Archive for March, 2008

March 18th, 2008

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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 »

March 18th, 2008

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Architects Tonkin Liu have designed the China Design Now exhibition, which has just opened at the V&A museum in London. More »

March 17th, 2008

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Architects Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT) have won a competition to design a library and nursery at Walsall, England. More »

March 17th, 2008

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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.

March 17th, 2008

Casas Lago in Buenos Aires is the first built project from young Argentinian architects Adamo-Faiden. More »

March 17th, 2008

Here are a few photographs of the Living bridge in Limerick, Republic of Ireland, by London-based architects Wilkinson Eyre. More »

March 17th, 2008

Japanese designer Kimihiko Okada has created an installation called Another Geography at the Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama, Tokyo. More »

March 17th, 2008


Now you can build your own Wall House: Chilean architects FAR frohn&rojas are selling sets of plans for their award-winning, tent-covered home. More »

March 14th, 2008

Japanese architect Akihito Fumita has designed the Nissan Grandrive event hall in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa as part of a renovation of the car maker’s test facilities. More »

March 13th, 2008

Chanel Contemporary Art Container, a travelling art space designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, has opened in its first destination, Hong Kong.

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March 13th, 2008

The V&A Museum of Childhood in London will host an exhibition of Olympic Games posters spanning from 1900 to the present day. More »

March 13th, 2008

100 Chairs in 100 Days by Martino Gamper is one of seven category winners for the first Brit Insurance Design of the Year Awards, organised by the Design Museum in London. More »

March 12th, 2008

Terry Pawson Architects have won approval to build two private houses in a conservation area at Kingston Upon Thames near London. More »

March 12th, 2008

Office for Metropolitan Architecture have completed the masterplan for Waterfront City, a new city proposed for Dubai. More »

March 12th, 2008

Extra ID jewellery by Dutch designer Anke Weiss imitates the security tags attached to items of clothing in shops to prevent them from being stolen. More »

March 11th, 2008

Architects Foster + Partners have launched their design for Abu Dhabi World Trade Center, part of the Al Raha Beach development in Abu Dhabi. More »

March 11th, 2008

Design Indaba 08: a space-saving bed system designed Tsai Design Studio of Cape Town was name Most Beautiful Object in South Africa at the Design Indaba Expo last month. More »

March 11th, 2008

Design Indaba 08: IDEO cofounder Bill Moggridge presented this concept tricycle that purifies water as the rider pedals, at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town last month. More »

March 10th, 2008

Designer Martino Gamper has designed every aspect of the Total Trattoria installation at the Aram Gallery in London, including the furniture, tableware, cutlery and food.

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March 10th, 2008

More from Tokujin Yoshioka: this time the Swarovski flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo. More »