Monthly archives: September 2011
Dezeen Wire: design critic Justin McGuirk reports from Korea on the Gwangju Design Biennale - The Guardian
Curated by Ai Weiwei and Seung H-Sang, the biennale runs until 23 October. Exhibits include designs for bombs, plastic surgery for fighters and blueprints for public executions, plus a series of temporary follies built around the city by renowned architects including Atelier Bow-Wow, Peter Eisenman and Dominique Perrault.
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Here’s the next house in the series of eleven by Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects on the site of a former slaughterhouse in Leiden, Netherlands. More »
These lamps are turned on when you pull their nipples. More »
Competition: we’ve teamed up with Max Fraser, author of the London Design Guide, to give away five signed copies of the brand-new 2012-2013 edition. More »
Dezeen Wire: The Telegraph’s deputy art critic Alastair Sooke reviews the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new contemporary crafts exhibition, Power of Making, which opens today - The Telegraph
Paris architects Nadau Lavergne have completed a rusted steel winery on a World Heritage Site in the south of France. More »
London Design Festival 2011: Dezeen has selected 30 designers to showcase their talents at Dezeen Space, Dezeen’s month-long residency in Shoreditch during London Design Festival, London Fashion Week and Frieze Art Fair. More »
Wrinkly mirrored walls distort the reflection of an apartment interior in Berlin by local architects Lecarolimited. More »
Japanese architects Maker have completed a hair salon featuring gauze partitions and booths in untreated wood. More »
Dezeen Wire: the completed National September 11 Memorial designed by Israeli-American architect Michael Arad opens on Sunday in New York, exactly ten years after almost 3000 people were killed in terrorist attacks across America.
In anticipation of the event, Ted Loos of the New York Times describes Arad’s turbulent design process, Karen Matthews writes about Arad’s rapid rise in profile for Associated Press and Tina Susman of the Los Angeles Times reports on the architect’s battle against controversy. More »
Recent works by Spanish studio Herreros Arquitectos are on show at the ROM Gallery in Oslo. More »
Berlin designer Ronen Kadushin has made a conceptual, open-source, contraceptive intrauterine device from a one-cent coin. More »
Plywood shingles create fish scales on the walls of a clothes store at Bondi Beach, Sydney, while spherical lights hang from the ceiling inside fishermen’s nets. More »
Dezeen Wire: ahead of the Victoria & Albert Museum‘s exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 starting on 24 September, architecture critic Rowan Moore discusses the definition of the movement and its impact on contemporary architecture - The Observer
Korean designer Joongho Choi designed this chair to be carried over one shoulder like a handbag. More »