Monthly archives: November 2011

Conran’s designs “don’t quite communicate the
fun he has got out of life”- The Guardian


Dezeen Wire:
in his latest article for The Guardian, architecture and design critic Rowan Moore interviews Terence Conran ahead of an exhibition dedicated to his career at the Design Museum, which opens on 16 November.

In the article Moore suggest that Conran’s greatest successes have been the businesses he’s founded rather than the products or interiors he’s designed, which Moore adds are “a little too managed, manipulated, packaged and don’t quite communicate the fun he has got out of life, as if constrained by some invisible boundary.”

Restaurant and Theatre for La Rive Domain
by Nadau Lavergne

Restaurant and Theatre for La Rive Domain by Nadau Lavergne

Paris architects Nadau Lavergne have completed a round wooden theatre and matching circular restaurant for a campsite in the south of France. More »

Restaurant for CGSH by Roberto Murgia,
Fabiola Minas and Simona Oberti

Restaurant for CGSH by Roberto Murgia

A stripy wall of light glows behind diners at this Milan restaurant by Italian architects Roberto Murgia, Fabiola Minas and Simona Oberti. More »

Media-ICT by Cloud 9 Architects wins
World Building of the Year 2011

Dezeen_Media-ICT by Cloud9

The Media-ICT office building by Cloud 9 Architects has won the World Building of the Year 2011 at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona.

You can see more information on the winning design here and our previous stories on the World Architecture Festival here, including announcements of all of the category winners.

Art and design graduates are being
‘treated as slave labour’


Dezeen Wire:
 UK broadcaster Channel 4 reports that a backlash is forming against the prevalence of unpaid internships in Britain, which are particularly popular with graduates in the creative industries.

A number of websites have been set up by graduates and campaigners offering advice to those partaking in internships and rallying support for campaigns that call on the government to introduce tighter regulations - Channel 4 News

Maggie’s Nottingham by CZWG and Paul Smith
photographed by Michael Whelan

Here are some more shots of the recently opened Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Nottingham, England, this time by photographer Michael Whelan. Watch a movie about the project on Dezeen Screen »

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