The Tent London and Super Brands London exhibitions during the London Design Festival were co-located at the Old Truman Brewery venue in Shoreditch. London’s annual design festival, which wrapped up a nine day run on Sunday, included over 300 events, exhibitions, and installations held across the capital. Now in its 11th year, the festival has expanded from a focus on furniture and product design to a platform for various disciplines, including sculpture, fashion, and graphic design. Here, we present some highlights from around the city, including special shows at the Victoria and Albert Museum and new product designs from the
A rendering—the only one released so far—of Foster + Partners' 19-story luxury condominium tower overlooking the Hudson River. Norman Foster hasn’t had great luck in Manhattan—his public library plan seems to have gone off the rails, in part due to the lackluster renderings his firm released last year.
"Screen Play," a proposal by Collective-LOK—a team comprised of Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr., and Michael Kubo (from left to right)—experiments with transparent partitions to create a variety of interior spaces and to expand the storefront into the street. Van Alen Institute (VAI)—architecture nonprofit and bookstore in New York’s Flat Iron District—announced Monday the winner of a design competition for its new street-level space. The storefront’s current cascading, yellow stair will be replaced by new design by Collective-LOK, a design trio consisting of Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr., and Michael Kubo. Developed over the course of six weeks, the winning
“It’s still a sausage factory here,” explained Elizabeth Diller, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) principal, of the work in progress during last week’s hard hat tour of The Broad Museum, a 120,000-square-foot, three-story contemporary art museum built by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad in downtown Los Angeles. Workers climbed atop scaffolding, structural innards lay bare on the walls, and a fine dust settled on the concrete floors, but one could already see glimpses of what was to come.Sited beside the Walt Disney Concert Hall, DS+R (with Gensler as executive architect and Matt Construction as general contractor) adhered to a “veil
On September 1, 2013, the Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, had its Civic Opening. Measuring 8,611-square-feet, it is the latest and the largest paper tube structure designed by the Japanese architect and the world’s go-to guy for emergency buildings, Shigeru Ban. Located within the city’s decimated central business district, Ban’s building is a temporary replacement for Christchurch’s Anglican cathedral, a Gothic style structure built in the 19th century but damaged beyond repair by the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that shook the city in February 2011. Inspired by the original building, the Cardboard Cathedral is trapezoidal in plan and triangular in
On Thursday, October 3, in New York City, the editors of Architectural Record will present its 11th annual Innovation Conference, a daylong event featuring presentations from architects, urban planners and other leaders in design.
This article first appeared on GreenSource. Ecococon - Straw Panels The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute has announced 10 finalists in their first annual Product Innovation Challenge. This debut competition, sponsored by the Schmidt Family Foundation and the Dutch Postcode Lottery, asked entrants to create a new building product that can be safely returned to nature or industry after its use (a defining concept of Cradle to Cradle certification). This year’s partnership in the challenge was with Make It Right; founded by Brad Pitt in 2007, this organization builds homes, buildings, and communities for people in need. Since the
Le Corbusier (second from left) may have had a romance with Josephine Baker. On Sunday, September 22, Le Corbusier will be "live" on stage at New York City's Bowery Poetry Club in a one-man show, "Le Corbusier's Women." The "architect of the century" and "Picasso of architecture," Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is played by Charles Knevitt, former architecture critic of The Times (London). He also wrote the show. "Le Corbusier’s Women" tells the story of the most prominent women in the architect’s life: his mother, his wife, his mistress of 30 years, and a score of other lovers including, allegedly, Josephine
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