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Category: Design, Events/News, Technology Tags: Creative design, Interactive, Milan, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2011
Architettura Sonora will present their new line of outdoor and indoor sonic modules at the Fuorisalone in Milan next week during 12-17 April 2011. Symbolic trees narrate the value of materials, the love for nature, feelings and emotions at the root of design. Important subjects characterizing Maurizio Favetta and KingSize architects’ design process and the [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, Milan, Zaha Hadid
During 11th-17th April, Zaha Hadid architects will be attending Milano Capitale del Design. Please click the image above to enlarge.
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, New York, The Museum of Arts and Design
HOW DEVELOPING WORLD TECHNIQUES AND AESTHETICS HAVE INFLUENCED CONTEMPORARY ART AND DESIGN IS THE FOCUS OF NOVEL EXHIBITION THIS MAY Designer Stephen Burks, Celebrated for his Brilliant Fusions of the Artisanal and Industrial, Serves as Curator Works by the 42-year old industrial designer Stephen Burks and 20 other mostly contemporary designers, and artists will be [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Competition, UK
A recent competition set by the NRW Forum in Dusseldorf called for contestants to design homes using a single shipping container. Here’s what the Heterarchy Studio, based in the UK, came up with. The concept for the design was to literally turn the container on its head, allowing the compact home to be assembled on [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, Lighting concept, New York, Rice Gallery, USA
Rice University Art Gallery is pleased to present Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, a talk by Robin Clark, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), on Thursday, April 14, at 7:00 pm 7:30 pm, preceded by a wine and cheese reception at 6:30 pm 7:00 pm. Both reception and lecture are free [...]
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Category: Book, Landscape Tags: Green architecture, New York, Publication, USA architecture
Every city needs parks, but how about those highly developed cities like New York City, London, Hong Kong? It is impossible to squeeze and create a green park from their exiting dense contexts. The April issue of the National Geographic magazine features a really neat piece on how an abandoned rail line in New York [...]
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Category: Book, iPhone/iPad app Tags: Berlin, diephotodesigner, Photography, Publication
As trailblazers of their industry both Berlin based photographers invite you to experience their virtual gallery with works for BMW, MTV Networks or Mont Blanc. Ken Schluchtmann and Dirk Dähmlow, both born 1970, have specialized in architectural and design photography since 2001. Perfection and sensitivity are traits characterizing diephotodesigner.de’s approach to work. Moreover they are [...]
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Category: Design, Sanitary Tags: GRAFF, Minimalism, USA
Luna Faucet Design Inspired By The Moon and Stars Gazing into the sky and looking to the moon and the stars for inspiration, the designers at GRAFF created the awe-inspiring, Luna with it’s almost 40” long spout – elegantly curving off the wall and into your sink. The GRAFF Luna Faucet’s sensuous and sculptural form [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Design video, Mosaic, Random pattern, USA
Artaic creates 330 square foot custom mosaic for the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Two years and $220M later, the grand opening ceremony of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research was set for March 4. Yet the building was still without an important finishing touch. Supplier issues had left lead architect James [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Design video, Events/News
The jury is composed of renowned professionals including Javier Mariscal, Hiroshi Tsunoda, Martín Azúa, Rouzbeh Banisadr and Enric Pastor. Following the success of the first bartcelona competition, Glòries Shopping Centre presents bartcelona.org design edition. This latest version of the contest awards young designers for their outstanding creativity and originality. bartcelona.org design edition is an international [...]
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Category: Architecture, Installation Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, ESD design, Green architecture, Skyscrapers, Taiwan
A Polish architectural student Stanislaw Mlynski has received the Bronze Prize for the Ecological Wall competition organized by National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) School of Architecture. He proposed to create structural wall using organic waste containers. The arrangement of elements, as well as the shape have potential to create shelters for animals, gather water, [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, Italy, Milan
From 23 March 2011 at the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan, the new calendar of lectures with top figures of graphics and contemporary design. For the fifth edition of Design Talks, the Scuola Politecnica di Design SPD proposes a new series of encounters with well-known international designers who have been asked to recount their [...]
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