Archive for March, 2008
Milan 08: American manufacturers Emeco will launch Nine-0, the last range of chairs and stools by late Italian designer Ettore Sottsass, at the Milan furniture fair next month. More »
Architects Serero have won a competition to temporarily remodel the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (via The Guardian). Update 29/03/08: we all got spoofed by this one. Seems the project is a fake. More »
Nicolas Cheng and Michael Leung of Studio Leung have created Printable Offerings, a collection of images of everyday items such as iPhones, Bic biros and Tempo pocket tissues that can be downloaded, printed and assembled into 3D models for use at Chinese festivals. More »
Milan 08: Designer Arne Quinze will present two new pieces at the Swarovski Crystal Palace exhibition in Milan next month. More »
Architects Elastik have completed a new store for jewellery designer Lara Bohinc on Sloane Street in London. More »
Milan 08: industrial designer Konstantin Grcic will launch Myto, a new cantilevered chair for design brand Plank at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan next month. More »
Architects Herzog & de Meuron have designed 1111 Lincoln Road, a “retail, residential, dining and parking experience” on Miami Beach. More »
Design Indaba 08: here’s a new set of photos showing progress on the first sand-bag house being built at Freedom Park in Cape Town, South Africa. More »
Design Indaba 08: South African designer Haldane Martin showed two lamps with ostrich-feather shades at the Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town last month. More »
Stockholm Design Week: Swedish designers Smånsk showed a prototype of their Skew bookcase at the Greenhouse young designers showcase at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last month. More »
Five architects, including Studio Daniel Libeskind (above and below), Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Foster + Partners, have been shortlisted to design Tour Signal, a high-rise building at La Défense business district in Paris. More »
Here’s a third project by architects Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT) - a design for a 19-storey residential tower beside Mile End Park in London. More »
Architects Levitate have won the competition to revitalise Birnbeck Pier at Weston-Super-Mare, England More »
London-based architecture and design studio Voon Wong & Benson Saw have created a cloud-like installation using polystyrene cups for the opening of a design store in Malaysia. More »
Swedish architects Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture have designed a series of four prefabricated low-energy houses. More »
Designer Yves Béhar won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year award at a ceremony at the Design Museum in London last night, for the One Laptop Per Child project. More »
Japanese architects Kiyonobu Nakagame have updated their website, showing work including House in Sendai-Kasumi. More »
