Why Skyscrapers are Overrated
Inge Saffron for TEDxPhilly
// Architecture / Video / USA / Urbanism
‘It’s time that we let go of our skyscraper fantasies and concentrate instead on making our mature city a better place to …
News
New Amsterdam Showroom
for Gaggenau
Following a string of new showroom openings across the globe, Gaggenau raises the curtain of its largest European flagship in the …
Wings of Inspiration @ Bread&Butter
by daRT Design Gruppe for Adidas
// Berlin / Athletics / Trade-Fair Stand
Polished white walls and popping blue accents comprised the Adidas display at January’s Bread & Butter Berlin fair.
Sydney University of Technology Great Hall
by DRAW
When students graduate this spring at Sydney’s University of Technology, their ceremony will be held in a transformed hall …
Tunnel App for iPad
by 108United
// Tokyo / Technology
A new iPad application is inviting users to escape reality and head into mysterious tunnels, albeit virtually.
Olek Exhibition
at Tony’s Gallery London
// Exhibition / London / Colour
I do not expect to be a mother but I do expect to die alone is the first solo exhibition in the UK by New York-based artist Olek.
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D/Struct
by Lucas Maassen & Raw Color
// Installation / Colour / Dutch Design
An experimental project has smashed, crushed, blended and pulverized 60 objects in attempt to demonstrate how a physical product …
Infinity Installation
by Chiharu Shiota
Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota has used a web of black threads to transform a room into a dreamy dark forest suspended in time …
Magazines
Frame #84
Jan/Feb 2012
Frame #84 samples large-scale urban projects that strive for connectivity, community and communication. Clive Wilkinson's dazzling European headquarters for Macquarie Bank, Jean Nouvel's media-saturated Milan department store and Zaha Hadid's spectacular Wangjing Soho showroom offer vibrant variants on the city-within-a-city concept. We also catch up with veteran designer and Pentagram-founder Kenneth Grange, whose designs have helped shape the urban …
Mark #36
Feb/Mar 2012
From sky-high towers to bunker-like bungalows, we glimpse inside over a dozen homes around the world. Kimihiko Okada miraculously realizes a Hiroshima house ‘with no ground floor,’ while Lukas Lenherr stacked three different housing types into one solid block in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland. Meanwhile, architect Rudy Ricciotti pays homage to Jean Cocteau in a museum design. In The Netherlands, Erick van Egeraat tones down his ‘bling bling’ …
Elephant #9
Winter 2011-12
We discover what happens when historical craft meets modernity, as the tradition of embroidery finds a place in contemporary art. Lauren DiCocco says she feels ‘part of a community’ because of her medium, while Melissa Zexters says it allows her to adjust photos and memories. We discover the two views of Zurich: that it is not typical of Switzerland, and that Switzerland is not typical of Zurich. To investigate, we trekked to the Kreis 5 and Kreis 4 …
