the event has been coordinated by the archi depot foundation, an organization established to conserve the scale models and designs of japanese architectural culture. the primary objective of the foundation is to preserve and present the scale models that still play an important role in the transmission of the architects’ visions to the general public. in architecture st...
The Archi Depot Foundation (Organization for the conservation of the culture of architecture) was founded in 2015 by Terrada Warehouse and Tokyo Design Center companies, to safeguard and conserve the models and designs of Japanese architectonic culture. The primary objective of the foundation is to conserve and present to the general public architectonic models that st...
In the exhibition “World Architecture – Snøhetta”, on view at the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen, visitors have the opportunity to step into Snøhetta’s office, their workshop and universe. Who are they? How do they work? What projects have they created? And what kind of architecture firm is responsible for both the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilio...
The exhibition “Amurs” shows 9 works designed by the office Bearth & Deplazes Architekten with images created by the photographers Ralph Feiner and Tonatiuh Ambrosetti. The practice was founded in Chur in 1988 by Valentin Bearth and Andrea Deplazes. Daniel Ladner has become a third partner since 2005. Explorating typological aspects using contemporary construction techn...
The Canadian Centre for Architecture presents “Landscapes of the Hyperreal: Ábalos & Herreros selected by SO – IL”, the last of three exhibitions in a series entitled “Out of the Box: Ábalos & Herreros”. Conceived as an innovative, ongoing investigation of an architectural archive, the three exhibitions explore the legacy of the Spanish architecture firm Ábalos & Herrer...
The New York based gallery – founded by Evan Snyderman and Zesty Meyers in 1997 – is used to presenting audiences with the alternative purviews of its designers; last year, the Haas Brothers' 'Sex Room' – a makeshift boudoir filled with the artists' ickily anatomical bronze work – allowed visitors to immerse themselves in the humorous perversity of their designs. But...
If the first official exhibition devoted to Dieter Rams in France seems long overdue, it also pays homage to the German designer in a manner that is neither flashy nor fawning, which is to say, precisely on point. The combined effort of Yves Couchaux, who oversaw Braun imports to France during the brand's golden age, Grégory Mesrié and Yves Mietton, the show consists of ...
The exhibition is divided into two parts with a ‘simple binary criteria of classification’: the poolroom contains pieces that are intended to be displayed horizontally, while the squash courts hosts those meant to be presented vertically. ‘This approach exhibits the importance I have always given to the articulation between an object and the space which surrounds it,’ ex...
The installation explores the thought processes of a number of lauded designers, revealing the way in which they attempt to create architectural masterpieces. The show – which features the work of Shigeru Ban, Milan based Setsu and Shinobu Ito, Arata Isozaki, Riken Yamamoto and many more – is organised by the new Japanese design company Archi Depot Foundation, which was ...
'Picture, Tower, Building – Richard Meier and the Ulm Minster' is a retrospective on the lauded American architect, whose mannered use of natural light and sensitive spatial awareness – 'creating sublime spaces of aesthetic illumination and enlightened cultural values' – has made him one of America’s most respected contemporary practitioners for the past half century. He...
Presented, somewhat ironically, in an understated, white box-like annex to the China World Shopping Mall West Wing (home to the Peter-Marino-designed Louis Vuitton Maison), the exhibition offers an intriguing perspective on the 85-year-old architect's trademark design process. Devised as part of Louis Vuitton's 'beyond-the-walls' programme of events, the exhibition fe...
The brainchild of recent Turner Prize-nominees Assemble, the 2010-established architecture and design collective based in East London, and artist Simon Terrill, The Brutalist Playground is a comment, or homage, to the playgrounds built for mid-twentieth century housing, which are now largely considered unsuitable for play. Traditionally cast in concrete, a material to...
For The Aram Gallery’s latest exhibition, cutting-edge modern design is once again front and centre, as the store ushers in the next generation of talent with a new show. The exhibition brings together 14 international designers, who are using ordinary materials, products and process in unusual – and often surprising – ways. Fittingly titled ‘Extra Ordinary’, the show h...
When an international brand asks for a new stand design usually is to mark a shift in perception. As part of an ongoing expansion strategy, in 2011 the Turkish Kale Group established Kale Italia as qualified hub for all the western operations. Opening to a world of possibilities, this sensible switch – along with a roster of hi-quality design-edge new products – brought ...
What is a dream studio or retreat for an artist? Judging from a new exhibition, it can be anything from an old converted reservoir to a mountain eerie to your traditional urban attic: even if nowadays this tends to be a cavernous, severely minimal one. With a dozen projects in the show, each beautifully tailored to the needs of its user and designed by nine different pra...
The Enric Miralles Foundation 2015 dedicates its programming to urban, social and sustainable regeneration. Enric Miralles (1955 - 2000) specialized in studying urban planning and urban regeneration processes; he started working on it since 1992, with the arrival of the Olympic Games in Barcelona. This was a time of transition for the city, both in the periphery and in ...
Young Bird Plan Design Competition was initiated by Isa Ye in 2013. In a short period of two years, it has developed into a core professional competition among all the young designers in Chinese-speaking area. With its strong management team, complete competition system and its commitment to construct according to the best design, Young Bird Plan provides the young desi...
Designjunction EDIT NYC is a tightly curated exhibition of innovative modern designs from across the US and around the world - check out some of our favorite green finds after the break! Brave Space Design showcased their new line of Acute Stools, which are made from smoothly beveled lengths of sustainably sourced bamboo. Each stool’s seat is composed of three pieces of...
This isn't your garden variety design show - the works on display range from mind-bending installations to one-off furnishings and products crafted with surprising materials and innovative techniques. We've rounded up 10 of our favorite green designs from this year's show - take a look for yourself after the break. Last year Chiaozza launched a papier mâché plant shop...
Inhabitat readers may recall that Foster & Partners first made a name for themselves with Masdar City’s iconic curved terracotta facades, an exceptional design partially inspired by traditional villages throughout the Middle East. They then emulated this approach for the UAE’s pavilion currently at the Milan Expo. But in Dubai, they are moving in a more edgy, industrial ...
La Triennale di Milano museum has just opened a new exhibition “Arts & Foods” curated by the Italian Architect Italo Rota that merges food, design and architecture into one single journey dedicated to the history of food and food rituals. No doubt, one of the most intriguing works on display is the Bread House, which was created in 2004 – 2006 by the Swiss-born, New York...
From Louis Vuitton's realisation of the 18-piece modular furniture collection that Paulin designed for Herman Miller in the 1970s but never produced, to a monumental retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris slated for this October, it's clear Paulin's creative legacy is as poignant as ever, despite it being five years since his death. This week, the New York gall...
Housed in the impressive Expo Gate (a city centre cultural outpost to the nearby Expo, directed by local art curator Caroline Corbetta), the exhibition was part of a cultural programme connecting the city of Milan with the Expo through variations on its themes. Echoing both the Handmade exhibition in via San Gregorio (which this year focused on food, drink and entert...
This year we expanded on our view of Arabic design talent with the second instalment of 'Middle East Revealed,' our celebratory digest of design from the region in collaboration with Dubai Design District (d3). As part of our Milanese Wallpaper* Arcade during Salone del Mobile, the exhibition gave an insight into fields that span from furniture design to photography. ...
With new versatile shapes, materials and colours, the evolution of the bathroom as a living space - rather than pure utility - continues. Among our top picks were German bathroom players, Dornbracht and their modern experiment. They presented a new glass washbasin in their new CL.1 range with an adaptable bowl that allowed patterns created by 40 individual tap jets to...
This is among the conceits behind Design Oracles, an exhibition opening tomorrow in Paris. The show presents a selection of key pieces from the National Centre for Visual Arts (Centre National des arts plastiques, or CNAP) in the context of what they communicate about their role within the world at large. To underscore the idea, the show begins with a cluster of recog...
Last year's inaugural Design Shanghai exhibition was largely dominated by a wide range of international brands, with just 9 local designers. This year, an increase in big-hitting names like Magis and Vitra was matched by 30 young Chinese designers keen to play their part in China's design (r)evolution. Leading the local pack was Shanghai architectural studio neri&hu w...
Now on his plate is a stunning exhibition devoted to his latest work as well as his design, drawings, signature maquettes and drawings harking back to the 1960s at the SoHo Allouche Gallery. 'Gaetano Pesce: One of a Kind Iconic Works 1967-2015' pays homage to his distinctive artistry. 'Gaetano's always been a living legend when it comes to art, architecture, design a...
Somehow, despite a leaderboard looming large on the wall and number of big hitter nominees - Frank Gehry, Tesla, Raf Simons - this exhibition, deftly curated by Gemma Curtin, is more playground than battlefield, albeit with a social conscience (think loos for communities without running water or the Waterbank campus, which harvests rainwater as well as providing a educat...
And yet today the museum is five years into its tenure as Israel's premier design showcase. It's with a dose of compassion, then, that the museum launches its spring programme, a tribute to trial and error in design - or, if not error exactly, then the metaphorical shoulders on which some design giants now stand. Like an evolutionary museum that lures in crowds with t...
The French city offers a creative change of pace in the run-up to the Salone del Mobile (not that there isn’t great commercial design to be found at the biennale). For its ninth edition, which tackles the theme of ‘beauty’, visitors from as far away as Seoul (the Korean city is this year’s guest of honour) descended in droves to enjoy over 60 exhibitions and events. A...
The project description As technology invades the bedroom, jumbling our body’s natural rhythms, many of us are failing to get a good night’s sleep. In addition, the blurring of boundaries between work and home life mean that even when we are on down time, we rarely fully relax. Hypnos is designed to help even those most reticent to ‘switch off’, to retreat and tune out....
It is a very important international shop window that will take place in Milan from May 1 to October 31 2015. On this occasion, for six months countries will be able to showcase the very best of their technology, created to meet the ever-increasing needs for healthy food and respect for the environment and the world’s delicate eco-system. The brand of Caesar and the ...
Launching to coincide with Milan design week, the Arts & Foods: Rituals Since 1851 exhibition will run at the Triennale until 1 November, with the museum acting as one of the official satellite pavilions of the Milan Expo. Curated by Italian art historian Germano Celant, the exhibition is a direct response to the theme of the Expo: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life....
The number of breweries in Sweden has doubled year-on-year, according to Form Us With Love. The studio's Beer exhibition capitalises on this growing trend, aiming to provide information about different types of the alcoholic beverage and how they are made. Designed for both amateur enthusiasts and seasoned connoisseurs, the exhibition presents simple and in-depth fact...
For twenty-five years, Hélène Binet has photographed the work of leading contemporary and historical architects, notably Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, and Peter Zumthor. Co-curated by Binet and JSI Managing Director Emily Bills, “Hélène Binet: Fragments of Light” presents work that spans her career, including now-iconic photographs of Zumthor’s Therme Vals and Hadid’s P...
