Archive for March, 2008
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 »
Leave, a leaf-shaped fridge magnet designed by Richard Hutten, has been put into production by office furniture manufacturers Gispen. More »
Another one from Fashion Architecture Taste: the architects have completed the KK Outlet, a combined office, gallery and shop in London for communications agency KesselsKramer. More »
Architects Tonkin Liu have designed the China Design Now exhibition, which has just opened at the V&A museum in London. More »
Architects Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT) have won a competition to design a library and nursery at Walsall, England. More »
Betonvorhang, a concrete curtain by design company Memux (above), is one of 676 industrial products awarded in the Red Dot Awards 2008, which have just been announced. The list of winners is huge, so best you visit the Red Dot website for more info as our heads are hurting just looking at it all.
Casas Lago in Buenos Aires is the first built project from young Argentinian architects Adamo-Faiden. More »
