcoming exhibition at Storefront for Architecture and Design in New York. More »

September 10th, 2007

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More from Foster: the architect has announced what is described as the world’s “largest and most complete sustainable regional development”. More »

September 10th, 2007

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Mater is a new homewares brand with a commitment to sourcing products that are socially and environmentally sustainable. More »

September 9th, 2007

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Cluster Lamp by Joel Degermark has gone into production with dutch brand Moooi. More »

September 9th, 2007

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We found these in our iPhoto album and thought you might like them – a set of snaps taken a couple of years ago at the Dominus Winery in Napa Valley, California, designed by Herzog & de Meuron. More »

September 9th, 2007

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Twenty-first century icons: The Bubble Project is an on-going project that involves placing speech-bubble stickers on advertising posters around the world and then returning to photograph the comments people have scrawled on them. More »

September 7th, 2007

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Designers, artists and architects who have completed projects using glass have until the end of October to enter the Bombay Sapphire Prize 2007 – the world’s richest international glass award. More »

September 6th, 2007

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Grão is a project by Portuguese multidisciplinary studio Pedrita that takes surplus decorative tiles and combines them so that each one becomes a single “pixel” in large-scale murals. More »

September 6th, 2007

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Here are some photos showing construction of Cityscape, a giant timber installation in Brussels by designer Arne Quinze. More »

September 5th, 2007

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Danish architect Julien de Smedt of JDS Architects has won a competition to design a new ski jump at Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. More »

September 5th, 2007

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Architects Foster + Partners have won a competition to build the world’s first private spaceport in New Mexico. More »

September 4th, 2007

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Artjail is a satirical proposal for the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia that involves moving the famous art collection to a new building in the centre of the city and combining it with a youth prison and gambling facilities. More »

September 4th, 2007

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Foster + Partners have won the 2007 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for their Petronas University of Technology in Malaysia. More »