Architecture
Dubai Renaissance by OMA 2
OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture have sent over a few more images of Dubai Renaissance, a 300m-tall rotating skyscraper. More about Dubai Renaissance by OMA 2
OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture have sent over a few more images of Dubai Renaissance, a 300m-tall rotating skyscraper. More about Dubai Renaissance by OMA 2
More Corian, but unrelated: designer Arik Levy has created a kitchen in a small Parisian loft using the surfacing material. More about Corian Kitchen by Arik Levy
Board Room is an installation by Atelier van Lieshout at the new Hayward Projects Space at the Hayward Gallery in London. More about Board Room by Atelier van Lieshout
Studioilse, the design studio of Ilse Crawford, has designed the Club Room at the Wellcome Collection centre for medical science and art in London. More about Wellcome Collection Club Room by Studioilse
Bar Code is a low-energy bar and night club in London that runs on "about the same amount of energy it takes to make a cup of tea", according to its designers, architects Woods Bagot. More about Bar Code by Woods Bagot
Shoreditch House, the latest private members' club in the Soho House group, has opened in Shoreditch in east London, with interiors by Tom Dixon. More about Shoreditch House by Tom Dixon
Here is Gitta Gschwendtner's second exhibition space at the Wellcome Collection in London (see previous post). More about Gitta Gschwendtner at Wellcome Collection 2
Here is the first of two permanent exhibition spaces designed by Gitta Gschwendtner at the newly opened Wellcome Collection centre for medical science and art in London. More about Gitta Gschwendtner at Wellcome Collection 1
Stitch Room is Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec's contribution to MyHome, an exhibition of experimental room sets at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany (via dezain.net). More about Stitch Room by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
Aircraft manufacturer Boeing yesterday launched its new commercial jet, the 787 Dreamliner.
Here are interior and exterior photos of the plane, which is the "world's first mostly composite" passenger jet and which promises to be quieter and more fuel efficient than other jets. All images and caption texts are courtesy of Boeing. More about Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Work is about to start on the construction of 166 Perry Street, an apartment building in New York designed by Asymptote. More about 166 Perry Street by Asymptote
Now children can indulge in the craze for self-adhesive vinyl wall decorations with a new product called e-glue. More about e-glue vinyl wall decorations for children
The first of a new chain of economy hotels based on a cross between Japanese capsule hotels and first-class airline cabins has opened at Gatwick Airport in England. More about Yotel by Priestman Goode
Ostel is a new budget hotel in Berlin that celebrates Communist retro chic. More about Ostel communist-style hotel in Berlin
Designer Ilse Crawford has completed the interiors for two new restaurants at Grand Hotel Stockholm in Sweden. More about Matsalen and Matbaren by Ilse Crawford
We've finally got hold of a photo of the interior of Thomas Heatherwick's just-opened East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton, England. Just the one though. See our earlier post for more images and links.
More about East Beach Cafe interior
Live from Basel: here are some photos we took at Comme des Garçons Guerrilla Store +4161, which has been temporarily set up in an old industrial building in Basel, Switzerland. More about Comme des Garçons Guerrilla Store +4161
Emerging designers and architects are invited to enter the Urbantine Project – a competition to design a workspace for the 21st Century. More about Urbantine Project design competition
Skin is a new cosmetic surgery in Florence, Italy, designed by Michael Young and Katrin Olina. More about Skin by Michael Young and Katrin Olina
Hotel Ballymun is a project that temporarily turned a condemned tower block in Ballymun, Ireland, into a hotel as part of a cultural project headed by artist Seamus Nolan. More about Hotel Ballymun