News: a concept for rooftop housing built from foam blocks and steel cables (above) is one of the winners of the RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards, announced last night. More »
Tag: Graduate shows 2012
RIBA President’s Medals Student
Body Jewellery
by Stephanie Bila
Designer Stephanie Bila used bent wood and crystals to create this body jewellery inspired by Japanese baskets for her Central Saint Martins graduate collection. More »
The War Rooms, St. James's Park
by Ned Scott
This series of hand drawings by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Ned Scott presents a science-fiction world in which London grows a jungle of crops for fuel and food next to Buckingham Palace. More »
Bound Basics
by Toon Welling
Taut rope is all that holds together this furniture by Dutch design graduate Toon Welling. More »
London Thatch
by James Kirk
The stark concrete exterior of many of London's postwar housing blocks could be made more attractive with thatching, proposes architecture student James Kirk (+ movie). More »
Explorative Canopy Trail by Yvonne Weng
wins Foster + Partners Prize 2012
Architectural Association student Yvonne Weng has won the 2012 Foster + Partners Prize with designs that would allow scientists to live in the treetops of the Amazon rainforest. More »
Mouth Factory
by Cheng Guo
These tools by Royal College of Art graduate Cheng Guo are controlled by simple mouth movements like chewing and blowing (+ movie). More »
Airborne by Stéphanie
Van Zwam
These pieces of jewellery by Central Saint Martins graduate Stéphanie Van Zwam are made from plastic bubbles and tubes that float around the wearer's body (+ movie). More »
Movie: The Symbiotic Office
by Richard Black
Movie: plants take over the offices of London's commercial district Canary Wharf in this movie by Oxford Brookes architecture graduate Richard Black. More »
Orbit lamps by Raymond Paulson
at New Designers
Northumbria University graduate Raymond Paulson presented two lamps which can be dimmed by rotating their shades at London graduate show New Designers last week. More »
Foldable Sewing Machine by Richard Burrow
at New Designers
Plymouth University graduate Richard Burrow presents a folding sewing machine at London graduate show New Designers this week. More »
Parallel Architecture by James Thompson
at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate James Thompson cast the spaces between objects in the college cafe and used the resulting shapes to make furniture-like sculptures. More »
Road Workers and White Liners
by Josh Bitelli
University of Brighton graduate Josh Bitelli has made a series of furniture and vases from asphalt and road-marking paint (+movie). More »
Tangible Textural Interface by Eunhee Jo
at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate Eunhee Jo has designed a tactile speaker with a fabric control panel and a speaker that moves to the music (+ movie). More »
Milk Brother by Po-Chih Lai
at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has invented an add-on for a stove-top coffee pot that uses pressurised steam to froth up the milk (+ movie). More »